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Crzndeb
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07-26-2004

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 9:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh girl, tell me about it...I can SO cry on cue. I need to be on TV...LOL! I was sitting on my chair at home the other night and I don't know if I was even thinking about anything (maybe the dog was looking at me with a cute puppy face) and I starting welling up with tears. I feel your pain for sure!!!

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 12:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Don't know if you fibro sufferers are aware of this, but I stumbled across this post on another newsgroup and thought I'd paste it in here - just in case this is news to you:

".....(there is a medication) called Cymbalta and was created for other health conditions but some doctors had decided to try it on Fibromyalgia because it works on the part of the brain which releases chemicals which help one to feel pain less severely. I have been taking 60 mg. a day for the last 3 1/2 months and have felt younger and stronger than I remember feeling durning any of the last 26 years. It has taken away about 50% of my pain -- praise the Lord!!!"

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 12:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi Lumbele, that is just wonderful! I am so happy for you that you are feeling better. I will say it again--praise the Lord!!!

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 12:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
my fil has horrific diabetic neuropathy. they have recently found that this works for that too.

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 6:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
No, Kristy; above was a quote of a post by someone else from another newsgroup I read occasionally. Luckily I don't have fibro.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Wednesday, April 13, 2005 - 7:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, LOL I went back and reread your post. Well anyway glad you don't have it Lumbele.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Saturday, April 23, 2005 - 6:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I need some info on High Blood Pressure.Just been diagnosed with it and don't know if 161/85 is ok. I had to go to the er the other morning because I didn't feel right. When I got there it at one time got as high as 243/119. Some of that was fear because the BP cuffs kept blowing off my arm and scared the crap out of me. They used three different ones and they all blew off, finally they put one on my wrist and leaned on it to hold it down! Finally sent me home because they couldn't find anything wrong with me. Gave me some BP meds. I have seen my doctor and have been put on Atenolol. Right now I am recording my readings for the doc. He said to call if I have any bad readings. I have always thought the low number is most important. The bottom number is ok but the top is too high. I can't find anything on the net about a reading such as that.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Saturday, April 23, 2005 - 6:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That's pretty high, but it sounds like they had the wrong sized cuff.
I am on BP meds now. I was two years ago, after my mom died and my hysterectomy. They thought it maybe stress ect, ended up in the ER too. It seemed to stablize and I was off.
It went back up. I can tell when it's up too. I get a headache, but it's a really different kind of headache. My last doc visit was 165/95. So I am back on the meds. He did change my estrogen to a patch cause oral estrogen can cause it to go up, and I started that around the time of the first episode too. I take Lisinopril.
I will say that I am not going to fight the meds this time. One of the things we have learned about my mom's death was that it was probably caused by hypertension/high bp. She was always right there on the border line, but wanted to manage it with diet and exerice. And she was very vigilant about both. She hated pills, but I can't help wondering if she had taken them if she would still be here.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Saturday, April 23, 2005 - 7:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
here are some good sites

Link to Healthybp.com

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/hbp/hbp/whathbp.htm

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3004828

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Saturday, April 23, 2005 - 12:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks for your help Texannie the sites have been most helpful. Sorry to hear that you have HBP too. I did not have a headache at all and that surprised the doctor, however, I had not slept all night and felt like I needed to run. Felt extremely hyper. DH told me to take my BP and it registered high so we took off. As for the cuffs being too small, I don't know they put three different ones on me and the last time they put it on my wrist and it still blew off. Only remained on me when the nurse held it on with her hands. Strange huh? Plus out of all the times they tried to take it about half of them would not even register kept getting EEE message and then alarm.
My doctor told me I was very lucky that I did not have a stroke with BP that high. I am just glad to be here and have said my that you's to my Lord!

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Saturday, April 23, 2005 - 1:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kristy, when checking you out, did they check your thyroid function?

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Saturday, April 23, 2005 - 3:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi Mak1, yes they checked that out at the hosp. My doc is also going to check that but he wants me to fast before the blood workup, I go on Monday. I don't know if fasting is necessary for a Thyroid test if so the one done at the hosp would not have been accurate as I had drank a couple of cups of coffee with cream and sugar.
Thanks for the heads up on the possibility of a Thyroid problem.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Saturday, April 23, 2005 - 3:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kristy, make sure your doc is aware of the new thyroid levels. Anything over 3 is now considered hypo. Optimal levels are now in the 1's.

