Morning Friends!!! Its cold in IL yet again!!! what happened to fall?? I have been having some mesed up dreams lately but at least I am sleeping...
Hope everyone has a great day!
Morn K,Mom and all....yep fall fell thru I think,,,,it's 40 deg here brrrrr~!!!!but very sunny
don Good morning. Well, my tummy had problems again, and I think it is the new antidepressant. We shall see how today goes. I have a substitute jobs at a very low income school today. I hope all goes well. Shannon, there is a lot of stress and grief going on in your life. If you were dreaming normally, I would wonder about you. Be easy on yourself and just feel what you do for now. Know that I am loving and praying for you girl, and you all will make it through. I will PM you after school today. It is 40 whoppin' degrees outside this am. At least we will hit 70ish later. Take care all and I will see you all again around 4:00ish this pm. Love to all....shel Shelly~how are you feeling today? Any better? Good luck at the school today...Do you sub every day? Or do you have certain day that you do it? My sister-in-law calls subs for one of the school districts out here. Its good cause she can work in the morning when my nephew is sleeping and can stay home w/ him and the soon-to-be new baby!! Thanks for your prayers and kind words, they are greatly appreciated! Goodmorning Don!
Milly~I noticed that I was a lot warmer after i was diagnosed w/ RA...I used to be cold in 75 degree weather and now its just fine. Joonie~ How are you today? Sorry about the dog. Hows Marybeth handeling it? Why do I always run out of Celebrex. 3 days without it and I'm in agony. Just picked it up after work tonight so I'll take some before I go to bed when I take my night night pills. Speaking of Celebrex, my doc gave me 2 wk supply of samples, when I run out what is a comparable med I can ask about? Ins won't pay for celebrex and I can't afford it out of pocket on our pensions.! hands are still good today thankfully!! don Speaking of Celebrex, my doc gave me 2 wk supply of samples, when I run out what is a comparable med I can ask about? Ins won't pay for celebrex and I can't afford it out of pocket on our pensions.! hands are still good today thankfully!! don I just cked that mobic with my ins, they won't approve that either, so if my md suggest it I'll use that drugstore.com....thanks Jas!!
This medicare prescript plan sucks in many ways!!! oh well!!
I just cked that mobic with my ins, they won't approve that either, so if my md suggest it I'll use that drugstore.com....thanks Jas!!
This medicare prescript plan sucks in many ways!!! oh well!!
Don, I am using Voltaren (generic name is diclofenac I think) - it is working very well for me - is that one available on your plan? Thanks HillHoney, I'll check on that one too!!!. Have a good day!! Hello Everyone
I slept in too Link, seems I do that more and more lately. Especially since I've been sick
It's nice and cool here finally, windy, sunny, and fallish. I love it! We need rain, Karen when you get through with yours will you send it my way?
Hope ya'll have a good day today and find the right pain meds to help you through your day. Shannon I'm so sorry to hear about your aunt, man you have been through it honey
I can't understand why an insurance co won't cover mobic or celebrex, they are such basic meds, it doesn't make sense. Hill, we are getting some rain but unfortunately it has come with a cold front and there is supposed to be hail and all sorts of nastiness later today. I liked the rain in Samoa where it was still 90 degrees. Cold crappy stuff off the Southern Ocean and Antarctica sucks. Now we just have to hope that the rain falls in the right places to help boost water supply. Well I can't claim that this is a warm rain, it's pretty chilly and raw out there, but we can deal with. Mona, I'm afraid I can't give you my rain clouds when I'm done, because I'm squeezing every drop I can out of them. But I'll put in a request for you getting a few of your own - just not on the day of Emma's party! Take some photos, so we can see please!!! Pammy, I'm sorry if you have already talked about it and I missed it - what test are you having done? Thanks Karen I'll take any rain wishes I can get
Shannon I'm having the same problem with last winters clothes
I'm having a urodynamics test and cystoscopy in the morning Not nasty just a bit unpleasant I think \ Pammy is that for your bladder? catch ya later folks eewww good luck Pammy, and hope you can sleep!
I laugh in your general direction. MWUAHAHAHAHAHA It's still in the mid 80s here. And at night it's in the low-mid 70s. Kelly, mobic makes me want to rip my stomach out with an ice pick.
