Help!

October 29, 2007

Dear

I recommend that you read the enclosed article "From Negative to Positive"{ http://fromnegativetopositive.blogspot.com }.

I'm sure if you apply the technique suggested in the article,it will really help you.Later on , you can further discuss and get access to many such articles in the 'files' section of the group under the folders"PTM Articles" & "PTM Techniques".

All the best

Mukul

http://mukulchaudhri.blogspot.com

Re: Help!

Hi :Where are you located. Let me know. Going within and working on self is the best way to HEAL oneself. All the healing and answers to all the queries we have in life lie deep within us and we need to quieten the outer self to be able to listen to the inner self.Lots of love, light and healing.BlossomOn Wed, 24 Oct 2007 peacefulheart4 wrote :>Hello,>I just found this group. I am a very spiritual person and have been on>a quest for several months to find deliverance from anxiety and>depression. I'm not sure which came first. Anti depressants help very>little and sometimes make it worse. Anti anxiety pharmacuetical>medication help. I've tried many natural anti anxiety medicine's but>they help very minimally. I want to learn how to unleash power within>myself to conquer this. It is miserable to feel this way and walk>through life day to day like this.>>

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March 30, 2008

,Yep. I took the email Gaby sent me and put it in the files area under "Productive Burp (PB)". But here is a recap...Once you vomit..it is very important to STOPtrying to have water or food for 6 hours. After 6 hrsbegan taking teaspoons of warm tea every 15 min. forthe rest of the day. Next morning try to add yourliquids and on the 3rd day began with mushy food. When people start throwing up the body tries to retainliquids to protect itself from dehydrating and becomesmore swollen. That is why it becomes more difficult toget water into the body...You need to break the cycle.A little tiny bit of swelling can cause all kinds ofproblems.If you had solids before the 4th day or if you did notchew your

food well or if you had fried food or hadalcohol or if you took medicine with little water thatdid not go into your system but stayed in your newsmall pouch this could have ruined your day.Patients need to chew their foods well or otherwisethey will barf, plain and simple. Sometimes peopleneed to relearn to drink fluids, drinking them toofast is problematic for some folks. Quantities areALWAYS problematic for new bandsters.Hope this helps Cyrena

March 31, 2008

Yes. When you barf the irritation makes you stoma swell. More swelling leads to more barfing, more barfing leads to more swelling. That is the cycle that needs to break or you can get to the point that you can't keep your own saliva down let alone drinking fluids and that can lead to dehydration.

So the fix is simple, break the cycle by letting your stoma relax and reduce swelling via no solids and only liquids for the rest of the day. If I have had a really bad barfing experience and mega stuck, I'll usually do full liquids for 2-3 days to stay on the safe side.

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 1:18 PM, claudiaaestrada <claudiaaestrada@...> wrote:

Ok i had a quick question: After we eat something and our body rejects

it (in other words we vomit) are we suppose to stay on liquids the rest

of the day?

Thank You

March 31, 2008

Hi,For me, this depends on how bad the episode of being stuck was. If I just over ate just a couple of bites then I just PB it out and feel better and usually can eat cottage cheese or drink things later on, say 1 or 2 hours later. If it's a bad stuck then you just feel it. You have a weird feeling with every little drink, eat again and you PB again. This is when I have to stop for about 4-5 hours then do clears for the next 2 day. I can't even drink a mocha when I'm like this and I'm crabby. I'm good about not letting this happen so much now because it's really a miserable feeling!DanaOn Mar 30, 2008, at 1:18 PM, claudiaaestrada wrote:Ok i had a quick question: After we eat something and our body rejects it (in other words we vomit) are we suppose to stay on liquids the rest of the day?Thank You

June 16, 2008

cindy, no, this isn't normal.

Please call your doc. you may need some medication to help open the

stoma, IV fluids to prevent dehydration, and a liquid acid supressor.

Reflux is always unsafe, and causes all kinds of trouble.

You also need much better pain control.

Be sure all meds you try to take are liquid, as any others will

further irritate the stoma and may close it off altogether.

please let us know how you are after you see your doc.

sandy r

>

> I just had my surgery yesterday. The tiniest sip of anything and I

get

> this terrible feeling of heartburn. Is that normal at this point?

> Also, between the heartburn and the pain from the incision, I'm

having

> a difficult time getting comfortable. I haven't been able to sleep

more

> than 30 minutes at a time. Can someone please help me?

>

June 16, 2008

Hello ,

& nbsp;

The first few days can be rough when trying drink anything.....just make sure

you take your pain meds and sip on liquids....you will be amazed how much beter

you will feel each day....After about a week I was feeling really pretty

good.....