Wendo
Member

08-07-2000

Saturday, April 23, 2005 - 3:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
One doesn't need to fast for a thyroid test; but, if they're checking cholesterol too, then yes, a fast is necessary. I was recently put on Synthroid for low thyroid. Haven't really noticed much of a difference, LOL!

I also think my doc is going to put me on cholesterol medicine. It has been running high. Originally she thought it was artificially up because of the thyroid. But, once the six week on thyroid blood test came back, my cholesterol was still high. I go in Tuesday for yet another follow up doc appointment.

Sheesh, I've seen my doc more in the past two months than the past five years.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Saturday, April 23, 2005 - 5:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wendo, I was diagnosed hypo in Dec. I didn't really start to feel good till just recently when I changed docs and he lowered my synthroid and added Armour Thyroid to get my T3's up.

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Saturday, April 23, 2005 - 6:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I thought they would have, but wanted to be sure to mention it since you had three of the major symptoms I had when I had hyperthyroid.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Saturday, April 23, 2005 - 10:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Texannie I will make sure. Mak1 the hosp was supposed to call me back if they found anything so I guess they didn't. My sister had hyperthyroid a year ago she said she could constantly feel her heart beat in her neck. Did you have this same symptom? I just find it so strange that my blood pressure jumped so high all of a sudden.

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Sunday, April 24, 2005 - 5:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes, and after a day I could feel it thudding in my ears. It came on suddenly. It's so unsettling when you have something like that happen. I hope you're back to good health real soon.

Ginger1218
Member

08-31-2001

Sunday, April 24, 2005 - 11:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I had a test today to test my antibodies for Hashimoto's Disease (thyroid disease), I had previously been tested 5 years ago and had the antibodies but they were dormant. Since I have been sick so often my doctor wants to test me again and check to see if my immune system is screwed up. (Hashimoto's attacks the immune system)
On other notes, I am very very depressed today, I feel like I am falling apart. Before last year I never ever got sick. I have been sick every other month this year. I was told today that I have asthma, and bronchitis. He put me on prednisone (which upsets me terribly) and has given me a nebulizer. It seems that every week something new happens. I don't know how much more I can deal with.
In addition to the knee, the neck and both arms with the tendonitis, I need to be traded in.

Karuuna
Member

08-31-2000

Sunday, April 24, 2005 - 11:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Aw, Ginger, so sorry you're feeling so awful. I"m home today if you need to talk.

You've had to deal with so much lately, and I believe your illnesses are part of all that stress. I also believe that things will get better for you, so hang in there. I care.

Mak1
Member

08-12-2002

Sunday, April 24, 2005 - 1:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
{{{Ginger}}} I'm sorry for all you've been through since the fire and agree with Karuuna about the illnesses reflecting some of that stress. I, too, believe things will get better for you when your living situation returns to normal.

Hopefully, the prednisone is temporary and the great benefits will outweigh any possible side effects. Just being able to breathe more easily should be a big bonus. *hugs*

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 7:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Went to get EKG today and doc said he saw a problem and was about to order a stress test when he noticed I had had one two years ago so he didn't. I asked him what the test told him and he said he was not concerned given the fact that I had had a stress test. I also asked him if I should be alarmed about it and he said no. Told me to start on new med, Altace, the other was making my heart rate decrease to around 52 to 54 bpm's. This is all so confusing to me. Waiting on blood work up results now.

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 7:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Starting to get frustrated, just took bp reading and it was 176/94 with pulse of 67. This is with the new meds!

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Thursday, May 12, 2005 - 5:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have a question for any oldish mommas like me who have had a couple of caesareans (like me) and have a problem now with the incision area.

When I put on weight (MUCH more than I want to admit--but I'm losing now!), it put a strain on that area. And the skin has popped open in a couple of places (as if stitches held it together, but then came out), making it the incision tender to the touch and uncomfortable.

EVERYTHING is bugging me right now and this is just one more thing I don't need. If you've had a similar problem, wondering what, if anything, you did about it. (I haven't pointed it out to any docs; too embarrassing!)

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Friday, May 13, 2005 - 8:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
hp, i'd have your gyn look at the incision site for keloids. they may have developed. i had to have my incision redone because the scar tissue was so extensive. and still they didn't do a tummy tuck!