Just 4 Today I’m going to drink my 2 liters of water and test my blood sugar with great regularity (just now, 1/2 hour after breakfast – 7am, it’s 150). I wish I could promise vist the Migun massage beds, but they’re just too far off the highway and I know I won’t do it.
But for those of you close to one of their storefronts — it’s well worth a visit (FREE!)
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And at 7:40 it was 185. I think the fake Rice Chex aren’t a good idea (another emergency cereal issue). This doesn’t happen with the fake Cheerios.
Just 4 Today I’ll stop at the store and buy a better cereal. And renew my metformin also.
Just 4 Today I’m going to keep up with the drinking of water. I’m also going to start walking a little farther. And, I have a dental appointment. Oh for Joy, the waiting is just killing me:).
Just 4 Today I will drink my 6-8 glasses of water, and choose the grilled instead of crispy chicken on my lemon-desecrated salad.
Thanks for the warning on the faux rice chex kbird. That sounds really extreme for cereal. Were they sweetened, and how much sugar did you put? Cereal is a hard one. I got some faux cheerios, supposedly superduper xtra healthy organic ones made from humanely treated free range oats, and they had so little taste of any kind, it was clear that if they were to be edible, I would have to add about a pound of sugar to one bowl. So instead of doing that, I decided to do my part to escalate the growing bird and squirrel obesity problem in the neighborhood. Right now I have that Kashi 979 different delicious whole grain xtreme flakes, which are very crispy, taste a bit like bran flakes in some bites, and a bit like nothing in others, I wish I could find those organic corn flakes again, they were about the best so far.
FamilyMan, when you go to the dentist, do they give you pain killers? Do you tell them that you take them every day, or slyly forget to mention it, so painful is your tooth, so that you get a little condiment to put on your percocets? I think I like the OcyContin-Percocet combo. It does last longer. Did you know they are the same drug? Both are ocycodone, just the Oxycontin is the slow release flavor.
Hey, Manito! did you weigh? Have you become dashing now? Every time I have salad now, especially in homes where “bring your own dressing” is the watchword, I think of you and smile.
Just 4 today, I received a gift of Cuban sandwiches! Made by a nice Cuban, not the right wing just you wait till Fidel dies, we will go reclaim our family’s mansion which was the most splendid of all Cuba, oh how we danced the night away, Batista was a saint, I tell you, a saint! What can be done to stop those distasteful Mexicans from coming here, eating beans that are not black! Prononcing the letter “s”! Dating our beautiful daughters, who are pure Spanish you know, we do not have any African ancestors. We have perms.
Anyway, not one of those, but a very personable and interesting gentleman, we listened to Miss Celia Cruz and had a nice conversation about Pablo Neruda, Che, the undeniable exceptional qualities of our descendants, and the intricacies of Cubansandwichology.
And just 4 tonight, as Madame and I once again attempt to stay awake for the late night Olympic repeat, to perform our Fashion Police duty, so critical now that ladies’ skating has begun, I will have between one and two cubic inches of chocolate cake, which Madame in her wisdom has caused to become present, and we will see what the meter says.
Hello All. I just got back from the dentist. Three extractions. Although this doesn’t come close to a migraine – This S**t hurts. They gave me something weaker than what I take for migraines, but even if they hadn’t given me anything, I wouldn’t touch my migraine medicine. Some pain is just so bad you just don’t want to chance being without something for relief.
DTF I knew about the oxycontin and percocet. I was thinking about you today and wondered since your pain last so long has your doctor ever talked to you about one of the narcotic patches. I talked to my doctor once about it and he told me that it takes a little time for the effect to build up with the patch and what I needed was relief right away. I don’t know if that might be an option for you. BTW enjoy your cake tonight.
Ductape, I never put sugar on my cereal, in fact we use so little sugar around here that a couple of months ago when mister started to make some cookies for his mother we found that our bag of sugar (which we couldn’t remember even buying) had hardened into a 5 pound brick. So we had to buy some and that’s the only reason we have any at all for my disasterous cocoa experiments. And why I’m not so good at estimating how much to add. Generally, it’s nothing. But I hear that doesn’t work for cocoa.
