Re: RSD & Lidoderm Patches?
- From: "earthpots" <earthpots@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 23:29:32 -0500
CatEyes wrote:
"kittychats" <eileen_73@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hey-
I've got good news, if this goes RSD specific, I eventually started
sweating and they have trouble sticking, LOL...
kittychats
ROTFLMAO! Didn't think of that - except with my luck I'd get on my
treadmill to walk and, as has always been the case in the last three
years, would start sweating on my left side only! ;>
I think I've got the solution, though, after thinking about it a
lot... I've promised myself that I would try again to start walking
on my treadmill for half an hour every day after work (I can't walk
fast, but I can keep it up for half an hour on *most* days *if* I'm
determined enough)*. Then, instead of taking a shower and putting on
my 'jammies, I'll jump in the bathtub instead - with the patches
still on - until they come loose in the warm water all on their own. Sound
like a plan? Remember, I'm counting on the RSD "ole timers"
here to let me know *before* I do something stupid if that is at all
possible ;>.
I once forgot to take mine off, and hopped in the shower. The warm water
softened the gel, and the patch slid right off. Kinda the same effect you
get with removing jello from a mold. And jello and Lidoderm have gelatin as
their main ingredient. So, I don't see any reason why that wouldn't work.
*I really need to start walking again not only for my health, not only
because it's almost mandatory for the chemo-therapy I might (or might
decide not to) soon take, but also because it lifts my spirits so
much. Just that little bit of serotonin that a slow walk releases
into my brain helps keep me from getting too depressed. And I
*REALLY* start suffering from depression at this time of year when
the weather stays bleak and drizzly (even though it stays warm,
mostly, in the winter here in Houston). I think it's called seasonal
depression - it comes about when I haven't seem the sun for a month
or two, it gets dark at 5PM, etc.
I'm also soliciting questions I should be asking my doctor so I won't
have to bother you guys on the group with my stupid questions. I'm
going to make a written list so that my PM doctor phobia won't make
the visit valueless - if nothing else I can just hand him the list to
read himself. Questions about problems like the one I'm thinking of
and having problems with right now - aphasia - I try and try to find
the correct word to use to make my meaning clear to people and it
just won't come to mind (doesn't have to be a rare or esoteric word,
could be just about *any* word)!
It's not too important when I'm writing and can just wait for 5 or 10
minutes until the word comes back to me, or look it up on an online
thesaurus, but it's a *HUGE* problem when I'm trying to discuss
something with my manager or coworkers, get to a point in the middle
of a sentence and just draw a blank. Not only is this very
embarrassing, but it's driving me crazy because I *used* to have a
very large vocabulary. Is this is symptom of RSD or do the opiates
do this also?
I am *SO* tired of being on this emotional roller-coaster. Which
reminds me - other than the obvious connection between pain and
emotion, is it specific to RSD that when my pain meds are working and
I'm feeling (somewhat) pain-free, I *feel* good and I am "up" and
interested in what's going on around me, and wanting to do things;
but when I'm hurting really badly I just want to crawl into some hole
and pull in down on top of me and make the world go away.
Like today, I'm feeling pretty "manic" (as if you couldn't tell from
the amount of and length of my posts here ;>). But last night was
"change the patch" night and I took one extra BT pill this morning. I know
that I'll have to cut back later on in the week or over the
weekend to get my BT meds back on schedule, but this week is when we
have to get FAS 87 (government form) information to all of our
clients (think anywhere from 10 to 20 (60-page long) reports per
client for 20 to 30 clients. When I know that I'm going to be typing
and binding and shipping from 7AM until 7PM (or later) all week long,
I'll plan for it by either cutting back on my BT meds before or after
that week. I've read about RSD affecting your limbic system (and
vice-versa), but how do you distinguish *those* symptoms from the
ones from something else (like the opiates, or the joy of not being
in excruciating pain, or just DH meaning "dick head" instead of "dear
husband")? ;>
Also, I'm going to get the name of a good psychiatrist from my
counselor this Friday, make an appointment for an evaluation, and see
if I can talk him into giving me one of the old-time anti-depressants
like Prozac or Zoloft - one of the ones that *aren't* SSRIs which I
am, admittedly, paranoid about.
BTW... *does* it bother you for me to ask you questions about RSD? I'm a
bit paranoid about doing so just at the moment, but I'm a bit
child-like when it comes to things like that - a question comes to
mind and I run to the fastest source I can find so I can ask it
before I forget what I wanted to ask about. I explained in another
post why I don't like googling about RSD, but if it really does
bother people here I'll stop doing it. I've only known about RSD
since the first time someone here (was that you or Lori?) who said my
symptoms sounded like those of RSD. For *THREE YEARS* I was trying
to find out what was wrong with me... I went to FIVE orthopedists,
TWO neurophysiologists, TWO neurosurgeons, ONE PCP, and ONE
acupuncture treatment (not to mention ONE Anterior Cervical
Discectomy With Fusion ONE Stellate Ganglion Block, THREE Steroid
Injections, and ONE Facet Joint Ablation), tons of tests (ump-teen
x-rays, TWO MRIs, TWO CAT scans, ONE myelogram, ONE EMI), and in all
of that time, in all of those doctor offices, in all of those medical
labs, in all of those hospitals *NOBODY* could tell me what was
wrong with me. It took someone here in the group mentioning it
before I knew what it was I had (how sorry is that a comment on our
medical professionals here in the US?) That's when I started looking
up RSD online and kept saying, *YES*, *YES*, *YES* - all those thing
they're saying are exactly what I've been experiencing. *THAT'S* why
I come to you guys first because 9 times out of 10 you've know more
about what's going on with my than my doctors did!!!
Hugs,
CatNipped
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