Good Moanin' HealingWell V65

hi camama, from what i understand 106 is an excellent score for glucose. hbp can be controlled very easily. it is all scarey stuff, i know but a good doctor can really help you out.

walked 3/4 mile yesterday and swam for 1 hour. am a little down today but hope to go to a play tomorrow and snap out of it.

I haven't posted on the moaning thread for a while but have been dropping by everynow and then to read.
I have recently accepted a new contract in additon to the two I already have so have been busy getting ready to start working on that.
I have the sinus infection from hades-I have been on Biaxin for twenty days-ran out two days ago and still have the infection-have an appointment with my doc tomorrow-hopefully we can do something else. At this point I think it may be time to call the rhuemy too and ask about a temporary hold on the mtx. I hate to do that though because ever since this infection started my knee has been swollen.
Oh well, life goes on.
Hope everyone is well and enjoying their week.

Hi everyone, just been reading and reading and finding answers, thanks to you all i now think my sore mouth is because of the 20mgs of methotrexate and not oral thrush. I've been taking Nystan orally for the thrush and it wasn't working. I will now increase my folic acid. Thanks again averyone.

cherryscot xx

Hi guys,

Sunday night already .......where does the weekend go?????  Normal busy weekend for me, think I hit the gound running Friday night as soon as the kids leave, and don't stop until this time Sunday night.  Went to the baseball game with a friend today (Yeah!  Rays are in the playoffs! First ever winning season here), came home to see the end of the NASCAR race.  Now watching football...gosh, can you tell I only had boys??

Mom, you doing ok?  Please let us know how you're doing, been worried about you.  Unless I missed a post, don't think you've been on since you were having all the trouble with rashes, sun, etc.

CaMama, just wrote you, looks like you answered some of my same questions here..should have looked first lol.  You sure do have a lot coming up, but at least they are checking this all out really well.  I just had a bunch of bloodwork, too.  My sugar was 86, and the doc was real happy with that. Please take it easy if you can...hard not to be worried, though, I know..but sounds like you have good docs helping you.

Ducky..how are things with you?  Are you feeling any better?  I sure hope the docs were able to give you some answers about your back.

Doing ok here, otherwise. Two of our boys are off traveling..I'm so jealous!  One in New Mexico visiting friends, the other visiting a girl in Berlin, Germany, no less!   He met her on-line over a year and a half ago, and they've been getting closer.  They've been visiting back and forth, he even plans to bring her to our house for Thanskgiving.  What can I say??  It's truly a global world I guess.

Well, almost halftime...better go put some order to this house so that the little ones can tear it up tomorrow lol..

Sweet dreams and hugs to all!

Jody

Hi everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  oh how i miss and think of all of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

well things are going well but let me tell you between the daughter and school work and the italian son and the internet being his connection to home i get NO computer time ever!  seems only when they leave in the morning is it free and i am usually getting ready for work then so i dont have time to get on line!

things are spinning but all is going well.  i love my son he is a great kiddo!

 

health wise not perfect but doing well.  i guess i am low in b12 and vit D but other than that still kicking!  not complaining.

 

work is busy and a mess for me to clean up from prior staff!  so i am starting to hate mondays!  never did!  today i work from 8am til 10pm so i am not thrilled! 

 

weather turning into fall! ugh but it had to come sometime!  cool mornings and cool nights filled with crisp days!

 

well g2g get ready for work! hugs to all and dont know when i will get back on but hugs to all!  sorry no time to catch up on threads so i hope everyone is fairing out ok.  hugs yals

Ducky...I'm sorry you are still sick...do you have an urgent care you can visit in the meantime??? I hope you find out what is going on very soon.

Jody..I haven't posted since my UTI fiasco..I went back to the urgent care, and they told me, they could not treat my kidney pain and sent me to the ER, but nothing could really be found.  I then waited a few days as they suggested, found a doctor since we changed health plans, and he said it isn't an infection at this point and that I need to visit a urologist.  So now I have an appointment on the 30th of October to see one of those Basically it mimics the symptoms of a bladder infection, without the infection..nuts!

Camama...How are you??? I'm glad some of your tests have returned normal..Anxiety can do funny things to our bodies.  My middle son, several years ago, experienced some trauma and due to that he ended up having seizures because of his anxiety level was so great.  When I read about your heart palpitations, I wondered if it could be due to anxiety...I'm so sorry you are going through all of this..Jody is right, we need to be closer so that we can make soup and cookies for everyone. I hope that you are doing better today.

At least it is Hump Day...

Where's everyone been?

Sorry to hear about the upcoming knee surgery.

