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READALOT, so glad that very difficult experience is behind you. Thank you for getting back to us even though you must be exhausted.

This thread never ceases to amaze me. I learn so much, and feel like I have found friends from all over the world and a safe place to share.

Readalot- glad you made it through. I,too, am amazed at what I've learned on this thread. It feels so easy to share things with my virtual friends that I otherwise wouldn't share with others.

Happy-a while back you posted about turning into our parents taking all their meds. How true! What I don't like is that in my family, I'm the one who has gotten dumped on with medical issues. I'm the youngest of 3 (I'm 53) & my older brother & sister have absolutely no health problems (lucky for them, I love them dearly & don't wish anything bad for them.) But sometimes I feel enough is enough. I do go by the saying that God doesn't give you more than you can handle but sometimes I wish I wasn't the catch all for our family.

My husband has had a good friend for over thirty years. He said it's funny how their conversations have changed over time. While playing golf, they now discuss what new BP meds they're on, the friend's recent knee replacement or unfortunately the death of one of their other friends. Yes, it sucks getting old.

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Mindymoo

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Mindy: I agree 1000%. You are far, far too young for this magnitude of issues. Any age is too young, but 29 is just cruel. You should ask for a refund!

I've learned to use it to my advantage. It's just fodder for my stand-up comedy now. I learned a good decade and a half ago that I have to make fun of it all, or else I will go completely insane.

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kokapetl

kokapetl

I must be an odd duck. Well odder than I thought. I took Ativan every night for about 5 years. I never upped my dosage or took more than prescribed but I heard it was addictive and I was worried about what would happen if I stopped. I went on vacation and never got the script refilled so I ran out. I Never missed a beat. No withdrawal or anxiousness just the usual hard time falling asleep. I never got it refilled after that.

My preferred GP told me that benzos don't necessarily stop working, and gave an example of "little old ladies" taking a pill once a day and it working for years at a time. I've taken benzos for nearly ten years, and while there's been some tolerance developed, they still do something. Psychiatrists are even more carefree about prescribing benzos. And benzos are incredibly safe.

Now that people have had their MRIs, I'll tell the rest of the dream. In my dream, when the windows PC crashed, the 90210 people freaked out that the error message meant the MRI patient had cancer, and I literally (in my dream) had to chase them down at West Beverly High and explain it to them. Also the MRI was on a patio, I guess because it was Southern California weather. I played trumpet in high school (in real life), and I think the West Beverly high school band in my dream had us playing the 90210 theme.

They had an 80's channel on but I could barely hear it. So my mind game was trying to figure out the song and then think of a good memory that went with that song.

New Wave? New Romantic? Hair Metal?
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Readalot

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My preferred GP told me that benzos don't necessarily stop working, and gave an example of "little old ladies" taking a pill once a day and it working for years at a time. I've taken benzos for nearly ten years, and while there's been some tolerance developed, they still do something. Psychiatrists are even more carefree about prescribing benzos. And benzos are incredibly safe.

Now that people have had their MRIs, I'll tell the rest of the dream. In my dream, when the windows PC crashed, the 90210 people freaked out that the error message meant the MRI patient had cancer, and I literally (in my dream) had to chase them down at West Beverly High and explain it to them. Also the MRI was on a patio, I guess because it was Southern California weather. I played trumpet in high school (in real life), and I think the West Beverly high school band in my dream had us playing the 90210 theme.

New Wave? New Romantic? Hair Metal?

it must of been an 80's hair metal channel. Bon Jovi was the only one I recognized. Boo. - MRI Contrast Update - remember I said I had to thrust my tongue out during the test? Well a swollen tongue is a side effect. So is a dry mouth which I felt immediately. Delayed spinning/dizziness (remember I wrote I felt like a hot dog on a spit) was on the list too. When they took me out I was so nauseous I immediately tried to get up because I thought I was going to vomit (but I couldn't because my boobs were in a vice). But the worst is severe diarrhea! I've never had it this bad. And I have a headache. I rarely get headaches, maybe one every few years. Since these are all on the Contrast side effect list and I didn't feel any on Wed after I took the Ativan I am going with the Contrast is the cause. I'm going to call on Tuesday to get the exact name and dosage used. I'm due for a barium swallow test too, which I've put off for 6 months now. I need to see if the contrast is the same. If so I'm not going to do it. Ugh.
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pippity j

pippity j

My daughter has MS and has to go for MRIs and is also claustraphobic.She is also afraid of the dark so she won't try covering her eyes.She will not consider going for one unless she takes Ativan the night before and then an hour or so before it.She is still anxious and terrified but she says the threat of having to repeat the whole procedure keeps her going.

