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Sep 22, 2013, 05:39 PM
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I have always believed that God never gives you anything you can't handle. Well, I'm not feeling that right now. I have had tremors for a few years. They were never that bad until lately. The surgeon called them essential tremors, which I already knew. I also knew that beta blockers are used to help. I had an appointment with my primary on the 9th of this month. We changed my blood pressure meds because I was taking Atenol with Hydroclorothiazide. The first one is a beta blocker and the second a water pill that made me pee all the time. She changed this to Norvasc. Less than two weeks later I was shaking so badly I could hardly speak or walk. Then the light bulb went on! I had stopped the beta blocker and my tremors got worse. I called the Doc, she said take 1/2 the Atenol I was before and no Hydroclorothiazide. It has been four days and I am better but still a little shaky. If I were the average Joe it wouldn't have been too bad, but I have Fibromyalgia so any change in meds adds up to two or three weeks of hell on my body. I had also had the flu just before this happened and was barely recovering from that. I try so hard to keep a positive outlook, but I have had enough. I finally went to see my Dad yesterday (remember he had a brain tumor removed). He has been doing radiation, chemo pills and on a diet with no carbs. I guess cancer likes to feed on carbs. I have never seen him so weak and frail, even after his heart attack. I really want to check myself into the funny farm and do the Thorazine shuffle for a few days. I just want to be numb long enough to regain my composure. I cry all the time, in the car, the grocery, where ever. I don't want to go off the edge, but if one more thing happens...
 
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 BipolaRNurse, redbandit
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Sep 22, 2013, 06:08 PM
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I would call the pdoc and the T tomorrow and see if you can get in just to talk and see if you can head off a hospital stay, I know the last episode I had, I saw my T twice in a week for 2 weeks and my pdoc once a week for 2 weeks and my husband stayed home ( he works out of state through the week ). Is there anyone who can stay with you? If none of those is an option, I'd go to the hospital. Its safe, its quiet (mostly) and they can relook your meds without sending you home and hoping for the best.
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Sep 22, 2013, 06:14 PM
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I've lived with chronic pain and it effects all facets of your life! Hang in there...God must think you're a bad ***!
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Sep 23, 2013, 03:33 PM
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Quote:
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"A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water!" Eleanor Roosevelt "Each of us is completely different from the other, and yet we judge ourselves and others as if we are all the same." Gruvingal |
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