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:

>

> >

> > 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?!

> >

> >

> >