& nbsp;

Ron

From: whosyertiger & lt;whosyertiger@... & gt;

Subject: Help!

Date: Thursday, June 12, 2008, 12:40 AM

I just had my surgery yesterday. The tiniest sip of anything and I get

this terrible feeling of heartburn. Is that normal at this point?

Also, between the heartburn and the pain from the incision, I'm having

a difficult time getting comfortable. I haven't been able to sleep more

than 30 minutes at a time. Can someone please help me?

June 16, 2008

I just heard back from earlier today. She needed to be re-

admitted for IV's, as I thought. We have to be able to drink well, even

from the first, and should never " wait it out. " dehydration is

dangerous, especially post-op.

She is home now, and much better.

sandy

>

> Hello ,

> & nbsp;

> The first few days can be rough when trying drink anything.....just

make sure you take your pain meds and sip on liquids....you will be

amazed how much beter you will feel each day....After about a week I

was feeling really pretty good.....

> & nbsp;

> Ron

June 16, 2008

Sorry to hear about ....My daughter had to have IVs also after her

banding....she to was not drinking.....I made sure to drink....I learned from

what she went through.

& nbsp;

Ron

From: moonshadow.sandy & lt;moonshadow.sandy@... & gt;

Subject: Re: Help!

Date: Monday, June 16, 2008, 8:33 PM

I just heard back from earlier today. She needed to be re-

admitted for IV's, as I thought. We have to be able to drink well, even

from the first, and should never " wait it out. " dehydration is

dangerous, especially post-op.

She is home now, and much better.

sandy

& gt;

& gt; Hello ,

& gt; & amp;nbsp;

& gt; The first few days can be rough when trying drink anything.... .just

make sure you take your pain meds and sip on liquids....you will be

amazed how much beter you will feel each day....After about a week I

was feeling really pretty good.....

& gt; & amp;nbsp;

& gt; Ron

June 18, 2008

Thanks to all who responded. I was dehydrated the day after I came

home and back in the hospital for another 8 hours of IV's and upper

GI's. I'm feeling much better now. It's amazing how quickly I'm

recovering. Every day seems to be leaps and bounds above the day

before. I'm still having some pain right about where my port is but

other than that, I feel pretty good and I'm able to drink. YEA!!

Thanks again,

> & gt;

> & gt; Hello ,

> & gt; & amp;nbsp;

> & gt; The first few days can be rough when trying drink

anything.... .just

> make sure you take your pain meds and sip on liquids....you will be

> amazed how much beter you will feel each day....After about a week

I

> was feeling really pretty good.....

> & gt; & amp;nbsp;

> & gt; Ron

>

June 19, 2008

The port area pain/incision are usually the most difficult (but

nothing compared to open surgery, as you may well know). Why is that?

It is the largest incision, and also there is a bit of minor local

trauma because the port is inserted there, and left there.

dan

Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 10:05:43 PM, you wrote:

> Thanks to all who responded. I was dehydrated the day after I came

> home and back in the hospital for another 8 hours of IV's and upper

> GI's. I'm feeling much better now. It's amazing how quickly I'm

> recovering. Every day seems to be leaps and bounds above the day

> before. I'm still having some pain right about where my port is but

> other than that, I feel pretty good and I'm able to drink. YEA!!

--

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July 10, 2008

>

> Hello, I'm new here and probably relatively new to hyperthyroid.

Was

> diagnosed about 4 years ago after more years than I can remember of

not

> feeling 'well' and put on 50mg later increased to 75. " 2 years ago

I

> moved and spent more time than enough trying to tell my new doctor

how

> unwell I was. A few days ago my thyroid became enlarged so I went

to

> the doc again...only to be told that I hadn't had a TFT for a year

and

> why hadn't I been in for one?! Well I'm not a doctor and I suppose

I

> presumed that they would let me know when one was due!

> Anyway, he gave me a blood test form and made an appontment for

bloods

> tomorrow, then the receptionist told me I would have to wait 2

weeks to

> see a doctor again!

> I the meantime, I had to come home from work after only a couple of

> hours for the last 2 days as I felt so rotten and couldn't stay

> awake...literally. Last night my other half had had enough and took

me

> to A & E. They did my tests, as well as several others and told me to

see

> the doc tomorrow..I have managed to get an appointment.

> Sorry to go on but it's only over the last couple of days that I

have

> realised, after much reading on the internet, what this condition

is

> all about...naive or what? I can't get my head round all this

> information, can anyone help???

