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Un-reasonable suggestions by my doctor

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Two appointments down, one to go. What a busy week. Did I tell you I HATE seeing doctors? Especially when I know that they are having trouble figuring out how to help me?

The GI doc I saw yesterday would like to stop my pain meds. Hello? What did you say? I’ve been living in pain since 1992 and just finally was given pain meds for the hell I live in this past January after having been sick with a non relenting Crohns flare for a whole year prior to seeing the pain do, and I’m starting to function a bit better, and you what? want me to stop taking the pain meds?

Sure. Sure I will, but only if you’re going to pay my mortgage and house bills etc because I won’t be able to even sit up at the computer as I’m doing now without them. Yeah sure.

Yep that was pretty much the outcome of my latest GI appointment. He didn’t want to start me on any new Crohns meds, in fact he doesn’t think the Pentasa is doing anything for me either so why not stop that too.

I’ve been in a two year flare and he’s putting me back to square one without anything to help me get better? I was hoping he’d put me on another type of medication for Crohns to try to nip this in the bud so to speak and get me back to work. GEEZ.

I’m so frustrate.

Oh yeah … I can become a totally digital person by swallowing a camera pill to find out what’s going on inside my small bowel. Unfortunately our Insurance doesn’t pay for the $1200 or so test. I’m going to do it, but I have no idea how I’m going to pay for it.

Grrrr! I just wish a magic fairy would come by and tap me with her wand and fix this flare.





Digestisolve herbal treatment for IBS

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There’s a new all natural product being sold that is said to be an effective treatment for the symptoms of IBS, it’s called Digestisolve. This new herbal medication is said to begin relieving symptoms within one to two days of beginning to use it.

Hmmm, I’ve got Crohn’s disease, which is an inflammatory bowel disease, totally different than irritable bowel syndrome, but you never know, maybe it would help?

At this point, after being sick for so long I’m willing to try just about anything.

Doctors Hospitals and the ICU

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So I saw the family doc yesterday. I was not well yesterday at all. I was nauseated when I went to bed, didn’t sleep well – waking every 15 minutes or so, and nauseated when I got up and throughout the day until at least 11 pm or so. You know how sometimes after you get sick you feel so much better? Well I was seriously thinking of making myself get sick, that’s how bad it was. I’ve been like that for days now.

So naturally I went to my doctor in that kind of condition – and had a fever while I was there too. Big surprise that she wrote a note keeping me off work for a while longer then eh? No dates on this one, just that I’m still ill and undergoing medical evaluation.

Now to see what the gastrointernologist has to say later this afternoon. His office never called this week to confirm the appointment, I sure hope it’s still on. Chris rearranged his work schedule so that he could go with me. Plus I’ve been waiting to see him since the day after my MRI in October so it’d better happen.

One of my nurse friends called me this afternoon, co-incidentally she happens to work in the Occ health office now (I have an appt there Friday), she was calling to let me know that another nurse friend of ours had been hospitalized again. She has chronic asthma and lung damage thanks to a chemical spill at one of her workplaces prior to her becoming a nurse. It looks like she’s going to end up hospitalized two or three times each year now if the past couple are any indication.

My friend is in the ICU. I was told that her breathing was so bad that she would likely end up intubated by the end of the evening. This happened to her last year – her breathing was so bad that they kept her sedated and intubated her. If I’m not feeling too bad myself I’m going to try to go over to the hospital this evening to see her. I didn’t want to go yesterday because as I said I was so nauseated, and had a fever. It’s probably the Crohns that’s causing all of that, but if I have an infection then going into the ICU to see her when her lungs in such bad shape is not a good idea.

It just goes to show that as bad as you think things are going for yourself sometimes, that other people often have it worse. Send some good thoughts for my friend please?

Anivive for your pets stress

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Have you heard about the new medications that’s on the market that will help with dog depression, stress, and anxiety?

It’s an all natural product and it is supposed to work quickly, perhaps in as little as one or two days. Lowering the stress levels in your pet will make for happier pet, and more than likely a happier you.

I don’t happen to have a dog or a cat, and they usually don’t diagnose turtles with depression so I can’t say that I’ve tried this new medication with any of my own pets but it’s supposed to work quite well and it’s said that when given over a period of several months that it will actually improve your pets sense of well being.

So if you have an animals that’s been displaying signs of stress or depression you might want to visit the site and look into getting some Anivive for your pet.

Help a fellow blogger raise money for Cancer Research

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Colleen from 3 Day Mom and Simple Kind of Life is busy working to collect donations for the Three Day Walk for Cancer Research that she’ll be doing in Tampa next year. She completed the Three Day Walk in Philadelphia this past October and she’s raring to go for next years walk.

Her goal is to raise $2200 in donations for her Tampa three day walk. Can you help her? Anyone that donates $20 will get a personal thank you and a write up in her blog, plus a link in her side bar for the next twelve months as a 3-Day donor.

If you want to help her, and or read more about the walk and her goals just visit her 3 Day Mom Donation post. I’m going to make a donation sometime in the near future, I just need to figure out my finances etc first, but I will. Why don’t you join me in helping Colleen with her goal?

If you can’t make a donation right now perhaps you could blog about her goal to raise money for the Three Day Walk for Cancer Research and help her in that way?

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