hurting can't wait for my doctor appointment

I was like that for aboit a week even with the meds iam better today take care and i hope you get to feeling better soon DEB

well the doctor did have a cancellation for tomorrow morning. I'm trying to work it out where I can go in the morning instead of waiting until may 1st. I figure its better to go while i'm hurting as much as i am. I don't want to wait to long and then go may 1st and not be hurting as much you know. I'll keep you posted. I'd much rather go earlier anyway than wait another three/four weeks. might as well get this process started if I can.

 it's awful isn't it?

i would suggest, write down everything EVERYDAY about the pain, what brings it on, how it doesn't go away, the pooping, cracking, intensity of the pain, all of the specifics, and how it is interfering with your everyday life.  it's good to do this NOW while it's happenning.  you might be right, when may 1st rolls around the pain might not be as terrible as it is now...and when it's not that bad....we tend to forget HOW BAD it was.

gosh, that's too bad about the apointment.  i pray there's another cancellation for a half hour or something.

you know...the question i hate the most is when the MA takes you into the Drs room & asks, "So what is hurting you today?"  and in my head i'm like "well everything where do i start?"  and many times i tell them evrything & it's just too much, they don't write all of it down! hah!

i feel for you!  all of my joints are effected by RA and it's rare that i get a few days of tolerable quality of life without too much pain.

may 1st is a few days away....keep thinking of that.

rest well. take good care.

erin

i have a question; can your PCP admister blood work for RA? My appointment isn't for two more weeks and I just simply am not feeling well at all. I go home every night hurting somewhere generally all over. I've been having these aches and pains for months now and apparently they aren't going to go away. I feel like I need to be doing something between now and my appointment with the RA doctor. I haven't had any kind of blood work done as of yet and was wondering if your PCP could admister the general test. It would at least be a step in the right direction don't you think?

Thanks i think i'm going to schedule some lab work next week with my regular doctor that way when they ask about lab work i can say yes i've had that done. I'm feeling pretty good this morning. i slept good last night and that helps a lot when i get a good nights sleep. i hope all had a good easter weekend. i did. hubby and i spent it with family. i was pretty achy about mid day yesterday and took some tylenol and within an hour i could tell it had helped a little bit, but by the time i got home i ened up taking some more before bed. just a couple of more weeks and i go to the RA doctor he'll probably laugh me right out of the office I don't know that's just the feeling I get, but with arthritus running in my family I'd much rather get things checked out now instead of waiting until its to late for any kind of treatment to benefit me. have a good day all.

thank you so much for the input and what to expect. it sure helps to have an idea of what i'll be facing when I get there. My doctor did say I should "probably" be checked for arthitus but he didn't come right out and order any lab work. shoot it took a few weeks just to get them to set up an appointment with the RA. I guess they thought maybe the pain would go away. That's what I thought when this first started but several months later I'm still dealing with pain the shoulder and wrist pain are probably the most unbearable by mid to late day that's usually when i start taking the tylenol or whatever i have at work. I'm just anxious to find out if their trul is something going on or if i'm just being silly. I don't think i'm being silly due to the fact i have knots popping up here and there that have never been their before. oh well just about a week and a half and i get to go tell my medical story all over again. I wonder if he's ever heard of hashimoto's disease. That's why i'll be bringing my mom with me cause she's been to a lot of my doctor's appointments in the past from the hematologist to the endocronologist(sp??) she's been their from the beginning of it all and plus she can help fill in the blanks with family medical history stuff that kind of thing. I do appreciate the input though its been very helpful

Well its hump day half way to the weekend. I certainly didn't get my rest last night and I'm feeling it today. i'm kind of in autopilot mode. I went to bed last night and everything was hurting from shoulders all the way down to my toes it seemed like something was aching or throbbing. I'm sure a lot of it is just wear and tear on my body from work and commuting all week but still I want to get things checked out. I'll keep you updated. I'm going to call my family doctor this afternoon and find out what i need to do in order to have some lab work done before I go to the RA doctor. i sure would be nice to have that info before I go. I know he'll have his own things he wants to check which they all do, but at least i can say yes i have had some lab work done. thank you again for the support erin.

