Re: Re: Insomnia is never ending here!(bladder problems)

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> From: " hrby97111@... " <hrby97111@...>

> Date: Sun 29/Dec/2002 10:24 GMT

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> Subject: Re: [ ] Insomnia is never ending here!(bladder problems)

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> Anita,

> I have problems with my bladder, but it is from

> having M.S., I take oxybutynin, 5 mg twice a day, it

> is the generic med for Ditropan, it causes the bladder

> to empty properly. When the medicine doesn't work, it

> is usually because I have a bladder infection but

> otherwise it helps. I still get up about 3 times in a

> night, with out it, it is more like seven times in a

> night.

> Ruth

> --- rainbow1953@... wrote:

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> > >

> > > From: " toots_k <toots_k@...> "

> > <toots_k@...>

> > > Date: Sun 29/Dec/2002 09:11 GMT

> > >

> > > Subject: [ ] Insomnia is never ending

> > here!

> > >

> > > Hi All!

> > >

> > > Was just catching up on all the posts since 12/18

> > - no small feat let

> > > me tell you! I noticed the mention of insomnia

> > problems. Well,

> > > insomnia is driving me crazy here, and I am not

> > even on steroids! I

> > > have tried it all to try to sleep well.

> > Meditaion, making my

> > > surroundings conducive to sleep, sleeping aids,

> > you name it. I just

> > > can't get decent sleep any more. And I know why,

> > I am so stressed

> > > out, stressed out more than I have ever been in my

> > life. I just don't

> > > know how to turn my mind off any more. Worries

> > are so high, and out

> > > of control, I don't know what to do. I have yet

> > to become depressed

> > > per say, but am becoming quite irratable.

> > Irratible is not usually

> > > my forte, and I don't like it much. It takes a

> > lot of hard work to

> > > not run around snapping every ones heads off.

> > >

> > > Part of my irritation is I have now been on the

> > increased dose of

> > > immuran (which doc had hoped was what was needed

> > to quell my

> > > increased discomfort and pain) has not made a

> > change. That is so

> > > disappointing, I really don't want to have to

> > increase it more. The

> > > not knowing my livers condition is starting to

> > really drive me

> > > crazy. I will be seeing my doc on the 8th, and we

> > are scheduling my

> > > biopsy then. I will be insistant on it being very

> > very soon. I

> > > can't take waiting any longer. I am just so tired

> > of not having any

> > > answers to what is going on. Symptoms coninue -

> > the itching, the

> > > right side pains, constantly having aching in the

> > liver region, and

> > > these stupid little red spots keep coming up all

> > over my body.

> > >

> > > Jerry - do you have any idea what these little red

> > spots I am getting

> > > are? And why do I keep getting more and more

> > spider veins on my

> > > face? I have another question of some thing new

> > too. I have this

> > > lump on the radius bone that started out feeling

> > like nothing more

> > > than than just a tiny 'pimple' on the bone. In

> > the last month and a

> > > half it has grown to the size of a large pea, and

> > now 'wraps' around

> > > the bone, probably about a good half inch. Has

> > this ever happened to

> > > any one? Is it something to be concerned about?

> > I never hurt the

> > > arm, or hit it on anything. I have osteoperossis,

> > and if I had hurt

> > > the arm, I would be concerned about it maybe being

> > a fracture. But

> > > it is not sore to the touch. It just hurts when I

> > try to lean on or

> > > lay the arm on a surface - in the skin. And I

> > hate to complain about

> > > this, but I keep losing weight. A good two or

> > three pounds a month.

> > > I am not dieting any more. Haven't really since

> > June. Yet have

> > > dropped over twenty pounds since. Not that I

> > don't enjoy losing the

> > > weight, but with this swollen belly, I look like a

> > bowling ball with

> > > two twigs stuck in it for legs! I don't know,

> > maybe this is more of

> > > that 'to be expected stuff'. But heck, who knows

> > whats to be

> > > expected any more, and what isn't? It just drives

> > me crazy that it

> > > seems we have something new to worry about or deal

> > with on a monthly

> > > basis.

> > >

> > > And I am really worried about the biopsy. Not

> > just about what it may

> > > turn up, but the procedure itself. I have only

> > had one, but remember

> > > it well. It didn't hurt right at the moment they

> > took it, but 15

> > > minutes later, I thought I was going to die from

> > the pain. It was

> > > worse than any child labor I went through. I am

> > hoping the reason it

> > > was so painfull then was because it was so

> > seriously inflamed at the

> > > time. The results said inflammation was a 4, and

> > my ALT/AST were

> > > still in the thousands at the time. The doc said

> > my bilirubin was

> > > over 20. So I can only figure it was that that

> > caused it to be so

> > > painfull. (One can only hope!)

> > >

> > > What makes it all really hard to deal with is I,

> > like many of us

> > > here, try to not bother my family with these

> > worries. They worry

> > > enough as it is when I have my bad days, I don't

> > want to add more to

> > > there load. I thank God I have found this group,

> > and am able to

> > > bounce things off of you all instead. Not that

> > you all need more

> > > worries, but I can almost guarentte if I am going

> > through something,

> > > someone here knows all too well how I am feeling.

> > Thank you all

> > > again for listening - as I did get wordy again!

> > >

> > > Love and A Happy New Year to all!

> > > Carole K

> > >

> > > P.S. Jerry I am so glad to see you back as your

> > old self again, I

> > > take it this means you can sit comfortably on you

> > tushy again after

> > > your little time in the bathroom?!

> > >

> > >

> > >