tam- how much b12 did you take? that sounds pretty odd....

please feel better...and take it easy.

Johanna

The B12 sublingual tabs seemed to have an immediate plus of lowering the pain markedly.

Unfortunately, fiance had to take dad to surgery, and my nurse announced rather last minute that she had to be trained for her voting booth duties...

So I'm still really dizzy and going to see doc tomorrow AM.

Will let everyone know if it's Vitamin B 12 related or not, as this B 12 was supposedly the wonder vitamin for nerve related illness from so many articles I read. No specific amount was ever stated however.

I've never seen people before as a side effect!

(That's going to be a source for a LOT of jokes, I know it.)

hope you are feeling better Tam. let us know how it went.

tom. i have a repeat venogram. i had one 5-6 mos ago and am repeating it after my reduction surgery. not that the reduction was likely to help uncompress the vein but it was suggested that i try it. i am optimistic! my arm only swelled big w/exercise and i haven't built up my exercise prgm enough to know if the vein is still as compressed. they only did the test in 1 postion before but now it will be done properly. Funny, i saw a recent report fr a new pain doc that stated that i was too interested in the details or something like that. But what i find is that if i am not on top of things then tests are done improperly, etc. I phoned the hospital doing the venogram and they had the wrong instructions so i spent yesterday getting that corrected. And that pain dr. listed a handful of things on my history incorrectly so i know that my learned attn to details is actually a good thing! i'm feeling very worn out and down as i had a v. little slip on the ice 4 days ago and have been in spasms since. Also i am trying to sit tight until i have my CSF leak fixed. and that's a pretty serious surgery in itself as they go in through the skull. i guess this will be my year of surgeries. also my place is a terrible mess. I don't have the ability to do a lot of ADLs but I don't think I qualify for help. thanks for the rant. i did buy myself one of those robot vacs and i love it! a real joy to watch the robot do the work.

Hope it goes well for you fern.

I wonder how Dabbo is doing in TN?
I hope nothing serious in his area, {tornados}

The whole B12 issue has spiraled a bit out of control. While left alone due to hurse's volunteer pollstering, and hubands second patients, his dad, I was left alone feeling quite weird and paranoid. I tried to do nothing that could cause trouble. But with two little dogs, I did "see" something, fell, knocked out, for how long, etc. Dogs had enough time to lay big poops around me where the sliding door is, and to pee upon eachother's, (which means more time), as they can't stand to let one doggies brand to sit untagged, so to speak...

So anyways, new Dr. was quite pleased that I'd transitioned from oxy to morphine so well, with no bad effects (just had to phone in for an increase), but fine now. I couldn't explain if the talking and side visions were anything to do with morphine, b12 or ?

B12 is water soluble so probably hot it. You just pee out the extra. ALso, I like yeast lacto bicillus or something like that from the pharmacy refrigerator and must have it, and the over all thing is the now we've got pain come down, but we've got to clear the old brain.

He said since I hit my head, he wants an MRI or a CT of the head. I said, what about all of the radition, and I totalled the number of imaging to that region I'd had, so he joked, "oh, so you've got at least 200 more to go before you get your badge..." But he did make it MRI instead of CT to cut down on radiation. I trust him.

I'm not all that scared. So my body is doing crazy things - I can't control it any more than I could the color changes or worse, the pain! I don't have more pain with this, so I'm "cool" with it.

Also don't forget Epsom Salts in whatever temp bath you can stand and let the skin absorb it...

I must go to bed, I cannot make the underline or the bolds go away...

Posting gods must be very angry with me...hhhhheeeeellllllllllllpppppppop (oh, exuse me)

None of those replies made sense because while my nurse was gone, and my fiance had taken his dad to a surgery, I hit my head really hard on the white tile of the kitchen.

My doctor has seen me, and we are going through testing.

fixed the formatting for you Tam- no problem

Tam- I hope your head is ok!!
Lin- good luck with the drive, but i'm not exactly qualified to offer ANY advice on driving right now...and you're right- i was/am THRILLED that BIG BLUE won the superbowl (quiet shelley ). Maybe you'll see Eli when you go to Disney!

So- after the cold/flu it took me 2 days to not feel exhausted. THEN we had the tornadoes. That was some evening. We didn't have any damage, but we're only 2 miles away from the mall that was hit. That same super-cell dropped the tornado on Union University in Jackson, TN. It dropped an F1 here in Memphis, and an F4 in Jackson. I spent 30-45 minutes in a 3x5 half-bath with my wife and 18mo old. That was cramped. But, we didn't loose anything, so like i said, it could have been much worse.
Then on Thursday, I had a car wreck on the interstate while changing lanes. No airbag deployment nor did my seatbelt lock up and bruise me thank God. But, my neck has hurt like hell.... I didn't go to the ER, I went to minor med the next day. Doc said it was muscle stiffness and suggested heat, advil, and flexeril. THat has helped. Anyways... I gotta have the insurance adjuster take a look at my car. I hope its not totalled.... 2002 Camaro Z-28. 6-speed, t-tops..... I'm not ready to get rid of that car yet.

Take care to all!!

dabbo, glad you posted, that was a VERY scary night! Weather's been crazy lately, we had a weird, INTENSE thunder and lightning show during a snowstorm while the Super Bowl was on last Sunday. Week before, on Tuesday morning it was 72 degrees in St Louis and dropped to 13 by evening, with 55 mile an hour winds. We got several inches of snow that night into Thursday. Monday the fog was so thich you couldn't see 3 car lengths ahead of you. All day. Accidents all over the place. Tuesday morning was warm and we had such nasty clouds scudding through the sky I thought we might be in for some tornadoes - not kidding! Instead the snow all melted, soaking everything, and a dead (waterlogged) tree fell across our driveway! Now it's bitter cold again and we're supposed to get 5-6 more inches of snow. Seriously wacko weather!!

I guess I can 'fess up if you can. My car came back from the shop Friday. Feel like an idiot, but SO thankful I'm not hurt. I spun out on gravel, tires have NO tread left I discovered (yeah, I do good car maintenance, NOT), totally lost control, hit a guard rail. Glad I did as otherwise I would have slid down a bank covered with brush and trees and stuff. Did quite a bit of damage to the front end - busted the tie rod Thankfully insurance is taking care of most of it, and hey, now I've got new tires AND they detailed my car! I'm also staying off the stupid gravel road which has more accidents than any around here - but is a straight shot to the highway, darn it!

6-speed? Ow, ow, ow!!!!!!!!! Are you NUTS, man?