you know something yes having autoimmune issues and health problems are a pain in the butt I won't say they aren't, but I think in some ways it makes us very unique people. I mean come on most people don't know their well being as well as we do. We appreciate those days when we do feel good. I know I do. I get so much when I really feel on top of my game. I haven't truly felt on top of my game in some time now. Yea i have days where i feel more rested than others, but more often than not I'm run down and tired a lot of the time. I guess i'm just trying to find a brighter side to things. I"m tired of thinking and focusing so much on how i feel from one day to the next. we almost have to though so our doctor's know how to adjust medications and what not. My biggest complaint is having to spend so much of the time going from this doctor to that doctor. That's one reason I almost didn't say anything to my family doctor about these aches and pains I didn't want to add another doctor to my growing list. I know its not true but sometimes it seems like a lot of my time is spent at the doctor's office. only to be feeling some better weeks down the road. does anyone ever stop and wonder why this happened to you? why god signaled you out with these things. I do all the time. i'd love to be normal and healthy and just live a normal life and not have to worry about all this crap just once. it sure would be nice huh. shoot by the time we all get to that point their won't be any need to worry about it any more. trust me i've thought along that route too a few times feeling like i was such a burrden on my husband and my parents. i couldn't do that to them. i think that's part of why i never off myself. i couldn't imagine putting them through something like that it wouldn't be fair. I know they get tired of hearing me always say i'm tired or whatever sorry didn't mean to rammble just thinking about things.

 I know the non-sleep scenario oh too well.  Do you have any sleep aid?

The past few nites it's been like 6am....7am & I'm still up!  AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH.  It is insane (steroids are the culprit for me on this one).

Being in pain is a problem too.  Sleep is impossible when everything is throbbing.

 

Hopefully all will be exhausted & literally become knocked out come sleep time!

I hate insomnia.  Ready for bed myself.

hi all hope everyone is doing ok. I've been better. Just not with it today at all. I didn't sleep good last night so I know that has a lot to do with my mood today. I"m also hurting all over. I'll go to my doctor's appointment a week from today. I've got about two weeks worth of info regarding my pain; where it hurts, when, how long and what not. So hopefully that will be helpful to the doctor. I'll rewrite it over the weekend. Its kind of chicken scratch cause I've been jotting things down here and there. I had rough time sleeping friday night too. I woke up a couple of times with major foot cramps. They were so bad I had to get up and walk the floor for a few minutes. Then when I got up the next morning my legs felt so dull and achy. I did manage to do some spring cleaning in the kitchen and I think I just about over did it after I got through with the mopping. That evening my whole body was hurting and stiff. Sunday I just didn't have the energy to do much more than laundry. I really want to find out what i'm dealing with here and get to feeling better, but the sound of some of these post i may never get back to my oldself again. oh well, i'm just really in a mood today and would prefere to be left alone, but i can't do that I have to work and all i'm doing is making it through the day then i can go home get a hot bath some dinner, some tylenol and get to bed early and hope that i'm a different person tomorrow cause honestly right now i'm a little crabby. I don't like crabby me. have a good one.

my god i'm tired. I mean i just want to go home and curl up in bed and sleep. I keep finding myself closing my eyes at the computer. i can't be doing that. I'll get in trouble shoot i've known people that have gotten fired because of falling asleep at work. I sit here and think thank god just 30 more minutes until break. I'll be able to walk around a bit. I am truly tired today. oh well i just have two more hours of work then i can go home and fall onto the couch for the night. That's all i feel like doing when i get home. i'm just glad we have leftovers from dinner last night. laters

good morning all hope everyone is up in around today. I am aches and pains and all. I really wish i knew how to paint. The sun rise is just beautiful coming up over the river behind the trees. Its definately a site I enjoy seeing every morning. just wanted to say hey and have a good day.