Do any of you have a chronic medical condition?

#21 Postby **azskyman** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:56 pm

Mary, something else that keeps me in the social circle with the "eat after 7 crowd." I'm a very cheap date! Water is free!

We're going to see the Capitol Steps comedy group on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I am buying the show tickets for our friends, and they are buying us dinner. Dah! I blew it on that one. I bought four tickets. They are buying 3 meals. LOL.

Bill...if I could send you this sunshine I truly would. It really does make a difference.

Miss Mary · #22 Postby **Miss Mary** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:01 pm

Yeah, well you got the short end of the stick on that deal but at least you'll be sleeping like a baby afterwards and not sick, up all night!

Literally LOL at your cheap date, water only comment. I'll have to remember that one! I usually sip my beer as they all eat. Another excuse I've come with is - oh I ate earlier. Which is the God's honest truth, I just have my own cutoff time to stop eating too! The things we have to do to feel well. Like I say, it's not fun to behave but when I behave, I feel so much better. We have great chili parlors in Cincinnati. People just die when they hear I can no longer eat it. I just smile, pulling out that device. Sure I love the chili, it just doesn't love me! Ain't worth it...no sir, not at all.

Mary

#23 Postby **azskyman** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:10 pm

The tough one is New Year's Eve. Big party planned this year with friends coming in from out of town. Heck, everyone eats until midnight that night.

Besides, where this party is going to be they sing Lee Greenwood's God Bless the USA at midnight. Kinda wierd, I know, but that's the sport for them.

Anyway, with no eating and only limited drinking into the evening, I actually get a chance to hear how bad I sing on that song while the rest of them may not remember that they even sang it the next day!

Seriously though, the impact of food getting into your lungs will cure anyone from misbehavin'! I will not forget and give in.

#24 Postby **LAwxrgal** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:26 pm

I got my first ulcer when I was 25. It's a little better now but I still have to watch it carefully. I also have IBS with constipation...

I'm also a borderline diabetic. Mom, two aunts, an uncle, all either have diabetes or had the disease.

I'm also an asthmatic and suffer from allergies.

But what I don't want is people feeling sorry for me because I'm sick half the year. :lol:

NastyCat4 · #25 Postby **NastyCat4** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:15 pm

I have IBS also, and bleeding is quite common. I've been 'Scoped over 11 times in my life, and the bleeding is due to irritation of the colon, so that is common. In addition, I take meds for high blood pressure, as there's a family history.

breeze · #26 Postby **breeze** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:14 pm

I've got osteoarthritis and hypertension. I take
Diovan for the high BP, and, Mobic for the joint pain
and stiffness - what a difference that's made! I didn't
realize how well I could move around again when I was
just taking Aleve, here and there. As my doc says,
"Mobic Rocks"! I agree! :wink:

Eric, my prayers are with Mrs. Joyce tonight, buddy.

#27 Postby **Stephanie** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:59 pm

Prayers are going out for your Mom tonight Eric. As you can see, it is treatable - Kim Perez of TWC had thyroid cancer as well. Hopefully they will be benign.

I have restless legs syndrome too Betty Boop. I find that when I lay on my stomach, it eases the symptoms. Iron also helps, but it makes me constipated. :roll:

Another thing that I think that I'm going through now - the dreaded "change". I'm 43 and for the past year I've been losing my hair - even more so now. I feel like the Charlie Brown Christmas tree. I swear that it's a payback for me making fun of a former VP at work (a very nice guy, but a workaholic and he was losing his hair - I would say when there was another crisis that a few more needles just fell :oops:

). Anyway, I'm now irregular, tough my GYN chalked it up to just having one less per year. GREAT!! It's bad enough he looks like Santa Claus. :roll:

It's not that simple though since I'm swinging back and forth like a pendulum. However, my mother said that she began losing her hair when she went through it at 50 and we figured out that my Aunt (her sister) was probably going through the change at 44. My psychiatrist also prescribed Valium for anxiety which has been mainly due to not knowing what the heck was going on with my hair!! :eek:

Anyway, Valium and I are now best of friends!! :lol:

#28 Postby **george_r_1961** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:04 pm

Ive got a mild heart rhythmm disturbance and mild IBS as well. Also back pain (sciatica) probably due to a slipped disc. Some arthritis in my hands. Other than that im healthy :lol:

#29 Postby **azskyman** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:30 pm

Hey, those of you with restless leg syndrome, my wife is right in there with ya! Been dealing with it for many years. Clonazopam for her, I think, has been the best at reducing the symptoms.

#30 Postby **Stephanie** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:49 pm

azskyman wrote:Hey, those of you with restless leg syndrome, my wife is right in there with ya! Been dealing with it for many years. Clonazopam for her, I think, has been the best at reducing the symptoms.

I'll keep that in mind Steve! Thanks!

