Oh and I just saw the edit, you can buy the nicotine patches/gum/e cigarettes anywhere OTC really. I smoked for a couple years and I quit suddenly, then one day I tried again out of stress and got...
I live in Phoenix btw, nyc is a long way away but i think i'll send her a letter or something. Maybe find her practice number and call just to see what they say. What's her specialty? do you know?...
YES!!! I am actually a redhead! I totally forgot that I knew redheads felt pain differently. I always had such a high pain tolerance and it took me soooo long to finally seek out pain management...
Thank you all for your suggestions :) I just can't seem to get cooperating doctors lol... if only House were real haha.....
I forgot, no I'm not on dialysis currently. Oh, and with the meds I'm on I'm not constipated at all, never have been. Sometimes, usually really, I at very least have soft stools....
The pain meds are actually a shocker for a lot of people. I have what's called idiosynchratic response where i don't react to medications as sensitively as normal people do. Anything, even novocaine,...
oh and also, on account of my kidneys i have an electrolyte deficiency, obviously lol since i'm on muscle relaxers and anti spasmodics, but i still have to constantly drink powerade. i mix it half...
I do have Aetna HMO though, and if it's covered my generics are $10 and name brands are no more than $40...
I should have mentioned that i can't have NSAIDS because of my kidneys either...
there are other things but i'm a very picky eater. even off of that list i don't eat fish....
my diet restrictions that i follow really, are no animal proteins, fish, coffee, tea, chocolate, etc, so sugars are really my only source of nutrition. I was a nursing student and worked for GNC...
Get scanned for cysts, could be PKD, which I have....
sounds like polycystic kidney disease, which i have. kidney cancer also causes cysts and causes them to calcify....
My UC got really bad, bad enough to diagnose, after my gallbladder was removed april 2008. Thinking back now I had the symptoms before but I never really thought much about it cuz it wasn't so...
ZOFRAN!!!! you can get it to dissolve in your mouth and have relief in minutes! literally minutes. it's the only thing that helps me....
(this is my first post i apologize in advance) I have polycystic kidney disease amongst other things as well as UC and because of my kidneys i am heat intolerant, always need it very cold 70F max...