Bed dry all weekend!

Hello all my dear and carring Fam's & Peep's!!!

I said something in a post, forgot where, that I had been wetting my bed lately. Well several of you told me to go rto my Urologist right away cause of my history of prostate cancer. I did call him and left a message last week about what was happening. Well he called back today and I told him that I'm pretty sure I figured out what was going on. He agreed and told me if it started back up again to call him.

Some of you might know that I've switched my pain doc twice since moving to the country a year ago. I had been travelling 4 hours to see my old one once a month for the first couple months here but that got old and expensive so I asked my new family doc to suggest a pain doc. The first was a piece of garbage person! He didn't evan ask me how I felt and cut my meds back 30mgs the first time I saw him! I gave him the bennifit of the doubt and went twice more but it didn't get any better so I told my reg doc what happened and he suggested another. A young lady who seems to know what she's doing but I'm not sure! So far she has cut my meds back another 50mgs!!! These docs seem so afraid to prescribe narcotics around here! Anyway, I went along w/ it. I'd been wanting to cut back anyway and see what happens since I'd been taking the same doses for so long. Well I can tell you what happened>> More pain of course>> Da!!! It's getting really hard to get out of bed and walk in the morning before I take my a.m. meds! My back is constantly in pain as is my neck which both are above #5 or #6 and shoot higher w/ activity. My hip has been probably the worst since the cut in meds> #7+! It burns and aches all the time and walking makes it worse. I had all this pain pretty much in control w/ the amount of meds I used to take, I mean I usually kept the pain below a #5 and evan got my brain used to that amount! I guess all good things must come to an end, especially with us C.P'ers!!!!!

Anyway, the reason I'm telling Y'all this is because I had been experimenting w/ the pain meds I had left to take, moving the times around when I take them to try to cope better w/ the pain! The Doc has me down to 3 - #15mg oxy's & 3 - #10mg methadones and one muscle relaxer at bed a day! I used to take twice that amount! So I've been taking a oxy and a 1/2 a methadone in the morning and trying not to take anymore till late in the day when the pain got out of control.  I think my tollerance has definitly gone down as it's been a couple months since she cut me down to this level! Anyway, by taking most of my meds late in the day and having a lower tolerance, I think it has caused me to start wetting my bed at night! After starting to take the meds earlier and more spread out, the wetting has stopped! Yea!!! But the pain in the afternoon / evening is much worse!!! Oh well, at least it's a dry pain!!!

That was a joke incase anyone didn't get it!!! You know like the westerners say, "at least it's a dry heat" Ask Miss Dani about our wet heat here in Fla!!! LOL!!!

So here I sit, in pain and soooooo tired> (didn't get my testosterone shot on time cause my wife was out of town!) At the end of my 3 week w/o a shot, my T level drops like a lead balloon! Blood tests have varrified that! Makes me so tired> Dead tired> Zombie tired Uggg!!

Sorry for all the whining as usual! I just wanted to let my caring Fam's who were worried about my bed wetting to know that I've stopped! Sure make Moma happy too!!!> Moma don't like wakin in dat wet bed!!!  

It's been raining here> Yea! Don't have to water the garden but since I built an irrigation system out of some old pvc pipes and fittings I had laying around this past weekend> (it actually works!) it just figures it would start raining finally!!!

So Datz all Folks as Buggs used to say!

Luv & Hugz To Y'all!!!!

Pain lovin Pete!

PS> Got my tens unit from the Lovely Miss Linda in the mail today!!!! 3 Cheers for Linda> Hip, Hip > You know the rest!! Miss Linda is an ANGEL!!! Thanks again Miss Linda!!!  

Glad to hear you are doing better, Pete. Having pain is awful enough but add to that losing control of the bladder is down right frustrating and embarassing too. None of us need any more misery.

It hasn't stopped raining off and on since last September but remember I'm in Washington state where we have the Annual Rain Festival...from Jan 1st - Dec 31st...lol Seriously, if I were to not put my tomatoes out until the nights were consistently about 55* then they would still be indoors. They are just sitting and doing nothing so I might just have to move them into the greenhouse. They are in large pots on the deck this year. Same with some new dahlias.

The past few days I've been so darn cold I put on these huge fuzzy sox, 2-3 layers of shirts/sweatshirts, heavy pants and I'm still cold. Still cranking up the electric blanket and there's no way we can sleep with the window open yet. And it's almost JULY! I do remember one spring/summer that we had to build a fire in the woodstove on the 4th of July. So while you all are roasting I'll be up here shivering. We must watch for a couple of mostly sunny days later in the week. They say it's summer coming and I don't want to miss it!

Be well my friend!
Chutz

Pete, sure do know that humid heat..Geezee, get 100% humidity here, too...So on which side of Florida do you fish???
with all that black gold(or black tar as thye are calling it) in the gulf sure must be hard findin a good fishing spot...Anyways sure hope the meds start helping you...
Take care and lots of soft caring hugz...
((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((Pete)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

Hi Peep'!
Chart, I live near the west coast right where Fla. starts it's bend north & west into the panhandle! No oil here yet, Thank God! They call it Fla's Nature Coast here because we don't have hardly any beaches or buildings near the gulf coast here. Just mangrove and grass estuaries for miles & miles with rivers flowing through it into the gulf. Most places you have to put your boat into a river and ride down at least a few miles to get to the gulf. It's a natural wonderland which could be totally devistated if the oil comes here! There is sooooo much wildlife in this area because of the lack of people and building right on the coasts that almost everywhere else in Fla. has!
I used to live down in the S.E. where it's totally different! Every inch of waterfront is built on! Thats a big reason that I like it here and got so sick of it there!
Dani, what are you sending me??? I don't remember you saying anything about sending something??? Anyway> Thanks for the kind words. I don't like the doctors around here, I mean you go to a pain specialist to help get your pain under control right? Then why is she making mine worse by cutting my meds? I'm going to ask her that tomorrow at my apt. I tried it her way and it didn't work! Why would she be worried about giving me too much pain meds when I had already been taking that amount for years? It doesn't make sence to me. It's not like she built me up to those levels, my other doc did that over a ten year span!!!
So, Lisa gave me a buzz cut after I was on line before. It's really short and I love it> She hates it! Then I went and mowed the lawn and picked up branches till it hurt too much and I got hot! The wind and storms had blown lots of dead branches down from the trees! Maybe I'll go out and finish later if it doesn't rain again.
Love yo all Y'all!
Pete