Re: Heidi's Vent

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Dee:

Thanks for your concern about my flare-up!

I wanted to ask you a couple questions about your recommendations to me

and the others for how to handle a flare. Where do you get an Aloe

plant? Just from a floral shop or where? Could you just use Aloe Vera

gel from a container - or is the plant ooze (for lack of a better word)

better? Also - do you really think it's okay to self treat with the

anti-fungal cream? I believe that anti-fungals like Monistat, etc.

contributed to my vulvar problems. What's your take on this?

Thanks again for your help!

Heidi

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Dee:

Thanks for your concern about my flare-up!

I wanted to ask you a couple questions about your recommendations to me

and the others for how to handle a flare. Where do you get an Aloe

plant? Just from a floral shop or where? Could you just use Aloe Vera

gel from a container - or is the plant ooze (for lack of a better word)

better? Also - do you really think it's okay to self treat with the

anti-fungal cream? I believe that anti-fungals like Monistat, etc.

contributed to my vulvar problems. What's your take on this?

Thanks again for your help!

Heidi

mailto:dwalsh@...

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Heidi: I have not been ON a lot the last few days but read your post about

having such pain and also about the tub. I am SO sorry and can certainly

empathize! It was odd as OUR tub is " sick " ' also and I really depend on a

good 'soak " in our whirlpool tub as I have had a LOT of rectal surgery, have a

prolapse from having been given antidepressants for the IC (when they didn't

KNOW abou it and thought IT was all in one's head) and they are very

constipating,,I was in the hosptital for 7 days, the shrink the DR. had called

in, didn't order milk of mag as I'd requested and..I had an impaction which

led to surgery which was the 3rd in the are so I am really " crippled " in that

" department " ..in additon to all this " stuff " .

My husband has an ego problem as he has always been able to FIX qnything and

so he tried this & that on the tub situaiton and it half-way works for a time

and then we go all over it again & again. We are " depression generation " and

came up thehard way, very conservative to put it gently..(acutally pinching

every penny) which is not necessary at all anymore but it sticks, I guess. I

was like him only not quite so bad so I am now pleading with him to PLEASE

call a plumber but that is so against his " nature " ..so, he keeps putting a

drain opener stuff in, and works on the thing that keeps the water from

flowing out as the motor is going which COULD be a very serious thing, so he

puts some rubber over the drain & then, when I get out, it won't drain at

all..,something like the frustrations I get with THIS thing! (chuckle)

I DO hope things are cooling down, by now.

As for pain pills, I have just the opposite problem. Doctors give me pain

pills (which are ALL constipating, so I have to refuse to take them as what

further pain constipation ( and the results of it) causes me simply doubles me

up!. I have a LOT of the stuff around here and should throw it away! (That

depression years thinking again, I guess).

Not being able to take pain pills OR antidepressatns makes me panic even more

when VV or FMS or whatever flares up as I have NO where TO GO! Noeof any of

it ever vanishes, of course.

I tried Dee's suggestion re: aloe leafs but it didn't help me. Same ole'

thing about what works for one, doesn't for another! I don't know about her

other suggestion but she is one great gal and will help all she CAN!Hang in

there! Hugs, Lorane