Journal Entry for April 24, 2007
April 24, 2007 12:58am
I feel so much better now that my antidepressants have kicked in. My pain is still incredibly high but when I'm not depressed I can tolerate what my …
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I have been married for 16 years and have a 14 year-old son. I have worked at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester for the past 13 years. I am working on my masters degree in community counseling at Winona State University. My passion, when I finish school, is to work with sexually abused children to hopefully stop the cycle of abuse, drugs, depression, etc. My philosophy is to live one day at a time and make the best of each day.
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Journal Entry for April 12, 2007
April 12, 2007 11:08pm
Well, its been awhile again but so much has happened in the lasy month or so I don't know where to start. I have been in an extremely deep depression …
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Journal Entry for March 19, 2007
March 19, 2007 2:09pm
I haven't written in awhile again. I have been busy with school, started back to work again a few hours a day, just returned from Mexico, and I am …
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Journal Entry for February 5, 2007
February 5, 2007 1:39am
Sorry I haven't written in awhile. I have had a lot of things going on lately. I have been sick with a terrible chest cold, I recently had an …
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Journal Entry for January 21, 2007
January 21, 2007 2:36pm
Too exhausted to write yesterday. We had my friend's funeral yesterday and it was sad but wonderful at the same time. It turned out to be a very long …
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happy halloween, hope your night is filled with lots of spooky crap
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thank you so much for saying you will be there for me, you dont know how much it means to me. i will try and be here for you as well tiff
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Kim, thank you for your comment in my journal, i am glad you are here as well, thanks for making me feel so welcome, tiff
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Kim, I lost my best friend exactly one year ago today, to Breast cancer. She was only 35 with 2 little kids. It was heartbreaking. I still think of her daily, and always will. Take comfort that she is in a better place and you will see her again someday. laurie
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Close Chronic Pain
The short version. I was hurt at work 8 years ago, October 1998, and after fighting with work comp and the Mayo Clinic for 4 years I finally had to have a lumbar fusion. Had I had proper treatment early on I may not have needed such extensive surgery however; that didn't happen so they wound up fusing from L-4 thru S-1. I did great for about 6 months after surgery then the pain stated again. Unfortunately I got hurt again in March 2006. Now the pain is unbearable.
Treatments
- Cymbalta Working / Worked
- I wasn't sure it was working at first until we tried to decrease my dose and found out that it was working like it is supposed to.
- Hydrocodone Not Working
- Made me extremely ill.
- Lyrica Not Working
- Side effects were aweful.
- Methadone Considering
- Has recently been "black boxed" by the FDA.
- Nerve Blocks Working / Worked
- Worked sometimes but other times it didn't. When it worked I only got temporary relief.
- Oxycodone Somewhat Helpful
- Makes the pain tolerable however; countinuously increasing the dosage which eventually will quit working all together.
- Physical Therapy Not Working
- Did more harm than good. They pushed me beyond my limits.
- TENS Working / Worked
- Worked for awhile but I got so used to it not even the highest setting worked anymore.
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