I think my fake cheerios work ok for me — I’ll have to check again with some hyper-accute mega tests, but I don’t remember it having rocket-fuel tendencies.
I too am looking forward to hearing Manny’s report. Plus I haven’t talked to him today (sigh, where is he?).
O, and what’s in a Cuban sandwich? I used to work with a Cuban woman, but she was very much, well I’m guessing that you must know her, she lived on the estate next to Batista’s. She said. Although she couldn’t have been more than 2 years old when she left.
I know — Ice Skating, I knew I was forgetting something. Will the girl who refuses to practice win? All America waits to find out (except my friend at work who cheated and looked up the results) And don’t forget Survivor! A Kansas girl one last time, so anything can happen.
Yikes! This is long. . .
FamilyMan, 3 extractions sounds like a major thing to me. What did they give you? If it is not working, call and tell them you need something else. For some of them, it is said that if you will take Benadryl or some other over the counter cold medicines that it will help the effect, but I haven’t really tried that much, they told me to take Benadryl when I had laryngitis, and I didn’t notice any enhancement, but all things like that are so individual. Be SURE to resist the urge to brush your teeth, and let only warm salt water touch the wounds for 48 hours. Just drink milkshakes, not with a straw, lest it go astray, but carefully keep it on the non-wounded side. You do not want to disturb the new blood clots there. Try to sleep as much as you can. Maybe your doctor will give you a small amount of a sleeping potion, or take some Valerian root.
They haven’t mentioned patches to me yet. But I was only just diagnosed in late November, and we all hope, especially me, that the Oxycontin will prove to be the missing ingredient. And today is definitely better, though I think I may have taken 2 of the percocets with the OxyContin this morning, so I’m not really sure yet. Such are the vagaries of age and low vision.
Hi, FamilyMan — I can’t get your migraines out of my mind. Have you looked in the Clinical Trials Database to see what research is being done? Also, is there a world famous migraine center? Who is the leading migraine doctor?
I’m used to thinking with my headaches that they’re a symptom of something else — is that true with migraine headaches?
Also, have you had an MRI? You don’t have to tell me. But, it might be something to consider. (actually you don’t have to answer any of this — I just can’t stop thinking)
Oh, and FamilyMan — I am so sorry. I actually know your pain with that.n I’ve never forgotten – even after 30 years. When I had my wisdom teeth pulled I kept tea bags on my wounds for 3 days. It’s supposed to help clotting, I think.
I had all four teeth extracted on the same day and one of them was two teeth fused together & the doctor wanted to keep it together so he could take a picture of it for a book. So it took over 2 hours and my entire face turned black from the bruising. I hope this hasn’t happened to you??
Anyway — the tea bags really helped. I don’t remember what pain killer they gave me.
Which one refuses to practice? Please no one tell me the results in case our Cafe du Monde ( 2level teaspoons and organic blue milk for me, 4 tablespoons and half a cup of heavy cream for Madame) fails us.
The rule that works for me regarding sugar is somewhere between 1/2 and one teaspoon for cereal, 2 level as mentioned for coffee, jelly takes the cereal rule, fresh strawberries a bit less than a teaspoon.
The principle is, if what you are adding the sugar to has carbs and nets and grams and things, less sugar. If it is something like coffee, which does not, and that blue milk isn’t going to have much more of those than the coffee, you can have a little more. So chocolate will be somewhere in between, because it has some nets, grams, etc, but not too much, if you get Luker brand anyway, which is a solid block of unsweetened chocolate, which gives you more control. If you are using powder you can probably get away with a bit more because of the lack of chocolate fat.
Control is also a cereal factor. If you buy a cereal that has less sugar already, you can add a little and be ok, and you get to decide how much you will add. But the advantage of your method is that you have more choices, since you are not adding any, you can afford to get a cereal that has a slightly higher sugar number on the label.
A Cuban sandwich is a sandwich made on Cuban bread, which if you have not had it, by all means get some. It is what the French only wish their ovens would produce. Inside the sandwich are lean pork, ham, cheese? I can’t remember if there was cheese. and pickle. Mustard is also present. The sandwich is then toasted with a method called planchita which is the same word used for iron, as in the kind for removing wrinkles from clothing. It means it is toasted between 2 pieces of hot metal, the top one very heavy, so the sandwich emerges smushed and flattened a bit. Yes they are large, but do not worry Puget, I cut small slices only for myself
kbird that sounds horrific! I do not wonder that you still remember it!