I have had some of THE BEST FOOD the past few days at the hospital. I've never had a hamburger that good in my life. MMmmmmm YUMMY. A tray is for me. Woohoo! I make sure to load it up too. LOL My last shot at hospital food will be tomorrow morning, I don't think we've been awake for breakfast before. Maybe we'll try it. Hehe Alright so I probably shouldn't post this here, but I don't care. Haha Is levlarry getting paid for these new posts of his? Or am I just imagining things? Hi Katiedid!!!! Did I miss a post on how everything went. Was that last night??? Sorry I subbed today, and I am very out of it and in pain etc. At least I woke up good! Katie How are you feeling. Flare wise and all. I am about the same. The pred is helping just had to give it a few days. I have something going on under my knee cap. Dosn't hurt to much with the pred. At least for today i don't feel sick, a little fatique but not as bad. I am just waiting for the knee cap to fly across the room. The things i do to entertain myself. Sorry Milly about your knee, and it probably will not fly across the room, although you may want it to. Katie, did they just have to take the gall bladder out or was there more??? I am glad he is feeling better, just worried about you and the pressure of all of this and the flare. Sorry...honey bunch!
AHHH just watched Grey's Anatomy
I have to bathe the dog UGH! He stinks! Goodnight Joonie Shelly41 my son kicked me off the computer. Anyway i was just wanted the knee cap to fly across the room because i have a hot knee surgen and i havn't seen him in a few years. He was always my biggest advocate in getting me diagnosed with the fibro. I had a torn ligement. Then i had a huge ganglion cyst. He had to do surgery twice. And we tryed draining it for awhile. He had to actually take some of my tendon out to get rid of it. It was a monster. So if it's my knee, I think oh the nice cute doctor, i just miss him. Hot surgeon? Do I see an "injury" in your future? No one will believe it's an accident ya know. Yes Milly I too am so sorry for your grandfather and family
Has anyone seen or heard from Brisen? This isn't like her not to check in....kinda worries me. And where's Karen tonight? Haven't seen her all day
Ok I see that Karen has been here lol, so she must be ok. Pshaw! Am not!!! I have to make a wall of "barnacles" in my pirate ship. I'm trying to think of what I can use to be the barnacles that I attach to the wall, and to a person hidden in the wall. Any ideas? I was thinking maybe the bottom of styrofoam cups, and the paper cups that you use for cupcakes and candy - so I would have different sizes and could shape them and paint them to look like barnacles. But I would love some other ideas!!! Let's put it this way, I had a Mona Moment...
I'm heading to bed - I'm beat. Have fun folks! OH LOL SEE I AM CONFUSED.
I want Link to start her own show, and then share the wealth
Brisen every time you come on my 'puter slows down to a crawl
Nighty nite Link and Katie BRB gotta take meds and pee... Hey, it's me!!! Bris...so sorry about your bladder infection. Bad Monana...bad Monana!!! Didn't your mommy teach you there are some things you share and some you don't. Had an exhausting day in fifth grade. I don't know that I will EVER be able to teach full time again....I am OLD! Nite, sweet Katiedid!! Sweet dreams! Hi Shelly! I can only imagine how hard it must be to teach...do you have to stand most of the day?? That would KILL me! Yes, I was on my feet ALL STINKIN day. I tried to grab a seat a couple of time. Teaching is so emotional as well, and it just KILLS me. Milly how about 89! Yep, that sounds about right and I am walking like my 86 y/o neighbor, who has double aputees from diabetes. My temp is going up again too. I'm fine Milly thanks, sheesh, didn't you see I had to go pee?lol Hi Shelly, I hate kids, I could never be a teacher to a bunch of smart mouth pre-teens, even on a well day
Sorry you still feel so bad Shelly, I was hoping the Remicade would be helping by now
Well, I actually felt ok earlier today. Tonight is MTX(methotrexate) night for me, so my tummy is back to hating my guts. I should be more settled tomorrow though! I also get the second of the three shot series for my knee. My ortho's assitant (PA) is just cute as he can be. Although our children are in school together. Me either Milly, and I really do love kids lol That age is just not my favorite! Oh Bris...don't EVEN bring up BO...sheesh! By the afternoon, I wanted a gas mask!!! EEEEEWWW! It was awful. I always required my fifth and sixth graders to have deoderant. We reapplied after PE...every day!!! EEEEWWW!!! I think the Remicade is trying, and joint pain was less this am....and last night I slept like a baby..compared to other nights. I think I wouldn't be so STUPID and wouldn't care that I have GAINED thirty pounds since dx.....maybe I would be feeling better. Shelly, is that Synvisc that you're having your knee injected with? I was only able to complete one injection in the series...had a bad reaction with lots of inflammation and a HUGE effusion.
