I hope your colon cleanse worked for you.
I know how miserable that would be if it were happening to me.
Good luck with all of that.
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bizi

I woke up this morning with a pretty bad cough and my throat/chest are burning, but I don't have a fever. I took some Delsym with Mucinex and it's helping with the cough a little. I hope this doesn't turn into something nasty.

I never called my PCP's office to confirm the referral for the doctor I'm seeing today (I guess we'll call him the chiro). I requested it a week ago. So, if there was a problem, I'm sure they would have contacted me.

As far as the appointment, I don't know what to expect. It may just be an evaluation/assessment. I don't like a lot of things I have read about it, but I'm trying to remain open to this whole thing. I'm sure as hell not going through 10 sessions (like the woman in the article) if it's not helping or is making things worse. I can try PT and/or more injections, or just live with the pain.

I can't take the diclofenac (prescription NSAID pain reliever) for my neck AT ALL anymore. Despite taking 40mg of Protonix I take every morning, and eating Gaviscon (an antacid) like candy, my heartburn is absolutely UNBEARABLE now... it felt like I was having a heart attack last night. I think Advil would tear my stomach up right now too, so I'll have to stick with Tylenol (which won't help) :(

Those 14 doses of Mirilax took 11 1/2 hours to start working!!! The results were underwhelming, but least I did go to the BR. I look a little less pregnant, so that is nice, too. I need to figure out a better maintenance plan, if at all possible, because this is ridiculous... I ****ing hate it.

I cleaned quite a bit yesterday.
I got tired of cleaning around this piece of crap furniture in the kitchen that Corey was supposed to throw out, so I just moved it into the office with the rest of the crap (it was pretty light). Now my kitchen looks a lot bigger, and a lot better, but there are STILL a couple of moving boxes in the kitchen. We moved in at the end of July... that's how lazy he is! Because I moved that piece of furniture out of sight, he will never throw it out now. Oh well. At least I don't have to look at it, and it's not in my way anymore.

The state of the office really bothers me. The closet is mostly empty and there are boxes EVERYWHERE. It has taken me a lot of willpower not to move things around and straighten the room up... because I KNOW I will hurt myself if I try. Of course it doesn't bother Corey, and he is not motivated to do anything about it.

Glad that the miralax has worked some for you...maybe some mag citrate to get things going although if you are having heart burn then that may not be a good solution.:(
I am sorry you struggle so much.
Have you ever tried biscodal 5mg? I had an elderly client one time takes 3 pills every day.
Can't remember if you have or not.
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bizi

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bobby

I appreciate the suggestions, but I have a gastro and have tried EVERYTHING for my constipation. The only things that work are the mag. citrate and the Mirilax colon cleanse. I use bisacodyl suppositories with the colon cleanse, but they don't work on their own.


I had to drive 40 minutes to get to the chiro appointment yesterday...
I hadn't taken enough Klonopin to deal with all the winding back roads the map app took me on, so I was freaking out and white knuckled it the whole way there. When I arrived, the parking lot was a ****ing nightmare and I had to park a mile away.

... And I went through all of that for nothing because when I got there, they told me he doesn't accept my insurance. So, I can't see him unless I'm willing to pay $120/visit, which I am NOT. Someone should have caught the insurance issue, so I'm ****ing p***ed, but I guess I should have called to check on that referral...

I don't have an appointment with the physiatrist until November..
I sent him a message to him to let him know I can't have the myofascial release treatments he recommended, and I can't take diclofenac or Advil for pain. I told him I still have a follow-up appointment with the ortho on the 20th and I asked him if I should try another round of injections.
We'll see what he says. Maybe he will recommend more voodoo.

My cough is worse this morning, but still no fever.

I am sorry you are coughing is getting worse....
glad that you had some cough syrup.
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bizi

Hi, Kay,

How did it go with the doctor/chiro?

Sorry, Kay about the diclofenac (and Tylenol) not helpful.

The kitchen is important and that sounds like it is coming together.


M

We were cross posting yesterday morning, Mari lol.
I didn't get to see that doc/chiro because he doesn't take my insurance, and I didn't find that out until I showed up for the appointment :mad:

I switched to Mucinex DM Max tablets yesterday, but my cough is just awful and now my sinuses are FULL of thick yellow s***. A coughing jag woke me up in the middle of the night. I feel a bit better now that I'm sitting up vs. laying down. Still no fever tho, so I think I may just have a real bad cold.

When the battery on the laptop runs out, I have to plug it in at the computer desk in the spare bedroom and finish whatever I'm doing in there...
I guess putting that piece of furniture from the kitchen into the "office" was the last straw for me, so I ended up stacking all the boxes and some other items in the closet, which freed up most of the room. There is some random crap on one wall that Corey needs to sort through (God only knows when that will happen), but otherwise, the room looks amazing now that I've also vacuumed it. I could use a new desk at some point, but there's no rush at all.

I paid the usual price. I think my left shoulder may be worse off than my neck right now tho. I needed a nap badly yesterday afternoon, but I couldn't fall sleep because of the pain. I was so tired that I fell asleep before 9pm last night and slept in past 7am tho.

I think this was an OCD thing vs. a hypo thing, but it's kinda hard to tell because I'm sick.

I was planning on doing laundry today- before I hurt myself moving things around and when I wasn't feeling this shitty. It will keep until Monday.
So I decided I'd do grocery shopping instead, but that's not looking good right now. We definitely need TP, and Corey may have to go get it.

what is tp