How long until you can eat? What do they give you? How long BEFORE the surgery do they stop you from eating? When during the party does the NG tube go in? Having this surgery about October. Start...
Scabies are bad to itch at night and occur in clusters because they tunnel under your skin. They will not go away by themselves. A doctor's treatment is required. Also, I broke out in folliculitis...
And if this is the wrong place to ask me just ket me know. I have been reading this forum for years but now that I have cancer, I am starting to post and didn't know there was so much I didn't know...
Well, it's me again. I first posted end of June . My story has this same subject. The cancer was staged. It is stage 11, T3. No lymph nodes involved but throught the colon wall but not into any...
qazw5x12 I agree with you. But the doctors said every two years was enough and I was getting scoped every two two years. My last scope was 15 months ago in March '08. It showed complete remission. It...
This is the name of my original post last week. As things happen during this long journey, I need your support. However, just adding to the original post does not seem to be the way to go but when I...
Just because I am not answering each post does not mean I am not storing your advice in my mind. I do not know that much yet....
Someone please reply....
It is called CANCER. How did it happen so fast? by UCsince'76. I do not know how to move it. I am going to need all of you. I have been reading this forum for a few years getting myself...
Malkavian, I am going to ask my doctor about steroids. I was thinking there might be something better than benadryl but I did not know what to ask for. I would almost rather hurt than itch. I want...
REDBUGS! This is the South. They are tiny little red bugs that live in patches in the grass. You can be standing 5 feet away from someone and one person will be eaten up and the other not touched....
What is so bad is that I have to wait so long to see what stage my cancer is. It will be after the surgery and anything else they do first. My doctor seemed annoyed that I wanted to know this so...
Thank you for all the replies. I am sitting here alone waiting for the surgeons to call. My son is coming at lunch to take the cat to the vet. His feet keep swelling up really big for no reason. They...
Thank you for moving my post. I did not know how to do it. I am just sitting here alone waiting for the surgeons to call. My poor son is coming to take the cat to the vet at lunch. His feet keep...
I am in Huntsville, Alabama and the place I just had the colonoscopy is Vanderbilt in Nashville. Actually, they seem to be pretty good. I just keep thinking about that long drive while I am sick from...
Zippy 123 Thank you. I already know that they are going to take out my whole colon and rectum....
I would really like to but what if I had some kind of bad episode sometime and could not make it to Nashville. I would have to go to this ER and they are the only people I can see. I hate living in a...
I just posted on the Ulcerative Colitis forum. I just found out I have cancer. I kept getting the brushoff from everybody. The post tells all about it. I am having depression, too and I would like to...
I have had UC for 33 years. It started with just some odd cramping for two nights in the middle of the night right after my wedding in 1975. At some point it became pancolitis. It was always pretty...
That happened to me on Cymbalta. We had to go to an outdoor event where my grown son's boss would be. It was night and in the 70's. The walking made it worse. I had sweat constantly running down my...
I just typed the whole thing again and it is gone again. I need help so bad....
No, my whole post is gone. Do you have any idea where it went? The subject was still there but the post was gone after I hit missing key. However the post asking what happened worked. Oh, now it says...
I tried to submit a post but at the bottom it says missing key. What is this?...
Stop having sex with people you are not married to. If people would abide by this, millions upon millions of problems just would not exist. Including yours....
I once had a great offer that would have gotten my new career off the ground. The place was very much like the one described above but with one more little goody. The server for all the computers was...
I can't believe your GI told you your UC presents in the first year how it is going to be. My UC was left-sided for 12 years and I lived with it fairly well. Then, after one colonoscopy, I found it...
I used to use them all the time. Sometime I put one between my thighs to warm up quickly on a cold day. I was started on blood thinners 2 years ago for a blood clot. Over time, I began to notifce a...
I have lived in more than my share of apartments. When I moved, I asked about the neighbors around all the available units before I picked one. When my son was a small baby, a lady moved in above me....
Huntsville, Alabama...
Are you talking about dysthymia?...
I was on Cymbalta awhile. It helped a little. The problem was the side effect of sweating. Major, bizarre amounts of sweat. One evening, it was in the 70's. We went to an outside event and my son's...
Thank you for the replies. As far as Nursing goes, I got out of it and became an accountant because I hated, hated, hated Nursing so very badly. You have to really hate something to go all the way...
Because of my profession, I have to attend continuing education seminars. They squeeze us in there like sardines at long tables. You are literally knee to knee with the strangers on each side of you...
Did you mean why didn't the opthalmologist prescribe them for me? I don't know. He was only in my room 2 minutes, tops, all the time backing out the door. I really, really, really, don't know why he...
Does anyone know where a 57 year old woman can find friends? I have no family except the best son in the world. I actually have a daughter, too but she does not like me. I am financially dependent on...
about the gymnastics part. I guess most of us "look." I was at a large airport last Christmas and they had an electronic eye thingy that, as soon as I stood up, flushed everything so fast it was...
My husband left in 2003 after a 28 year marriage. At 51, no one would hire me. My biggest nightmare is health insurance. I have Ulcerative Colitis, so I cannot be insured privately. In my state, if...
I used to be an unusually high energy person. So much so that I wished I could slow down a little when my kids were small so I could read to them and just hold them. But we were always running around...
I have Ulcerative Colitis. It is pancolitis (whole colon). I have had it 32 years. I take Coumadin blood thinner for a blood clot in my leg 2 years ago. I bleed a little more but not much. My...
The septic company man came. He says the system was put in wrong. Instead of one straight pipe connecting house to tank, the installers just used whatever they had on the truck and we have zig-zags...
The septic tank has stopped up - again. And I am in a small flare. Can't even think about using the toilets but I can't leave the house because I have to stay here and wait for the septic tank people...
I'm a little older than you and I lose friends in a different way. Ladies want to meet for lunch and ride together. After a large restaurant meal, at some point in the near future I am going to need...
I have had pancolitis for at least 15 of my 32 years with UC. My symptoms are so mild I am not even on any meds. (althought my GI says I should be on SOMETHING. It sounds like just for the principle...
on chronsandme.com I read some more and one of the stipulations to us getting to use the restroom in states where the law is passed is that there have to be at least three employees working at the...
Just pressed the "submit" button on an e-mail to Governor Bob Riley of Alabama about Ally's Law. Maybe we will get this law for Alabama. I wish I would have saved it. I explained briefly what UC is...
Everbody look up www.rainbowbridge.com...
Get to a doctor NOW. I had the same thing two years ago. It turned out to be a DVT or deep vein thrombosis. These clots can break off and lodge in your heart lungs or brain. This can be fatal.They do...
When you find her, please keep her inside. Some people say it is terrible to keep them locked up, but they don't know what they are missing. And isn't it better than the situation you have right now?...
How about a heated one? In the winter, I have noticed, itchy skin is cold skin. If I have to get up in the night, I itch when I get back to bed. When my son graduated from college and got a job as an...