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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, January 11, 2008 - 9:28 pm
Costa, sometimes not having to worry for weeks about an upcomming surgery is a blessing. prayers are with you for successful one Dolphin, sounds like you have an awesome Chro!!
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Friday, January 11, 2008 - 11:51 pm
shoulder surgery Ouch! I'm sure it will help. Rotator cuff?? bone spurs? If the cause of the chronic pain is fixed, you may find that the syndrome goes away! wouldnt that be wonderful! **** I;m too tired to post more...but Mame, There is a big pile of laundry waiting here. I'm out of clean clothes. How bout popping over and doing another 5 or ten loads,...for me ha ha ha I need a housekeeper but would be too embarrassed to have anyone come over. the humilation would bother me LOL
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 12:01 am
OH I guess I should say.... I avoid Four wheel and All wheel drives due to the independant suspension which causes rocking, rolling and you can feel each wheel separately...OUCH. I've been crippled by two Honda Accords...Ex V6 and Ex V4. They are front wheel drives and I barely went around the block with each one. My Neck popped half way around the block with the second vehicle. The salesperson gallops out when she sees me coming (I tested out 3 cars). I told her how the vehicle rolls and she said that it was the INDEPENDANT four wheel suspension!! I couldnt help myself....I irritatedly asked her why she didnt tell me when she knew I had the nerve disorders? anyways, I think there is a chance that I'm going to be unable to continue looking at cars. This could be a two week injury. Both sides of my neck feels like a heavy pressure is pushing inwards and half my face is numb. MY eye keeps blinnking at a different rate on one side LOL It is weird looking but I get this with migraines too. I dont panic easily. I've had some weird severe pain...I'm comfortable that it is 'just this condition' and not stroke. BUT good news, I was very impressed with the Honda Civic HYBRID. it wasnt jerky or anything! 66 Mpg!!!! and only 27,000 so my top three SMOOTH riding cars..Dodge Caliber, Misubishi Lancer, Chevy Impala, and if I get desperate and want to go cheaper but fully loaded... Hyundai Sonata. If I can walk tomorrow I MAY drag myself to Toyota
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Dovez
Member
08-27-2005
| Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 12:23 am
costa, what type of surgery are you having?
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 12:37 am
where did you learn about this as usual my 'mental delay' has kicked in and I remembered seeing this....an HOUR ago. so I've come back. I've been lucky enough to have had contact with world reknowned Specialists in a number of different medical fields....have watched numerous lectures and workshops and also Group Support meetings. Over the process of years....I've picked up tons of info. I was already doing alternative therapies in the Mid 80s. Since I have an analytical and diagnositic medical background I had more 'indepth' questions and answers with many of the specialists. Also have met some amazing resourceful educators I have a booklet somewheres with a list of 40 symptoms of severe Fibro...I was shocked that I was 37 of them LOL Most people in that workshop were just the pressure points and Migraines. anyways, for someone who has said How TIRED I am, I am blabbing way too much. my hand pain is the least pain i usually have...so typing isnt too bad. This isnt exactly BigBrother LIVE FEED transcribing LOL That IS impossible for me nowadays.
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 12:39 am
although I might SEEM like a 'know it all' I would never profess to be. For instance L ribose...I need to see If I can pick it up in person when I'm in Vancouver.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 3:10 am
Costa, best wishes for a smooth surgery and rehab.. and the wonderfulness of banished pain. I know how wearing shoulder pain can be.. wearing as in constant and then those sharp reminders when you "forget" and do some simple thing you cannot do..
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 10:46 am
Sun, ship your laundry to me, and for the right price, I'll be happy to do it. LOL.
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Rubyroo77
Member
08-13-2005
| Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 1:03 pm
sun- could you look and see if you can find the booklet..I am really burning up this week. I just helped unload some wood at my house-I did it slowly, but the cold really affected my muscles and they hurt like crazy where I have the mentholated feeling. I have so many weird symptoms, and I never know what the heck is wrong with me..please try tp find it-it is always greatly appreciated! Mame-how are you feeling today?