Sorry that should read hypothyroid!!!!

>

July 10, 2008

Oops! I accidentally posted nothing in my previous 'message'.

Please delete it Sheila and I'll try again!!!!

Hi there,

Welcome to the forum. Everyone is really supportive here, so you

have come to the right place. Sorry to hear that you have been

feeling so terrible.

Did you have your blood tests done at A & E in the evening? My doc

said that it is best to have thyroid blood tests done as early as

possible in the morning and to stop taking thyroxine for 24 hours

prior to having the test done. See Bob's response to my message

about blood tests and doses (the subject of the message is something

like that) for more info about why this is useful to do.

Do you have the blood test results with you? If possible, could you

please post your results as well as the reference ranges for the

various tests that you had? We all tend to post our results on this

forum (:

Did the hospital test you for thyroid auto antibodies? If not, it

is worth asking your doctor for this test. The test will show

whether you have an autoimmune thyroid disease or not. I was tested

and found out that I have Hashimoto's Disease. Other important

tests to have are TSH, Free T4, Free T3. A lot of doctors only

order TSH and Free T4, however in my case TSH and Free T4 were in

range, however Free T3 was abnormally low (below the reference

range) in one of my test results and Reverse T3 (another test that

isn't ordered by too many doctors) was way above the normal

reference range. I always tell people about that because if the doc

had only ordered TSH and Free T4 tests, it wouldn't have picked up

the other results that were out of the normal reference range.

Here is some information about the tests. (copy from http: to .html

and copy it into your web browser. For some reason, links to long

web addresses don't seem to work properly on the forum)

http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/thyroid_panel/gl

ance.html

Here is info about the thyroid auto antibody test.

http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/thyroid_antibodi

es/test.html

Any other questions, just ask.

P

July 10, 2008

Thats OK Cassie - we knew what you meant.

Luv - Sheila

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July 10, 2008

Hi Cassie

Welcome to the group. Sorry to hear you are suffering so badly, we

have all either been there, keep going there, or are there at the

moment so you can be sure whatever you say will be fully understood

and sympathised with here.

I am hoping you are one who has a speedy recovery.

God bless

Dawnx

August 18, 2008

Hi there. (What is your name?)

I am sorry you have to deal with this. I can only imagine the shock you

must feel. My stepdaughter miscarried her first baby, but it was early in

the pregnancy. But they could tell right away through ultrasound that the

baby's heart had stopped beating.

BUT, this doesn't mean they don't make mistakes. It never hurts to get a

second opinion. A person you might be interested in talking to is

Ellen Little. She is a professional nurse and is LPA's bereavement

coordinator, and deals specifically with LPs who have difficult

pregnancies. She should be able to answer all your questions. Her email is

lilnurse68@....

Also, you may want to post this question on the Parents of Little People

Group at: parentsoflittlepeople2/

As for as delivery options, I encourage you to check out LPA's medical

resources center, and the FAQ: http://medical.lpaonline.org/faq/

I wish you the best, and hope it all turns out okay.

Bill Bradford

LPA Sr. VP

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 1:2 0 PM, fairen76 <fairen76@...> wrote:

> I am not exactly sure what to do right now. I returened from a

> doctor visit on monday and the doctor repeatedly told me my unborn

> baby was going to die. I am not sure how he has determined this

> because when we went to the specialist 10 weeks ago he said we needed

> to do another ultrasound to determine if little baby Farrens ribs were

> growing or not. The specialist determined that she will be a dwarf

> but at that point did not know which type. I do not feel real

> confident in my doctor can any one help tell me straighten some things

> out. #1. Can they tell from one ultrasound that she will die?

> #2. Is is better to do a c-section or natural birth

> #3. Sould I be looking for a different doctor.

> #4. Is there any test or things that I sould be doing in order to be

> more prepared or educated. Thank you for your time.

>

August 19, 2008

Hiya,

As Bill said, it would be a good idea for you to join " Parents of

Little People 2 " . There are quite a few parents on there who were

given fatal diagnoses for their unborn children (and incidentally, a

lot of those babies/children are thriving). Also, depending on where

you live, there's bound to be someone who can suggest a good doctor

for you to see who has had experience with these types of things.

Hard as it is, try not to worry! There are more than 200 types of

dwarfism/dwarfing conditions, many, if not most of which are not

fatal. Often some babies don't get a clear diagnosis until after

birth - which is why it would be beneficial to see a doctor who knows

more about these types of things.

Caela

Mum to , nearly 10, achondroplasia, New Zealand

-- In dwarfism , " fairen76 " <fairen76@...> wrote: