Guest guest Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 Hi everyone.... Well, I'm at the second week of being on elavil and what a difference being able to sleep has made in my life. I know it will take about a month for the antidepressant part of elavil to kick in and the increased dosage of synthroid takes time too....so it has to be the sleep that is making this huge change in me. Sleep deprivation is just an awful thing. Each week we are increasing my elavil by 25mg until we reach 100mg. Tomorrow I start on 75mgs. But all I know is that as soon as I started getting stage 4 sleep, everything started to turn around. Some more good news. Got a call from the county clinic and I was accepted into the GI and Endocrinology specialty clinics. That means no more general walk in clinic for me and no more 10-12 hour days waiting to see a doctor. Oh, I'll still have waits, but it won't be 10-12 hours. People I talked to at the walkin clinic said that if you get to the specialty clinics (I call them the inner sanctum), the wait time is never more than an hour. My first appointment with the GI is the end of April but at least I'm in and will be able to see a doctor regarding my hep. How nice it will be to be able to get labs done and see where I stand. So things are finally starting to settle down for me. Now if someone would just respond to the resumes I send out each week and hire me...that would be icing on the cake. Just thought I'd let everyone know how I'm doing in my battle of getting care without insurance. Course so far it's mostly been my personal doc working from the labs that have been done at the free clinic and prescribing me the proper medication...I am truly blessed to have a doctor who is in the profession because he cares and not for the prestige or the money. Blessings Tatezi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 Hi Tatezi I'm so happy to hear things are much better for you....you certainly deserve it after all you've been through. Now I will keep my fingers crossed you can get a decent job. Huggggs Carol A little update on me Hi everyone.... Well, I'm at the second week of being on elavil and what a difference being able to sleep has made in my life. I know it will take about a month for the antidepressant part of elavil to kick in and the increased dosage of synthroid takes time too....so it has to be the sleep that is making this huge change in me. Sleep deprivation is just an awful thing. Each week we are increasing my elavil by 25mg until we reach 100mg. Tomorrow I start on 75mgs. But all I know is that as soon as I started getting stage 4 sleep, everything started to turn around. Some more good news. Got a call from the county clinic and I was accepted into the GI and Endocrinology specialty clinics. That means no more general walk in clinic for me and no more 10-12 hour days waiting to see a doctor. Oh, I'll still have waits, but it won't be 10-12 hours. People I talked to at the walkin clinic said that if you get to the specialty clinics (I call them the inner sanctum), the wait time is never more than an hour. My first appointment with the GI is the end of April but at least I'm in and will be able to see a doctor regarding my hep. How nice it will be to be able to get labs done and see where I stand. So things are finally starting to settle down for me. Now if someone would just respond to the resumes I send out each week and hire me...that would be icing on the cake. Just thought I'd let everyone know how I'm doing in my battle of getting care without insurance. Course so far it's mostly been my personal doc working from the labs that have been done at the free clinic and prescribing me the proper medication...I am truly blessed to have a doctor who is in the profession because he cares and not for the prestige or the money. Blessings Tatezi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 Hi Tatezi I'm so happy to hear things are much better for you....you certainly deserve it after all you've been through. Now I will keep my fingers crossed you can get a decent job. Huggggs Carol A little update on me Hi everyone.... Well, I'm at the second week of being on elavil and what a difference being able to sleep has made in my life. I know it will take about a month for the antidepressant part of elavil to kick in and the increased dosage of synthroid takes time too....so it has to be the sleep that is making this huge change in me. Sleep deprivation is just an awful thing. Each week we are increasing my elavil by 25mg until we reach 100mg. Tomorrow I start on 75mgs. But all I know is that as soon as I started getting stage 4 sleep, everything started to turn around. Some more good news. Got a call from the county clinic and I was accepted into the GI and Endocrinology specialty clinics. That means no more general walk in clinic for me and no more 10-12 hour days waiting to see a doctor. Oh, I'll still have waits, but it won't be 10-12 hours. People I talked to at the walkin clinic said that if you get to the specialty clinics (I call them the inner sanctum), the wait time is never more than an hour. My first appointment with the GI is the end of April but at least I'm in and will be able to see a doctor regarding my hep. How nice it will be to be able to get labs done and see where I stand. So things are finally starting to settle down for me. Now if someone would just respond to the resumes I send out each week and hire me...that would be icing on the cake. Just thought I'd let everyone know how I'm doing in my battle of getting care without insurance. Course so far it's mostly been my personal doc working from the labs that have been done at the free clinic and prescribing me the proper medication...I am truly blessed to have a doctor who is in the profession because he cares and not for the prestige or the money. Blessings Tatezi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2003 Report Share Posted February 6, 2003 Good news Tatezi. You are lucky with your doctor. gail From: " Tatezi " <tatezi@...