Kay,
She is being thorough. That is good.
I hope she works it out and that you are in top form soon.
M.

Thank you!

Bizi, it's hard to pin down my mood right now. I have depressive symptoms, but I'm climbing the walls because of albuterol and the decongestant....
Pdoc called yesterday to say that my lithium levels are still below the therapeutic range. I have an appointment on Tuesday, and we'll discuss an increase then. We'll have a lot to talk about- I still have to call her out on her behavior at our last visit.

I woke up this morning with chest tightening and SOB, so I had to take the albuterol- I only take 1 puff because my tremors become intolerable, but will take 2 if 1 doesn't do the job.
And lots of coughing, mucus is moving around down there. So I broke down and took the mucinex D.
And I'm dizzy.
I'm going to ask the pharmacist what I should be taking for my symptoms that will not effect my tremor as much, or create all this excitability. I have no choice about the albuterol... most asthma controller medicines contain steroids, can't take steroids while on tysabri (MS med).
I'll probably end up having to go to my PCP at some point for an infection caused by my allergies, or worsening asthma symptoms.

I had to make out all the mothers' day cards so they will arrive on time. My writing is hit or miss anyways, but I had a lot of trouble, especially signing my name (hard anyways). Things like that are reminders of my limitations- I need no more reminders.

The lab needed my poop hot off the presses- had to be there within 2 hours of "making" it. So, they can do what they will with it. Since the results take a while, the gastro said to call her next week. I just hope I don't have celiac disease/gluten intolerance because it requires a lot of dietary changes. I hope whatever it is, it's an easy fix.

Thanks for your support!
Kay

Let us know when you get your results sweetie...

I will pray that it is something that can be fixed easily so you can feel perfectly fine so soon.

Much love,
Majo.

Oh Kay I am so sorry you're having so much trouble still. I hope things get taken care of soon, I am sure they will find something behind all this diarhea you've been plagued with. I am so glad you checked in and updated us on things, I hope it's not Celiac disease either, that is rough. We're all thinking of you and wishing you well and a speedy recovery from whatever it is happening to you.

you continue to have a lot on your plate.
(((((((((((((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))))))))))))))
bizi

Thank you all

I decided I'm not taking that mucinex D anymore!!! I bought some generic claritin.
Also a generic mucinex that has sudafed pe in it, hoping it would be gentler. It has been causing some excitability (but not worsening tremor). The good and bad news about this stuff is you take it every 4-6 hours. At least I won't be stuck with adverse effects for 12 hours anymore.
Thankfully, my asthma is much better today! I asked my PCP's office to call in a new script for albuterol yesterday tho. You can never tell how much med is left in the new inhalers... so it's better to be safe than sorry.

I had a really bad experience with a bill collector today. Silly me, I answered the phone! They had me on the phone forever and I had to speak to 3 different agents. I said I could only afford to pay $20 a month and explained how I'm disabled and why I couldn't pay more- had to repeat myself multiple times. I tried to work with the credit card company as soon as we got into financial trouble, but they wouldn't budge. This is the only creditor I wasn't able to work with.
The debt collectors wanted financial info like how much my SSDI check is, how much my husband makes, and what our other expenses are. I didn't want to give them the info, but they said that was the only way they could put me on that payment plan. Oh, and they kept threatening me.
So I once I gave the last lady the info, and she saw that $20 was really all I could afford, she turned extremely nasty and said that she wouldn't embarrass herself by presenting a $20/mo. payment plan to her boss! She started speaking to me like I was some kind of scumbag. I told her that being rude wouldn't help anything, especially since she knew I couldn't pay and why. She said, "Rude! You're the one who won't pay what you owe! We sent you nice letters, and left nice messages, we're way past customer service here!"
So I told her to go F herself and hang up while she was still screaming at me.

I've had some fleeting s/s thoughts lately (no planning, I promise I am safe), more since all that crap.

My husband was avoiding his credit card company's calls even though I kept asking him to take a call. Last week at work he finally did and got into a payment arrangement of over $200/mo. which we absolutely cannot afford- he has no concept of money and wants nothing to do with our finances; all that time he spent avoiding those calls interest was accruing.
I try my best to make things work and get by on what we have and I know we'll be back into that pattern of paying rent late and having to borrow from my brother before long.

Working was stressful, but not being able to work is a whole new set of challenges that I'm well acquainted with now. All the medical and financial stuff is just sucking me dry! Nothing really new, but I think that I'm not dealing with it all very well right now.

i am sorry you are going through this sh@t on top of everything else. I am glad you finally told the woman off. Aren't there laws against that?
they have no right to harrass you or I think to ask you personal information.
I also thought that you can usually make a deal with them because they would rather collect some money than no money.
bobby

OMG dear Kay !!!

That collectors !!! argh !!!!!! as if you didnt have anough already.... they can drive nuts !!! Seriously, I dont answer my phone anymore... they are so rude, mean, annoying and they dont understand reasons.... not to mention they are so silly... dont know in your country, but in mine they are like "why didnt you pay 100 ??" and Im like"Coz I couldnt, so sorry...."and then they say "well, now you have to pay 300, can you do it like now !? NOW!?"... Sure, if I dont have 100, I have 300.... Best thing is to ignore them.... they always left me stressed and mad and wanting to kill somebody after they ring...

Try to catch some rest on the weekend

Dear Kay,


Lots of hugs.

I used a non-profit Consumer Credit Counseling Service sponsored by the United Way when I was overwhelmed with debt beyond my tiny salary. They negotiated with my creditors and required that I submit one small payment a month to their program. The condition of using the program was that I was not allowed to borrow money until I completed the plan. It was a long time ago so things are different now. The plan they gave me was six years. I am not sure why I did the plan, knowing that bankruptcy takes 7 years to clear credit.

The worst part of the plan was that because this was years ago before we had electronic banking, I had to mail or bring them a cashier's check each month. It was a huge hassle for me.

I initially met with a counselor who first asked me to list my monthly expenses and such. I was so relieved to let someone else handle the money mess for me.

M.

hubby and I got into debt when we bought our house, floors furniture. etc. I had a bank one card with a very good interest rate. like 3.9% and we paid double the amount we owed on a regular basis, auto pay out of our checking account. Easy right Ihad had this card for 15 years never made a late payment the whole time.
hubby and I combined our accounts and had to change the way we made payments it would not let us set it up to make more then the min amount so we would have to initiate the payment. I was late 5 days....bam! they jacked our rate up to 24%!!!! lousy scum...I was furious!
anyway what we ended up doing was taking out a loan thru capital one to pay off the credit card and tore up our credit card. we only use a debit card now. this week We discovered that our home owners insurance increased this year by 38% so we asked if they could refigure our amount they said that we were over insured, so she is going to lower the insurance coverage and we save about $300. Are you renting? I forget....
sorry to hear about the way you were treated...it sounds awful...I would go thru a debt consolidator like mari said they helped her maybe they could help you guys???
I am sorry that you are sick.
bizi
glad to hear that you are safe...stay safe...stay with us...we are here for you.