Out of Commission

I was a little out of sorts the last few days.  New medication, so I had to get used to it.  Anyone with neuropathy will know what I mean.

Neuropathy Going Nuts

For the last week this neuropathy has been going absolutely nuts.  It is about to drive me crazy.  I have had about 14 hours of sleep total since Sunday.  I am exhausted, to say the least.  I can only hope that this lets up soon.  Every time I try to go to sleep, it seems as if it gets worse.  I don’t think it is actually worse, but I don’t have anything to do and it becomes more apparent to me.

Did anyone see the truck that hit me?

I have been in the process of quiting a medication prescribed by my doctor.  it just wasn’t working out for me.  The bad part is that I feel as though a truck of some type hit me.  When I get up in the morning it’s at it’s worst.  I just feel awful.  I don’t know for sure that it is the medication that is doing the trick of if I am having dome kind of flare up.  I have to say that it has been quite a struggle to make it through the day.  Well, I will keep trucking along.

Not Much Sleep

Due to the bout with neuropathy last night I didn’t get much sleep.  I finally got to sleep sometime after 2:08am, as this was the last time I looked at the clock.  Wake up time came entirely too early and I am now feeling the effects of no sleep.  Not getting sleep has detrimental effects on you over-all attitude towards just about everything.  Needless to say, I have had a fun time trying to not say nasty things to everyone.

Neuropathy

This is one of those times when having neuropathy really sucks.  I should be in bed asleep right now, but I have that pins and needles feeling all over.  Laying still makes it that much worse.  In fact, the longer you lay still the more you want to jump out a window.  Unfortunalty, my window is not that far off the ground and I would only make it worse.  My wife is a real saint for putting up with my eradic behavior.  The Pope is coming to America, maybe I should mention her to him.  Ok, I think I will give it another try.  I do have to work tomorrow and I guess getting a little sleep helps your attitude at work.

Letter to Hillary about Healthcare

Hillary,

I have peripheral neuropathy.  I currently have insurance through my wife’s work and its not that bad, but not as good as the insurance that I previously had through my former health insurance company.  I was wondering about your plan to make sure that every American had health insurance.  Is this going to cost me an arm and a leg?  Heres my problem.  If my wife decides to change jobs and is not able to get insurance through that company, I am basically shit out of luck.  No insurance company is going to give me a decent rate because I have a disease.  Its not like it will kill me, but I do have to go to the doctor at least twice a year, take expensive medications, and get expense tests from time to time.  Insurance companies do NOT like this.  Will your plan prevent this kind of discrimination or not?  Will your plan pay for my medications, doctor visits and expensive tests without spending hours on the phone and taking all my money?  Oh yeah, a friend of mine brings up a good point.  Do you intend to be insured by this plan, see the doctors that will be available to me on this plan, and take the medications offered by this plan or do you intend to seek coverage elsewhere?  Well, let me know, because MY quality of life may depend on your answer.

Sincerely,

N3RVP4IN

More Medicine

I recently had to increase the amount of Lyrica that I take.  100mg three times a day.  I think that this dosage is starting to help with the pain.  My only fear is that the directions say you can only take 450mg of Lyrica a day.  Of course, one thing I have learned about neuropathy is that you don’t always follow the directions.  One thing I have noticed is brittle fingernails.  I have to trim them 2 times a week or they break all the time.  Even then they still break.  I can live with that though.

Neuropathy in the Morning

I have been experiencing some wonderful effects of neuropathy.  When I wake up in the morning it is as if long spikes have been driven through the bottoms of my feet all the way to my calves.  If slowly fades through the morning and there isn’t that much pain late in the morning.  In the evening, it does start to come back.  Sometimes just thinking about going to sleep and having to get up in the morning makes me cringe.  Oh well,  I will be off to complain to the doctor soon.  Of course, I don’t know that he will be able to do anything about it either.

Feeling better.

I am feeling better after this illness I’ve had for the last few days.  Having neuropathy really sucks when you are sick.  The pain will not go away and you can’t get away from it.

Neuropathy and Being Sick

I have not been feeling well for the last couple of days.  My neuropathy has been absolutely horrible.  I think it is because I had a cold or something, but I’m not sure.  It feels as if my hands and feet were set on fire and someone put it out to punish me, instead of letting me just burn up and get it over with.  I’m not sure if this is a common problem among people with neuropathy, but this seems to happen to me anytime I’m get a cold or anything like that.  Its times like these that you pray for better medications even if you are not religious.