 

I am not poking fun at drug reactions but I now laugh at the one my partner had when he took ativan.I was glad we were at the hospital anyway.He was having some medical issues and i took him into outpatients.The issues were making him very agitated and I finally got the Doctor to give him something to help.Yes Ativan.I noticed changes.He was kind of giddy Making funny answers then grinning at me.Making faces at the nurses backs.They decided to admit him to run tests on our original complaints.While we were in the room alone waiting for transport upstairs he was getting angry.The nurse taking us upstairs was a friend of mine and i told her that i thought he was having a reaction to the Ativan.She said he seemed fine to her but to monitor it.I was helping him undress in his room when he took the notion that he was going to leave.I said its better not to the Doctor wants you to have these tests.Long story short he was in his underwear only, trying to open the door and leave to go home.I was holding the door shut trying to get him to see he had no clothes on but he was beyond that.He was threatening me with bodily harm and asking me when i turned into such an idiot.I called for the nurse saying please get someone in here because I was just agitating him and maybe a different person wouldn't anger him so much.A couple of them came right away and blocked the door to keep him in and asked him if something was wrong.He said yes you are all lunatics and she is the head looney pointing at me.I left seeing I was the one the anger was directed at but they had a terrible few hours with him.I came back when he was sleeping and chatted with the nurses.I was informed it was on his chart not to give him ativan and for me to just state it as one of his allergies to make sure it wasn't repeated.It was just so far out of his personality that I can now look back and laugh.It was not funny then.

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Wok Chop

Wok Chop

Mindy, my daughter just turned 24, and on her birthday, she bought a cane. She has so many health issues, but we joke about it quite a bit. I told her we have to laugh or we'd just cry all the time. I know that you've been through a lot in your short life based on things you have shared with us. I'm glad that your sense of humor helps get you through. By the way, I didn't know that you're a comedienne. Do you have a Duggar routine? :P

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Mindymoo

Mindymoo

Mindy, my daughter just turned 24, and on her birthday, she bought a cane. She has so many health issues, but we joke about it quite a bit. I told her we have to laugh or we'd just cry all the time. I know that you've been through a lot in your short life based on things you have shared with us. I'm glad that your sense of humor helps get you through. By the way, I didn't know that you're a comedienne. Do you have a Duggar routine? :P

I haven't worked them into my act. My comedy mostly revolves around my health, my insane family, bizarre stories from my upbringing, that kind of stuff. I haven't done it since before the hysterectomy, but have been working on material non-stop since then, and plan to try my hand at it again in a few weeks. I just hope people remember me and that they don't boo.

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Love2dance

Love2dance

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I haven't worked them into my act. My comedy mostly revolves around my health, my insane family, bizarre stories from my upbringing, that kind of stuff. I haven't done it since before the hysterectomy, but have been working on material non-stop since then, and plan to try my hand at it again in a few weeks. I just hope people remember me and that they don't boo.

MINDY MCINDY...you are so brave. I can't imagine getting in front of a crowd and trying to make them laugh. That would be a nightmare for me!

Hugs to everyone dealing with their, and their families, health issues. Seems like this group has more than our share!

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Almost 3000

Almost 3000

Yep. If I'm on stage, I can do my thing, entertain people for the allotted amount of time, and get off. When people come up to me after shows, I have no idea what to say! I have serious social anxiety and alcohol can take me down from a 10 to about a 6, but I'm not one who likes to drink whilst onstage or backstage.

I can totally relate to that.  I used to love to give the sales seminars at work that I wove together with stories and funny incidents but to chit chat at the cocktail party that accompanied the event gave me anxiety.

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Mindymoo

Mindymoo

Feel better soon, GeeGolly!

 

The best thing about stand-up, for me, is how cathartic it is for me. I've been in and out of hospitals since I was 13. That's over half my life now. I made doctors and nurses laugh, and then my mom said that I should do it professionally. I have been able to make fun of my health, my weirdo family, and even have touched a little on my sex abuse and people just love it. Even if I never get famous for it, I will be glad I did it, because it is such good therapy for me. Tig Notaro is one of my biggest inspirations, and her being able to take the topic of her bilateral breast cancer and make it funny, or Richard Pryor making jokes about the night he set himself on fire where he should have by all means died, proved to me that I can make what's wrong with me funny. I deal in gallows humor, and people are not only amused by it, they're inspired by it.

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galax-arena

galax-arena

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Day 2 into 3 day weekend. Day 2 1/2 into the flu. Haven't had it in years, and I feel like a total baby. This sucks!

It sucks how we get sick at the most inopportune moments, doesn't it? I'm just now getting over my second bad cold of the summer. I recently had to move into a new apartment, and the cold hit me right on Moving Day. Fun times. The first cold of the summer came right on time to derail my plans to travel out of state to visit a friend. I always feel like such a wuss because, I mean, it's just a cold and plenty of people keep functioning. But I always feel like death warmed over and even when I have to go to work, I don't get much if anything done because I'm too busy feeling miserable. When I'm, say, watching a tv show and read some BTS trivia about how an actor was sick with the flu while shooting a scene, sometimes I don't know how they kept going. 

