Okay, I don't want to shamelessly raise my post count, so I'm going to do it all in the same post...
Tsyroc wrote:That's too bad that Vicodin is the only thing that works. Because of the tylenol component I wouldn't want to be on that for anything close to long term, it's hard on your liver. Also, I don't think the other component, hydrocodone, is available by itself. At least I haven't seen it.
IIRC, hydrocodone doesn't come by itself, but I can check on that. Although, I've heard Percodan works pretty well.
Tsyroc wrote:If Percocet had worked for you there are many forms of oxycodone available without tylenol. Although, many of them have gotten a bad rap recently because of the dope heads who were abusing them.
Yeah, it's too bad Percoset doesn't work.
I know lots of people with Percoset.
Tsyroc wrote:Has your doctor considered stuff like Vioxx? I've never tried it but it's supposed to be good for arthritis.
Well, I've heard of Vioxx, but I still have to go to a follow-up.
Lord Pounder wrote:Has the doctor made any mention of side effects when your different medications are mixed. This happened to a mate of mine. He was on tablets for Asphma(sp) and prozac at the same time. Apparently this turned his bodily fluids red, he went for a piss and fainted because he thought he was pissing blood.
That's asthma.
Which I probably should also get tested for. But yes, the drug interactions include lithium, so we'll see where that goes.
Miss Grim wrote:You may want to see a rheumatologist for your arthritis; they specialize in arthritis and other auto-immune problems. I have systemic lupus, and one of the symptoms is severe arthritis, which I've had for years, and all of the male members of my family have arthritis (which for them usually starts in the late teens). There are a huge number of effective treatments for arthritis, but the trick is that your body is constantly adapting and you'll need to experiment (under a doctor's supervision) to find treatments that work for you. You'll probably want to find some kind of non-steroid anti-inflammatory (NSAIDs if you want to look some up online) because Ibuprofin, while sometimes useful when combined with another drug once in a while, can be bad for you on it's own over a long period of time. Lots of people have had good results with Celebrex, although it's never really worked for me...
Well, I've actually had Celebrex help me with a headache before...
Miss Grim wrote:Vioxx works for me, but it's too expensive for me to take with no prescription coverage (I only have Medicare until my income increases to the point where I can afford a supplement). I don't know what your insurance status is, but if you want to try those drugs and can't afford them a good rheumatologist should be able to give you at least a few weeks worth of samples (that way you'll know if it's worth spending money you may not have).
Well, I get my meds free cos I have military insurance and I go to the Indian Hospital here, but until I can get my I.D. renewed, I can't go to the military hospital.
Miss Grim wrote:I've also heard that acupuncture works wonders, but I've never gotten around to trying it myself.
Same here...
innerbrat wrote:but my mother, grandmother and sister would all probably recommend you join the worship of the great god Calcium - make sure you get plenty of milk, vitamin D (carrots
Okay.....
innerbrat wrote:and SUNLIGT) and cod liver oil.
You are fucking evil. End of story.
kojikun wrote:if you an insomniac, can you just not fall asleep regardless of how tired you are, or is it that youre always awake and wakeful at the same time??
It's actually a form of insomnia where I can't STAY asleep. Sometimes I get classic insomnia (just can't go to sleep), but more often it's the other form.
Illuminatus Primus wrote:Lithium? You're bipolar?
Hypomanic, ultra-rapid cycling, with diurnal mood variations at times. Yes.
aphexmonster wrote:You're very sleepy, but when you lay down to go to sleep, your mind foccus' on the things around you.... any tiny sound you hear, or any thought that pops in and or out of your head. Stress is an easy cause for this, but its easy to stay up when you're worried. You just lie there and cry yourself awake.
Insomnia is a lot of things, stress (both physical and mental), as well as being a symptom of bipola disorder. Sometimes it is such that you can't fall asleep, sometimes that you just don't get restful sleep, sometimes that you wake up several times during the "night," and sometimes just that you only get a few hours of sleep (typical in manic patients of bipolar disorder).
~ver
