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Stop! I'm not dead- part 2

By Ra-shell · Posted 2:14 am
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1 month into my pregnancy, I was told that something was wrong with the fetus so we are sending you down to another state that will abort the fetus, because "you don't need a disabled child and all the ...

I have a new perspective on doctors

By Ra-shell · New reply yesterday at 9:56 pm
Journal · 14 replies
Okay, a few days I vented about my frustration with doctors, then last night I read an article that gave me a new perspective on doctors and the things they go through. I get so wrapped up in my own frustrations ...

pots/dysautonomia

By Nina372 · New reply yesterday at 4:53 pm
Journal · 18 replies
Does anyone here have experience or knowledge about getting a pace maker for their postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (pots ...

Tell us how you are treated...

By ShannonZ · New reply yesterday at 1:37 pm
Journal · 43 replies
at/by your doctors/nurses offices/clinics/hospitals... I am so sick of what has been going on at my doctors offices that I need to...i dont know ...build a group or protest or something... Let us know ...

Stop! I am alive

By Ra-shell · New reply yesterday at 9:39 am
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At 4 1/2 , the doctors told my parents that I was brain dead after I contracted brain encephalitis, getting an extremely high fever and then going into a coma. This was very rare so the hospital did many ...

Trazodone for difficulty falling asleep?

By Sarah · New reply March 8, 2010
Discussion in Coping with sleep disorders · 14 replies
I've been having trouble getting to sleep at night-- just seems like I can't shut my mind off. I talked to my doctor about it and he prescribed me trazodone to take before bed. I researched it a bit ...

19 years old. alone??

By Nina372 · New reply March 8, 2010
Journal · 38 replies
I am 19 years old and sometimes feel as though there is nobody else my age who knows what I go through. I know many other people who understand what I have to face every day and the difficulties involved ...

update!

By volleyballsinger95 · New reply March 5, 2010
Journal · 9 replies
hey guys. just wanted to give a quick update. i'm getting a lot better. i gained 2 pains and now weigh 108. also, i've been eating lunch everyday and haven't cut for awhile. after that suicidal attempt ...

Oh No oral steroids for a rash on face and body

By RobynRae · New reply March 2, 2010
Journal · 3 replies
I started out w a swollen face and neck and my eyes werent even visable and I couldn't wear my glasses. I had a pounding headache. My mom decided that she needed to take me to the ER b/c I couldnt see ...

School = feeling horrible. need advice

By Nina372 · New reply March 2, 2010
Journal · 19 replies
I go to the University of New Mexico itâ€™s been about a month since I have started my classes and it is HARD I am taking 14 credit hours. I am always worried I will pass out on campus as I almost did ...

Open lung biopsy

By ShannonZ · New reply March 2, 2010
Journal · 20 replies
I am having an open lung biopsy on the 29th of January. Kinda nervous about it but I must find out what is invading my lungs so that I can't breath. I am on oxygen and would love to be off of it but we ...

Teenage Boy cannot fall asleep on his own

By melech · New reply March 2, 2010
Discussion in Teens and sleep · 2 replies
My teenage son cannot fall asleep on his own. He's fine sleeping at friends houses, fine with friends sleeping at our house. But, he cannot fall asleep in his own bedroom, he sleeps on a couch outside ...

Productive at 1AM - Delirious At 4 AM

By john · New reply March 2, 2010
Discussion in Coping with sleep disorders · 3 replies
Ok, so I was talking with a co-worker the other day about the mental fuzziness that go thru once you start becoming sleep deprived. His issue for the day was somnipathy infantias AKA 1 week old infant ...

Insomnia

By mrsbias · New reply March 1, 2010
Discussion in Night owls · 16 replies
Can someone explain to me why I have taken 2 Darvocet, 1 Klolopin, 1 lyrica and 1 AMITRIPTYLINE...and I am still up at 3:41am....I slept for two hours and here I am right back up and it will be time to ...

Life Sucks Sometimes

By kimikiwi1987 · New reply March 1, 2010
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God there is so many ups and downs in life. Ive really just now became aware of that, do to me having AVN in my right hip its Avascular necrosis so now since its to far gone they i will have to get a ...

Oxygen...

By ShannonZ · New reply February 28, 2010
Journal · 11 replies
Hi, I was just wondering if anyone has any suggestions on how to keep my nose from being so dry, sore, and bleeding all the time because of the oxygen 24/7? Any thoughts would be great... Thanks ShannonZ ...

Getting much sleepier during last 2 hours of sleep

By joelee · Posted February 27, 2010
Discussion in Coping with sleep disorders · 0 replies
I have a combination of sleep disorders, caused primarilly by a rare neurologic disease, which primarilly causes spasticity, poor balance, and discoordination. Have been diagnosed with PLMD since my legs ...

Winter Fever is at a High!

By frogcollector · New reply February 27, 2010
Journal · 7 replies
The cats are roaring around the house, cat hair is growing on the walls, I am getting Twitchy, and Winter has just begun here in Central NY! I must get back my sense of humour quickly, before the next ...

narcolepsy

By Quacky · New reply February 26, 2010
Journal · 3 replies
I was wondering if anyone else has narcolepsy. How does it affect youall? I was just wondering. I have been diagnosed for several years now. It is still in control of me. It is hard to get the meds I ...

New Meds And Sleeping

By Tank · New reply February 23, 2010
Discussion in Experiences with prescription medications · 2 replies
I was recently put on Seroquel 150mgs has anyone ever taken this? I took it and slept about 10 hours and when I got up I wanted to just go right back to bed, I could not function right, on top of that ...

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