Good Moaning Healing Well V7

I took the new pain RX Avinza yesterday.  It's a slow release morphine.  Must say...this will be a miracle medication for me when I get my mobility and endurance back!  When I took it, there was no sedation or dizziness or ANYTHING.  In fact, it was hard to remember ya even took it because it didn't feel like how a narcotic should act!  No drunkiness feeling at all!

It doesn't take away all the pain, but kept it at bay at least last night.

I hope it works well & I recommend it to those looking for a new ERpain med.

I was surprised how it didn't have the sedative hit when first taking it.

Hi Everybody,

Gosh, I am so sorry you two gals are having so much to deal with right now. I can not say what I want to about SS cuz they will come and take me away and I enjoy my freedom.

Well, I came in here to tell you all some good nes, and I feel guilty about it, but I's gonna tell you anyway. Went to the doc yesterday, you remember when I went in September, all my lab values were out of sight, well, Since Sept, I have officially lost 52 3/4 pounds. My labs are incredible. My doctor is going to black my name out and post them on the wall in his office. Did I mention he was pleased?

I went from a 16 and some 18's if they did not have elastic in the waist to a size 4. I found out I actually have a tail bone and ribs!

I am happy about that but it seems to have made the fibro and RA pain worse, anybody have any ideas on that one. My lower back just absolutely gives me fits every day and my tailbone feels like my ankles are tied to it.Oh, well, would'nt it be nice if life was perfect.

Sometimes you can't win for losing! Hope everyone starts to feel better, I think about you(all of you) every day.

Luvs and hugs from flopsie

hey Flop!

way 2 go on the fantastic weight loss!  i cannot fathom any reason why weight loss would actually cause more RA pain.  i mean, the less weight one carries around the easier it is on the joints.  i can say though...if weight loss was through starvation or caused by disease, of course that can cause joint and muscle pain; but that's not the case here right?

hmmmmmmm?  i don't know?  personally, from being very very thin it does hurt immenseley to lay in bed or have my knees touch and such.  with little to no fat covering bones and joints, a person can suffer more "impact" pain & pain from pressure.

hah! since being on so much steroids i've developed some water retention...and for once in 3 years my ribs don't look so....ribby! 

question....size 4, where do we shoppe for pants?  i fit into a size 0 or 1 or 2,3 jeans depending on the designer; but cannot find regular pants! like dress pants!  Target starts at a size 2 same for MANDEES and everywhere i've been so far.  is there a petite store somewhere?  tired of wearing jeans and would like to have a pair of dress pants that don't sag!

so your blood sugar?  has it stabilized?

could be that a change in metabolism could out you into an RA flare.  any change in medicines?

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Hey Erin,

Out here, there is a store at the mall called Petite Sophisticate....nicer clothes, like for work. Definitely not Target prices.

Due to your size and age (I don't mean to be rude here), I would maybe suggest trying the 'younger stores' - like Wet Seal or Charlotte Russe. I haven't been there in 15 years, but I recall the prices were right for stuff that 'passed' for nice and cut very small (I used to be a size 3....ahhhh, I miss those days!) Of course, the times have changed and who knows what kind of clothing they sell now - seems like every thing looks teeny bopper to me, but I'm an old fogey of 35.....   But, I remember at Charlotte Russe, when I was first out of college, I was able to find skirts and jackets for a reasonable price to wear to job interviews.

Many stores have or are bringing back Petite sections - try Sears, Mervyns, of course department stores, possibly even Wal-Mart. Being only 4'11" even the petite stuff was often too long!

I'm sorry to hear you are not well again today. I hope it's just a fluke and laudry exhaustion and tomorrow will be a better day.

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I hope I have a good weekend as well.  Not keeping my fingers crossed at getting the "official proposal" but I am looking forward to a good anniversary celebration.

This might be my end of typong as well for a day or so...I've a collapsed vein! Yuck!

I knew my arm hurt since she did the blood draw...but I looked and it's awful! and painful. Hope it doesn't keep me up like last nite! Ugh!

Be well & take care!

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Weight loss.  What's that?  I was scolded at last rheumy visit.  Have to lose it before I go back.  I haven't seen a size 4 since I was 4!

Bought a new car yesterday.  OMG!  Signed my life away again.  But since my social life has been reduced to traveling to other cities to visit docs, needed more reliable transportation.  Bought a Bug.  Love it!

