It took me about 5 mins to remember this today - I was stopped at a stop sign waiting for a green light :eyes:...
I have always been irrregular - but since starting Savella I am down to 3 or 4 periods a year...
OK my dr just told me this...now I got to recall exactly what it was. OK I know it was no advil/ibuphrofen with my etodolac because that would actually make the pain worse. However, there was another...
My cell phone alarm is set to go off at med time. Then my husband follows up to make sure I actually take them....
Saw new PCP today and told hime everything that has been brushed off in the past : He thinks what dismissed as just hemroids is colitis and he is requesting of colonscopy He thinks when my friend who...
Well I came very close to seriously injuring and possibly killing myself tonight. For those of you who ready my earlier post "Still foggy?" you know my mind is going somewhere. Well, my pill alarm...
I will pray for your daugther. You sounds exactly like me - I am suppose to see a new rheume on Tuesday and I am saying the exact same things to myself. I am just trying to tell myself I have to...
Going to a new dr tomorrow to talk about stomach flares, but that not meaning for this post. Something happened today. I went to church then on my own went to the gas station for the papers. It was...
I cannot get it because of my fibro. I did get temporay disability for mental health reasons - the judge ruled I would be cured in 2 yrs. So I think it is this December or next I lose my disability...
I was told by someone who has raynauds that tehy think I have raynauds - but never asked for a drs input. We were out gettign hot drinks over the winter and I said how much pain the cold had caused...
I went to Wal-mart today to get supplies for a baseball card coupon organizer - heard so much about htem decided to try it! And I had a thought on the way they - and I was able to retain it! I bought...
I would ask your doctor about free samples too. My husband's doctor supplies one of his meds. I have PA Acess (state insurance) and we got a letter a few months again stating we are only allowed to...
It always good to know you are not alone :) I feel like I am losing my mind!...
I know coupon talk alone is a no - no, but this a coupon and fibro topic As I sit here go through next weeks sales and my coupons I realize this is going to take many many many hours. I see a good...
I have one!! I did my coupon shopping yesterday - Purex was marked down to $1.99 and I had 10 coupons for $1 off! I bought 10 bottles for a total of $9.90! With what I already have at home I have...
I really hate talking about this, but I think I really should. For as long as I can recall I have had what I call "stomach crashes" - I got to have a bowel movement and I got to go NOW! Sometimes it...
When ever I go food shopping there are certain item I always buy even if not on my list because I am certain I am about to run out of that item and I always use it. Over the past week my oldest and I...
Oh yeah I do that all the time with my teenager. If I call my son out of his room and ask him to do something - if he does not return to me and said he did it - I will wonder if that something was...
I am sorry you had to go through that :( Last year we were n our way home from a family vacation - speed limit was 70 or 75 MPH where we were - and we hit a coyote. Do you have any idea how much...
I am 32 yrs old - almost 33 yrs - and I would forget my head if it was not attached! If I had a dime for everytime I started something and did not finish it because I got distracted and then later...
:: gentle hugs :: Thank you everyone! It is 5:18 AM and we just got home! No time to sleep right now. Our 7yr old, Peggy, was diagnosed with severe ADHD, severe speech delay, mild fine motor delay...
Ohh goodness yes. My life is very stressfull. In addtion to my own ailments - my husband has hypertension, high cholestrol, brusistis and now what they think is arthrtis in his knee. He is a seasonal...
Okay that is good to know - I was starting to think I was really losing my mind! :)...
Today was my first yard sale Saturday of the season. My husband does all the driving for a number of reasons - one being once I follow the signs to the yard sales I forget how I got there and end up...
I know that feeling! While cooking dinner tonigh that stupid little voice in my head said the cabinets need cleaned out and you can handle that. After dinner I dragged my son into helping me. Not...
I was watching extreme coponing last night and realized how much I miss couponing :cry: The reason I gave it up was because the coupons became too painful to cut out. However, ebay has pre cut...
I do not know what these shoes are I got them off a walmart clearance rack - but the bottom is not ..oohh graccious help me I cannot recall the word I want....anyway the shoes are curved. After a...
:confused: Ever have a fog moment and you just do not want to ask questions? Well for dinner we had this noodle cream sauce mixture with a meat chopped up in it. I cooked. So later on in the night I...
Got to admit when I read the post tile my first thought was - can't lose what you never had - LOL My thing is gasoline. I live at least 15 miles from the nearest gas station. I normally leave with...
When my grandparents could no longer haul their trash to the curb they talked to the company that picked up there trash. For the last several years of their lives the trash men walked up to the side...
I agree with everyone else try to talk to doctor directly. If you change doctors be honest as to why. Right now I am so upset and disgusted with PCPs I am just not going to one - even though I need...
I normally tell my husband when I take my meds so when I cannot remember if I did 2 mins later he can tell me. I also have an alarm set on my phone to remind me to take them....
When it comes to aspertame for me it is the taste - GROSS GROSS GROSS AND GROSS AGAIN!! :P I taste like sheet rock dust. :P I had gestinal diabetes with 3 of my pregnancys. The health food stores...
Oh trust me I have those moments. Ecsp. at 3 AM when everyone is snoring and I am wide awake trying to figure out how to make the pain stop just long enough for me to get a few hours of sleep. It...
I never have trouble finding my van - I give it a few mins. then I raise my arm as high as I can and hit the panic button! From there it is just follow the sound :D...
Lightly salted Lays Potato Chips with french onion dip and Choc. chip mint ice cream is my weakness. Oh and frozen burritos. I know I know the burritos are way too salty but I noramally get the bean...
I had a bad appointment today too :( The nurse had put in he computer I have fibro so as soon as the doctor came in he gave be a long speech about how he will not give me narcotics and how fibros are...
After another night of almost no sleep and knowing my PCP would do nothing I decided to give it a whirl. I am tired and I am desperate - why not? Well, first thing doctor does is give me a long...
For me in winter - it layers - lots and lots of layers. My hands still turn funky colors though :/ Summer - I stay upstairs in my room as often as possible because I wear as little clothing as...
When I moved to the area I now live in back in 2006 I picked a local one doctor practice. He was a nice dr, but he gave up the pratice and moved out of the area. After that the practice only had a...
I have been poke and proded for so many things I don't even remember all the test. I know one night I was in ER with a pulse of 180. They ran a ton of test that night - including one that invovled...
My tube says "Arniflora Arnica Gel relieves Pain, Swelling & Stiffness Natural Homeopathic" "Active Ingredient : (HPUS) Arnica montana 1x 8% in witch hazel base" and I have no not even the smallest...
I have arinca gel that I use. I rub that stuff all over. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't :(...
Not sure about that, but I know there a spot on my back by the bottom of my shoulder blade that if you touch it wrong I jump about 3ft across the room in pain...
WOW! A whole 3 hrs! You doing better than me! :) I get flares too - still in one - pain can't decide if it likes my hip and thighs or my shoulders better. I am going to be looking into buying a few...
When it comes to that hospital and narcotics it not just me. I know people who have had back surgery and they refuse to give pain meds. The put some new policy in place like 2yrs ago now? (maybe only...
Thank you for the welcome :) I just goolged bed buddy and found a bunch of diffent products. The gloves look interesting. My hands always feel swollen and stiff. I have not been able to cut food for...
I have been in horrible pain for a week. A rheumatologist diagnosed me with fibro a few years ago, but after lyrica caused my mental health to become worse - they discharged me from their department...