Thursday, 28 December 2017
MURDEROUS MORNINGS
Got that ECG on and hit the button a few times from around 4.30am onward but just pain in region of heart I know is anxiety.
No heart palpitations, tightness or skipped beat feelings.
But then I noticed that when the anxiety is playing up .. the other stuff seems to stop or at least become a lot less frequent.
So all that testing was probably a waste of time unless something happens in the next four hours or so.
There is some stuff going on that is .. stressful. I would like to think that this anxiety will die down when it is over, fingers tightly crossed.
One more appointment to go with the hospital and I have to be back at the Doctors in ten days .. nine days.
I am not happy I have Venlafaxine again .. I recall missing a couple of days and it put me on my back .. I had forgotten to take them and even back then my memory was an issue and I did not pick up on it. We are talking around twelve years ago now I had that.
But I am so desperate to stop this that I am taking it again. But this will add to my lists of things to panic about.
Just like I told my GP none of this makes any sense to me .. why the brain is panicking about such stupid things.
I remember when I first saw my medical notes, that was how I found out, I was listed as having General Anxiety Disorder or GAD and when I read about it it stated that you can panic about little things. At first I did not think this was the case but when I thought about some of the things it did.
I still am coughing up green and yellow shit and that is something they want to look at but .. the way I feel right now .. it is difficult to get around to sorting that out.
I mean to speak to reception about setting up my digital repeat prescription thing. I might have also meant to have spoken to them about these blood tests? I cannot recall how it is done or what I was meant to do?
It is majorly disruptive this memory issue and I do not seem to have made anyone realise just how much it is.
I have felt for a long time like I need someone. To help me remember things.
I did think it might be easier here because there is another adult around but she is forgetful too so there is no chance of that happening and things are much worse.
Living on my own I was bad enough. I had a mate who used to remind me of things from time to time but he obviously could not remind e of everything.
This things is really, really stupid and confusing as well as majorly torturous and the fact that I have this virus/infection tat has lasted for months seems to have only made things worse. How things could have gotten this bad for me I simply do not know and begs belief.
As for this virus or infection .. my ex wonders if I picked it up in the house, which I doubt. What I did say was that I had read only recently that my .. resistance to infections can be lowered and is one of the symptoms of Fibromyalgia.
So I guess I am still being let down.
The other thing is that I really need to return to my storage in London .. that really needs to be sorted out and the cost reduced or eliminated completely.
If my PIP gets reinstated it will become less of an issue but it still needs to be done.
I have taken a second Diazepam pill and hope that calms things down a bi as the first did not work.
I was, as they say, monged-out yesterday afternoon and in the evening I fell asleep. Do mot recall much at all except my daughter appearing around 4am. Was feeling OK at the time but around thirty minutes later it all started.
Whether the evening was down to the Venlafaxine or not I do not know, I had taken Amitriptyline too for the first time in a while so could be that. I have to check whether or not I should take these in the morning or at night. I am thinking nights, because of the morning things so will go and check that out.
Tuesday, 28 June 2016
THE MOVING & THE SWAYING
Due to some anxiety I decided that it would be a good idea to double up on my Amitriptyline for a few days until I see my GP?
I had also not realised that after waking a little after 4am, and alarm bells over that going off in a big way, but omly falling asleep a little after 2am I had not had a lot of sleep.
Being a Fibromyalgia sufferer we do not get restorative sleep at the best of times!
Restorative sleep is the most important part and comes after REM sleep and it is what it says where the mind and body go through checks and repairing of things. Muscles repaired, toxins repaired, brain cells flushed along with skin and a great number of things. Your talking about a whole body. The brain does not do what we need it to do.
This has serious consequences and likely the main reason our memories do not function correctly each and every day? That particular symptom has a name all of its own,, Fibrofog.
Anyway I had planned to go and see someone and ... well make an appointment. I went to hunt down some Mega Marshmallows and realised I was feeling a little light headed. It still did not occur to me what was going on. I caught a bus that has a terrible, terrible route and 'goes all around the houses' before it gets anywhere near my home. The bus route goes out its way at least three times and in opposite ways throughout its whole route.
Annoyingly it also does not go anywhere near a hospital!