FamilyMan I agree with kbird both in thinking of your migraines, and wondering if they have done tests to rule out other causes. Especially the increase in frequency from every few months to twice a week sounds extreme to me.
kbird I can remember a very long time ago having severe headaches behind my eyes and becoming frightened, I visited a shaman who explained to me all about the sinuses
Since then from time to time when the problem has recurred I have had good results with antibiotics, decongestants, and on a couple of the more modern occasions, a spray thing with steroids. Maybe you should ask your doctor if your headaches could have suspected links to infected sinus terror.
Thanks KB and Ductape. To begin, I haven’t eaten anything all day and don’t intend to try until tomorrow. I had 2 MRI’s in the last three years and they all showed normal. My family doctor sent me to a neurologist near here to begin with and he ran out of all his options. When that failed he sent me to a well-known Neurologist at UAB (University of Alabama) medical center. As I said before I’ve had them for over 20 years, but within the last 2 years the severity and frequency have become worse. The doctors frankly don’t know what’s going on, but keep trying something new after each visit. I was put on anti depressants for awhile because I was feeling like I was coming to the end of my rope. Their frequency is starting to lengthen out to about one every two weeks now, so I am hopeful this will continue. I’m frankly just happy I’ve found a doctor that will prescribe something strong enough to make the pain just bearable. I’ve gone all over the web looking up stuff on migraines. As I told my doctor I’m willing to try anything at all except something invasive. He has mentioned a neural block. It’s something where they inject lidocaine into a nerve on the side of your head. I found out these only last for 5 to 6 hours and having to make a 70-mile round trip to have this done just doesn’t fell feasible to me.
I’ve had to go to emergency rooms before because even the Percocet wouldn’t stop the pain. Boy could I tell you some horror stories about some ER docs I’ve seen. I’ve found that going into an ER and telling the doctor what you have and what works best is the last thing you want to do. I always expect to spend and extra 3 hours in the ER because the doctor wants to try everything else except what I could have told them worked.
I guess the pain med. for me teeth is kicking in because I’m getting pretty long winded. Let me just say thank you both. It means a lot to me to be able to talk to someone about this that is understanding and sympathetic.
Oh Ductape, I forgot to mention with your pain medicine. Do they prescribe an anti-emetic or anti nausea drug along with yours. The anti nausea drug acts as a potentiater for the pain med. I usually have horrendous nausea along with the migraine and I take Promethazine along with the Percocet. It definitely helps the nausea and boost the pain killing effect also.
No, FamilyMan, they did not. I have not had any nausea with any pain medicine they have given me, so I guess since it is basically the same drug but in slow release form and the others just with reduced acetominophen, they did not bother. Do you think I should mischievously feign nausea and ask for some Promethazine just to crank it all up a notch?
Well if your not having nausea I don’t know. But I do know the anti nausea meds do boost the pain killing effect. You had mentioned earlier about benadryl. I forgot to mention earlier that in the medicines I take for the migraine, I also have to take benadryl, becasue the oxycodone makes me itch so badly. You would think with all that it would put me to sleep, but as I said earlier all of it just take the edge off the pain.
Ductape, I think there was a sinus element to my headaches. But the fact that they almost completely disappeared after I changed jobs from one library system to another makes me think that it really was mostly stress. And then my dad’s mother once told me that her migraines disappeared after menopause. So, that might be an element.
FamilyMan — I’m glad very you’re getting so many opinions and tests, I know they aren’t pleasant (I’ve had catScans for mine and that’s bad enough). But, it’s worth the frustration of a non-answer to know for sure that it isn’t a brain tumor or aneurysm. I think.
Headaches are so mysterious and frustrating in addition to the pain. And I think the kind of treatment we get is totally dependent on the expectations of the doctor. And FamilyMan, I’ve been to the emergency room, it’s just as you say — plus the additional pain of the bad lights.