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 1:19 pm
Thanks Ruby, much better actually. Still sore, but it's been livable for a couple of days now. The massage school didn't call me back so I'm probably going to lay down on my electric massage mat at some point this weekend.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Saturday, January 12, 2008 - 6:39 pm
Thanks everyone! LOL Pamy. Yeah, it could be better to have surgery so fast you can't dwell on it. On the plus side, I went and did some stocking up today. On the off chance that I'll be laid up for longer than a few days (originally I was told that I'd be off work 2-4 weeks, but that ain't happening and I plan to be back at work by the end of the week! I'm VERY optimistic!). Dovez, planned is "shoulder scope and subacromial decompression." There's a small tear in the anterior section of the rotator cuff, but he doesn't believe that's the cause of the pain. He's gonna go in and poke around and see what he can fix, basically. He thinks there may be a spur that basically pokes into the rotator cuff when I move my arm a certain way (like, it positions the spur downward and it pokes the RC). I dunno. The MRI was "inconclusive" naturally. Oddly enough, I have to show up at noon, and the surgery itself isn't scheduled for 2pm. Two hours???? WTH are they gonna do with me for two hours???? And since I can't eat or drink anything, including NO COFFEE!!!, after midnight on Sunday, they'd better start me on some really good drugs RIGHT AWAY!!!! <wink> And Sea, oh yeah, three weeks is about three week too long. It had been getting better, and much more manageable (and by that I mean it was easier to ignore) until the October wildfires. Cutting trees and clearing brush in advance of a wildfire, and I reinjured the thing. And then I reinjured it again three weeks ago (LOOOONG story there), and it's not gotten better. So, fingers are remaining crossed!!!!!
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 1:56 am
ruby, I know that with some fibro people, their ' internal thermostats' dont work properly. You can be ridiculously hot, yet not feel hot on the skin...or be freezing cold and shivery while the body temp is almost normal. any stimuli (such as getting a chill outside while doing the wood) can trigger the system to go haywire. The trick is keeping yourself at as stable a temperature as possible. not too hot, never get chilled. I used to be in worse pain until I figured out that I was shivering and cold (wearing four shirts) unless the heat was set to 24 degree(?80) I wear gloves in the house quite often and Definitely whenever I go visiting. it is easy to feel too hot then Whammo, you get a chill and pay for it. ((Costa, they changed the way that they give anesthetic a few years ago. Here you can drink clear fluids and even apple juice up to three hours before surgery. It makes people feel much better after surgery and the wait prior to surgery much more pleasant as you aint dehydrated. IF you are interested in sipping clear fluids, I would talk directly to someone in charge in the OR area. Lots of nurses (and family drs) arent up on that latest change. Hope things go well. And do take it easy and NOT go to work in a week. One wrong move before it heals properly and you may put it back to square one))
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 9:23 am
Sun, until I actually have my pre op, I can't. And I was informed by the surgical scheduler that if I drink a cup of coffee, they'll cancel the surgery. So I'm not going to do anything till I see my doc Monday morning. At which time I will mention that I'll be concerned about being dehydrated, and if I am, then it'll make inserting an IV that much harder. I understand that the mandate is more lenient for certain procedures than others. I'll do what the doc tells me to do (except maybe wait for a release to go back to work! <grin>). And as far as that going back to work thing... I figure as long as I don't move my arm, I'll be OK. I mean, a laptop in your lap can't hurt (and that's how I worked after I got hit by a car). Of course, picking the laptop up (undocking it and all) may prove to be more than I can handle. <sigh>
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Dovez
Member
08-27-2005
| Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 9:47 am
((((costa)))) is a vascular dr doing the surgery or an orthopedic or a a gyn (tee hee)
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Dolphinschild
Member
06-21-2006
| Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 11:15 am
Costa, ER told my Mom that she can't have anything including ice chips while she wait for surgery. She was told this at 2am and she wasn't scheduled for surgery on her wrist until 5 pm. There was a nurse that came in at Noon and she put my Mom on ice chips and the Doctor came we asked and told him what was said. And he said, "Thats nuts she can have small sips of water or ice chips, but not huge drinks of fluids." So my mom got to suck on ice ships and have sips of water until surgery. What Sunshyne said about the applejuice and other fluids. They told my dad that this last time too. So that is a new procedure and my dad was afraid to go against the old procedure. So small sips of water or sucking on ice chips you can definately do. ETA: Just in case you didn't know, my Mom had broken her wrist in 3 places last week and they had to do surgery to fix it and put pins in it. So this is very recent.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 11:43 am