Yes, it is synvisc. Yes it did increase the swelling some, but no more than teaching all day(actually it was less) Milly...my orthopedic surgeon had a lot to do with my dx too. Yep, he was in one knee twice within a year....and said...there's somethin' up. Took six more months to get through dx process. ohhh that sounds sooo painful in the knee... Trey ran all over a mail box yesterday and scratched his new truck all down the side and crinkled a tire gaurd
I have heard that you will feel better after the third shot. Although for the most part it feels better. Now the one that was operated on twice is hurting more. Let's face it I need a NEW body! Monana, and Bris...did you all leave??? Well, this is the second time Brandon hit his dad's truck. The frist time was with his truck. Although dad was guiding him. Gosh, who's at fault with that one!!!! Nah I'm watching TV, sorry
Did you guys watch Grey's Anatomy tonight? I missed Private Practice this week, when does it come on? Nope, I'm still here! Trying to catch up on 2 days worth of post.
Shelly, that was about 4 years ago that I tried the Synvisc. It made my knee so much worse, that the doc wouldn't give me the second one. I had a big effusion after the first injection that had to be aspirated on 4 different occasions. And the pain was incredible. Red and inflammed for weeks. Ya'll are making me sick, quit it Oh yeah It's early out there, I keep forgetting the time difference' Brisen did you know that all of you in Cal. are going to fall into the ocean one day and be lost forever? HUN UH you stole it from me. No Milly, and I don't think he will. It was kinda stupid tonight. Monana, they have been sayin' that Cal. is gunna fall in the Ocean for more than 40 yrs....if it was gunna it would have. Besides, I would always go rescue Bris. I loves her! I don't know about those on the other side of the US!!!j/k ME TOO! Can you tell I'm kind slow tonight
Good night ya'll
Smoochies to you too Bris...have a great day at work! We will be thinking about you! I was trying to scare Brisen into moving on the good side! Here
Kiss, kiss to you too over there in N. Car. Love ya girlie...have a good sleep, and if your moaning please tell me it was someone REALLY cute!!! Hey you share bad stuff cross the country. I would love it to get together with ya all somewhere!!! Gosh the chaos we would create. hmmm...is the world ready for that? You bet I could...'specially after I get my bionics!!! LOL girls GOOD NIGHT! Yep, they can just get jealous cause we're the bestest in the world. Nighty Night Milly. I'm gonna hit the hay. TTYL! shel You too Milly...get a good nights sleep...see ya on the flip side.
Try Mobic (generic meloxicam). It's a preferential COX-2 inhibitor, which means it still inhibits COX-1 to a small extent. It is not as easy on the stomach as Celebrex, but in theory it should not have the severe cardiovascular risks of the COX-2 inhibitors. Drugstore.com lists the price for 100-15mg pills (the high strength) at .00; most people take 2 tablets per day.
Jasmine, thanks for the info, I will check on that when time comes....have a good day!! Mobic worked well for me; I used it for a while and then stopped using it when I had an extended remission. When the pain/inflammation hit again this year, I started using OTC naproxen, which seems to work better for me (I take 3-5 per day).
Well, I feel much better today than I did yesterday morning! Still some pain and stiffness, but nothing compared to the past week or so. I've got a bit of an upset stomach this morning, probably because I was too busy to eat something with my meds this morning... so I have no one to blame but me.
I love drugstore.com; they will keep track of all your medical deductible expenses (OTC and prescription) and you can print them out at the end of the year for taxes/FSA reimbursement.
A friend of mine had hers out laprascopically, and she was back to work in a week as an OB/GYN nurse. Your DIL should be fine.
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