STRESSSSSS!
November 22, 2009 5:58pm
So worried about this trip. Evil brother on the other side of the Continent just waiting to pounce on me with his drunken, slatternly wife and their …
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Bliggy 
5:59pm Sunday
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About Me
Bliggy
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About Me
I am 47 years old. I am married w/ 3 cats. I live in the heart of Hollywood! I landed here ten years ago. I was born in Paris, France, but grew up in the Maryland suburbs of D.C. I studied biology in college and then went to grad school for a degree in Library Science. I've worked for government, nonprofit foundation, and academic libraries. I am on short-term disability. My doctor found a line of discussion that was 100% relevant to me, and the poster got almost 10 responses! Now that's a support group. I also have two sisters with RA and I plan to forward them this link. (I also have two siblings, a brother and sister, who've never been sick a day in their lives!) Funny how things work out.
I am 47 years old. I am married w/ 3 cats. I live in the heart of Hollywood! I landed here ten years ago. I was born in Paris, France, but grew up in the Maryland suburbs of D.C. I studied biology in college and then went to grad school for a degree in Library Science. I've worked for government, nonprofit foundation, and academic libraries. I am on short-term disability. My doctor found a line of discussion that was 100% relevant to me, and the poster got almost 10 responses! Now that's a support
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Interests
History books, historical fiction, movies, South Park, The Fashion Show
History books, historical fiction, movies, South Park, The Fashion Show
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Recent Activity
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3 photo uploads, 1 hug given, 1 journal post
Sunday
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Bliggy updated their status 5:59pm
it's too much!…
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Bliggy changed their mood to Horrible 5:58pm
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Bliggy wrote a journal entry: STRESSSSSS! 5:58pm
So worried about this trip. Evil brother on the other side of the Continent just waiting to pounce on…
Saturday
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Bliggy wrote a journal entry updating their kinder to those around me goal 8:34pm
I am fretting as usual. Forcing myself to hold my water so I know I'll pee. It's the end of the…
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Bliggy gave Panadeine a prayer 8:07pm
Dear Friend! I've been offline a few days getting ready for my trip back East for Thanksgiving. I'm so…
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Fear takes control
November 21, 2009 8:34pm
I am fretting as usual. Forcing myself to hold my water so I know I'll pee. It's the end of the week and I have to put my pill planner …
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Why are all Orthopedist such Jerks!
November 6, 2009 5:49pm
This guy makes me wait 45 minutes and tells me that he is refusing to treat my knee. He says the pain is neuropathic and as for the wound that …
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Love me even if I'm a liberal!
November 5, 2009 10:11pm
I just quit two support groups : Obama's America and Health care reform. I don't think these are what I need in terms of support for my …
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Hugbook
Hug
I'm trying to be a good mother. Thanks for the hug. :-)
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QUESTION. How on earth did you ever find me?
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Great news! Canceling the cards is a good safety precaution under such circumstances anyway. Hope the return of your wallet also restores your faith.
Phlox
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With hope that your wallet is returned along with your faith in humanity.
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Moment of Peace
Wishing you lots of peace and happiness my friend. Hope you are okay. Take care and here for you whenever you need someone to talk to. No surgery planned at present but having a CT Guided Nerve Root Facet Block on the 19th.
Wendy
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Support Groups
Close Rheumatoid Arthritis
I've always been sick. I had an appendectomy when I was 6. Tonsils out at 8. In my early twenties, my ankle exploded. The swelling went up my shin! Now I've been dx-ed with celiac/sprue, RA, and a host of other problems. Chronic shingles. OUCH! Fighting with my rotten employer USC @ disability. Had to retain a lawyer. Are you crying yet?
Treatments
- Celebrex Not Working
- It was as if the doctor gave me a roll of Certs!
- Folic Acid Working / Worked
- Don't know, just started on it.
- Methotrexate Working / Worked
- Just started on it.
- Pain Management Clinic Not Working
- I was in a pain clinic for months. My psychologist kept encouraging me to leave their practice! A total nutjob.
- Plaquenil Working / Worked
- Helped a wee bit. Still on it.
- Crying Not Working
Close Celiac Disease
To network, meet others with Celiac/Sprue and share information and offer support.
Treatments
- Gluten Free Diet Working / Worked
- As long as I am strict and don't let one molecule of gluten enter my body, I'm okay. I do get poisoned accidentally. This happens only when I eat out. My weight concerns me. Very thin. Complications - immune system breakdown. Better and better products become available but the cost is ruinous!
- Crying Not Working
Open Chronic Pain
To network with others who are in the same boat as me. Dealing with pain on a daily basis is difficult. It effects my mood, memory, etc. and it hurts!
Treatments
- Chiropractic Adjustment Not Working
- Terrible experience. Chiropractor couldn't get my back to crack, so he kept pushing with increasing vigor. I had to ask him to stop. Two days later I could barely walk. Took weeks to recuperate from that injury. Never again! Quacker! I say!
- Cymbalta Not Working
- Side effects were awful. I already have a swollen prostate. This drug made urinating an every other day experience. Horrible!
- Flexeril Not Working
- Haven't taken this in years. Didn't seem to help. Just served as a potentiator for the vicodin.
- Heat Working / Worked
- Sometimes. Ice is better.
- Hydrocodone Working / Worked
- This is a god send. 3 pills a day. Period. Still have breakthrough pain, but nothing like before. Constipation is an issue.
- Lidoderm Working / Worked
- Helped my back pain because it's the only flat surface on my body. How am I supposed to stick one of those patches on places like my groin area when I have shingles? And it's way too expensive!
- Lyrica Working / Worked
- Seems to help my post herpetic neuralgia, but little effect on my arthritis pain. Stopped having RLS when I started on Lyrica too.
- Marijuana Working / Worked
- Helps if you don't over indulge. Just two puffs in the morning. Two puffs at night. Sometimes I will smoke during the day, but that's when I'm in serious pain and I just want to sleep.
- Meditation Working / Worked
- It works if you can relax enough. Sometimes the pain gets in the way.
- Morphine Working / Worked
- Always works, but only have been administered in hospital setting.
- Naproxen Working / Worked
- No! Totally contraindicated because of my celiac.
- Neurontin Not Working
- Wretched side effects. Made me feel as though I were jumping out of my skin. Made me feel really toxic.
- Physical Therapy Not Working
- Feh!
- TENS Not Working
- Quackery! Worthless! Don't do it!
- Topamax Working / Worked
- It may have helped some of my nerve pain and neurological stuff (post herpectic neuralgia, RLS, peripheral neuropathy) but the cost is RUINOUS! Seemed to build up in my system too, started to feel sick to my stomach all the time. Blech!
- Duragesic Patch Working / Worked
- Like a charm it works! There is an adjustment period when you have to get used to it. Be strict and meticulous in its use. Always mark the time when you need to change it. Keep away from pets or toddlers. This drug is for people who have been on opiate therapy a long time. Should never be considered a first line drug constipation is a side effect as is sedation. No more car keys for me.
- Crying Not Working
- Lexapro Working / Worked
- Stopped working. Side effects. Toxic w/ all my other meds. Made it really hard to urinate.
Open Rape
It happend.
Treatments
- Psychotherapy Too Soon to Tell
- I've a lot of issues that my psychiatrist is helping me with. We've agreed for the past ten years to call one particular episode "the bad thing." Just talking/writing about it now makes me break out w/ a sweat and stomach ache.
- Talking Somewhat Helpful
- I've been lucky with my friends in life and my wife is very supportive too.
- Lexapro Working / Worked
- Stopped working. Side effects. Started to become toxic in my system. Made it really hard to urinate.
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