Monday check-in

Sorry It's a bit late but as soon as I hit the forum at 4am we had over 600 spam threads spread between 4 forums and each one has to be individually deleted one by one! I worked an hour until another mod, thanks UA came in to help and then it took 4 of us another 2 hour's to clean up the forum!

So here it is better late right?
This is check in and it's usually here early Mon where we come together to tell us how your weekend was, any appointment, procedures or problem's your having. Put your prayer request here and every one have a wonderful HW week ahead!

This weekend was fall cleanup, always taxing on my limited strength and motivation but nobody else is going to do it and it always looks better when I'm done. Slept till noon today, I deserve it, lol.
My pain remains in what I consider my normal range which is wonderful. Nothing new to report on my cancer, it seems to just be hiding out. It's the therapy that kills me, the cancer is just a slow growing reminder of my mortality . . . Q

I actually pressure cleaned my courtyard in the heat on Saturday. This is really pushing it and even though I paid for it later I still got it done.

Other than that I had a pretty uneventful weekend and I managed my pain levels no problem.

Hey and Happy Fall Y'all=)It's really not feeling like Fall here yet, still a little too hot for anything but SEC football Doctor increasing dosage of Zoloft, in hopes of fending off what seems to be "deepened" depression of PM drug trials.  I'm just having a hard time finding any degree of relief with Oxycodone.  In fact, my pain increases between dosing intervals, to more severe that pre-PM.  I can't afford extended release, so it's not an option.

Hope all have a reasonably good week with their pain well-managed!

Dixie

The myelogram tech chickened out and convinced the doctor they couldn't do my myelo, so I'm home today. I'm not so sure it was the right place to go anyway. It's a small community hospital, but my neurosurgeon said they do the best quality imaging. They don't allow any pain meds, so I was having second thoughts too.

I am in total agreement, Dixie. What is Purdue Pharm trying to prove? If you look foe it you can find the info to defeate the new anti abuse formulation and it doesn't take much from what I have read. Just when OC was going generic Purdue made IR impossible to obtain. I am sickened by this countries skewed priorities . . . Q

Hi Cindy, you came to the right place for hunting pain buddies . . . They're thick on the ground at HW. As for starting a new thread all you have to do is click on the "Post New Topic" tab above your reply. That way you'll get a subject line to fill out. Don't forget to say that you're new, that way replies will be coming fast and furious.

There's nothing like Sciatica to keep you awake at night . . . When I had it it seemed that there just wasn't a comfortable position at all, no way, no how. My wife gets a flare of it when we drive more than 100 miles, her cure is to lie in bed with the affected leg hanging off the bed. She tells me that it takes the pressure off the nerve. It helps if your usual sleeping arrangement accommodates that as ours does. What cured my Sciatica was a course of Prednisone and 2 months of PT afterwards. This Dx and Rx came from a sports Doc with a PT for a wife. I've never had a return bout as so many others do.

I've got the dagger foot myself, in the right one too. I tried Lyrica but it didn't work and was too expensive, that was before I got Medicare and a BC BS supplemental. The most relief I've gotten is a pair of orthotic arch supports, at least I can walk a couple of miles now without giving up. So make your self comfortable here, you'll find that this is a very knowledgeable, friendly forum with no druggies allowed. I don't care what they do it's just that we CPs get tarred with the same brush and their actions makes our lives more difficult, as if the various pains weren't enough . . . Q

Been gone a while, checking back in, yall are a good group of folks. ;-)
So, I had a double disc cervical fusion in April...it helped but I have finally decided to acknowledge that this is my new normal (only took 10 years of progressively worsening symptoms) I finally bit the bullet and filed for social security. Expecting to be denied due to my age and education so I am preparing for all that bad k and forth. My medical evaluation is next month.

What does PM mean?

Hi sore2thecore,
You can expect to be denied 2-3 times, that's normal. Just keep reapplying and at the end, ask for a judge. What's the age and education thing? I was considered over educated, also, being 52 worked in my favor as well. The judge is the easy part, you just have to persevere . . . Q