Sunday, July 14, 2013

Lumps, bumps, clumps and chumps...



Having many of those over the years has not been good for me with any of them at all!
Most all of us, I am more than sure, have experienced them at one time or another… with the same conclusion of no fun that can be had by any of those protuberances.
Lumps, bumps, clumps and chumps…no how did that get in there?
‘Chumps’, rhymes, but hardly belongs in that grouping, how odd?
Oh well, that is how my mind works, sometimes… Oh, I know, about the ‘chumps’ reference I have known some, me and some other naive ones way back when, mystery solved, but still has no place there.
Any-who, the others fit and so I will discuss the lumps, bumps and clumps tonight for your viewing pleasure…huh?
Okay than mine…
Lumps, who hasn’t had them if they bumped a body part like a knee or elbow or hip or head, hmm?
Bumps refer to rash type occurrences on the skin, due to allergies, or contact dermatitis or some other such thing.
Clumps could be a bunch of bumps in a cluster with a weird bruising happening above or under the surface of the skin or no bruising at all.
For me, it is where my neck and head come together in the left back of my head position is where the lump seems to be without bumping and I have found icing it has been helping me as long as I continue fifteen on, fifteen off.
I have once again found the need to wear my soft cervical collar, on and off for last night and today, mostly due to that Cervicogenic headache is how it began… Still know enough not to leave it on too long due to the fear/knowledge of weakening my neck muscles.
Oddly enough the pain center called me again the other day because my neuro sent another referral for this specific issue the cervical stenosis and she told them that my MRI was to follow, that is to be sent to them, now that old thing, the MRI, is ten months old!
I never called her back to say that they did not offer anything new for me to try or anything that I wouldn’t have a negative reaction from.
Maybe I should call her this week or wait until I see her next month.
My cervical collar does seem to help and so does the ice, I will not allow those needles in my neck! Too scary! I was nearly killed with heavy narcotics, opiates, shot into my back thirty years ago, when in traction in the hospital! I was coded! I already discussed the drug protocols they use at this center and no they’re not anything that hasn’t been tried, interesting that those narcotics are still being used.
Am I so wrong?
Maybe I am too much of a pain in the neck for my doctor and this is a contrived method to get rid of me, permanently? KIDDING!
Although, paranoia resembles me and often, it was a joke, you can tell by me saying, "a pain in the neck", consequently what my problem is, ha.
I am sure she has forgotten all about my issues with heavy duty drugs.
Mine are not narcotic, just too many!
In fact I wish there was a way to be weaned off of the ones that I am on now, such as the Gabapentin, Neurontin is its non-generic name, for my spasms, although I sleep better these days. It says if you cut this one off abruptly you can have a medical emergency. I had to slowly increase the amount per doctor’s orders from the 900 MG to the 1800 MG. over a two week period, I wonder if I could do that in  reverse? When I see her next month.
Oh get this?
I found out that the IV steroids that is the doses of 1000MG. of Solu Medrol that I had four times in four years for three day intervals were more than likely the cause of my hypothyroidism and therefore my obesity… not my stomach medication, although it said it has an affect on the thyroid too as the Gabapentin does also! As well as the steroids with diabetes! You see, why I want to get off of them all! The cures are worse than… who knows, how I would have been without them all… oh, all right, I did have very nasty spasms with just the Baclofen even at a high dose and so incorporating the Gabapentin was a big help… but I wish there was another way… I feel like a drug addict some days! With my shot of Copaxone daily, and all those blood pressure, cholesterol, thyroid and anti-spasmodic meds etc!
Of course I take vitamins: Centrum for over fifty, Calcium with D, and super B complex too, eighteen pills popping in all!

Sorry for my rant tonight.
But it has been one of those nights and days where I have seen better…

On those notes of forgive me please, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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