hello happy, so sorry to hear youre having a rough go of it today. as was stated above, you (in my opinion) dont always have to have the happy face on! that is after all what drew me to this group of...
thanks all. sorry, ive been in what i have come to call my "funk". ill disappear into myself for days, week/s. ive joined this forum for just this reason, to pull myself out of this funk and rejoin...
so sorry i have been "in my hole" for the last week or so, and am just now seeing you needed prayers and i was not there for you i am however so happy everything turned out well. and shame on doc!...
hello and welcome bunnygirl! i too am a new member, trying desperately to crawl out of the darkness that gradually swallowed me following a spinal cord injury in june of 2010. i had a great job,...
hi alcie. ive had a major surgery that left me with similar symptoms on the right side of my chest wall. the cause for me is scar tissue. the skin has scarred/stuck to my ribs. the skin can be moved,...
hi quincy, i like using the same pharmacy for everything that way they know what im on and what interacts with what, not to mention insurance issues. but, im super blessed and my doctor and my...
see...great advise on both fronts! i did speak to the pharmacy today (posted last night). pharmacist said they have different brands for the 100mcg/h than the 50's (50's are gel). she said she has no...
thx for all the advice vicki. as im sure you see, im a new member. as such i find im posting stuff all over the place. im doing my best to learn how to navigate the site. not only so i dont repeat,...
hi guys, hope all are doing well. went back to the doc for my check up today. went ...okay. first, ive been encouraged to go forward with the surgery for the arnold chiari surgery. tried to tell him...
hi pitt, thx and amen! as for the scooter, i just got a new wheelchair. its manual, but i didnt want an electric. my arms work fine. its one with the low back so it doesnt impede my arm movements and...
thank you for your words of encouragement. that is exactly what i am struggling with...the massive chore of redefining my life. and it is difficult at 47 living on what is now a fixed income with so...
hi ponylady. this is one area i can speak pretty positively about, although it was not for me at the time. i may consider another trial at a later date. which brings me to my comment for you. you...
melagain: i wasnt at a university hospital. i was at the VA Hospital...the Veterans Hospital. i am a veteran. the university hospital is across the street. and unbeknownst to me, the VA is a teaching...
one last thing (ill try to make it one last bitch session anyway). its not just the pain guys, its my body no longer knowing when it has to urinate and sometime deciding to "go" all on its own where...
thx again all for the info and the b-day wishws. k...yes, horribly depressed. but not as bad as it was. hate to admit it, but im literally opening up here with you guys. at one point i was suicidal....
thank you all so very much! as i posted on someone elses thread, this is a wonderful forum. im so grateful to have found you all. no matter what post i read i relate to each of you in some way. so...
hello ms pam, chiari is 2. and duh, she should most certainly not have been doing anything except paying very close attention to me and my back. she should also have quit when i first asked her to....
makes me smile hearing everyone talk about their gardens. thats something i used to love and miss oh so much. this forum is great, no matter the thread i read i relate to each of you on so many...
im so sorry for all youre going through. i know it can be frustrating. i wish you well and hope even though you will be seeing yet another doc in the same practice, he/she will be the one to make a...
for me i think it was more the low potassium (5) making me nod off than the vit d (officially rickitts...spelling? level was 12. i was prescribed 20,000 vit d and potassium pills. had to have...
for what its worth, when my potassium and vit d levels are very low...very low, i do that. fall asleep whenever/wherever. took a while to figure it out. but now when it starts i know what to do, head...
okay, here goes. (i think this is where im supposed to put this...if not, let me k ow where to post plz). let me begin my novella by saying it feels so strange to share my story. i usually try not to...
i guess that really sums it up. its been hell, a lonely hell. i suffered a spinal cord injury june 7th 2010, and life as i knew it has never been the same. the never ending pain is unbearable, and no...
hi all. new here, first post. have been in chronic pain since suffering a spinal cord injury june 7 2010. am on meds, but as i am sure all of you know, meds can take the edge off on some days. on...