Miss Mary · #31 Postby **Miss Mary** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:55 pm

Question about restless leg syndrome - how does it start? Ever since my cancer and several major surgeries, my legs have ached off and on. The only thing that helps is regular exercise. But the discomfort doesn't keep me up at night. This feeling isn't 24/7 either, just occasionally. They just feel like I've been hiking all day long, or marathon xmas shopping (you women can relate to this). Even when I wake up somedays. I asked my doctor once about it and he mentioned maybe my circulation didn't return the way it was before surgery. Again, regular walking eliminates this achy feeling but I sometimes wonder what would happen if I did nothing - restless leg snydrome? Just curious...

Mary

#32 Postby **Aslkahuna** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 9:06 pm

There's a saying that if by a certain age you don't have aches and pains you are probably dead. I definitely at that certain age plus I have hypertension (which is under control with meds).

Steve

#33 Postby **vbhoutex** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:00 pm

Right there with you on the CPAP. It was like night and day after I got it!!!! I was constantly tired no matter how much I slept and woke up with headaches most mornings(shich I now know was due to lack of oxygen. I nwo sleep 5-6 hurs a night and am more wide awake than I ever was after 8 or 9 hours of sleep before.

cajungal · #34 Postby **cajungal** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:02 pm

Stephanie wrote:cajungal - I have IBS as well. If you're passing blood, it seems like you have ulcers and that could mean you have IBD or Irritable Bowel Disease or Diverticulitis. Have you seen a GI lately? If you're having that much blood and pain, I would think that they would want to do a colonoscopy. I had one a year ago but they didn't see anything. I'd get yourself back to the doctor soon!

With my IBS, I go through phases with really no rhyme or reason other than I can almost guarantee that 2 - 3 months after a stressful period at work my stomach will act up again.

I also have chronic depression which I treat with Prozac. It's been a life saver for me.

I have not had any problems with the blood lately. That episode happened over a year ago. They checked me out at the emergency room and said I was not bleeding internally. It never really happened since. I also take syntyroid. I have a very underactive thyroid. I was also on prozac for depression, but got off. And don't take anything for depression anymore. Even though I still suffer with depression from time to time and have severe anxiety problems at time. Anti depressants make me gain too much weight and made me want to sleep all the time.

MomH · #35 Postby **MomH** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:01 pm

For an old lady, I'm in pretty good health right now.

That wasn't the case about this time 5 years ago. Doctors told my daughters they thought I might have liver cancer. Turned out to be a liver abscess that took better than a week to drain and some of the worst pain I've ever been through. After they got that problem somewhat cleared they tried figuring out what else was wrong. Turned out I had to have my sigmoid colon removed. Seven weeks in the hospital and I was allowed to go home. Two weeks later I was back in for another liver abscess that had to be drained--more pain--another week long hospital stay. Started getting well and was good for six months before I started running 104+ degree temperatures twice a day. A week of it and I went back into the hospital where they preformed every test known to man, I think. They even put a radioactive isotope into my system at one point. I told my daughters, if I died, to call the HAZMAT team first. Another test was absolutely the most painful test I have ever had. They did a bone marrow biopsy. They don't put you to sleep for these things folks -- you are wide awake with just a little local to help the needle pricks. However, they sink that needle into the pelvic bone and suck up marrow and it hurts like H***. First time didn't work -- had to do it twice. Doctor was actually tearful when he told me he would have to do it again. Ended up with a diagnosis of Polymyalgia Rheumatica and was put on steroids for two years.

Since then (other than some IBS and arthritis in knee and spine) I have been pretty healthy. Can't walk enough to do the grocery shopping but that is what the carts are for.

My prayers are added to all of yours for all of us.
MomH

#36 Postby **streetsoldier** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:10 pm

Maybe we should have Storm2K start a clinic for us...breeze on clinical staff, Pburgh at the phone, and AFLAC running the 'puters.

And azskyman doing rounds as the resident chaplain/counselor? :larrow:

wxmann_91 · #37 Postby **wxmann_91** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:17 pm

Not much since I'm only 14, and I don't know if these count.

1) Nearsightedness.

2) Chronic fatigue. No matter how much I sleep I cannot stop yawning during the day.

3) Indigestion/bloating/gas - It is really difficult for me to keep my "methane releases" (don't want to use foul language here) during school (I have to hold it in), and yet sometimes it still comes out, when I laugh or bend down. I know, quite embarrasing. :oops:

MomH · #38 Postby **MomH** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 12:32 am

wxman_91----

Normal yawning may be induced when the brain or lungs are not getting enough oxygen (or when someone else yawns).

Get a friend in the band or chorus to teach you how to breath from your diaphram. Also try doing some deep breathing several times during the day. Just might help both problems.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force · #39 Postby **Aqua Teen Hunger Force** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:06 am

Sleep Apnea.

HurricaneBill · #40 Postby **HurricaneBill** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:59 am

Asperger's Syndrome

Depression and anxiety (currently under control, thanks to Paxil. I don't care what Tom Cruise says.)

Dandruff (The kind where NOTHING seems to work)

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