Friday, September 12, 2014

Another route to take...


  This is going to sound foolish, but let's admit it that's never stopped me before...
Yesterday, at my GP/internist office I received my blood work report and according to it, I am great!

Than why do I feel so baaaaaaaaaad?
My muscular skeletal parts are in excruciating pain most of the day; even sitting here I am pushing my own personal envelope!
So when asked about what was bothering me yesterday I spoke up/out; i.e. my mind!
I explained to the doctor that my bones were behaving badly as in causing pain in the center of my body where the xiphoid process; you know the bone in between that can break when you do CPR?

And no, I have not had any recent CPR:"Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

Using rescue breathing and chest compressions to help a person whose breathing and heartbeat have stopped" For any of you who did not know or forgot or both.




The week before with the PA, physician assistant in the orthpedics' office Maryanna, she had poked me there and it was significantly painful but not like yesterday when Dr. Nord did it; I jumped and saw stars!

It has been blipping pain, that is blips of pain like a downbeat, ya know?

I wasn't trying to censor my use of a bad word, RE: "blipping".

Now it is an on and off constant, the step down steroids were done on Wednesday, see how well they worked.



Dr. Nord had me have a chest X-ray there and set up for a bone scan, which will be in about a week.http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/bone-scan/basics/definition/PRC-20020302



I did try a homeopathic idea last night when it caused me a very hard time trying to sleep.

The article said if it was xiphoid process syndrome: http://www.medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php?t=88117 to try this and so I did: turmeric with honey ingested, I put them in decaffeinated green tea, and a warm compress on the location. 

No harm no foul, and so I tried it and nope it did not help, but my other normal pain stuff, Gabapentin and Baclophen did seem to kick in.

And no, I did not up them, I took what I had been taking for bedtime, Gabapentin 300 mg. and Baclophen 20 mg. and I suppose that was why I did get some restless sleep.



I did go into the pool again this morning and stopped using those foam weights, too much pressure in that area too... I suppose it is possible that the weights could cause a muscular problem that manifested itself as bone pain, but until the tests are done I won't know.



The uneasy part of all this is the fact that the rule of thumb these days is that if you had been a smoker you were pretty much in the clear after ten years of not smoking, well for me it has been only eight years this past July 11th!



I cannot allow myself and my past forty years of stupidity cause me to worry more, yep forty!

But to my good my heart and even my lungs have in the most recent past been given a clean bill of health!

Even last week's blood-work can attest to that no variants showed any blood cancers of any kind... yea, blood cancers, not bone....



I have to stop that!

Poo poo poo poo, no jinxing!



Sadly I have reached my pain tolerance for this upright positioning and I will have to close for tonight… on that note of trying my darnedest to do this my other love…allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!



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

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