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Old 03-22-2012, 03:29 PM
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Thank you, Bizi

I got a new lens script and picked out a pair of frames I love... but I had to go back 2 more times because of a poor fit. 1st they painfully dug in behind my ears and they were sliding down making red marks around my nose. The 2nd time, I had to go back because the frames were still sliding and making red indentations around my nose. I couldn't wear them for more than an hour or 2 because they were too uncomfortable.
Finally we decided I needed different frames. The optician was trying to talk me into the kind with nose pads, but I told him I'd get indents and eczema from the nose pads and have had 3 pairs of plastic frames without issue. I showed him the difference between the bridge on the glasses. The new ones were much narrower, and I thought that was the issue. He measured the 2 and agreed it was a big difference, so we looked at plastic frames with a wider bridge.
I was able to find a pair with a similar bridge measurement to what I am wearing. The cost is the same, so they'll just switch them out. I HOPE these will work out fine. They should be in by Monday.

I had a follow-up with my PCP about the pre-syncope (near fainting). I need to have a tilt table test, but I can only go to one of the two hospitals in town and they don't do the test. No word back from the office about how they will handle this.
I've been waking up in severe pain, like charlie horses but different. Also more tremor, day pain, and head bobbing. I guess it's the spasticity from the MS so they increased my baclofen.
Good news is, I haven't s* the bed again WOO-HOO!

My husband came home the day before St. Patrick's day with 2 30 packs. I used 4 cans for the corned beef, but he finished the few stragglers Monday night. That's 56 beers Friday-Monday.

This is embarrassing, but another troubling thing is that we have no sex life. This began years before I was dx with MS. It's partly his masturbation, partly his drinking. I've talked to him about it before. He promises to try harder, but doesn't deliver. I've gotten denied so many times, I'll only try sporadically and almost always get turned down. When he engages, he can't finish. He's too used to solo sex.

So far, the zoloft hasn't helped my depression, but I go up to 50mg tomorrow. I hope that can make a difference.

So, things aren't going well but I'm hanging in there and trying to roll with the punches.

Kay
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