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Thanks to all of you
      02/15/05 06:41 AM
BL

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for your words of encouragement to me. They have meant so much!

I was so hopeful that my doctor could do something to help me. It is just now beginnning to sink in that he told me there's not much I can do for this except try physical therapy----which is extremely painful!

I don't know how much longer I can stand this pain at night. I know I don't have a choice but to deal with it. How do people deal with this?

I am having a problem with my mother---and need your advice. She has had an MRI done in the past and they told her she has some degeneration of the same area of her back (wonder where I got this?) ----and she never takes any pain meds. She tells me that she just takes a deep breath and goes back to sleep when her back hurts. She makes me feel like a wimp! There's no way I could do that!

Obviously, the discomfort she is feeling is not the searing hot pain I have running up and down my back at night! When it hits me, I have to get out of bed and walk around. Last night, I felt like I was going to throw up or faint. That's how bad the pain was---and that was after taking a narcotic pain pill.

So I feel like she thinks I'm exaggerating---and that I'm a hypochondriac. Every time she calls me, she says, "I know what you're going through. I have the same problem. Why don't you take an Advil before bedtime?" I have told her that I've taken 4 Advil and 2 muscle relaxants (yes, at one time!) ---and still couldn't sleep because of the pain.

What part of this does she not understand? Isn't it obvious that if someone takes 2 very strong narcotic pain pills at night and is still woken up from a deep sleep that they are in extreme pain?

I don't want to hurt her feelings, because I know she means well. But I am going to explode the next time she calls me and says I need to relax!

Please pray that I don't totally lose my temper with her.



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02/14/05 07:54 AM
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02/15/05 08:47 AM
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02/15/05 06:24 AM
* beaglelover..............
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02/15/05 12:37 PM
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02/15/05 03:04 PM
* Terri (again)
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02/15/05 03:15 PM
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02/15/05 04:25 PM
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02/15/05 04:53 PM
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02/15/05 08:38 PM
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02/16/05 06:31 AM
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02/16/05 10:08 AM
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02/16/05 04:44 PM
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02/17/05 06:05 AM
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02/17/05 07:09 AM
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02/17/05 07:33 AM
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02/17/05 07:38 AM
* Ahhh, wish you could join me! I'll let you know what I find---nt--
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02/17/05 08:04 AM
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02/17/05 06:33 AM
* Anyone familiar with Mobic?
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02/16/05 06:44 AM
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02/16/05 08:40 PM
* Gayla!
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02/16/05 10:12 PM
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02/14/05 09:39 PM
* Gayla
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02/15/05 06:26 AM
* Re:BL honey,,,
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02/16/05 09:53 AM
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02/16/05 02:11 PM
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02/16/05 02:51 PM
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02/16/05 08:16 PM
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02/14/05 04:21 PM
* Thanks to all of you
BL
02/15/05 06:41 AM
* BL
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02/15/05 09:48 AM
* This is hard...
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02/15/05 08:42 AM
* Can you try...
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02/15/05 06:50 AM
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02/14/05 04:12 PM
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02/14/05 05:16 PM
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daliatree
02/14/05 12:06 PM
* Anyone heard of the McKenzie method of physical therapy?
BL
02/14/05 02:51 PM
* You poor thing!
Nelly
02/14/05 10:48 AM
* hugs BL n/t
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02/14/05 12:05 PM
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02/14/05 10:06 AM
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02/14/05 09:51 AM
* Aww, happy and sad to hear your news, BL!
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02/14/05 09:24 AM
* Talk about mixed emotions!
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02/14/05 09:27 AM
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