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About Me
Special Ed Teacher, married, grown children, one grandchild, play in the SCA, archery, leatherwork, sewing, and beading
Special Ed Teacher, married, grown children, one grandchild, play in the SCA, archery, leatherwork, sewing, and beading
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I hope you find something to fill your need for a child. I'm also sorry you have not seen your grandchild.
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I am still so sorry about last night! I miss you & think of you as my best friend and sister! Hope the bed there is comfy and the check-out late so you can get some good sleep!!! Huggs, Jenni :o)
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Fibro Sucks!!! Hang in there and know u are never alone!!! Huggs, Jenni :o)
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Reading in your profile I see that you are a special ed teacher. Wow that makes you a special person. My husband is an OH teacher. He works with kids that are profound handicapp. He shares some wonderful encouragments with the kids. He loves them and since he is also a minister he prays for them. How do you cope with the fibro pain? Praying for you and praying that God will bless you because I know you are a blessing to the kids you teach. Love and Prayers, Berta
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Hello to you! Hope that you are having a good Weekend. Im doing okay. SOrt of raining lots where I am. My doc told me that surgery would not help me because my damage is not concentrated in one area. My damage is more widely spread out up and down my lumbar spine. Guess all that gardening and weeding I use to do finally causht up with me. Now I dont do much of that outdoors stuff anymore. I miss that quite alot. Hope that you will take care of yourself better than I did in my past. Guess I should have not done so much activity and all. Bye for now a friend Mary
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Close Fibromyalgia
Treatments
- Acupressure Working / Worked
- Husband uses it to release spasming muscles. Helps.
- Heat Somewhat Helpful
- Not great and very temporary
- Lyrica Not Working
- Caused severe swelling of my hands so that I would wake up screaming
- Neurontin Working / Worked
- Works, but isn't a cure all
- TENS Working / Worked
- Works when it is charged and I can find it. Mine is a Muscle stim unit and I'd prefer a tens that I could use anytime.
- Zanaflex Working / Worked
- Helps with muscle spasms
- Quinine Working / Worked
- Helps with muscle spasms
Close Hearing Loss & Deafness
Type: Sensorineural (Severe)I lost my hearing at about 40
Treatments
- Hearing Aids Somewhat Helpful
- They help a lot but they don't replace what I've lost
- Lip Reading Working / Worked
- I use this along with hearing aids.
- Sign Language Somewhat Helpful
- I'm having to refresh my ASL. It's been 15 yrs since I tool the class.
Open Back Pain
Degenerative Disc Disease from L1 to S1. No one will perform surgery and I'm told just to learn to live with the pain. I do have a great pain management doc. But, he is sending me back to PT so that he can justify continuing to prescribe the Nubain. I'd love to have disc replacement surgery to see if it would relieve or reduce my pain levels.
Treatments
- Acupressure Working / Worked
- Husband bowstrngs muscle spasms to get them to stop.
- Bedrest Working / Worked
- Helps sometimes, sometimes make it worse.
- Cortisone (Injection) Somewhat Helpful
- Pain relief was wonderful. Steroid induced psychosis was horrid, cost me my job and I spent a week in a psych unit of the hospital. NEVER AGAIN.
- Darvon Not Working
- Doesn't touch the pain
- Epidural Injection Somewhat Helpful
- Of anesthetic only. Gives relief, but very temporary.
- Heat Somewhat Helpful
- Sometimes helps
- Hydrocodone Somewhat Helpful
- Helped with pain but caused dangerous increase in BP. Codeine causes hallucinations.
- Ibuprofen Not Working
- Doesn't touch the pain
- Morphine Not Working
- Like giving me water.
- Naproxen Not Working
- Doesn't touch the pain
- Physical Therapy Somewhat Helpful
- Usually a waste of time. It doesn't really help, but it keeps the insurance company happy.
- TENS Working / Worked
- I have an e-stim unit. The biggest drawback is that I'm tied down for 45 minutes.
- Quinine Working / Worked
- Reduces muscle spasms
- Toradol Working / Worked
- Helped but interacted with other meds. Can have an injection to stop a Fibroback pain flare
- Tramadol Somewhat Helpful
- Helps some. Usually supplement Nubain with it.
- Physical Exercise Somewhat Helpful
- Sometimes helps sometimes doesnt.
Open Chronic Pain
Treatments
- Heat Somewhat Helpful
- Sometimes helps
- Hydrocodone Not Working
- ALLERGIC
- Lyrica Not Working
- Didn't help with pain and caused severe swelling of my hands waking me in the night, screaming
- Marijuana Considering
- I wish I had legal access to it.
- Nerve Blocks Working / Worked
- I can only have the anesthetic w/o the steroid. I get steroid psychosis
- Neurontin Working / Worked
- Helps
- Oxycodone Not Working
- ALLERGIC
- Physical Therapy Not Working
- Usually a waste of time, but to keep insurance happy, I go.
- TENS Working / Worked
- Helps, but since it is an e-stim, I'm tied down for 45 minutes.
Open Empty Nests
25 yr old, 20 yr old, 19 yr old. plus 2 that died in infancy