So I am sitting on the bus, thinking how my feet are not too bad today while focusing on the light headed feeling. I realised it was intensifying. Before long I was stoned and every time the bus went around a corner I felt like I was in a boat as the bus swayed left and then right.
In fact it was so intense I wondered whether I should get off the bus by my Doctor's surgery?!
Also the nodding off has increased in my brains desire to just give in. Just now I had my head flung backwards and withj my eyes closed while trying to type out this post! Lol!
Sleeeeeepy ... must ... resist!
I was planning to order an item tomorrow to replace one I have that is very faulty and that would be my Moto G phone. I am sure many would be pleased to hear that is it has played up fairly badly in calling and texting. Added to this the screen surface has more or less worn through. Plus I have noted that I can leave it to charge with screen off for 3 hours and its only half full?!
So battery buggered. Some mornings I get up and there is still 75% on the phone while otherr times it can drain right down to the point of switching itself off. Weird that.
I have never had to phone 999 while I am out but not only do I know that day is coming but I have been ordered to to do is I have another bad seizure.
Friday, 17 June 2016
THE ROAD TO EUPHORIA
Today I had one of those afternoons where I am in effect, high. As in 'high as a kite', intoxicate or stoned!
I had been out to pick up something and just have a quick scan around at phones in these gadget shops as well as phone shops. Need to replace my phone, have one in mind and I seem to find it's sister phones, it little brothers but not the one I want. Which is a Motorola Moto X Style. Did want the Moto X Force but then found it is not entirely waterproof as it seems to suggest kn adverts.
I have had a great many Motorola phones and going backwards a Moto G, Motorola Atrix ( do ... NOT get me started on that phone), Motorola Defy and some odd other models going back the the StarTacs.
I have had others too.
Looked in half a dozen places over the last couple days and not found the one I want but not in a position to buy just yet so just looking. Idea being if I found one I would put down half the money.
There is one I have thought about getting in my local Game Store but it is a previous, 2nd, generation model and no SD Card reader. Only 16GB too. I have a 8GB Moto G and I would never have a phone with low memory ever again. Do not get me wrong the phone has been great for the money but you are just so limited with what you can do and install on the phone. You can forget music.
Anyhoo I had to pick up some things from a friends shop but when I got home I was a little out of it so I waited it out a couple of hours. Instead I felt sleepy so I went out as I did not want to go out tomorrow. As I was walking along I suddenly noticed I was walking along normally, which is rare as I normally limp, and my pains had died down. I suspected I was having one of these weird afternoons I have had recently where this does happen but then I end up feeling a little ... 'high' and I mean ... STONED 'high'. Like you have had a weak spliff, or cannabis.
As I was walking I started to feel it coming on and to my shock I continued on even higher and I even started getting the 'munchies'. If you do not know you get these cravings to eat when your stoned on cannabis. It is very weird and very enjoyable, even a little euphoric at times.
I was nearing a local shop and all I could think about was drinking and sugary things and when I went in I bought a can of Monster Ripper, I normally go for the green standard one, a carton of Orange Juice and a Snickers Duo along with chocolate raisins, strawberry pencils and some fizzy blue bottle ... things. Oh I recall the packet saying 'Bubblegum Flavour'.
I felt like Francine Smith in an episode of American Dad where she lets Jeff, Hayley's husband, smoke cannabis which he gets on prescription for his very over active libido. She gets stoned with him when she gives in, catching him ... well, pulling it several times, and downs a bottle of orange drink of something or other. Cannot recall what she called the drink, lol.
I downed everything as I was walking along and carried on getting higher and just wanted to stop walking and sit down. It was mad ... I kept thinking about just sitting on the floor or a wall and before long I did!
I eventually moved along but sat down again. Eventually moved along and then sat down yet again. I sat down around four times over a distance of about 100 metres. It was mad.
I get to my friend's shop around 4pm and I was very lucky as he was closing early, had to pick up his daughter from somewhere or other I think he said.
I had consumed everything by the time I reached him, grabbed what I needed, paid him and left.
Around another 200 metres later I started feeling like I was coming down but still remained light headed. I recall wondering if it was like some type of diabetes thing and that the sugar or perhaps something else, like caffeine, had brought me back up?
If I am in when this happens I wake up in the dark wondering what happened and most of the time do not recall falling asleep.
