You know, maybe i really should keep a journal. But what do i put in it? Just when I hurt and how it hurts and how bad? Or everything down to what I am thinking at the time? That reminds me. I got a...
Not yet, but I DID get a call back from my PM doc, what a guy, and i say that with the upmost sarcasm. Since I cannot afford the epidural injections, he is washing his hands of me so to speak. He...
HAHAHAHA I hear ya! I hate walking around all gimpy and there are MUCH older Cardiac patients here looking at me as if I was one sorry sack of crapola.... It's like yeah lady my joints look like your...
P.S: TD you made perfect sense thank you...
Thanks guys, it's good to know there are people who understand and feel it too. I wouldn't dream of giving someone i care about this pain. I am actually terrified for my kids that they could end up...
I am panicking. I am trying not to hyperventilate or freak out as I am at work and this is NOT the place to do it but it has all just hit me. This morning I woke up the the worst absolute pain yet...
Yeah and I have had these problems for at least 2 years... I don't know i am just scared of what they will think, but yeah once he gets my Rheumatologist's report about the RA dx, then maybe he won't...
I am wondering what to do with this. They want me to get injections (the steroid/epidural whatever) on the T7, 8,, and 9 area, but they want $1,000 up front for this because my deductible sucks. I...
You know when I first came on here I was going thru my withdrawl, and I am glad i did otherwise I don't think they would have caught the RA and I wouldn't be getting my treatment for it. So I guess...
That is true, I learned also in nursing school, to keep a list of health issues and meds in your freezer, or the bottom of your shoes. Sounds funny but EMT's will look there first....
Yeah I am learning that. Like jumping out of bed like a teenager and bounding across the room... big no no. Did a face plant two steps out.......
I wonder if i is the meds then... I left a message w/ mt rheumy... waiting to hear back. I was so excited. I was cleaning my bathroom and found a few generic MS Contin ER's I had gotten them a long...
I'm getting freaked out. I think I will call. This stuff works on the joints greatly, but it scares the crap out of me, at least from what I have read about it. I have been googling everyhting there...
I tought Prednisone would take my pain away. I was good yesterday, and this morning. Now sitting here at work i cannot sit still my legs are BURNING so bad and ACHING so bad I could just scream! Is...
I hear you Hope... I am waiting for them to say "Oops! We made a mistake, you just got this little thing going on, here take a couple of these and you'll be fine by morning! No more pain for you!" If...
I don't know why she did that. I am to take on e at breakfast and one at dinner, and yes, I have a VERY hard time sleeping. I have been late to work the last 2/3 days from lack of sleep. I have found...
Ha ha yeah I may do the same.... Did it make you feel like you had one to many cups of coffee though? What did you do to counteract it if you did?...
It looks like I will be on it for at least 2 months. The only thing I had today was kind of a sharp pain in my stomach, which I think may be from the bleeding problem I had from taking to much...
I wonder how long it takes for the side effects to get bad.... I am just enjoying it right now while i am good... Not depressed, not tired, 50% of pain gone... freakin' sweet...
Undr... I had one tell me that crap too! He says mine isn't considered "severe" and that if he had an MRI he was sure he would have an abnormality too, as would most people but i don't hear him...
BTW, Prednisone ROCKS!!!!! Since this morning i am able to move my arms hands and legs without feeling like they are going to rip apart. For the first time in I don't know how long I am HAPPY! No bad...
I know that, but they say that is a side affect of the prednisone. I will try to avoid it if I can, but who knows? I had lost almost 20 lbs in 2 weeks from being in so much pain I was sick sick sick....
Are you serious?? Tapering? What is going ON with all the meds you need to TAPER!?!?!?! Oh well, screw it. I just don't want to hurt anymore. I am worried about getting fat tho...
Yeah the more I look into it the more nervous I am about taking it... but then again, if it helps my pain, I will bite the bullet......
Hello. I was going to the Chronic pain and fibro forum, and then today I saw my Rheumatologist for the first time. She says she is Comfortable and sure enough to diagnose me with RA, but took blood...
I just came on here quickly to share this. I went and saw the Rheumatologist today. She looked at my history and my family history and after she examined me, she says she is concerned enough and sure...
Thank you nvr... mrsm, I never took more than what I was prescribed, I never "abused" my meds This is really getting out of hand, thanks to time and tramadol I am getting my head to stop swimming and...
I really do feel better, the tramadols are helping a lot I think. I still really can't eat and am still running to the bathroom here and there, but as far as the sweats and chills and general...
Miami, the writing everything down is an awesome idea. I am going to remeber that. But then what if they think it is scripted? I am so paranoid......
Yeah I think i have been prescribed every anti-depressant in the book. You're rigth gramps, they DON'T have a problem with it. Finally after my up-teenth manic episode (finally in their office, in...
what's the fasia?...
I will look them up and see if they take UHC, thanks for the name. I tried one other one, desert pain institute, and he was an absolute ass, he told me everyone has something wrong woth him and that...
I'm going to throw it out there to you guys and see what you think. I have told a few dr's over and over again but what the hell, here it goes... It started with a bolt of pain shooting from my...
I will definitely ask the reumatologist when I go in wednesday, thank you...
I am also entertaining the idea of having a full MRI. They only did the thoracic area, but with the amount of pain in my neck, lower back and right leg.... plus the numbness going down the "pinkie"...
Yeah really... I would be buying it by the CASE...
Nooo not 3 months worth. I was constantly in and out of the ER because my back neck leg and arm would constantly seize up.... Between them and my PCP I was sent to the PM doc And yes he was the one...
The best thing to do is to call your insurance and ask, although you can't always depend on it. If they take you as contracted, then anything not covered is written off, and you are only responsible...
The same PM doc.......
I 'm not chewing the ultram anymore, after lasy night I got tramadol that works pretty fsat so i am cool for now...
I have been on them of and on for a while, so it would total 6 months, from going to the ER. I have been going to the pain specialist for 3 months, being prescibed to take it on a daily basis since...
See? It's not all in your head. They had me thinking that for 2 years. Then you get someone who went to medical school to actually help people and great things happen. Isn't it odd? I have yet to mee...
I really wish some of those Dr.'s would come on here just so they can get an idea of what suffering is induced by their blind self-rightousness. I can't spell and frankly right now I don't care...
Sign me up.......
I almost went to the ER last night. I actually begged my husband to either take me to the hospital, or just put me out of my misery, because he is a cruel sadistic bastard for letting me sit in this...
PS: I forgot to answer a question. As far as I know, I always had my medication in my system, at the amount needed, because I couldn't MISS a dose without being in tears. I really thought that...
Yeah today is one of those days where I am sure that the world would be a better place if I wasn't in it. According to my husband I am stressing everyone out and taking attention away from my kids....
PS: I have never called in for an early refill or gone through withdrawl or any of that, if my husband took more and I ran out a little early, I dealt with it. In bed, but I dealt with it....
I have asked to have surgery and have it done with so I won't have to go through this but they say it won't do any good. It will fix the herniation, but not the degenerative disk disease, so I can...
I really don't understand how I am being labeled as an addict when I never did drugs in my life until I recently smoked pot for a couple of months (and it wasn't every day either) and just took what...