Posted by Phillip Marx on January 13, 2000, at 0:32:15
In reply to Re: pain -neuropathy, posted by Plum on January 12, 2000, at 16:23:31
http://www.google.com/search?q=Neuropathy
My mom has diabetic neuropathy.
Biofeedback helped a little, but she had to get over the accidental "opposite" effects.Browsing those sites matured my sympathies for her and neuropathy.
She goes to a neuropathy support group at her Senior's Center.
It is so invisible to the non-affected. But it is too, too real.
Down with diabetes, up with vanadyl sulphate and chromium picolinate.pm
> Thank you for your reply. I guess I failed to mention: I have had three month trials of Elavil, Paxil, Prozac, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Effexor znd some others I can't recall. Lamictal. Tegretol. Since the onset of the pain, I have also had hypertension. My Dr. has had a great deal of difficulty finding a drug which would deal with that. This summer he had me on a very high dose of a beta blocker, and that's when this severe depression started. I think I pretty well cried for 3 months. Someone who hadn't seen me for just about that length of time didn't recognize me. Then thought I was my mother. The BP is pretty good now--the medications for that seem to be working, but my Dr. will not prescribe opiates because he says they won't help anyway. He's probably right, because we HAVE tried percocet and percodan and they make me throw up. So does morphine. If I take enough dramamine to take care of THAT, I might as wll go to bed and suck my thumb. That's how much I have to work with in the way of brain cells.
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> It seems like I either have to be seconds away from breaking out in shrieks of pain, or walking around like a zombie.
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> I gained a lot of weight the first 3 years of this pain--"comfort eating" I think. When my blood pressure got so high I DID lose the weight--I am now 5' 10" and 160 lbs, and I eat sensibly and walk every day, and try to meditate and I absolutely CAN'T type another word. Hand hurts.
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> Plum.
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