> Reply-Hepatitis C Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 21:23:07 -0600 " Hep " <Hepatitis C > Subject: A little update on me Hi everyone.... Well, I'm at the second week of being on elavil and what a difference being able to sleep has made in my life. I know it will take about a month for the antidepressant part of elavil to kick in and the increased dosage of synthroid takes time too....so it has to be the sleep that is making this huge change in me. Sleep deprivation is just an awful thing. Each week we are increasing my elavil by 25mg until we reach 100mg. Tomorrow I start on 75mgs. But all I know is that as soon as I started getting stage 4 sleep, everything started to turn around. Some more good news. Got a call from the county clinic and I was accepted into the GI and Endocrinology specialty clinics. That means no more general walk in clinic for me and no more 10-12 hour days waiting to see a doctor. Oh, I'll still have waits, but it won't be 10-12 hours. People I talked to at the walkin clinic said that if you get to the specialty clinics (I call them the inner sanctum), the wait time is never more than an hour. My first appointment with the GI is the end of April but at least I'm in and will be able to see a doctor regarding my hep. How nice it will be to be able to get labs done and see where I stand. So things are finally starting to settle down for me. Now if someone would just respond to the resumes I send out each week and hire me...that would be icing on the cake. Just thought I'd let everyone know how I'm doing in my battle of getting care without insurance. Course so far it's mostly been my personal doc working from the labs that have been done at the free clinic and prescribing me the proper medication...I am truly blessed to have a doctor who is in the profession because he cares and not for the prestige or the money. Blessings Tatezi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2003 Report Share Posted February 6, 2003 Good news Tatezi. You are lucky with your doctor. gail From: " Tatezi " <tatezi@...> Reply-Hepatitis C Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 21:23:07 -0600 " Hep " <Hepatitis C > Subject: A little update on me Hi everyone.... Well, I'm at the second week of being on elavil and what a difference being able to sleep has made in my life. I know it will take about a month for the antidepressant part of elavil to kick in and the increased dosage of synthroid takes time too....so it has to be the sleep that is making this huge change in me. Sleep deprivation is just an awful thing. Each week we are increasing my elavil by 25mg until we reach 100mg. Tomorrow I start on 75mgs. But all I know is that as soon as I started getting stage 4 sleep, everything started to turn around. Some more good news. Got a call from the county clinic and I was accepted into the GI and Endocrinology specialty clinics. That means no more general walk in clinic for me and no more 10-12 hour days waiting to see a doctor. Oh, I'll still have waits, but it won't be 10-12 hours. People I talked to at the walkin clinic said that if you get to the specialty clinics (I call them the inner sanctum), the wait time is never more than an hour. My first appointment with the GI is the end of April but at least I'm in and will be able to see a doctor regarding my hep. How nice it will be to be able to get labs done and see where I stand. So things are finally starting to settle down for me. Now if someone would just respond to the resumes I send out each week and hire me...that would be icing on the cake. Just thought I'd let everyone know how I'm doing in my battle of getting care without insurance. Course so far it's mostly been my personal doc working from the labs that have been done at the free clinic and prescribing me the proper medication...I am truly blessed to have a doctor who is in the profession because he cares and not for the prestige or the money. Blessings Tatezi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 7, 2003 Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 Thanks, Carol. At least now that I'm rested each day it's not totally unbearably...just a job with no benefits. It just never ceases to amaze me what sleep deprivation does to a person. Blessings Tatezi Re: A little update on me Hi Tatezi I'm so happy to hear things are much better for you....you certainly deserve it after all you've been through. Now I will keep my fingers crossed you can get a decent job. Huggggs Carol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 7, 2003 Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 Thanks, Carol. At least now that I'm rested each day it's not totally unbearably...just a job with no benefits. It just never ceases to amaze me what sleep deprivation does to a person. Blessings Tatezi Re: A little update on me Hi Tatezi I'm so happy to hear things are much better for you....you certainly deserve it after all you've been through. Now I will keep my fingers crossed you can get a decent job. Huggggs Carol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2003 Report Share Posted February 9, 2003 Congratulations Tat, I " M happy that you finally got into a doc even though you may have to wait an hour. It certainly is better than before, just being able to go to the doc and knowing that it won't take you forever must be a relief! And sleep is slways a godsend, what a difference, will continue to pray that you find another job! Take care Suzy _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2003 Report Share Posted February 9, 2003 Congratulations Tat, I " M happy that you finally got into a doc even though you may have to wait an hour. It certainly is better than before, just being able to go to the doc and knowing that it won't take you forever must be a relief! And sleep is slways a godsend, what a difference, will continue to pray that you find another job! Take care Suzy _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2003 Report Share Posted February 9, 2003 Congratulations Tat, I " M happy that you finally got into a doc even though you may have to wait an hour. It certainly is better than before, just being able to go to the doc and knowing that it won't take you forever must be a relief! And sleep is slways a godsend, what a difference, will continue to pray that you find another job! Take care Suzy _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 9, 2003 Report Share Posted February 9, 2003 Congratulations Tat, I " M happy that you finally got into a doc even though you may have to wait an hour. It certainly is better than before, just being able to go to the doc and knowing that it won't take you forever must be a relief! And sleep is slways a godsend, what a difference, will continue to pray that you find another job! Take care Suzy _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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