 

Maybe God is punishing us for snarking on the Duggars! Because who the f--- gets two colds during the summer??

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Liz Tudor

Liz Tudor

This is completely unsolicited, but the past couple of years, I've been learning about and implementing herbal remedies & preventatives into my family's regular diets, especially around cold & flu season. Even if you're not interested in the herbal components (and I'm not talking about anything weird or far out), bone broth (chicken carcass, spring water, and some common seasonings) is one thing that can help build up your immune system and make you heal faster when you're already sick. PM me if you're interested and I'd be happy to share.

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galax-arena

galax-arena

This is completely unsolicited, but the past couple of years, I've been learning about and implementing herbal remedies & preventatives into my family's regular diets, especially around cold & flu season. Even if you're not interested in the herbal components (and I'm not talking about anything weird or far out), bone broth (chicken carcass, spring water, and some common seasonings) is one thing that can help build up your immune system and make you heal faster when you're already sick. PM me if you're interested and I'd be happy to share.

I've learned that raw honey truly is a super food. The problem is that constantly drinking warm water with honey gets to be somewhat nauseating after a while. Thanks to the frequency of my colds, I would be happy if I never had to consume honey ever again. Blech. 

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galax-arena

galax-arena

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My babcia used to give us blackberry brandy in tea with honey and lemon.  She was totally anti drinking, until we were sick, that is.  I always suspected she got us liquored up so we would pass out and stop complaining. 

To treat my colds, I use Polish cough medicine: vodka, honey and lemon, and then I put it in the microwave for a minute. It take care of the cough and it knocks me out for awhile. Or if the cough gets really bad, I hop over to border and get some codeine cough syrup in Windsor.

I am shocked and appalled. It's like neither of you has ever learned a life lesson from watching the Duggars. 

 

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 - 

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

 

I'll be praying for your wretched souls. 

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emma675

emma675

I've managed to avoid the flu this year (knocks on wood), but my doc wants me to avoid getting the flu shot this fall because she's convinced it stirs up my immune system. I've already got two autoimmune diseases that we're just about getting quieted down and she thinks the flu shot might stir things up again. However, I haven't had the flu in almost 6 years and every year I've gotten a flu shot. I'm not sure what I'll do this fall.

 

And mmmmm, bone broth. So yummy and so good for you; I have adrenal issues so I add a shot of pink Himalayan salt to it (adrenals love good salt). I drink hot lemon water in the mornings and that's supposed to be awesome for you, too. I just love the taste.

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JenCarroll

JenCarroll

Ugh, only 4 hours of sleep. Just took 2 ibuprofen, drinking tea w/honey. Forgot how much a body could ache, and my throat feels like it has been rubbed with a Brillo pad, and one nostril is apparently a faucet with a broken shut-off valve. Sorry for imposing my pity party on you.

I think I caught it from you. It's 5 am and I woke up a couple of hours ago with scratching throat, itchy gunky eyes. and cough; now the nasal action is just getting started. Whee.

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GeeGolly

GeeGolly

I think I caught it from you. It's 5 am and I woke up a couple of hours ago with scratching throat, itchy gunky eyes. and cough; now the nasal action is just getting started. Whee.

Ugh, that sucks! We really need to practice better hygiene on these boards. ;)

 

I hope you feel better soon JenCarroll. Liz Tudor PMed me some herbal remedies, if you would like I will pass them on to you.

Be on the look out for this guy. Run if you see him.

 

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Ilovemylabs

Ilovemylabs

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OMG!  I was trolling the internet and came upon a story entitled '13 Ridiculous Lawsuits" and I am going to try and quote this one.  "NO PICKLES. All Darius Duggar wanted was for Burger King to hold the pickles, onions and tomatoes on his burger.  When he realized they didn't listen to his request, he chose to lawyer up seeking $100,000 in damages.  Duggar claimed he suffered and allergic reaction and fell ill after one bite of his sandwich."  Obviously not a relation to the TV Duggars!

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Jynnan tonnix

Jynnan tonnix

Mindy McIndy and Muffyn...Nice to see the Polish contingent on the board. I swear by the honey/lemon/vodka remedy as well. Also, we make krupnik, which is a honey/spice liqueur typically served hot. That will knock out anything.

 

I never particularly knew my Babcia...she and my Dziadzia lived with us until I was 2, then they moved back to Poland. My family was still in England then, and as I recall we visited them once shortly after the move (one of my first memories is of feeding her chickens), then again when I was about 8. After that, we moved to the USA, and I think we visited them once when I was 10, once at 13, and once at 19. My grandfather has passed away by then, and she did also when I was about 21, I think.  My father (also Polish) was orphaned during WWII, so I never knew that set of grandparents at all. Sorry, this was a bit off topic, but are there topics in the prayer closet anyway? My husband was always very close to both his grandmothers, who lived long enough to see most of our kids, and he always feels I missed a lot my not having grandparents, as such.

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