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Archive through January 05, 2008

The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: Jan. 2008 ~ Mar. 2008: Health Center: Fibromyalgia & Chronic Pain: Archive through January 05, 2008 users admin

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Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 4:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Thanks Pamy! I went so far as to take my gear to the job interview with me so I could go to Curves afterwards, but I had to walk about 12 blocks to the interview on icy sidewalks and was in a lot of arthritic pain when I arrived. Afterwards the pain was so intense that I stopped off and had lunch & rested at a restaurant, and then went directly home, another dozen blocks. Each walk was about 20 agonizing minutes (40 minutes total)...

Mameblanche
Member

08-24-2002

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 4:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
I am in so much pain tonight, even my pain has pain. Plus I had insomnia and got to bed around 4:30 AM and then was up (early for me) to get ready to go out to the interview, which went okay, but I was woozy and nauseaous. So I am grumpy and sore and uh, not my usual cheery self right now. I have laundry to do tomorrow morning, cooking in the afternoon for a dinner party we're hosting in the evening for out of town guests. If only my weeklong headache would dissipate, that would be a bonus. It's only Friday, and I can't wait for Sunday. Sigh.

Sunshyne4u
Member

06-17-2003

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 6:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
if I were you, I'd forget the laundry, lay down repeatedly and take it easy for the day.

unfortunately then my kitchen ends up looking like this.


Maybe figure out something really super easy for the dinner.

Maybe a Roast with all of the Whole vegetables in the roaster too. Nothing tastes like Whole carrots onions and potatoes slow roasted with a nice piece of meat. AND all you need to do is Wash the vegs. Dont even have to peel!

Hope you feel better soon. I dont envy you having to do the dinner party. I cant stand to be near hubbub/ chitchat when i've got that woozy sicky headache.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 6:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Mame, I think all of this was because of the interview...do you really have to get a job right now??

Hope you get some rest and feel better. Just order pizza and enjoy your company or tell them to bring dinner hee hee :-)

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 6:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
MODS I have a question....how come the archives here dont have the first archive with 400+ posts like it does in other threads?? why are only the last couple months of posts saved here?

Dahli
Member

11-27-2000

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 7:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dahli a private message Print Post    
Oh dear Mame... I hope the interview at least went well? Is this something you're really hoping to get or more dreading? Take it easy girl... maybe call a caterer.. :-)

Mameblanche
Member

08-24-2002

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 8:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Dahli, I was very relieved to discover that our dinnerparty with our out of town guests is on Sunday. Halelujah and hosanah! (exhales) But do I feel stupid for getting the date wrong - yup. Fibro at its worst messing with my head. Almost as bad as when I introduced a celebrity I'd interviewed and my dh to each other and went blank on BOTH names!!!!! Thankfully these bloopers are few and far between.

I gave dh the grocery list...and he picked up all the goodies, so we're well stocked for Sunday's dinner. I very well may forgo the laundry... it's either cook or do laundry... brings new meaning to the phrase Eat My Shorts, eh?

Pamy, we are a 2 income family coasting on 1 income... I NEED a job. I can handle part-time work. 2 or 3 days a week is optimal for me.

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-31-2000

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 8:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Pamy, most everything prior to October 1 in ALL of the General Discussion area (and most other areas) has been archived.

We have to periodically remove the oldest posts from the board in order to keep the board moving smoothly. Too many posts causes too many access errors, and slows the board considerably.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Friday, January 04, 2008 - 9:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Thx Kar, I now see that even though the smoking thread has the first archive at about 400 posts the first post in that archive is from Oct. I was thinking it was from the beginning of time.

Every 2 months we should go thru and copy to a word doc anything we want to save then, is that right?

Thanks again! I almost said KAR! instead of MOD but didnt want to scare you LOL

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-31-2000

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 10:21 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Pamy, no problem. Yes, if you want to save you should probably do it monthly to a word document, just to be sure.

And past pages can be downloaded from our archive station if you'd like.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 12:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Thx again Kar!

I am having a bad fibro weekend. I guess cuz of the weather change and massive rain we just got. I am bummed cuz every since I quit smokin I feel great and now it stopped!!

I doubled up on the corvalen/calm, hope it helps cuz I have so much to do this weekend. I was getting used to getting more than 1 thing done per day on the wkends so not getting anything done yesterday has me really bummed today.

