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  • About Me

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    EddieCarey

    Male, 48
    Mesquite, TX, USA
    Member since May 17

    • About Me

      Retired at 42 I love art computers and a CIW Professional

      Retired at 42 I love art computers and a CIW Professional

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  • Journal

    • Been alittle distant

      Mood July 19, 2009 7:25am

      Sorry I have not been around much for the last month or so. Life has been very trying. Started to realize that I am really depressed sleeping over 18 …

    • Trying times

      Mood July 12, 2009 8:08am

      I have not been around, I've been mostly sleeping 20 hrs a day sometimes just can;t get up from pain or just don't want to just lay there …

    • Journal Entry for July 1, 2009

      Mood July 1, 2009 4:46am

      i want to write about the dream that keep waking me, i woke up and was trying to keep from throwing up thinking about it    toooo …
    • test, news, advice, side effects and illness

      Mood June 30, 2009 4:44am

      Again today I called the testing lab, wanted to go over my results again.

       

      The Blood serum test was infact positive, i can't believe it I …

    • In my mind it's over, my body it's just beginning

      Mood June 28, 2009 9:56pm

      I have spent last night, yesterday the night before and then the day before in bed unable to get up because of the pain. I was denied the meds that …

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    • Hug

      From J0KEYJ July 12

      A gentle hug left for you Eddie from JJ

    • I’m With You

      From JCTomes June 23

      I'm searching to see what I can find now. Hang inthere!!!!

    • I’m With You

      From valerieP June 12

      How is your day going? How about all that bad weather here the other day, we had a tornado warning and my daughter wanted me to come into the half bath with them (where I send them for safety) and I was like, "you're kidding, i cant get on the floor", almost had to laugh. Did it get to bad at your house?

    • Rainbow

      From GingerParker June 5

      Thank you for listening and telling me your there with me. I feel lonely and like I am being chided by my husband. He really hurt my feelings bad. And now, he thinks I'm just throwing a fit.

    • Hug

      From Chachalala June 5

      Hope you are doing ok, I see you have a sad face, pain is horrid, and it seems to pick good people to inhabit, hopefully one day they will find a cure for pain, and they wont put you through hell to get it!!! Cha xoxoxo

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  • Support Groups

    • Close Chronic Pain

      I am am survivor of 4 major heart attacks now with a PM/defib, insulin dependant with chronic pain in my back with severe muscle pain and unending neurophthy that feels like I am sometimes on fire. This is now my first decade with these conditions and my first year on my own. These issues have helped lead to the end of a 23 year marriage as well as more than once my life and sadly a couple of time by choice. Nothing quick and easy, just a complete refusal to continue taking meds of any kind.

      Treatments

      Cymbalta Not Working
      caused bleeding in colin
      Heat Not Working
      has never helped
      Hydrocodone Not Working
      took for over 3 years and it lost effect
      Lidoderm Not Working
      does not help deep pain
      Lyrica Working / Worked
      helps but is not very effective
      Marijuana Working / Worked
      has helped in the past but I choose not to go to jail, this is sad
      Meditation Somewhat Helpful
      I understand that this is good for some. But I relate my pain to sounds that are painfully loud and cannot concertrate on the simpleist of things at times
      Morphine Not Working
      simple has not pain relieving effect, causing itching in hands feet ears head and genitals cahsing scratching to the point of bleeding
      Naproxen Not Working
      cannot take NSAIDS due increased chance of bleeding and heart condition
      Nerve Blocks Somewhat Helpful
      they have caused more pain than experienced for the short term relief afterwards my doctor has discontinued them
      Neurontin Not Working
      simply has no effect
      Oxycodone Working / Worked
      they have vecome ineffective in relieving the pain
      TENS Not Working
      I can no longer use them due to my CRT-D implant
    • Close Diabetes Type 1

      been a diabetic for the last 20 years, now on insulin

      Treatments

      Insulin Pump Considering
      has been suggested to help control high blood sugar when out of control
      Lantus Working / Worked
      helps to lower my blood sugar to be controlled with Novolog
      NovoLog Working / Worked
      3 daily injections
    • Open Pacemakers

      Now on my 3rd implant with a terrible experience to start off with.

    • Open Life After Divorce

      Trying to put together my life after a 23 year marriage. I am disabled but the worst part is I have forgotten what it is to be unmarried.

      Treatments

      Couples Counseling Not Working
      was discontinued by wife
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