It's TOO Much!!!
January 27, 2009 12:13am
Have you ever felt like there's too much going on in your life? That you just can't keep up with everything? That you have so many problems …
AmethystHope
10:26am, January 26, 2009
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About Me
AmethystHope
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About Me
I'm a survivor! More will be added in time. :)
I'm a survivor! More will be added in time. :)
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Daily Strength Beginning
January 24, 2009 3:24pm
Today I joined DailyStrength!
So many times I've told myself that I cannot add anything else to my life - anywhere! My days are maxed …
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Close Chronic Pain
Lived w/pain daily since nerve injuries in Mar98; limited mobility now.
Treatments
- Acupressure Somewhat Helpful
- occasional use when I can afford it
- Chiropractic Adjustment Working / Worked
- works if I can keep up the adjustments - sadly, I can't always
- Cymbalta Not Working
- made me too sick - not taking now
- Flexeril Working / Worked
- might work to calm pain but never eliminates it, more often it's just making me not notice it as much
- Heat Working / Worked
- Heating pads, hot water, hot rice socks, works most of the time but not always
- Hydrocodone Working / Worked
- works enough to help me sleep with pain but doesn't stop pain
- Meditation Working / Worked
- works when I can really focus on it but that's not very often
- Neurontin Working / Worked
- seems to work ok most of the time but I don't know the fuzzy/dizzy feelings and I have more headaches
- Oxycodone Working / Worked
- 50/50 half the time tried it's worked, the other half it hasn't worked - either way it tends to knock me out or make me very foggy
- Physical Therapy Working / Worked
- with the right kind of therapist it can work very well - with the wrong kind it's more pain
- TENS Working / Worked
- used it a few times now - takes awhile to have a good effect and it doesn't last too long but sometimes it's better than anything else
Close Obesity
Treatments
- Avoid Certain Foods / Chemicals Working / Worked
- Avoiding "white" foods (bleached flours, rice, potatoes, etc); increasing organic foods; seems to be the most reasonable working combo for me
- Physical Exercise Working / Worked
- Gazelle, walking, pilates DAILY
Open Financial Challenges
Low income - disabled - kids - divorced - no family to help out -
Treatments
- Holding a Garage Sale Working / Worked
- still undecided if this helps any - selling on ebay w/fees and all or going to other online sales sites or just decluttering by way of goodwill and freecycle
Open Homeschooling
Homeschooling since 1995 - all K-12 grade levels - most curricula self-designed; some pre-packaged.
Open Time Management
24 hours in a day and I have 38 hours of stuff to do, not counting sleep, and must do so in constant pain and limited mobility - looking for solutions
Open Single Parenting
Divorced 10 years now with six kids
Open Parenting Big Kids (5-8)
got a 7yo girl with ADHD, ODD, lots of allergies & other behavioral issues
Treatments
- Education (School) Working / Worked
- Homeschooling is working better for her
- Listening Working / Worked
- work in progress
- Patience Working / Worked
- work in progress
Open Twins, Triplets & More
got twins, got triplets, got quads too, and a single. ;-) Long story!
Open Parenting Teenagers (12-18)
have 3 16 yr olds
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- Education (School) Working / Worked
- Homeschooled - due to graduate in the next year
- Patience Working / Worked
- always a work in progress
- Psychotherapy Working / Worked
- for me? or for them? LOL
Open Medical Mysteries
My whole family is a medical mystery - an enigma even! We often joke that if it's something that only happens to 1 in so many billion instances, we'll be that ONE! I just wish we could figure out what the REAL problems are so we can work at fixing them!!!
Open Fibromyalgia
Dx w/FMS in Jan 2000 after unresolved constant pain issues going back to Mar98 - in 2002 specialist in FMS (treating FMS patients for over 20 years) said I was the most severe case she's ever treated - it continues to be very complicated. I suffer frequent flares requiring strong pain meds.
Treatments
- Acupressure Working / Worked
- works ok when I can get it - not covered on insurance
- Aqua Therapy Working / Worked
- works after a few weeks of 3x/wk - but insurance only allows 3-4 wks at a time :(
- Cyclobenzaprine Working / Worked
- works - as long as I don't mind feeling "out of it"
- Cymbalta Working / Worked
- made me too sick
- Effexor Working / Worked
- too many negative effects
- Guaifenesin Working / Worked
- worked somewhat - made me too sleepy tho
- Heat Working / Worked
- very short term but works as long as I have it on
- Morphine Working / Worked
- had to resort to this a few times but they won't let me go home with it yet
- Neurontin Working / Worked
- been on this since 2002 - don't like the side effects much but it's better than others
- TENS Working / Worked
- worked but short term
- Ultram Working / Worked
- worked well at first but we kept having to increase the dose - then insurance stopped covering it
- Vitamin B12 Working / Worked
- trying it on my own but not sure it's helping yet
Open Physical & Emotional Abuse
Uhhmmm - decades of abuse in marriage (every type); out 10 years - some abuse ended with the sheriff ordering him out of our home, some still continues... I'm left disabled from his last physical attack, plus I have severe chronic PTSD! Our kids - well they each have their own story - but for the most part it's not so good - some are really messed up from all the abuse they've suffered and/or witnessed. Still, we are all better than we were while still married to the abuser.
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