This is when I would get one of the major fits, or grand mal if that what it was. I always feel light headed first and it is always in the afternoons and early evenings ... it is very weird and you could set your watch to it.
About 1pm in the afternoon is when it would start and around 4pm is when it is at its strongest.
Now I have been ordered to go to A&E if I was to have another full blown fit and am also awaiting a hospital appointment letter, along with a colonoscopy letter too.
I had considered going to the hospital, bad time of the day for me and public transport, as the feeling might give the positive results needed to any tests done on me at the hospital. But then again they may not do and I may waste my time.
I deliberate over it and I still needed some things for home, like milk I have tried to remember buying for three days, and decided not to go to hospital. Me travelling on packed trains and buses is an absolute no-no and this is me being both cautious and responsible. I have one other problem with travelling on buses, less so trains except tube trains, and this is when it is hot.
I do not handle the heat well ... I really, really hate it and have done for years and often think about living in the antarctic! Or Siberia!
I will experience increasing pain if I am forced to stand still for more than a few minutes and with that I get short tempered and someone rude will be knocked unconscious in the blink of an eye. That is me being ... RESPONSIBLE!
That is only the feet pain and not being able to handle heat.
There are a great many other things in things in my pain list and there is also a separate list for embarrassing things that could occur that often stresses me out no end.
Then there is the blacking out and now these seizures. It is just too much and if not for these things I would have had a job and actually something to do and get me out of this damned house, long, long ago!
It is funny as this feeling I get is quite weird and edges closer and closer to euphoria until your completely feeling euphoric. A great many people would pay good money to feel like this but when it happens when it feels like it at some point in the afternoon and you live on your own it is becoming a major bug-bare. Things are hard enough as they are without this screwing things up.
So there I was walking down this road and heading straight for Euphoria.
I do not know if it just something else developing and you have to understand that with 120 symptoms there is always something knew developing every now and then. Or perhaps it is a drug I have recently been prescribed or an interaction between this new drug, Methocarbamol, and something else.
- Methocarbamol 2x 750mg
- Metoclopramide (cannot be bothered to look lol)
- Lansoprazole 30mg
- Quinine Sulphate (50mg?)
- Ramipril 10mg
- Amitriptyline 30mg
- Gabapentin 500mg
- Atrovastatin
- Tramadol
Monday, 11 April 2016
THE MISSING MOTIVATION
I have hardly been out of the house the last two days and I am struggling to find something to motivate me today, really, really most unlike me.
The weather is crap and looks to stay that way a number of days, marvellous.
Plus there was some bizarre name dropping recently and some information reached my ears that not only did no one tell me but involves someone I recently mentioned.
God, I hate it when the men I know allow the egos to rule them.
There has also been a death in the family though I found out several days late, as one member of the family has failed to delete a five year old mobile phone number from her phone despite being asked to do this a dozen times.
Also my sister is expecting her first ever baby, and I wish her luck with that. However she is finding and will continue to find over the next ten months that we now live in a country lacking compassion, despite the number of help, advice and support organisations there claims to be out there.
This will hit her hard as she has worked her backside of for twenty years or more often at the expense of many things friends and family related.
She is already living with ... well 'in laws' despite them both working because the house prices and rent prices went way beyond ridiculous over a decade ago.
Stupid, stupid prices that are not realistic in any way only made worse by the constant influx of you know who combined with the lack of building both cheap homes and social housing. Then you factor in to all this the growing number of Londoners, though there aren't many left.
Good God I really lack energy, I really do.
There are things I need to get and have done a couple of days and trying to use these menial chores to get my arse out of my door.
None helped by the fact I am stuck in a rut I never saw myself being in at this moment in time.
And I STILL need to replace my damn camera! LMAO!
Oh and a prescription pill has disappeared into a gap, as it did about two weeks back, in my throat and I only know as something is seeping out and burning like hell as it does so!
I cannot have this happening any longer and will discuss this with a dozen other things at my next GP appointment.Good God it burns ...
One of the following ...
