Dear Kitty -

I don't have time right now to post a full answer to your questions, but I will later. For now, let me say how thrilled I am for you that your primary care doctor is taking you seriously! That's an encouraging sign.

Secondly, I'm not the Michael F. you know, although he sounds like a great guy. That said, as a general rule, it's generally NOT a good idea to use one's real name on the Forum, where posts are fully searchable under a proper name in Google, Bing, Yahoo! etc. In other words, everything we post is out there to be found, by anyone at anytime.

Of course, in PMs, folks can and do exchange personal identification all the time: but only at their discretion.

More later.

Mike