Ortho, Dovez! (LOL at the gyno comment!) As far as doing anything, until I talk to my doctor at the pre op, I'm not doing anything. I know that some things have changed, but again, until my DOCTOR tells me, I'm not doing anything. As I said, too, I think a lot depends on what they are doing, and what type of anesthesia is being used. I could drink clear fluids up to four hours prior to the last procedure I had. And Dolphin, ouch for your mom!!! I hope she heals fast.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 12:12 pm
Rant on: Feeling like a truck ran over me. I am not going to sit at the computer all day... plan to have a relaxing soak and then lay on my massage mattress for a while. My entire back is a mess today. Upper & middle muscles are in knots, and the lower disc feels pinched or something. Quite p'od that the massage school didn't return my call for an apt for this past Friday. I am in ROUGH shape. And then there's dh and his bad knees... (He had MRI's on BOTH knees this weekend.) We are quite a sorry sight, the two of us! He's limping and I'm bent at a 45 degree angle this week. Oy! There was a movie with Ann-Margret called Middle Age Sex... Well I say Middle Age Sucks!!! Oh and to top it off I had insomnia last night and didn't go to bed til 5:45 AM. It's been a lousy week, and today is a write-off. Rant off: ...sorry for b*tchin, but constant pain makes me grumpy.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 1:06 pm
There there, MB.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 1:29 pm
Mame, we are here for you. I know venting helps me feel a bit better. I want to go to bed but have to do a few things. Hope ya get some rest and feel better tomarrow
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 3:38 pm
you know, we dont consider coffee as a 'clear fluid'. that is why that comment about if you have coffee they'll cancel. (plus the caffeine can artificially up the heart rate...not GOOD for surgery) the reason they sometimes tell people drink NOTHING, is there is the occasional person who thinks sips of water means GLasses of water....but they just sip it slowly LOL I can imagine some ORs just clamp down and say No Fluids! ***** Dolphin, glad you were able to be there for your mom. When my mom was in ER it took me a few hours to get there and they had her on NO fluids due to a possibility of surgery the NEXT morning. You know how Dry the mouth gets eh?? My mom was there with dirt in her mouth from the fall and no one had even let her rinse her mouth out with water. I guess they figured she'd drink it. I think this 1950s style of dehydrating people works for the nurses so they dont have to be bothered with actually looking after patients. Yeah, I'm a grump. (((On topic, I guess I really did get a bit of whiplash from that car a day ago. a hard sore lump has come up on the side of my neck and I am sure hoping it isnt a tear of muscle or ligament. It is more numb, pins n needles then painful right now. Day FOUR is always my worst day post injury))))
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 6:43 pm
Anesthesiologist called today, and while it's still no food after midnight, I *can* have a cup of coffee in the morning. As long as I follow it with a bottle of water, and as long as I have nothing to drink after 6am. So I guess it's a good thing my little girl brat cat wakes me up early! Mame, sorry to hear about your bad day. Someone sent me this today... hope it makes you smile!

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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 7:02 pm
LOL, Costa. That's funny...and true. I'll be thinking of you tomorrow. Hope it all goes well and your pain is allieviated. Mame...hope you're feeling better soon.
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Dovez
Member
08-27-2005
| Sunday, January 13, 2008 - 11:46 pm
oh...jeeez articles like this upset me greatly. http://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?emc=tnt&tntget=2008/01/14/health/14pain.html&tntemail1=y
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Monday, January 14, 2008 - 12:24 am
(((hugs))) to all FFF and those with chronic pain
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Monday, January 14, 2008 - 1:30 am
Dovez, the link went to a place asking for a sign-in. excellent news Costa! I'm glad you get your coffee too. I'm amazed but things change all the time and it depends on your doctor. Woo hoo! It is so much more pleasant waiting for surgery with a hydrated body. Even though you cant drink water, you can still rinse out your mouth and it feels refreshing.
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