Sage
Member

07-20-2000

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 1:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sage a private message Print Post    
Hang in there Pamy, sometimes you just have to face the fact that you have to roll with the punches no matter how much it sucks. It sounds like the Corvalen/Calm has been helping you, and undoubtedly you feel better not smoking anymore, but yes, it is probably the climate change that has made you feel like you've had a setback, but it isn't really. It's just one of those flares that could probably be tons worse if you hadn't started with the Corvalen and stopped smoking.

I got my Corvalen and Calm last night and did my first dosage this morning. I hope I see a big difference soon.

Holly
Member

06-19-2005

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 1:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
I should be getting mine soon Sage. Hope it helps us as much as it has others.

Karuuna
Board Administrator

08-31-2000

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 1:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Karuuna a private message Print Post    
Sage, it can take up to two weeks for you to see a response, according to Dr. T, so don't give up too soon. I'd start with three scoops a day, per his recommendation.

Be more careful with the Calm, since it can loosen your bowels. No more than a half teaspoon with each dose of Corvalen to start.

I hope it helps!

Also, if you're tired, (for both of you) try the CoQ10 and a good B complex vitamin in the meantime too.

I'll let you know when I get the vitamin powder how it works out for me.

Dovez
Member

08-27-2005

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 1:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dovez a private message Print Post    
((((pamy))))

i know what you mean by the weather change for us here in southern cal. the rain definately does me in. and i'm also also having a down weekend with getting absolutely nothing done.

i've never asked you where in your lovely bod (uh oh, girl crush!!) you feel the fibro the most. for me it's in the shoulder/neck/upper body.

Holly
Member

06-19-2005

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 2:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Holly a private message Print Post    
Thanks for that tip on the Calm Karuuna. I needed to know that!

Dovez
Member

08-27-2005

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 2:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dovez a private message Print Post    
i haven't read back to see if anyone has discussed the new studies on the effects of the new light bulbs on health. this might be of interest to all of us. and it gave me thought because i was just on a trip to new zealand and australia where my lupus symtoms flared up dramatically and i couldn't determine the reason at the time.

http://http://www.switched.com/2008/01/02/compact-fluorescent-bulbs-causing-migraine-headaches/

Mameblanche
Member

08-24-2002

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 3:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
The link above doesn't work, there are 2 https there. I've fixed it...
Click here for Dovez' link to the Lightbulb story.

Dovez
Member

08-27-2005

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 3:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dovez a private message Print Post    
oh, thanks so much, mame

was it useful for you?

Mameblanche
Member

08-24-2002

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 4:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
YW Dovez! Well dh changed all our regular bulbs to those newfangled ones... I hope we're not sorry later, but its going to be mandatory here soon anyways.

Oh wait a sec, we have ceiling fans in every room and they take different tinier bulbs. So maybe it's not so bad for us.

Dovez
Member

08-27-2005

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 5:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dovez a private message Print Post    
well, we sufferers often have to put two and two together ourselves. if your headaches are not going away and the british have studied that very same phenomena, then, just maybe, you might get some relief by replacing those bulbs.
as for the mandatory replacements...california is suggesting the same thing.
but i will not further jeopardize my health even if it takes a prescription.

i do wonder just how much the manufacturers of the energy efficient bulbs knew about the negative effects they created in peoples health.
i'm quite tired of hearing that something has been sold to the public before all the facts are given.

in this case, the effects of mercury, etc. on the population could not in anyway benefit society as a whole. there has to be a comprimise.

oh, goodness. ranting and raving me!!

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 5:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
aahhhh just realized why I hurt more these past couple days...it was pms!! lol since i dont get it every month I forget about it ...menopause sucks!

Dovez
Member

08-27-2005

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 5:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dovez a private message Print Post    
now, let me see, pamy.
is that good news or bad news.

which sucks more: menopause or pms?

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 5:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
Thx Sage. I agree with Kar, it can take up to 2 wks to notice a difference and the longer you take it the more it helps, imo.

Dovez, LOL!!! on your crush :-) on good days my lower back aches and my shoulders/neck are very tight and knotted, on bad days its everywhere. If I had to pick I would say its always worst in lower back

Thanks for the bulb info, very interesting.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 6:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Pamy a private message Print Post    
menopause!!! cuz now I cant plan ahead..used to get my period like clockwork, every 28 days....now I never know. plus pms didnt make hair grow on my face, didnt make me a 30 days a month, only 5, etc. Isnt being a woman lovely? lol