You guys are too darned funny and I really needed to wake up this morning and check your posts.  Keeps me going. 

Been too involved with stupid employees and trying to keep business on track.  Yuck!  If I had a "real" job I'd be calling in sick every other day.  Joints are swollen to biblical proportions.  Rheumy upped meds and seems to help a little.  All I feel like doing is being under the covers and praying for pain relief.  Going to start going back to the Y and getting in the pool every morning before work.  Gotta get some excercise and that's the only way I can do it. 

Thanks for making me laugh this morning!!!!!!!  Boo

Boo, congrats on the car, though I'm sorry for WHY you had to buy it!  I know what you mean about having to call in sick every other day!

Erin, I'm so happy your weekend went well. Sorry about the pain Sunday and today.

My cough was getting better, now worsening. My chest hurts really bad...my throat is following. I just feel so cruddy. My ears are off and on with being able to hear and clogged. I was out in the desert this weekend (very warm - mid 80's! I know opposite of your post Erin!) and tried to stay out of the sun as much as possible, but (this goes up on my "why I think I have Lupus" list) these last few visits, I'm just drained and not well by the time we return home.....I just don't seem to tolerate the sun whatsoever anymore. So, I don't know if how I'm feeling has to do with the sun, the new meds, the coughing, or if something else altogether is going on here.

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I know! It is too funny (in a pathetic way) - I can't win - too hot and sunny, I'm rotten. Too cold, I'm miserable! What's a girl to do?   Plus, our winter weather fluctuations here can be impossible when you have auto immune issues. You deal with 40 degree weather then suddenly you're hit with a Santa Ana with 80 degree weather, only for it to turn around and have a frost advisory.

Erin, I have the same problem with alchol (and milk, actually) as well. 

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Flopsie...was thinkin' of you! VIEW IMAGE .

CaMama, what are we gonna do with you! Darn this flu you have. 

Boo, glad to hear from you!

Wait a minute...I HAVE GREAT RESULTS FROM ALCOHOL!...what are ya'll talking about? LOL. Seriously!  If I have a drink (this is only with Joe on the weekends) I'm actually able to cook a little bit.  And I can save on my pain meds! LOL.  But I end up getting carried away and using my hands and arms too much and thus...they throb the next day.

  The pain killer of choice in the civil war era right?

Although I am concerned with this "new" feeling I get, of feeling really weak & like my body just can't hold up, a collapsing if I don't get down quick enough.  That's strange for me...coinidence with the Imuran?  I don't know.  But that's when this started.

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Holy Toledo Camama, , the weather here in the northeast is brutal for arthritics.

It's always changing & we're constantly changing fronts & barometers.  It's like how you say, you can tell it  is coming.  For me, a flare hits me worse BEFORE the actual rain/snow/humidity.  My feelt & knees are the usual tell tailers!  Feels like my foot bones are breaking with each step the days before.

I was never sensitive to it until 2002.  I never believed it & thought it was just a "in your head" thing....but it's absolutely true.

When we have bad rain I'm crippled up. And a lot of allergies in the atmosphere also trigger flare ups.

I try not to look at the weather. I don't need to! hah!  Like you...I know when somethings coming.

How has tonite been?  Chest & cough any better?

I have bloodwork to get tomorrow!  ugh! I wanna do it myself.  I hope this gal doesn't bust my only good arm I have left!  The collapsed vein still hurts!  What's up with that?  Never had one before.

CaMama I wish you a good night's sleep & a better tomorrow.  I know you feel crappy.

Yup, before the weather hits is when I'm often at my worst. It's almost like the pre-rain pressure headaches, once the rain finally hits and the pressure lifts, your headache is all gone (not quite as nice with arthritis, but you take what you can get, right!) If the bad weather continues with that icy cold - then it goes right back in to the joints. The pre-weather pain is that brittle feeling, every little movement feels like the bones and joints are breaking!

And yes, also with the rain it seems to trigger something that causes allergies. I was told it is mold, but who knows. When the air is wet I have that problem too.

I hear the north east is breaking records right now with the cold and snow fall.

The cough is improving, it seems. My chest and throat still hurt bad...now I have a pain in my right breast - I think I pulled something coughing, it kills when I cough.

I hope the warm towel helps that vein and tomorrow's technician is one of the rare awesome ones! Good suggestion Flopsie! Are you feeling any better than you were Sunday and Monday, Erin?

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Ducky, so good to hear from you. I hope all is well. Write soon.

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