Postby Aurelia5 » Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:22 pm
Monty~
You poor thing. I’m sorry I haven’t written, I’ve been in sort of the same shape you’re in. Did you ever ask your doc about Compazine? It really gets rid of nausea beautifully. I would venture a guess why the junk food goes down easily. For some odd reason, sugar, in the form of a soft drink, will lessen nausea. They even sell cola syrup, but I think it’s better to stick with gingerale. Not the sugar-free, obviously. Ginger is very good for the stomach, and you can get candied ginger in the spice department of a big store. It tastes good, maybe a tad strong, but it’s worth a try. I don’t know if I told you, but I was hospitalized in the fourth grade with ulcers. My stomach is still weak and I’d be lost without Compazine. Also, avoid acidic foods: citrus, tomatoes, chocolate is hard on the stomach too. Also avoid deep-fried foods.
Did you get the symptoms of a heart attack? Chest pain, pain in the left arm, sweating etc? How is it they first thought you were having one, and then changed their minds? That is horrifying.
Lucky you about your tooth. My husband has two broken teeth and I have one with a temporary crown on it, because, as you pointed out, they are over a thousand dollars. Dentists don’t take payments, so we have to wait until Brad gets a couple of frame jobs that are profitable. He only does the very fine ones now, because it is such hard physical work.
Speaking of pain, he was no longer getting any relief from the oxycodone, which he was up to 175mg a day, and his cancer doc gave him a 75mcg - microgram, mind you, not milligram- Fentanyl patch. It’s like the difference between night and day. He says he feels fine now, meaning he only hurts like anyone with rheumatoid arthritis would, instead of being devastated by stabbing pains all over his body all the time. I am much happier. I think I am taking on a lot of his pain - sympathetic pain, because I hurt where he does, in amazingly similar ways. My doctors are constantly trying to get me to relax, which is hard for me. I’m a really high strung, constantly worried, freaked out mess. But when I try one of the yoga relaxation techniques my mother taught me, if I can lie still long enough, I actually feel less of my body pain.
But that only lasts until I think of what we face in the future. Basically I have no future. I had a hearing with a judge three weeks ago for Social Security Disability, and it should be approved. If it goes anything like what I’ve heard so many other people say, once you get to the hearing stage, they pretty much let you have it. If not, the step after that is a civil suit. We don’t even have enough money to go out to dinner, much less giving thousands to a lawyer. If I get approved, we can live meagerly, but if I end up living alone, I won’t have enough money to have an apartment. I’ll have to live in a room with other people in the house. I can’t imagine that. I would really rather not even be here.
I hope you start handling the side effects of the Trazadone better. When I was on those, my doc said it usually took about three weeks to get used to them, and indeed, it was about that long before they went away.
Hope to hear from you soon,
A5
