When I started this blog, I really couldn't even begin to tell you how bad I felt each and every day. I called it "Another Day In The Life Of A Train Wreck". I decided that is no longer appropriate for me. I do feel better. Not always a lot better, but at least I don't feel like I've been hit by a train every day! Now I'm just taking it "One Day At A Time"! :)
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Cancer is gone.... well, skin cancer at least
The spot on my head is still tender, and still has a couple knots I have to keep massaging, but it looks pretty good, and they got all of the cancer. Next hurdle? I have to go for a mammogram next week, and I'm waiting on results of my pap smear to see if I have cervical and breast cancer. Skippy! I have symptoms that can indicate both cancers, so my doc is working on it. Hopefully it's nothing. I'm running out of pieces parts to remove!
For my skin cancer surgery, I was not knocked out. I just had local anesthetic. Not the funnest thing in the world. Especially since I didn't stay numb quite long enough and felt them zapping me while cauterizing the wound, while processing my slides. I had to have an extra shot. Those are the worst part. The sound of them cutting on my skin grossed me out! I just started talking to them to keep my mind off of it, and drown out the noise! LOL!
I really like my LDN (Low Dose Naltrexone). It has helped my Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia a lot. I still have some bad days though. It seems I'm constantly reminded of how broken my body is. It often feels one one step forward and two steps back. I guess it is progress, even if it is slow. I long for the days I can consistently feel good! Will they ever come? I have my doubts, but I keep hoping.
For my skin cancer surgery, I was not knocked out. I just had local anesthetic. Not the funnest thing in the world. Especially since I didn't stay numb quite long enough and felt them zapping me while cauterizing the wound, while processing my slides. I had to have an extra shot. Those are the worst part. The sound of them cutting on my skin grossed me out! I just started talking to them to keep my mind off of it, and drown out the noise! LOL!
I really like my LDN (Low Dose Naltrexone). It has helped my Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia a lot. I still have some bad days though. It seems I'm constantly reminded of how broken my body is. It often feels one one step forward and two steps back. I guess it is progress, even if it is slow. I long for the days I can consistently feel good! Will they ever come? I have my doubts, but I keep hoping.
Monday, October 10, 2011
New Hydrocortisone by Core Pharma is old Hydro by Glades
This post is for anyone out there who use to be on Glades hydrocortisone, and loved it. Many of us did great on it, and then Glades went out of business and quit making all medicines. Core Pharma wound up with Glades formulation and have finallly started production of it.
A Core Pharma rep told me it is being sold at Rite Aid pharmacies, and if you do not have Rite Aid near you, you can ask your pharmacy of choice to order it for you. They have to get it ordered through their supplier. Here is the NDC# for 10 mg. pills... 64720-331-05. If you want to make sure you get Glades, ask your doctor to specifiy that on your prescription and the doc can even write the NDC# on the script!
A Core Pharma rep told me it is being sold at Rite Aid pharmacies, and if you do not have Rite Aid near you, you can ask your pharmacy of choice to order it for you. They have to get it ordered through their supplier. Here is the NDC# for 10 mg. pills... 64720-331-05. If you want to make sure you get Glades, ask your doctor to specifiy that on your prescription and the doc can even write the NDC# on the script!
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Skin Cancer
Newest diagnosis is skin cancer. I have a spot about the size of an eraser on my forehead. I had it biopsied last week. I will have Mohs surgery on it, in October to remove it. I go back in Jan. for a scan for other skin cancers. The good thing is this one is basal cell carcinoma and I found it early. Basal cell is the best kind of cancer to have, if you have to have it.
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN)
It's been a month since I found out I have Fibromyalgia. There are only 3 drugs approved for Fibromyalgia. I tried 1 pill of Cymbalta and it put me in a tailspin! I lost 8 lbs. of fluid in one evening (not in a good way), and spend the rest of the weekend trying to get myself rebalanced. Diarrhea throws my electrolytes out of whack and puts me in a crisis. That was fun... NOT!
