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  • About Me

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    DrV

    Female, 52
    MS, USA
    Member since January 22, 2008

    • About Me

      A seeker of truth.

      A seeker of truth.

    • Interests

      Reading, painting, humming birds, my dog, Family, & God, not necessicarily in that order!

      Reading, painting, humming birds, my dog, Family, & God, not necessicarily in that order!

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  • Journal

    • Thursday May 29

      Mood May 29, 2008 9:20am

      LIFE

      E bailed out chemisty somehow landed a 2.9 for the year- only needed a 2.5 to make MSA- however up until now she had a grand 2.57 for her two …

    • May-Saturday the 10th

      Mood May 10, 2008 9:54am

      Here i am -kids asleep and off at college- feet and legs buzzing cold/hot/pins and needles/head dizzy with meds-either Vistaril hang over r morging …

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      From xandir444 September 7, 2008

      thanks

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      From DollyDagger July 11, 2008

      Ring-a-ling-a-ling! Sending you magical hugs and lots of love from Hobo Junction! Happy Clownin' Around! Beep! Beep!

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      From mtmomal June 2, 2008

      Thanks for the hug.

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      From noctimaniac May 28, 2008

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  • Support Groups

    • Close Fibromyalgia

      I went to a rheumatologist for shoulder and neck pain 5 years age. my father had Lupus, died of cancer. I was Dxed w/ osteoarthrittis, FM, akylosing spondiliosis(sp). now the neuopathic pain in feet and leggs is almost unbearable and the dr. has uped the dose of Lyrica and added vistaril for sleep.

      Treatments

      Fish Oil Working / Worked
      Take 2000 mgday helps with alertness and pain reduction
      Heat Working / Worked
      It makes me feel better, the hot bean bad o my neck and shoulders. hot showers and baths
      Lyrica Somewhat Helpful
      I started on 75 mg /day and now they want me to go to 50 at breakfast and 50 at lunch in addition. I still have the neuropathic pain.
      Vitamin B12 Working / Worked
      I take 1 cc shot per month. I guess it helps, I am getting by OK
      Fish Oil Working / Worked
      Take 2000 mgday helps with alertness and pain reduction
    • Close Schizophrenia

      I am 50 female, 3 children 20,16 & 15, college Sr, and two Highschool Jrs. Married happily. Have depesonalized twice. most recently Feb/Mar- lost ability to dress, drive, burned self in shower, forgot how to adjust water! couln't remember how to cook. The "tabula rasa"-blank slate- with much love and return to meds I retured to eating and self and amazingly I remember how to be me again. Message when the paranoia overwhelms and you are reduced to picking lint, seek medical help!

      Treatments

      Geodon Working / Worked
      at 80 mg per day stable as she goes
      Topamax Working / Worked
      at 200 mg per day migrain profilactic
      Atarax Working / Worked
      75 mg for anxietysleep
      Lyrica Working / Worked
      150 mgday neuropathy
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