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1185122 tn?1264608598

IN PAIN ALL THE TIME.

I am 42 years old and have lots of things wrong, like very high blood pressure; oh and thyroid disorder my whole life, lost all of my hair three time its comes back abouit 80% and then falls out again since i was seventeen. Lets see what else, osteoarthritis i can barely use my right arm because of so much pain and also a have a large herniated disc which causes a lot of pain in my lower part of my back and both sides of my butt and both legs all the way to my feet and had three epidural didn't help but about a week with each epidural and they are not really good for you.. And I have to have surgery on my spine next month; right now i have to take lots of tests first, like persantine cardiolite stress test which takes five hours then more test the same day. Like doppler of the neck, 2d heart echo, ekg, mri, chest x ray and blood work all in on day, what a day thats going to be. i take twenty one deffferant  pill. i get all this  done feb second and pray  that they don't find anything else wrong. I am so tire of bing in pain some nights i cry. I use to be a care giver to my father and he pass away about year and half ago. I have no kids i have my nephew and i use to take in teenage boys oh boy they was something else and my other brother had a massive brain aneursim around six year ago and now i take care of him and he ok thank god just has short term memory; but it drves me crazy. The man that i was going to marry got murder. I have been a very strong woman until lately I cry easy, but I fight it  and take a deep breath and keep on going and PRAY TO GOD BECAUSE HE WILL MAKE EVERY THING ALRIGHT AND I DO HAVE FAITH>
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1187071 tn?1279369698
I am so sorry to hear about all your problems. I hope and pray things get better. My father inlaw I think he is getting old timers and he repeats his self all the time and sometimes it does get to me but others I just laugh at him, we are really close and I don't know what I would do without my father inlaw I love him like my own dad. Having people in your life can reallly help. But sometimes I think the people I love are getting sick of hearing about my pain. I had a good friend killed by her husband and then he killed his self, that was the worse thing I have been through. But to have someone you are so much closer to die I don't think I could get through it, I see that your strong and you can get through this. Just think good thoughts and remind your self how strong you are, my hubby tells me all the time how strong I am so it is really weird saying be strong cause I don't feel strong at all. Hang in there.
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1182304 tn?1349305951
Sorry to hear about all your probelms!  I used to work as a paramedic and an old partner of mine use to say "god only gives you what you can handle" .  Sometimes I think he is really testing me on that one! LOL

I also suffer from chronic pain in the lower back from a old fusion and the disc above it is also ruptured.  Some days I just want to hide in a corner and not move.  I also care for my elderly mother who at 86 (I'm 43) I swear is in better shape then I am!  But she does need some help seeing things and not falling over something as she has neuropathy in both feet.

Like you I suffer from high blood pressure, high cholesterol and thyroid probelms. I was diagnoised as having syndrome X which is a metabolic syndrome causing all the above probelms.  The one good thing about being in pain was they put me on fentenyl which made me drop 70lbs and has helped all the metabolic probelms I had.  So in one hand I guess my pain helped me before I had a heart attack!

I wish you the best of luck and remember there are a lot of good people here going through very simular probelms as you are.  Always good to have a place to vent!



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