So, I called the doc on Monday and let them know. Next drug. I took 5 pills of Lyrica before I said enough is enough! My brain fog was even worse. I had a very hard time thinking at all! I felt like a drunk! I staggered around in the night when I had to go to the bathroom, etc. No fun! I called the doc again. I went in to see him. Well guess what people? I'm sensitive to drugs! ;) So the nice doctor said he'd be too afraid to try any other drugs on me, for fear I'd go into an adrenal crisis. Good enough for me. I didn't like those drugs anyway!
I would encourage anyone with Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, MS, or autoimmune diseases to look up Low Dose Naltrexone. It has helped me a lot, and I've only been on it a couple days. Is ALL of my pain gone? No... not yet, anyway. But, I'm not laying it bed 24 hrs. a day and feeling depressed and feeling like crying because I hurt so bad, either! I can still feel places that hurt at times. I don't notice my knees hurting until I try to go up or down the stairs. They are still tender, but nothing like they were. At my worst, I was laying in bed, feeling my whole body throb with pain. I couldn't do anything, and nothing was helping with the pain!
Naltrexone in it's full strength of 50 mg. is used to help drug addicts. In low doses, it works totally different in the body. It helps the body produce more endorphins, the body's natural pain killer. It can be taken in liquid form, or pill form. The normal dose is up to 4.5 mg. The beauty of the liquid is, you can start slow, and find out what dose works best for you. Since I'm so sensitive to medicine, I started at .5 mg. That seems about right for me, for now. Hopefully, in time I will be able to work up to about 3 mg. or so.
LDN is usually taken at bedtime. Some people take it in the daytime. About the only side effect is sleeping problems in the first week of taking it. Some people have trouble falling asleep. It makes me sleepy after I take it. It does that for some other people I have read about. Once you are asleep, you get into a good deep sleep. It can also cause vivid or bizare dreams. I have vivid dreams, but not bizare. As I increase dose, that may change. I don't know yet.
One other thing I've found to help with the brain fog is a product called "Thinkfast". I also put D-Ribose in my drinks when I can remember. I'm finding these things to help with the fibromyalgia as well.
So, I called the doc on Monday and let them know. Next drug. I took 5 pills of Lyrica before I said enough is enough! My brain fog was even worse. I had a very hard time thinking at all! I felt like a drunk! I staggered around in the night when I had to go to the bathroom, etc. No fun! I called the doc again. I went in to see him. Well guess what people? I'm sensitive to drugs! ;) So the nice doctor said he'd be too afraid to try any other drugs on me, for fear I'd go into an adrenal crisis. Good enough for me. I didn't like those drugs anyway!
I would encourage anyone with Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, MS, or autoimmune diseases to look up Low Dose Naltrexone. It has helped me a lot, and I've only been on it a couple days. Is ALL of my pain gone? No... not yet, anyway. But, I'm not laying it bed 24 hrs. a day and feeling depressed and feeling like crying because I hurt so bad, either! I can still feel places that hurt at times. I don't notice my knees hurting until I try to go up or down the stairs. They are still tender, but nothing like they were. At my worst, I was laying in bed, feeling my whole body throb with pain. I couldn't do anything, and nothing was helping with the pain!
Naltrexone in it's full strength of 50 mg. is used to help drug addicts. In low doses, it works totally different in the body. It helps the body produce more endorphins, the body's natural pain killer. It can be taken in liquid form, or pill form. The normal dose is up to 4.5 mg. The beauty of the liquid is, you can start slow, and find out what dose works best for you. Since I'm so sensitive to medicine, I started at .5 mg. That seems about right for me, for now. Hopefully, in time I will be able to work up to about 3 mg. or so.
LDN is usually taken at bedtime. Some people take it in the daytime. About the only side effect is sleeping problems in the first week of taking it. Some people have trouble falling asleep. It makes me sleepy after I take it. It does that for some other people I have read about. Once you are asleep, you get into a good deep sleep. It can also cause vivid or bizare dreams. I have vivid dreams, but not bizare. As I increase dose, that may change. I don't know yet.
One other thing I've found to help with the brain fog is a product called "Thinkfast". I also put D-Ribose in my drinks when I can remember. I'm finding these things to help with the fibromyalgia as well.
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