I would like to moan about our national health service and its waiting lists. Yes its fantastic its free, but 5 weeks later i am still waiting for the cardiologist appointment to come through the post!

When you ring our surgery (doctors) to get an appt with your own general practitioner, you have to wait longer than a week.
You need a crystal ball here so you can look into the future and see when your going to have the flu, or an ear infection or a stomach upset..... ring ring, "Oh hello, could i book an appointment with dr collins, i'm going to have an ear infection on the 30thof September!"

here i go because too much is weighing on me...

i'm having muscle twitches in my face and limbs beside the usual and unusual pain. back on the ice packs. my neck never seems to get better.

i have to deal with AT&T today over a crazy bill i thought was resolved last month. dread that and i haven't been strong enough to put up a fight with them again.

grieving the loss of friend and feel totally betrayed by her.

still struggling with yesterday's anniversary. then more scary international news this morning.

overwhelmed in so many ways!

cherry, i'm hoping getting the whines out will help me get moving and you, too!

Yes we are hens in need to vent and to cluck and scratch up some dust. Safe here also.

I am in it with you. Rock bottom with depression for the last two weeks. The pain will do that.
It does seem a circle for me. If my mind is right I can control the pain. Then something happens the pain gets out of control and then depression and way more pain. What comes first the pain or the depression?
Get it? Which came first.....the chicken or the egg?

I woke up every hour last night and said I"M 50! I had better expectations and I am trying to rewrite that now and stop my descructive behavior of belittling myself. While I was driving I examined why I do this. (we all have our stories)

I have talents and strengths and I am angry at a few people who have used my insecurities to hold me back so they could feel better about themselves. Coming to my roots, I see the same abusive behavior continuing in my nieces and I realize the only way I can help them is if I get my crap together and be an inspiration. Talk is cheap.

While I was driving here, I was listening to the radio and they were talking about Julia Childs and how she started her career in cooking when she was 55! Well, my life has just started too.

Today I'm in pain, but tough for that. I'm mad, but optomistic. Speaking like this here, I may fall on my face at times, and this stupid friggen pain may slow me up but DAMN IT, I will NOT STOP.

To those who say they love me, but put a boot on my head to make themselves feel better, I say, I know what you are doing now and that is not love. Its just a boot and I knock it off and you are the small one, not me.

Glad for this post. Thanks for the safety.

Good post! I need to cluck and kick up some dust.

I'll have to get back to you.

Don't give anyone that kind of power, Angela! Put on some bigger boots and stomp your feet,

I'm 54...welcome to the new decade. It's ok...really!

I have a question for anyone who's been on Neurontin/Gabapentin. When you increased the dosage, did you get headaches? My doc pushed me to increase the amount I take so I'm trying. After the second dose this morning, I started to feel really sick and dizzy. Then the headache hit. My parents even came down to drive my Peke and me to the groomers so I could drop him off. It's only around he corner, but I'm really feeling unsteady.

This sucks...

Long ago 2008 I was put on it and told to take it at night. The doctor said it would make me drowsy. We know that has not been the case so far for you. I didn't take it long because it didn't help.

You should ask pharmacist.

Pissing and moaning!

Go Heather! How was your doc appt.?

I tried gabapentin several times, but had side effects every time I went above 400mg/day. That is an extremely low dose, and it did very little to cut my pain level. So, I am now trying Lyrica. It is not much better. Oh well... I am beginning to think the docs are never going to find reasonable pain relief for me. We try med after med, with no real success.

Hugs to all,
Cindy

Yes count me in! My daughter is sick and my hubby is having hernia surgery tomorrow. My daughter has a blood disorder called neutropenia...which means she has a very low immune system. Every sniffle is scary because she doesn't have the immune system to fight it off. Sometimes enough is enough. Huge sigh

I just read a thread that makes this one look like afternoon tea at the garden club! It was enough to make me want to check my words so I don't whine all the time.

I'm very grateful for all of you...cluck

Its 2:30 am and I am so hyper and keep waking every hour. Damn Thyroid storms. Was visiting my brother and his family today and I was drinking water and my hand started to shake as I held the cup and I stopped drinking so he wouldn't see it. Grrrrr moan.

I have not being feeling well for a few days now. Having terrible stomach pains.

Denza I hope that soon passes. Is there anything to be done for it?

Angela I am going to look up Thyroid storm. I am sorry you are having them.

On Monday I had to take the 4 500Mg of Amoxocilin I take before any dental work due to hip replacement. It seems to have put my stomach in an uproar. Even my mouth with yeast. I am swishing buttermilk in mouth and eating yogurt to put the good bacteria in.