Oh FamilyMan, thank you for validating my itching! I had begun to think that that dermatologist visit, (which I really do need to make), might be more urgent than I suspected, as I could find no lesion or rash to correspond to it.
kbird it could be that the building you worked in assaulted your sinuses. If they are sensitive, variations in things like air conditioning, or even the composition of book dust, maybe some books were in the old one that are not in the new one, the material used in fabric covering for chairs, the most absurd things, it seems, can affect sinuses, if they have a fractious personality.
FamilyMan, have you tried consulting with an eastern practitioner? Some people who suffer from migraine have been helped with acupuncture, older medicines, etc.
Ductape, I was thinking about eastern medicine for migrains also.
No I haven’t yet. You’ve got to remember in the backwoods of Alabama there aren’t to many acupuncturist. Bootleggers yes – Acupuncturist no. I have another appointment with my neurologist in April and I will bring that up with him. As I said before he seems pretty progressive and open to suggestions, so I’ll see what he says about that. Also, it will depend on if my retiree Tri-Care insurance will cover it. I’m just living on an enlisted man’s retirement now, which isn’t that much. The dental procedures are pushing me to the limits now, so right now it robbing Peter to pay Paul. Isn’t life wonderful. So many ailments and so little money.
But DTF as far as your itching goes, I would try the benadryl along with your pain medicine. It appears to a be pretty common side effect among people taking these kinds of medicines.
I am fixing to take me some Benadryl right now!
A southern idiom for your delight!
I think it would be worth asking your insurance cartel about it, even getting your western shaman to recommend it, if they respond to or require that kind of thing, as well as making some inquiries about eastern practitioners in the nearest city, if Alabama does not boast any actual cities, maybe check in Atlanta. I do not know the name of a practitioner to recommend there, but I can attest to its authentic and bona fide cityhood.
FamilyMan, Have you ever tried that pressure point thing? Supposedly you can press on that area between your thumb and index finger to relieve migraines. People have told me about this since the 70s. It never helped me. But — who knows, it might be just the thing.
That experience I mentioned about taking biofeedback training — that was totally paid for by insurance. But they wouldn’t do it now. It’s specifically excluded from coverage. As is all treatment for TMJ (which was why I was taking it).
I hate the insurance industry.
You don’t know how many times I start to type I’m fixin to do something and then catch myself. Although I still use the idiom i was given so much good natured ribbing in the military that I finally got out of the habit. Although I’ll never give up my beloved word ya’ll. KB I haven’t tried the pressure point thing, but I’m going on the web to look it up and find out about it. Actually this is the first time I’ve ever heard of it.
I hate insurance companies too, but after my heart bypass surgery I really can’t complain that much. They took care of almost everything and I know today if I didn’t have the military tricare I would be dead.
Thank Ya’ll for the listening and suggestions, and DTF I hope the benadryl works for you.
Here’s one description -http://ehealthforum.com/health/topic29002.html (look at the one from Jack60).
But, there are many pages that talk about it. I first heard of it from my faux-hippie friends back in the 70s. They studied reflexology (which is related to shiatsu
The reflexology link is just to a google search — there are about a million pages on it.
My friends were obsessed with it for a while.
Thanks KB, I copied it down and will delve into it tomorrow.
You know I’m not much of a diary writer, but I wrote a story one time about the most horrible ER visit I had with a migraine. Then I wrote a list of do’s and don’t if you are ever faced with the situation. I was wondering if I could email it to you to look over and see if it has any merit as a diary entry here.
I can tell just from what you’ve said that it would be perfect. But, I’d be happy to look it over if you’d like.
[ON EDIT] my email: katiebird@gmail.com
Thanks KB, I’ll dig it out of my archives and email it to you tomorrow. Also please feel free to edit or change anything at all. I’m not the best writer and any help is always appreciated.
I’ll keep a lookout for it.
Family Man, your experiences really got to me … i’m so sorry you’ve suffered such horrible pain. Yeah … ER docs … one here, about 6-7 years ago, beat his wife to death, put her in a car and tried to make it look like she had a fatal car accident. He was tried and found guilty by reason of insanity. I can’t recall if he’s out or in a halfway house, but he was deemed ready for release recently, which caused an uproar here.