What is Shingles
Herpes zoster, colloquially known as shingles, is the reactivation of varicella zoster virus, leading to a crop of painful blisters over the area of a dermatome. It occurs very rar...
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My husband was supposed to have an angioplasty on his leg on the 28th of this month. He had one previously and got through it pretty go - a littlle more memory loss but he was forgetting as usual. He just had another one the other day and I didn't know that he was in the hospital. I Kept calling his cell phone and thought that maybe he was asleep and wasn't answering and...
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Oh my gosh!!!!! (long entry)
so i've been pretty depressed lately about everything. all the plans that got cancelled over the last 3 weeks because of my migraines and then kidney infection. especially since our friend Elaine was visiting from Texas for a week and i couldn't keep up with the activities (and she has FMS too). then yesterday morning i'm on my way back to the VA to turn i...1 Recommendation11 Comments -
did i mention that the past month was hellish?? well it had gotten worse over the past couple weeks.
good news is, Matthew isn't suicidal anymore. also we had our 1st couples counseling on the 19th (Oct).
bad news is.... well it's a long list:
the side effects of getting off cymbalta has been total HELL. my head has been pulsating, brain ZAPPING~~, eyes pulsating, vision quivering, body thr...1 Recommendation10 Comments -
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they sent a ship on it's way here to the island to fire a missile at us. although i know that we have the defense to bring it down out of the sky, i am PISSED at the Prez that he let it get this far. Kim Jong said that if anyone tries to stop him, he will take it as a declaration of war. in my opninion, just the fact that Kim Jong Il said that he INTENDS on bombing us and is sending a ...1 Recommendation8 Comments -
It's been 18 months since my diagnosis of MM, and I'm more depressed now than I have ever been, and more lost and confused than a grown man has the right to be. I've gone the course with three different anti-depressants and nothing seems to be working. To make matters worse, I've not slept well for over a month since I had a sinus operation to help stop a sinus infection tha...1 Recommendation7 Comments
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Well I have a new disease to get used to. I went out for two days (how exhausting can it be to push on a toggle to run an electric wheelchair?) and then slept for two days. Between the MS, the Fybro, and now the Addison's all are supposed to cause fatigue and that's what happened. I am worried about getting the tooth pulled because that is surgery in a way an...1 Recommendation7 Comments
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this past month has been hellish.... the cymbalta putting my colon to sleep, then having to get off the stuff and side effects.... which i'm still weaning off it. it has put my body thru hell.
and then .... now-- i gotta deal with Matthew's recent suicide thoughts and threats for a week now. he told his psychiatrist yesterday (while they held him there against his will) that I was to blam...1 Recommendation6 Comments
