Re: [Lyme-aid] Re: picc line/just my experience

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there are other ways all i have a groshung catheter is a tube in my chest

for my antibiotics am asleep when they put it in i am on my 3 rd one i have

gotten septic but it works great

cindy in mich

Re: [Lyme-aid] Re: picc line/just my experience

> Connie, i didnt get an e-mail concerning your pic line. can u tell me what

> troubles you've had with it? My sister develops phlebitis every time she's

> had a pic. now she can't get anything. she's on no meds at all. write back

if

> u get the chance.

> thanx,

> monica(prettypeachezz)

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I have had a picc line since June 1998. Have I had problems with it? Some minor

ones.

Nothing that extra flushing cannot handle. The line itself has been changed

every six

months. To shower, I found something great that works: there is a wrap used by

movers

that is available at U-Haul stores. It is almost like a saran wrap but it

sticks very

well to itself. I wrap my arm before showering. The great thing is that it is

CHEAP.

A roll cost about $6 and lasts me about 7 months!

The first two weeks I had the picc, I was in extreme pain. But once it healed, I

really

haven't had much to complain about with it besides the fact that it is an eye

sore and

I hate the questions it generates with anyone sees it. I follow all

instructions for

care of the picc, flushing, keeping it dry, nurse changing the bandage weekly,

etc.

Good luck---I feel so much better. Every month I think I have seen the end to

my

progress, then the next month comes along and I see more progress, especially

with the

neuro. symptoms. Two years ago, I had lost my ability to learn anything new

(and I am

a teacher of computers at the high school level!!!). Just this past few months

I took

the first class I have been able to tolerate, and I have learned to master Adobe

Photoshop (complex program for manipulating graphics)!!! No one could have

convinced

me three years ago when I was finally diagnosed that I would ever have this

cognitive

function back again, but I do.

Keep the faith. BTW the abx I have been on with the most success is IV

Doxycycline,

300 to 400 mg daily.

Rhonna

prettypeachezz@... wrote:

> Connie, i didnt get an e-mail concerning your pic line. can u tell me what

> troubles you've had with it? My sister develops phlebitis every time she's

> had a pic. now she can't get anything. she's on no meds at all. write back if

> u get the chance.

> thanx,

> monica(prettypeachezz)

>

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

> Missing old school friends? Find them here:

> 1/4055/8/_/484634/_/959175623/

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