Posted by Peg on September 2, 2000, at 4:24:39
In reply to Re: Brand New Member, posted by LucindaLinda on September 2, 2000, at 1:59:25
Hey, LucindaL,
I can really relate. Since the peritonitis was poisioning my blood, tissues,muscles for that week before the corrective surgery, I too contracted fibromyalgia.
My first flare came about 2 months after the surgery. So you can imagine how much of a whiner I sound like at the doctors. First I go into the gastro problems, then how all my joints ache, then the migraines.....about that time they are ready to show me the door. But they are always happy to hand out allergy samples. I can always tell what pharmaceutical companies had been visiting lately, by all the samples they offer.
One day I left their office with enough to fill a grocery bag. I felt it was like they were bribing me just to leave.
I had been on the Prozac + wellbutrin and it did help for the joint pain and migraines, but only the other hand, I didn't feel this anxiety until about 6 months after starting those two.
I don't know if I should add valium and keep taking the prozac+wellbutrin, or just only take the valium for a while. I have been searching the boards looking for alternative combos.
Yikes, I just took .25 Trazodone to be able to go to sleep....It made my eyes heavy, but threw me into a big panic attack. My heart was pounding out of my chest, couldn't breathe,head pounding.
I didn't know what to do. Everyone on these boards says that Traz is so good to get some sleep. I finally got rid of those symptoms but now I am wide awake and as it is 1:00 am....
I hate laying there trying to force myself to sleep.
I fired my Pdoc last week. But that is a whole other story. I went to a family doc about a month ago. After I explained my illness, he said "You are to sick for me to handle, you need to see specialist." Then he handed me a prescription for hydocodone. It was like a consoulation prize.
Have you tried Gluten Free Mall. I find that their products are good and very gentle to the plumbing.
About SS benefits. I had an attorney file on my behalf. They say that 50% more claims are approved that way. I paid a 25% fee on the back recovery part only so it wasn't so bad. I was real pleased with my monthly benefits. My 16 year old son will also be receiving benefits under my work history. It will be half of mine. Only until he graduates from high school.
I really couldn't have filed on my own. I am just too sick to be able to climb through the paper maze. My son takes care of me. buying groceries,running errands,taking me to the docs, plus he goes to school and works part time at JC Penneys. It is hard on him sometimes, but I have seen a new maturity in him since all this happened.
Did you know that the training that plastic surgeons get to perform liposuction is taught at a Hilton Hotel on a three day weekend? They don't tell you that beforehand.
I think your idea is good. Just find a doctor that you think you can educate. But doesn't it just get your goat after you leave their office and feel like you just treated yourself, that they were only there for their pen and prescrip pad. I just don't have the same instant respect that I used to, just because they had an MD in front of their name.
Better try to go get some sleep. I have relatives flying in tomorrow for vacation. The weather has been great = sunny and 75 degrees, and I havent' been able to enjoy it nearly enough.
Bless you for responding
Peg> Hi Peg,
> Sounds like you have your hands full. I developed Fibromyalgia after working at a job where sexual harassment and discrimination where part of the deal. I finally walked out and filed a law suit but have been unable to work since then. No SS benefits here tho, they frown on you for getting sick from stress and harassment. I had lots of problems with my intestinal tract too, I have been taking a probiotic, herbs and eliminating foods that I have alot of trouble with, (like iceberg lettuce, milk, fried foods, most fast foods).I counted the doctors I have been to in the past 10 years and it was 17 at the last count, I finally decided to stick with the one I have now and try to educate her. I do lots of research on one problem at a time and then take the research papers I print out to her. Some doctors get really tight when you do that so I guess the ticket is to find one that will at least read what you take them.
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> I'd get rid of the guilt too over having lipo. I bet you paid good money believing you were in capable hands? Unbelievable what some of these doctors do to people. You have my empathy, it's a testament to your strength and will that you lived thru the ordeal,keep looking, there are good doctors out there that actually want to help people.
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> Greetings,
> > I can't believe I fell into this site. It is by far the best of the web. I have so far been soaking in everyone's expertise. I apologize for the lengthy post, please forgive me.
> > Two years ago, I had liposuction on my abdomen. The plastic surgeon plunged through the stomach wall with the ultra sound candula and burned my small intestine and colon making 50 holes. Unaware of his error, he released me. Four days later I was ambulanced to surgery with severe peritonitis, having a lot of small intestine and my ascending colon removed.
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