smokefreemom’s Profile

Open Ovarian Cancer

i am a 41 year old woman who had ovarian cancer when i wa in my mid 30's it was removed in 2000 and since then hasn't come back i am now a survivor of ovarian cancer for 6 years. and would like to give support to others who are battling ovarian cancer or are survivors of ovarian cancer thank you

Treatments

Surgery Working / Worked

a laprascopy was done and that's how it was found on my ovary my right one my right ovary was spared of the tumor

Open Asthma
Type: Adult Asthma

i have had asthma since childhood and now im an adult i still have it i use albuterol and advair to control it they both work very well for me

Treatments

Advair Working / Worked

advair is very helpful

Inhaler Working / Worked

albuterol is very helpful

Open ADHD / ADD

i've had my adhd/add since i was 14 years old i take ritalin la for it it helps alot to control my symptoms

Treatments

Ritalin Working / Worked

is very helpful i'm attentive able to follow directions and have good attention span

Open Bipolar Disorder

i've been schizoaffective with bipolar since i was 5 years old wasn't diagnosed till my 20's i am now baseline i take my meds everyday and night to stay stable and out of hospitals

Treatments

Abilify Working / Worked

works very well for me i had no trouble with it at all

Depakote Working / Worked

works very well for me i had no problems with it

Risperdal Working / Worked

works very well for me have no problems with it

Seroquel Not Working

stopped working for me in 2001 i started to decomp got worse after my mother died put on risperidal doing much better now

Open Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

i developed ptsd after the death of my mother who passed away in front of me i was alone with her and when help arrived they were too late she was already gone i was also taking serequel but it stopped working for me before her death and i started to decomp before her death and when she died the decomping got worse. and i ended up in the hospital

Treatments

Seroquel Not Working

stopped working for me before the death of my mom

Open Restless Legs Syndrome

hello everyone my name is rosalyn and i think my rls was passed on by my mother she suffered terible leg pain at night and was taking naprosyn every time i turned around sadly she passed away she complianed of the pain going from her hips all the way down to her feet this is how my discomfort is too in my hips all the way down top my feet i am 41 and she was 69 when she passed away i think it may have been passed on to me she told me that her legs hurt her when she was pregnant with me and my little sister

Open Restless Legs Syndrome

hello everyone my name is rosalyn and i think my rls was passed on by my mother she suffered terible leg pain at night and was taking naprosyn every time i turned around sadly she passed away she complianed of the pain going from her hips all the way down to her feet this is how my discomfort is too in my hips all the way down top my feet i am 41 and she was 69 when she passed away i think it may have been passed on to me she told me that her legs hurt her when she was pregnant with me and my little sister

Open Bedwetting

i have been wetting my bed since i had a very large cyst on top of my bladder the size of a6 month fetusmy ob/gyn spotted it with an transvaginal ultrasound he was going to aspirate it with a large needle in my abdomen but it shrunk on it's own but has now weakened my bladder muscles i tried ditropan that worked for awhile but then my bedwetting got worse i'm 42 years old and i live in a group home for the mentally ill and the director told me that what i was having trouble with is NOT normal.

Treatments

Desmopressin Somewhat Helpful

ditropan did work for awhile but then my problem got worse

Diapers Working / Worked

somehow trains my bladder from not realeasing the urine in my bladder?

Open Urinary Incontinence

i started having trouble with urinary incontinence when my ob/gyn found through transvaginal ultrasound a very large cyst on my bladder the size of a 6 month fetus but went away on it's own but weakened my bladder muscles

Treatments

Detrol Working / Worked

i had only 2 bedwettng incidents since i started it it will be two weeks as of tuesday january 22 since i've been taking it my family doctor refered me to a urinologist that i had gone to in the past and he prescribed the detrol la for me

Diapers Working / Worked

for some reason whih i don't know why when i wear them at night i wake up dry even though i'm taking the detrol la ????

Ditropan Somewhat Helpful

it was helping at first but then the problem got worse

Kegel Exercise Considering

i had both my children by -section so i'm coonsidering doing the kegel exercise to see i that will help i know how to do the kegel exercise i wonder if anyone else has done it and if it worked for them?

Open Menopause

well i will be seeing my doc tommorow because i have been getting hot flashes and skipping periods i am in my 40's i am 42 years old so i think i might be perimenopausal so i am looking for others who are experiencingthe same thing or are actually in menopause

Open Bullying

i was bullied in elementary school from age 5 to 10 by teachers and students and years later i find myself bullying a girl in the group home i live in why i do this i don't know i wish i new how to stop it. does anyone have any suggestions or ideas?. please help