Yeah, Mom, I am getting panic attacks he said....probably due to the high bp. I was in a huge deadline at work, so that wasn't helping and my worry about the high BP and cholestrol, plus the worry I might have diabetes.....not helping matters. When I get an attack, I feel like I'm going crazy. It is awful!

I email Erin about a month ago and haven't heard back - has anyone heard from her?

Moanin,

Looks like most of us have been feeling crappy these days!  I haven't been too bad but the last few days have been damp so pain has been worse. 

My Rheumy says my elbows are shot (done)!!!  What in God's name do they do when your elbows are shot.  Do they have like elbow replacement surgery.

I'll keep you posted

Take Care

Raven

I miss Erin too-please do let us know how things are going for her-if you hear anything.

We all sound like we could use a doctor with a magic wand or two. I hope you all start feeling better soon.

I am so frustrated. I still have an infection after 34 and counting days on antibiotics. They made me stop my mtx two weeks ago and all of my joints have been twinging-no full fledge pain and inflamation just aches and stiffness. And I see my rhuemy on monday-but at that point I will still be on antibiotics so she is not going to let me take my mtx next week either which means at least 4 missed doses.
Worse yet, as a courtesy I asked if I could stay on a low dose of pred when the medrol (for bronchi***) ran out and she said no. (actually she said not unless you start flaring). Since I don't think this counts I can't take the pred. If I had not asked I could have just stayed on it.

I am blaming this whole whining rant (and all the ones like it for the last six days) on the medrol-those dose packs are psychological torture devices espescially when you get to the end of one and know you will feel worse tomorrow.
Sj

Momto3-the acute care doctor told me I have an ear infection (which must have developed while I was on Leviquin) but I don't have any symptoms of one. Aren't they supposed to hurt or something?
My rhuemy is just going to role her eyes at me and tell me to suck it up and deal for a week or two until the infection is gone.
Then she is going to make me come see her every four weeks again until we adjust my meds again and get my white cell counts normal.
How do I know this? it is the only logical thing to do for now. (I wonder if I can get away with taking the sulindac she d/ced now that I am not on mtx-maybe if I just don't ask).

Levaquin - isn't that the heavy duty, scary, antibiotic? How did you get an ear infection while ON it?!

Speaking of ears....mine have been hurting today...ugh...

ELBOW? OMG, that's awful news Raven - what did he suggest you do about that? I wonder if they do have replacement surgery for that? WOW. I hope he's wrong. Completely wrong.

I found a few websites last night that listed my high blood pressure, breathing, and stomach issues as all side-effects to Arava. And yet, when I looked up side=effects last month, they were not listed. At least the hypertension wasn't. So, I've made the decision to stop Arava immediately. I hope that helps quickly and immensely. Hopefully, no damage has been done...this gastro thing is really bad with the not being able to breath...now with this allergy stuff turning in to something worse....<sigh> When I get chest pain and difficulty breathing...I don't know if it's the heart problem, gas/stomach problem, or this congestion problem - AGGGHHHH! This sucks! (Can I say that here?) The nurse told me to take Zantac AS NEEDED when I can't breathe since it does often sound like a stomach issue...even though the box says only 2 a day...and even though she told me to keep taking the nexium.....does that sound safe to anyone?

 

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Sj...Sometimes you have to wonder about these doctors! The one I went to the last time, a new one, told me that I didn't have a uti which was fine and that I needed to see a urologist wich was also fine, but the kicker was he told me it could be anything and that I needed to be prepared because it could be cancer but I'm still "fairly" young.  I'm 37,but not ancient!! I left feeling old and worried that I had something really wrong.  Needless to say, I didn't go back, and since we have a ppo, just went ahead and made an appointment with the urologist since I felt he was a bit nuts

I remember taking the Suldinac and it never really worked for me, and I still have mobic, it is also an NSAID, and it worked pretty well for a bit.  It sounds like you have had a ton of antibiotics..sheesh!! With these suppressants it looks like all of us get something, for me it seems to affect my kidneys/bladder, with you sinus infections.  I  would like to just stop taking the Enbrel and MTX but worry that I won't be able to function since I hurt even with those meds.

Camama..Is your Arava like the MTX? You mentioned GI problems??? I also suffer from those as well.  I'm beginning to wonder how much the MTX is related to all of my issues that I have been having.  If it is the Arava, then I don't blame  you for stopping it.  It seems that you are worse off with it!!  Maybe go off of it and see if your health improves?  It seems like we are all falling apart!!  Why do all of the meds have to be so toxic?

Jody, Yally, Bear, Erin, hope all of you are doing well and will check in soon.