Diary Entries for njenkinspa

Upset with my dr's

njenkinspa

I went to the neuro dr. the other day for another follow up. I am very upset with the dr. she said that she's going to discharge me, she can't find anything wrong with me! I can not understand that i'm telling her that i'm sleeping all day on the weekend. I get up for an hour and back to sleep again. My body keeps jumping on it's own i'm wide awake and my body jumps. Eyes do not focus correct when writing or on my android. My
MRI says i have white spot [...]

beat the stiffness

njenkinspa

I have been very very stiff the last week amongst being in pain. I have muscle relaxers for durring the day and at night. I still am stiff as a board even though I take them. I do streatch a lot but it still doesn't help at all.

On a posative note I found a hand stuff that works for my very very dry skin! It's called O' keeffe's working hands. My wife was watching TV found this on commercial. We didn't buy it on line we went looking around at diffrent stores. Looked [...]

Working and pain

njenkinspa

I currently work full time for Orthopedic dr's in a Physical therapy department. My job entails being on my feet 80% of the day. I know the people that i help on a day by day basis are in pain. For many different reasons! I know what that is all about on a personal and deep level.

Most of the time I do go to work, Don't get me wrong i love my job so much, the pain is soooo bad i can not get out of bed as we all know to well.

I sit at home try [...]

I return

njenkinspa

Yes I have been super busy between work home and dr's visits. For sure the favorite being very sick! My body is going down hill i'm gaining a lot of weight. I work out when I can, i'm so tired all the time I can't stay awake. I sleep for almost 24 hr's a shot when I have things to do at home. I work such a demanding job in which i love I take days off here and there because the pain is so bad.

Happy New Year!!!!

njenkinspa

New Years was quiet thank god! I had a 1/2 day of work on New Years eve. When I came home I was tired so I took a nap. Now I know i'm on a lot of Drugs that make me sleepy but this is nuts. How is everyone's New Year so far?

the night of mares

njenkinspa

Last night had an awful night I went to the bathroom and didn't remember getting up to go? Anyway I awoke to find myself of the toilet hurting like normal. Went back to bed! This sucked my painwas bad this morning despite the great weather we are having!

Anyone else has this issue getting up in the middle of the night and doing this?

Been very sick

njenkinspa

My body has been killing me the last 4 moths, So much that I didn't want to work but had too. I did take some time off a day here and there toward the weekends to rest. But things where going onthe weekends as well could not stay home all the time. Been in pain that it was making me tired and sick. Now i'm trying anything to get my body to a level 4 pain instead of 8.

waking with wierd dreams and to a less painful day

njenkinspa

Well I awoke from a very strange dream, awoke to having a good pain day!This is the best day that I have had in a very long time! Weather was good today despite the bad weather coming to the area. Well I will enjoy the nice day!

work and not feeling food

njenkinspa

Well it's been weeks of hell and not feeling good and all. Just enough energy to work and not enough to do anything else. come home and just crash!

Time is painful

njenkinspa

I haven't been on line in a bit because I'm going threw another bad spout of pain.

It was not easy for me like many others for me to sit on the computer and chat with others. I just had enough energy to go to work.

So when will this all end? I have decided to try another route of therapies and go holistic.

Lets see where this takes me because I am sick of the pain and the medications not helping me most days.

The Dr's

njenkinspa

Went to the pain management Dr yesterday and he agreed with my rhumey that I need to get a sleep study test done ASAP! So with out hesitation I'm going to set and appointment to do the test. NextI will go back to the Pain Dr. go over the test results and see where we go from here.

Went to the gastrologist today and he upped my Protonix so now i'm tanking 80 mg a day. Well what else is new every time I go to the Dr's always something new.

This day

njenkinspa

Well work was okay worked hard as always! My ribs on the right side where killing me since I awoke today. I can not stand this pain, have had it for years and no one can figure it out.

tonight my wife got up to fast and fell to the floor! this happens all the time she smokes too much pot gets up fast and passes out! I'm worried one day she will really hurt herself. I told her when she gets her SSD insurance we need to get this checked out. It scares the hell out of me that rig [...]

Having a hard day

njenkinspa

OMG I have been told by my Dr that I am pre Diabetic, and my Triglycerides are high. So I have to not eat a lot of sugar and watch my fats. Now this sucks because I want a snack and I have nothingin the house to eat except pretzels and I am craving something sweet. I did buy some snacks for the house for me but I am out. Crap it snowed yesterday and it was 15 outside so we didn't go out like planned :( or I would of had my snacks. CRAP! as charlie brown says UGGGGGGGGGGGH lmao.

not so good news

njenkinspa

Well talked to the Dr and we went over my blood work. I have high blood sugar which means I am pre diabetes. I need to cut my sugar down and they said that my triglycerides where high do Low fat Low sugardiet. I'm not going to say anything more because this sucks!

Today

njenkinspa

Went out for a little bit today to pick up some medication. It was ruff being out and running for different things.

but now i'm home and resting on the computer!

Been in the hospital

njenkinspa

Well I have been sick for the last 3 weeks. Went to the hospital for the last week. I could not keep anything down. They said it might be from the fibro. Well i'm home now and I hope to stay out fora while.

Aww the headaches are still here

njenkinspa

Well my depression I can not shake! They put me on more cymbalta 60 mg. Then lets talk about the headaches this sucks! It has been 8 weeks and still nothing so 2 weeks ago the put me on this med thathas yet to work? Today I had a major migraine that made me shake and gave me a broken blood vessel in my right eye! I am still coming off the migraine. My fibromyalgia was so bad this weekend I spent most of it in bed. What's a girl to do?

Family issues and pain

njenkinspa

Well it's been a busy 2 weeks , My body pain is so bad right now. My aunt had a heart attack last weekend while on vacation. I found out that she has not seen a Dr in 10 years! Wait till she startsfeeling better i'm going to politely give her who and what for!

Then in the middle of it all my grandfather gets sick and lands in the hospital. They are sending him to a rehab. He had terrible pneumonia, wicked bladder and kidney infection. any way they are going to send h [...]

This serious back pain

njenkinspa

Going back and forth to the pain management Dr's. Getting injections into the back. Which i can say are very painful when he did it the second time. two injections at the same time and spasms likecrazy. Well trying like hell to be in less pain!

another bad pain day

njenkinspa

So three day's now and the pain is still so unbearable. It's so very hard to go to work. But need to go to work and make money, I called the pain Dr. I missed the call, tried to call them backbut they where gone for the day!this is the 1st time since before I was on medication that I felt this way.

Oh not good at all!!!!