- Gabapentin (which I oddly have wanted replacing years ago) - Fibromyalgia
- Tramadol (which needs either upping or replacing with something better) - Back Pain
- Ramipril (This not been checked for an age now ..) - Stage 2 Hypertension
- Oh its 173 Systolic and 108 Diastolic, Blood Pressure, so yeah not dealth with
- Atrovastatin - Blood Pressure and High Cholesterol
- Lansoprazole ( I have wanted Nexium for 4 years or so) Oesophagitis, Hiatus Hernia
- Metoclopramide - Bad nausea, Postural Hypotension, travelling on Bus in Cars or just in thoue HOUSE
- Quinine Sulphate - Night Cramps, really bad night cramps, I cannot speak a single word
- Amitriptyline - Fibromyalgia
- As the first three are contained in capsules I will assume that it was one of those three getting stuck?! Need LIDOCAINE!!
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
THE LEAFY DRUG WAR
Tuesday, 18 November 2014
THE FRUIT BEARING TREES
I feel like I have been at mt blogs for half a lifetime and wonder to the day things will all fall into place?
It does not help that I have had an extrememly unproductive year and to give an idea of this my YouTube videos should number over 2,000 by now but hardly krept up from the 1,100 or so from one year ago. Considering my one YouTube account acts primarily as a back up for a dozen blogs on a dozen subjects, that...is...terrible! Lol.
I should have been in a very good position by now but due to one thing and another this has not quite reached the heady heights I wanted it to.
Now I have to admit that yes it still could have done. The factors that meddled with things could have been batted away with a simple swipe of the hand. But this would require....how do I put tthis? Help.
During 2015 this very notion of help...or really more correctly support, will become more prevalant and it is hard to explain why right now.
Much of things that I have said seem cryptic throughout the life of this blog and they were quite deliberately so. It might seem very long winded to many but this simply could not have been helped not just because of the size of the enemies I went up against but because of the people I have tried to convey all this too.
People to me seem to have a very difficult time comprehending proof put before them. Why? I simply do not know. If I did my life would have been so much simpler than it is and has been. If everything was easy and straightforawrd I would never, EVER have to have started this blog. By that I meant I simply only had to go to the news media and the job was done. I suspected, however, that they were corrupt also based purely on their respective owners so I could not rely on that.
They did as I feared they would do, nothing...nothing at all not even a letter to say I was a raving lunatic, lol. Hmm or an email as I contacted each and every one of the big names in both formats. It was merely a test to see what was what with the news media and I am afraid each and every one failed. The odd thing is I only ever had one conversation with what I had, prior to the blog of course, and that was with Max Clifford's secretary!
So yeah you could say that the corruption was spread wider than even I thought it had and people thought I was mad, lol. No just smart, able to see things others do not and...I like to think...a visionary. True that the jury is till out on this last one. Until 2015 I would wager?
I, rather annoyingly, do not work. Or to be more accuarate I do not have a job. As I said this is most annoying. I thought that working on this for so long it would feel like I had a job, was doing something, was contributing to society (you see that?!) and helping others. It does feel half the time like I am helping others. It does not, however, feel like a job. But then I am not entirely sure what a job is and whether its somethintg that suits me. I think a career would be more apt a term in this instance.
My point is, is that I have wanted to do something for sometime and I simply cannot find anything hat fits in with everything I have going on. I mean the health, the other rubbish and ... other things besides. A career is not the only thing that I cannot fit into this web of crap I call my life and many others are plainly obvious as you delved further into my older posts.
I thought now that the winter has arrived I would be planning out my next big thing knowing it was a full gone conclusion but as yet I am not. I have to hope that I have a good Spring and Summer 2015 and next year the nest things will be falling into place?
Of course next year means nearing 3.5 years and this opens up a whole new can of worms and then some. Three and a half years that all this has been made available along with anything else I have acquired in the next year. Hmm I could go after a follow up investigation to my knee? Oh, listen to me 'a follow up'? I forgot, they left that diagnosis out of the letter from Guy's Hospital and I have still YET to listen to the all important part of that recording?! Hmm hold up there a minute?!
Right a little work in progress here but I have am finally listening to the damned tape! Takes me soo long to get around to things ...
Currently having trouble pinpointing the yelling out due to knee but found that at...
38 minutes and 14 seconds that he mentions I have the knee problem.
Its annoying the quality could be better in places but I could hardly stop and say "Ooh just a minute while I just fiddle with the audio recorder I am secretly recording you with?
