Health Problems

I keep telling my son to get a job and then he just shits his pants

Kuriin_sl said:

If you have insomnia, smoke some weed or get some ambien. =P

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or the benadryl and a couple glasses of wine

I tried benadryl too. Unfortunately it's like russian roulette. Either it knocks me out or makes me wired. For whatever reason right now it makes me feel wired.

Good news however is that my drain is ready to come out. I have an appointment Wednesday but I'll take the extra trip into Boston today to have it removed no problem. Waiting on a call back about it now.

I have had good luck with 10mg Melatonin when I can't sleep. It quiets down my god damned brain.

I'm not at all familiar with that. At this point I'm willing to try almost (ALMOST ) anything.

Have you tried lots of garlic and a special shower filter? In all seriousness Benadryl always just knocks me out.

Yeah I really do recommend the Melatonin, can get it at any GNC, not at all habit forming, and it doesn't really knock me out it just lets me sleep instead. 2 10MG pills when I NEEd to get some sleep and 30-60 minutes later I can finally snooze. I highly recommend trying it.

I'll give it a try. I go tomorrow to have my drain removed. I'm down 10 pounds according to my scale. 213 I don't remember the last time I was this weight.

If you problem is staying asleep rather than falling asleep, Trazodone worked well for me. Ambien would knock me out but I'd be up at 3-4am. Belsomra looks cool, I'm going to look into that actually.

Ambien is great for sleeping. Terrible for trying to wake up. I would be hazy for at least an hour after waking up after taking only 5mg of it the night before.

Well the problem right now is directly related to my surgery. I always have sleeping issues after surgery while my body is healing. I know ambien would work but I get up at 2-3am to feed the little man and there's no way I can be taking ambien to do that. It sucks for now but it will pass.

Tred_sl said:

Well the problem right now is directly related to my surgery. I always have sleeping issues after surgery while my body is healing. I know ambien would work but I get up at 2-3am to feed the little man and there's no way I can be taking ambien to do that. It sucks for now but it will pass.

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I second wombat's Trazodone suggestion. Helped me stay asleep but didn't keep me from staying awake after I took it, or being able to wake up and be alert if I needed to in the middle of the night.

None of the patients I've seen taking Belsomra have found it beneficial. Sleep hygiene is important (not to minimize anyone's sleep problems); cut down caffeine, exercise during the day, no napping, no TV/phone/tablet/light at bedtime.

I bring this up because I have multiple patients complain of poor sleep only to discover they're chugging Monster at 2000 or they drink coffee until bedtime or they leave the TV on full blast all night.

Well I can assure there isn't even any soda in the house. Can't exercise right now and I kinda have to take a nap at some point during the day still. And we don't even have a TV in the bedroom and if I use my tablet the wife complains because it's too bright even at min brightness.

I guess I'm a walking, talking miracle according to my neurologist team.

I knew I had ADEM last spring and it was bad. Which is basically short term really bad MS in response to an infection or virus. in my case I had shingles. The shingles weren't really all that bad on the upper arm on one side, not like the bad cases you see all over the face and such. It produced lesions in the brain that short circuit partially paralyzing me, strips the lining of the nerves which was wonderful. Not fun.

Now my neurologist team says it was ADEM and while I got over that quickly I developed transverse myelitis which is similar but in the spine in relation to an infection or virus. You guessed it, still had shingles. It causes the spine to swell and possibly create lesions there as well and can strip off the myelitin off the nerve which is the lining of it. MS does the same thing.

My main neurologist said it best "shotgun blast to the central nervous system". I knew it was bad when I got to where I couldn't do anything and had to move in with my parents. I got up at 3am and told my mom "something is attacking my central nervous system". Guess I was right.

18 months of this and at times it was BAD. Like near death bad which ADEM is fatal 15% of the time from brain swelling and TV is fatal if you lose the ability to breath.

What pisses me off is the FIRST thing I went to the DR. for was the shingles and he told me it was dry skin. I could have got an anti viral which may/may not have prevented all this shit.

Alright the goddamn drain is out finally. It was like a damn handkerchief magic trick when she pulled it out. She kept pulling and pulling and pulling. I thought it would never end. She pulled out at the very least two feet of tubing out. I've had drains before but none ever went that deep. That just how big and how far this tumor penetrated. It ended up being 15cm x 13cm x 10cm.
Just glad that is over with and I can concentrate on getting better now.

Sounds painful just reading about it, congrats I guess it's gone.