I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
My heart goes out to you with the sciatica pain. I know how that is. From time to time I've been in such pain from it that I can barely walk and every move feels like I'm getting stabbed.
Physical therapy helped me. I do the exercises I learned there several times a day even in the office.
I had a flare-up about a month or so ago. It lasted about a week, but it wasn't that bad. Try PT.
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You know I think doctors prescribe all these drugs because they're like children with new toys that are also getting paid to play with.
They just want to see what these drugs will do.
I went to the doctor awhile back and she was doing her best to get me on a couple anti-depressants because I "need" them.
I told her that my life was a miserable living hell and anyone would have depression if they were living in unemployed poverty and working as an unpaid care slave to an abusive parent who they never got along with. I was a hundred pounds overweight at the time because the situation brought me so low that all I did was eat. I had no social life and really nothing to live for. It took everything I had just to get out of bed every day.
I started to dig myself out of the hole I was in by watching my diet and getting some exercize. When I was losing the weight some good things happened to me.
When I got away from my mother, I was cured.
There's no med that cures poverty. Or loneliness. Or negativity.
I'm glad I didn't get talked into going on meds.
Most RNs and I am one, suffer from the "nurse's back" and that's almost all sciatic. I used to have awful issue with it. Now for me it is keep moving no matter the pain, no sitting, only standing, walking and semi fowlers. Zero gravity chair was lifesaving for me. Back goes in and out, and I am pretty much an old hand at handling it now. PT has great stretching exercises to help.
Does back pain become so severe that it is difficult to exercise?
Physical activity can reduce pain. That’s what my orthopedic surgeon told me after surgery on my arm after my accident. My husband was told the same thing after his shoulder surgery.
I hated the muscle spasms and did take muscle relaxers for a short period of time. I only take pain meds when I absolutely have to. They upset my stomach and I have never taken meds longer than needed.
Being sedentary isn’t good for anyone. If a person can exercise, it is helpful for their physical and mental wellbeing.
My daughter blew out her knees from so many years of dance classes and being on the dance team at school.
She did PT after her surgery. She walks plenty because she walks her energetic husky daily. She no longer goes to the gym to do aerobic exercise. She started doing yoga and she loves it. It’s easier on her knees.
I have a neighbor who broke her back in an awful accident. She had lots of PT.
Cymbalta was a one pill pony for me. Would never take another.
I have underlying IBS so start there, but I had the dead on worst watery diarrhea I ever had in my life. Never saw the like of it. Turns out it's common and that it's the serotonin released into the bowel that does it. For some it goes away and others are out there taking STEROIDS for activated IBS. I joined two FB groups about Cymbalta and to tell the truth I am glad I can't take it. The titrating off it is apparently awful with brain zaps, exhaustion, sleepless, mental changes, chills. And the withdrawal takes forever with some left with permanent things such as the brain zaps. I had no idea one little 20mg pill could be so powerful.
So long and short is that my nasty nature isn't going to turn into sunshine and roses here. Sorry, kids.
As I wrote my Doc, I will stick with the nerve pain and the anxiety. I am a PRO at those, but this pill is scary. I would have to carry a portapotty with me! And lucky to make it onto the thing in time!
Yikes, better living through chemistry never DID work for me. I should have known!
Worst worst worst worst for me, getting up and down off the toilet. And we are talking the raised ones, the higher ones. Alas. You have the sympathy of every nerve in my body. Just want you to know that this, too, will pass.
I read all my FIL lab results that way , as well as doctors notes etc when he has been at the hospital .
I’m not confident a live person would even answer a phone in the lab these days .
And it’s great that they told her she has a UTI, but is anyone calling in a script ? By now they have the sensitivity results of the urine C&S. Meaning they have cultured the specimen and tested to see what antibiotics it is sensitive to .
Hopefully they call in a script or send the lab results to her primary doctor who can call in a script . If her primary doctors office uses the same medical records system as the hospital , the primary doctor should be able to see the record on the computer . Where I live most doctors and hospitals uses EPIC .
In the past when I had frequent UTIs they often didn't show in the UA. They only showed in the culture. She should call the lab and be certain. Results, if they come through the computer, expected in about three days. I always recommend a culture. Glad she got her results.
I have never had a UTI so I personally have no clue as to how they feel.
My oldest daughter has them. It sounds like they are very uncomfortable.
My mom got them occasionally. Her brother had one that turned septic and nearly died.
He was a bit stubborn and insisted on staying in his house when he could no longer care for himself. My cousins finally convinced him to go to a nursing home after he dealt with sepsis.
Lo and behold, she texts me this am that she's gotten a message from the hospital --positive UTI culture.
I would not know this stuff if I hadn't been hanging out here since 2011! Thank you all.