The intention was to get a letter to the GP that was different to what was said on the day. If no one had realised this, sorry I did think it was obvious and sorry if it was not.
OK I think I was looking in the wrong half of the recording, it is...errr over 55 minutes long and I did think it was in the last 10 or 20 minutes? It appears not! Looking like it will be about 20 minutes in, if that and I know this because I have just been asked to get undressed at 15 minutes in. He leaves the room at this point and towards 16 minutes I am having a chat with the trainee. That starts of clearer and then dulls a little but you can still hear what is being said. In fact with the right equpiment you can here everything I think. My audio gear is pretty good, but could be a lot better and I am playing it on two old Acoustic Energy Aego speakers which are diminutive in size but produce a good quality sound.
I talk about the book Figuring Out Fibromyalgia by Ginevra Liptan around 19 minutes into the recording and am still waiting to hear me yell out in pain. I should be hearing the words, please stiffen your legs?
God, how can the loudest sound be so bloody hard to find?! LMAO!
Thirty minutes in and it must be coming up?! I am, being asked to do things with me legs I remember and I was on the hospital bed laying down. Maybe I did not yell out as loud as I remember? Lol!
Found it!!
Bloody hell at long last, now let me just double check the time to exactly when in the recording?
At 31 minutes 26 seconds he asks me to stiffen my leg.
The yell is at 31 minutes and 31 seconds, he states I have a knee cap problem at 31 minutes 45 seconds.
In there somewhere he also does the same thing to my left knee and I am very wary about doing the same thing and getting the same amount of pain. However to me surprise it does not hurt at all?!
The same could not be said for the right knee though and it bloody well hurt like hell.
And NOW for those that did not want to download and listen through 56 minutes of boring banter here is, and finally though I promised months ago the edited portion of that I speak of above.
So to add to the Fibromyalgia the dozen pains I experience the other 100 annoying irritations from it, the vomiting and heartburn from the Hiatus Hernia and Oesophagitis that now needs investigating once again is the second spot of an NHS Doctor of my right knee problem.
Remember the first was Dr Saksena at Chase Farm Hospital and I then ended up with a rather rude, thinking himself scary while still suffereing from delusions of grandeur, Dr Tai and the cancelled MRI for the right knee because they said I did not turn up, a LIE, and then when referred to Barnet Hospital they ignored it and WRONGLY looked at my feet, wrongly x-rayed me as if I was an idiot and then WRONGLY diagnosed it and disagreed with me on something that is well documented...
Here is the 'You have a knee problem!' I still cannot hear what he says and think now he never mentioned it so ...
http://www.wuala.com/allnights/Evidence/NHS/Guys%20KNEE%20PROB.mp3/
Now I do seem to be asble to find the test that he did which seems to be the same except it states nothing about pain in the test, no matter how many times I find and read about it.
Lachman test is the name it appears to be called but it states nothing about pain but does state that the Doctor will place his hand on your lower thigh just above your knee. Sometimes it states that the knee is bent and I could be wrong but I am pretty sure my leg was straight when this was done?
http://www.webmd.com/pain-management/knee-pain/physical-examination-of-the-knee
The pivot-shift test, anterior drawer test and Lachman test are used during the clinical examination of suspected ACL injury. The Lachman test is recognized by most authorities as the most reliable and sensitive test, and usually superior to the anterior drawer test.[13] The ACL can also be visualized using a magnetic resonance imaging scan (MRI scan).An ACL tear can present with a popping sound heard after impact, swelling after a couple of hours, severe pain when bending the knee, and buckling or locking of the knee during movement.Though clinical examination in experienced hands can be accurate, the diagnosis is usually confirmed by MRI, which has greatly lessened the need for diagnostic arthroscopy and which has a higher accuracy than clinical examination. It may also permit visualization of other structures which may have been co-incidentally involved, such as a meniscus, or collateral ligament, or posterolateral corner of the knee joint.
The term for non-surgical treatment for ACL rupture is "conservative management", and it often includes physical therapy and using a knee brace. Instability associated with ACL deficiency increases the risk of other knee injuries such as a torn meniscus, so sports with cutting and twisting motions are problematic and surgery is often recommended in those circumstances.
- Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior_cruciate_ligament_injuryNow if you have not followed the letter I got from this Doctor Kirkham from Guy's Hospital did not state a single thing about the knee, the test of it nor the pain I experienced from the test on my right knee. This right knee is one that I have given details of previously and several people were present when I did the major thing and it 'popped'. It may have been present previous to this I simply cannot remember. That popping took place over ten years ago because my father was present at the time.
The letter, laso to be found on here, also did not state that which he did at the appointment in that he had no problems telling my Doctor to prescribe Pregabalin.
I still have not been put on it but then I have not asked my current GP about it and decided to give a combination of Gabapentin and Amitriptyline a go first, though Dr Kirkham stated that I could take the Amirtriptyline with the Pregabalin.
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
THE PLAYING OF CHARADES
Monday, 4 August 2014
THE WHOOZY SYNDROME
The pills I have been given along with the ones I was already taking seem to have had a very bizarre effect on me which seems to have become stronger each of the three days I have taken them.
I feel tired and slow and that is an understatement, let me tell you. I ... I'm having difficulties thinking straight and carrying on with this post. I just want to lie down all the time and yesterday I was messaged in the late afternoon to be invited to a barbecue and I was out of it on the sofa. When I did read it I did manage to get there.
It is very weird and I hope it goes, I will not be able to function like this at all!
Oh my word! I am going to have to lie down even though it 5.17pm and I have been lying down upstairs for God know how long?!
The drugs are 300mg Gabapentin, 25mg Amitriptyline, 50mg Sertraline, 200mg Tramadol and 30mg Lansoprazole.
Friday, 20 June 2014
THE NICE EFFECT
Thursday, 19 June 2014
THE SCAREDY CATS
Tuesday, 17 June 2014
PROJECT ZERO WITH NAUSEA
Friday, 7 March 2014
SUMMING UP NHS GP'S
“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.”
Monday, 4 November 2013
FIT FOR A KING
I am in Enfield Town library and I just had one off my black out moments, only this time it was worryingly strong.
Now there is a very peculiar oddity about this occasion and that is the reason why I ended yo where I did.
I had not initially left the house to visit the library but an odd set of circumstances led me there. I thought maybe I would take a gander in a medical dictionary at Fibromyalgia?
Now what was the funny coincidence? I was quite unusually on my knees and placing back a copy of Blacks Medical Dictionary when I started to feel that all too familiar tingly and warm feeling. Yes you read that right I was putting back a bloody medical dictionary! Lol.
Note this one continued beyond the blurry vision to complete black out which is very rare. Luckily I was on my knees and leaning against the reference section having just placed the book back in place. Afterwards I am usually a little fuzzy and out off it and the stronger it turns out to be the more out if it I am.
The worst every occurrence of this was a very long time ago and was unconscious round a friends place for thirty minutes. As I awoke I could feel convulsions in my legs body and chest and was, don't laugh, on the floor of his toilet with my trousers round my ankles, lol. O was convinced at the time this was a Grand Mal Seizure and it could be argued that the others were all mild seizures to one degree or another.
Only these seizures have a golden rule add they only occur when I'm crouching or sitting and then stand up. Well normally. But not today.
As for the Fibromyalgia read up Blacks Medical Dictionary, yes it does seem even more oddly suited to Mr symptoms than my previous estimations. Even adding my sleep problems and unexplainable headaches into the mix.
There is on last peculiarity too and this one has blown me away. To start with I should not have been able to get as far add the library today! After an easy week I had a couple of bad days and had decided that the Amitriptyline was not having an affect. Or do I thought.
Today something bizarre was happening in that after awhile I noticed the flat off my heels felt different. There eds nor much in the way of the usual difficulties and at times I found my feet felt as close to normal as they had done since the first pains thirteen years ago?! I was somewhat dumbfounded by this to say the least. I thought perhaps the Amitriptyline WAS avidly doing something?!
In the care and management section under Fibromyalgia what does it state? Only two drugs have had any effect on Fibromyalgia and one of those is Amitriptyline!! The other was called Serotonine or something similar obviously to do with the serotonin levels in the brain. So I'm guessing it was someone I knew that had been prescribed this drug and not me add I would have certainly noted any effect on my feet.
A shame then that neither this drug nor Tramadol is doing anything about my back pain!! Or my shoulder!
Lmao!