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A waste of money

JoAllison
  • By JoAllison · 9:50 pm
  • 3 replies
  • I hate it when I meet with people who say they can help me and after I've met with them, it becomes obvious I know more than they do. And, in this last case that though he asked for a three day food diary ...

Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · 5:58 am
  • 106 replies
  • When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...

My supplements & whatnot as of 9/08

JoAllison
  • By JoAllison · 12:15 am
  • 2 replies
  • I'm having a good week , I've had three days with no GERD pain - though it's back this evening, lower level. It's been about two weeks since I've had a bloating episode or constipation, and over two weeks ...

Still sick

shan789
  • By shan789 · Yesterday at 7:38 pm
  • 12 replies
  • It's been 3 weeks and Jake doesn't seem to getting better. He has been vomiting off and on since his Mickey button, for his cecostomy, was placed. We have been to the Dr. office and ER a lot in the past ...

Waiting...

caletham28
  • By caletham28 · October 2, 2008
  • 9 replies
  • I just received and email from one of my surgeons letting me know he tried the best he could to get me in sooner to see a colorectal surgeon. I have been bounced around to so many doctors that I am at ...

Tweaked my back...

LadyForce
  • By LadyForce · September 28, 2008
  • 1 reply
  • Well, if it's not one thing it's another, isn't it? LOL I bought a new crock pot the other day; got it home and went to pick it up to show my daughter and.... OUCH!!! It hurts!!! Not like I haven't tweaked ...

Gait problems & Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS)... Any hope?

serendipity
  • By serendipity · September 27, 2008
  • 35 replies
  • I have found quite a few other postings regarding SPS, so I would like to share this and am hopeful that some of you can offer your input.... I am posting this in all of the Groups to which I belong in ...

Excited & Sad

LadyForce
  • By LadyForce · September 27, 2008
  • 7 replies
  • Well, I did it!!! I got the tattoo that I had been wanting for the past ten years. It is sooooooo cool. I just updated my photo to show my new tat; although with my fibromyalgia and etc.... it hurts quite ...

GP & IBS-C

Trixie617
  • By Trixie617 · September 26, 2008
  • 6 replies
  • At my recent follow up with my pcp she said I appear to have GP & IBS-C... How can you tell one from the other? I know that there are people on this site that have mentioned having both -- I was under ...

Getting a port

Adance
  • By Adance · September 26, 2008
  • 22 replies
  • I am writing this journal entry because I need advice. If you have read any of my posts you know all that I have been through and all that is to come. I have never had good veins. Being so sick and in ...

Pain and More meds

midsomersdream13
  • By midsomersdream13 · September 22, 2008
  • 29 replies
  • I was just wondering if anyone out there has ever experienced abdominal pain that is yet to be explained. I have been xrayed and then they shoved another pill at me. I guess I am getting tired of feeling ...

Frustrated with One set-back after another

Rashel
  • By Rashel · September 22, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • I don't even know where to start. I'm frustrated. I found this group and it seems like I've found the answers to my problems. Its like I'm reading my life worded by others. Its an incredible feeling ...

Need Doctor recommendations and advice

AnnieJ
  • By AnnieJ · September 22, 2008
  • 5 replies
  • Hi All, I am new to the group. I have been having some horrible symptoms and I have been undiagnosed for 7 months. I am at my wits end with Doctors. I am looking for top recommended doctors at Cleveland ...

latest update

Eierannach603
  • By Eierannach603 · September 22, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • I know it's been forever. I have been reading posts, praying and thinking of all of you. I just haven't had a free moment. Things are going by unbelievably well. I did have an issue with vomiting this ...

Finally an appt. at surgeons office

shan789
  • By shan789 · September 19, 2008
  • 3 replies
  • Jake hasn't gotten better. The phenagren seems to have stopped working. He vomited most of yesterdsy, and is having more drainage from his cecostomy. So, I called yesterday, and lied a little I told them ...

Drug Card to help offset the prescriptions and feeds?

DGSTRICK
  • By DGSTRICK · September 17, 2008
  • 2 replies
  • I just had my Ontario Drug card expire. Now I have to pay full price for presciptions. my monthof feeding is over 600 alone not counting the endless pain killers and other medications. I figure over $1200 ...

New Symptom

LadyForce
  • By LadyForce · September 16, 2008
  • 17 replies
  • Well, I am not sure where this one is coming from, but.... I have recently come down with a new symptom.. of what, I am not so sure. My ankles hurt soooo bad.... It feels like I have two sprained ankles ...

Okay, now I'm sick

LadyForce
  • By LadyForce · September 16, 2008
  • 4 replies
  • Woke up this afternoon (wow, I finally got some sleep!!!), and now I'm sick... cough again, sore throat, stuffy nose, fatigue... some normal stuff, but more dramatic... Lying down today, but for different ...

What now!?!

Trixie617
  • By Trixie617 · September 12, 2008
  • 7 replies
  • Hi all - Just got in from the GI & I am disappointed beyond words. She pretty much decided that I am doing okay. She said & I quote: "I have patients that are doing so much worse than you." I am sorry ...

Trouble with the medication Ciprofloxacin

Andrea1
  • By Andrea1 · September 10, 2008
  • 6 replies
  • Last weekend I went into my urgent care center for a urinary tract infection. The doctor prescribed me an antibiotic called Ciprofloxacin (Cipro). I went home to take it and read the paper with the side ...

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