Re: Digest Number 963

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Hi Snow, I am new here too, but let me tell you, these folks are wonderful, I

hate to think how I would be feeling today, if I had not found the list,

everyone is just wonderful and friendly and helpful, oh soooooo helpful. And

one of the best things is, we all understand. My name is Kitt.

Prednisone-Are any of you that are taking this med, having weird or crazy or

scary type dreams. I never or almost never have nightmares, but for the last

three nights......I have had one each nite.

, I am glad the 'day' wiht the WC doc is over. I do not blame you for

getting mad withhim, they can be such jerks. I had one that had to evaluate

my back injury, and he sat there all smug telling me that h could see no

reason I could not work. I told him I wished that were the case, and Ireally

lost it with him, I told him off very loudly, that I was 35 years old (then)

and had just lost EVERYTHING, my job, my independance, and self worth, oh I

do not remember all I said to him but it ended with something like, and al

this so someone like you can sit here and tell me what I feel, I told him he

di dnot have a clue as to the pain I was in (at this point, it was so

uncontrolled, I was sleeping maybe 3 hours a night in 15-20 min intervals,

could nto walk-stand-lay- nothing, I was constantly moving my body,

constantly in pain....that is changed now with my back....I have it under

control), I told him he might deny my claim and if he did I would see him in

court, then I called off the name of my doctor and the name of my lawyer,

and he had a change of expression,. I found out later that my lawyer had a

tough reputation for dealing with jerks and standing up for his client. I

wish you success with getting this mess straightened out.

PET TALK- my cat is driving me crazy. Its spring time, and I guess he wants

to go outside, but he is an inside cat, he is two years old, and startign to

become very agressive. Not in a mean way, just agressive. At night he has

started jumping on and off the bed several times just whwen we fall asleep,

or walking the house and crying out. In Germany they will not neuter/spay

unless the cat is going to be 'outside', and the vets are especially against

this if it is an inside Persian, but I am going to have to talk to his vet

again, I sure do not want him to start spraying, and I feel like that might

happen with the personality change he is having.

CHOCOLATE-I would be a member of ''chocoholics anonyomous'' if one existed.

One bite, and I am on a binge. Thsi is bad now , since i have diabetes. I

have several good chocolates here in Germany that are sugar free, but they

are hard to find.......wehn I do I buy a lot!!!

On the subject of WC for a moment, again, the WC dr. asked me to bend over

from the waist, to see how far I could go. The degree you can do this is

suposed to have some relation on your pain. At the time, I could not go more

than 3-6 inches forward, and he tried to push me, and I told him I would not

make the pain worse, that that point was where it started to hurt. He was

not happy.

Places to Draw Blood- In extreme cases, where there just simply are no veins,

they can do a 'cut down' or subclavian cut, where a catheter is inserted in a

surgical proceedure, and it remains in, and normally if it is cared for

properly, will last several months. They had to do one of these for my mother

when she had her last stroke, one for IV's and one for blood work.

Research-I think it is amazing that America hears the news that is going on

in Germany, and here I live here and never know of what is going on. This

happens a lot. People will ask me a question about something they have heard

on the news, and I have to say, I have nto heard about it. German news just

does not cover stuff well here, unless it is a tragedy, like the big train

wreck, or a massive auto crash on the autobahn, then they show it and ALL of

it uncensored. We had a bank robbery here, three years ago, this is an odd

occurance, it jsut doesn't happen here, the banks are well put together and

the tellers all behind bullet proof windows and guns are banned here, so,

someone had smuggled in some guns, anyway they took hostages, I only heard

about it cause I was in town and someone that had been there was talking

about it, not once, was it on our news. Strange, don't ya think?

-oh my , I did not get the post card, but it is prob. there, in the tons

of mail I have to go through. At first I could not do so much as the pain was

so great, now that it is under control I have been having to get my house

cleaned up where I could nto do much for over 2 months. I will search it out

today. You were sweet to send it. I am sorry I missed it but hope it is still

there. Wow, we can just have a 'mini convention' when I do get back to IL

to visit my friend there, she would love meeting you all too, I hav told her

so much about the list. I think without my computer I would have lost it a

long time ago, its the only thing that keeps me sane !!! Can you imagine

this, I was here in Germany for over a year, without any thing to read (no

books), nothing to watch on tv (it was all dubbed in German, still is, but I

can now understand most of what is said there) and no computer !!! Yep, I was

abotu to go nuts.

I am realyl behind on my emails, for those that have sent personal

messeanges, I will get to them eventually, so much mail is generated on this

list, and all, but I have them all and am reading every day.

Kitt

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Could someone email me the poem Welcome to Holland??? I have a friend on

another list who just found out that her twin sons both have autism...thanks

much!!!!

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...ascollage wrote...............

Gosh I love No Fenol! Thank you Devin! And thanks to my friend for

telling me about them.

I think they have awakened me. Now what am i going to do with all this

energy?

IS IT TRANSFERABLE BY E-MAIL, DO YOU THINK??!!

JULIE

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Try folic acid or leucovorin. I had terrible side effects and finally stopped the methotrexate.

As far as what you can do. For some the side effects diminish with time. For me it got worst to the point I had constant diarrhea, vomiting and nausea. Mouth, eye, throat and private area sores. The little bit of good it did just was not enough for all the side effects. So I wish I had more positive words but Methotrexate is not the drug for everyone.

Toni

In a message dated 1/11/2005 4:59:32 PM Central Standard Time, Rheumatoid Arthritis writes:

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:59:18 +0000 (GMT) From: prathiba n <pr_athiba@...>Subject: what do i do for to avoid sickness having methotrexateHi all, I'm taking methotrexate every saturday and i fell pukish through out the week, and i take Emset for to avoid Nausea - what can i do to avoid or have a better life with methotrexate.Please suggest regardsPrathiba

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And I have no problem with it (25mg). I wish it were as easy for all y'all.

Hugs, Jacy

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Rheumatoid Arthritis

Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 20:03

Subject: Re: Digest Number 963

Try folic acid or leucovorin. I had terrible side effects and finally stopped the methotrexate.

As far as what you can do. For some the side effects diminish with time. For me it got worst to the point I had constant diarrhea, vomiting and nausea. Mouth, eye, throat and private area sores. The little bit of good it did just was not enough for all the side effects. So I wish I had more positive words but Methotrexate is not the drug for everyone.

Toni

In a message dated 1/11/2005 4:59:32 PM Central Standard Time, Rheumatoid Arthritis writes:

Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:59:18 +0000 (GMT) From: prathiba n <pr_athiba@...>Subject: what do i do for to avoid sickness having methotrexateHi all, I'm taking methotrexate every saturday and i fell pukish through out the week, and i take Emset for to avoid Nausea - what can i do to avoid or have a better life with methotrexate.Please suggest regardsPrathiba