Airlines have planes that can accommodate a stretcher so I would imagine that if the Dr states you must remain in upright or supine position that accommodation could be offered to you. I don't think...
Sounds like your doing good! Glad you got some at home visits they are priceless. I can see dropping a bowl in that situation given I know what it's like in a collar and doing everything from a...
Hi Lyndsy and welcome to the forum. First you want to remain on the methadone post op and other meds will help for breakthrough pain from the tkr but not as well as they would without the methadone...
Lol now you know why we send people pre-op to the goodwill on a pillow of many shape hunt and a recliner is a must!! Sorry to say how to sleep comfortably in a hard collar is something we haven't...
Welcome Sommertime to the CP forum and I am sure sorry for your issues. It sounds like you have had all the normal tests and procedures and you have seen all the drs that generally help others with...
Well if your search turned up the ungodly death by withdrawal syndrome you had to have found mine. I actually used butrans to lessen the months and months of agony getting off years and years of low...
Hello Murph and welcome to HW. Sorry to hear about your issues with the implants. It's discouraging to find something that works only to have your body work against you. It's a more common occurrence...
Hello Utah and welcome to our safe house where we all hear you!! I don't think that anyone here can't relate to many of your struggles and for some the struggles are many levels. I too am retired...
Healing thoughts for you going in and for a uneventful and speedy recovery. If there is someone who you can have message one of us please have them do so. Otherwise you can let us know as soon as you...
I grew up in a far different world where police were respected and appreciated. They were neighbors and church friends,we went to the same schools and they coached our little league teams. A time...
Welcome back Zara and I am sorry your having problems. First let me say that I am surprised that the Dr was going to attempt a nerve block. I'm no encyclopedia on crps but from the years here and...
It's all the little things that are going to count in how well you get through the first recovery days and then healing over the following weeks. You want your priorities in some kind of order even...
I believe I have said this before but will again. If I understand your signature your currently on neurontin and cymbalta? They were looking to add lyrica in place of the two or in conjunction with...
Please be sure and read CP 101 at the top of this page and look for the post on cervical procedures. In it there's a wealth of things those who have gone before you have written to help prepare for...
Well I guess at least be thankful your care seems to be moving albeit every way other than forward first but getting somewhere right? Here I thought we had a complex confusing healthcare system. Good...
Karen is correct,due to the unknown they use imaging in the way of mri only as a have to. They will attempt getting records and family members giving history before doing one. However there are many...
Regardless of what the motel manager said a police report was necessary!! Remember there's now two prescriptions floating around out there that could have catastrophic and dangerous potentials to...
I think everyone everywhere experienced pretty much the same thing. I know even though I took all the precautionary measure I could my animals were still in a frenzy even the next day. As for the...
Welcome Cheryl to the CP forum and sorry to hear of your struggles but unfortunately we are seeing more and more like them. Primary care has changed drastically over the last few years and with all...
Thank you Sophie for your endeavor and naturally your interest in CP. Congratulations for reaching your goals and following through as we all know in this chronic pain journey the road to reaching...
So sorry for your loss and I know those words hold very little meaning right now. As a mom who has lost a child as well as the mom of a addict I can't urge you enough to find a counselor who...
I have worked the environment like you and some days at the end of the day all the way home y minds going in reverse and I'm trying to recall if I went back and did this or that,did I follow through...
Thanks...
Haha HT I caught the between the lines meaning there!! Took awhile to get you back in since Peter was off the grid then wasn't entering the all caps in your username when he was looking for you so...
Lol I will likely get trashed for this response but here goes. Ever wonder why Drs are well off financially? Your Dr office look well staffed? Seems like adequate staffing sure but then think about...
That's strange but sometimes things in this cyberworld does what it wants. Not sure how you got unblocked but there's times with the set-up in the forum of the mod controls that members actually get...
Welcome Aj and sorry to hear your struggling with pain issues.. The thing to remember is"normal" anything is based on personal level. People will say their b/p,temperature,glucose levels,are normal....
Char most Drs policies allow you one free copy of your record from his files and any subsequent requests could be at cost to you to include staffing time and materials such as paper and or disk and...
UPDATE: Went to PM appointment today and alls well. They ordered the knee MRI that we have been trying to get for 6 months and my Humana PA's wouldn't authorize without using all the prescreening bs...
I take as little meds as possible now. I feel a lot better than when I was taking 13 different meds in a day and most were counteracting one of the others. Just didn't make sense to me....
It's like anything else in your life that is repetitive and consistent,easier? I don't think so,coming to terms with it? Definitely so. Teaching ourselves to push it to the back of our minds is a...
Try using the search feature at the top of this page and enter costochontritis. You should find many threads discussing this and possibly some idea's of what helps as far as dealing with the pain...
Thank you all for the support this is not a rash decision but a lifetime of belief. I have seen enough to know that there are times the battles are bigger than the war! My poor dad opted out of...
UPDATE: I filed a complaint against the primary practice with Humana and spoke with the coordinator about their use of coercion,extortion,bribery whatever you want to call it and naturally he was not...
So wishing you could blow some of that cold our way!! We are in the 90s weeks into June with 100% humidity so real feels sitting close to 100+. The wind when it blows off the Atlantic is like having...
Thank you ladies for well defining the differences between the two and they are vastly different. Susie I understood the background a bit more because we have discussed your brother's situation both...
T have followed your thread yet refrained from replying as others have covered nicely the things we have found that help us to crawl out of the hole every day. I will say that depression and pain are...
Hi Sophie and welcome to the forum. We will be more than happy to help you in your endeavour however you must get administrator permission before we can. You can do so by emailing him via the admin...
That's what I am saying Karen,I'm 60 I have or should have the option to choose how I go out of this world. I refuse to put my family through the horror of watching chemo eat away at my body and...
I also wanted to say hi and welcome to the forum....
Wow I can't believe how they treat us on Medicare,something we paid for out of paychecks for many many years and if I live 15 more years I doubt I would use up what I paid in. Let me add I disabled...
This came up once before about changing outside the enrollment period and if I recall there's a way for me to do so because I'm SNP or rather Medicare with Medicaid which is limited to only paying my...
I in fact have a HMO,I didn't pick this conglomerate of Drs they did when the previous one lost his license and I didn't like the fact they have numerous offices all over Florida and to me that says...
I have worked n medical for 30+ and been a CPer for close to 20 yrs and the past week has literally floored me. I have had the same PM for 6 yrs here and the one before that in my home state for 13....
Hi Klambert and welcome to CP. Sorry to hear about your issues and potential for upcoming surgery. First and most importantly get another opinion! We never encourage anyone to undergo operations...
The key to any decrease or stopping a med is in a proper taper(excluding methadone and all bets are off) if you are lucky enough to have a Dr who will work with you in planning a slow taper,adding in...
When the Dr writes that on the script the pharmacy can do nothing until after that date or until 30days has passed. All he has to do the months that's going to happen is don't write that on there....
Sadly these statements are what hurts us. Dr David Kessler former administrator for the FDA says "its a mistake to separate those who get these meds legally prescribed or illegally" seriously? A...
I have not heard of the book but will certainly look for it. I have always believed that pain is about how we perceive it. After 30yrs of nursing its the only common sense explanation. You can take...
Oh my Rj I had forgotten you were on the high road of methadone and no I'm not going to preach here but if you don't recall the post I made and my battle with coming off methadone after 15 years on I...