Hi everyone. I typed a nice long post yesterday, and then it disappeared. I just didn't have time to do it again. Yesterday was one of those very, very rare days, that I woke up feeling good. I left to go walking at 8:20 , walked until 9:30, got some groceries, went to see my buddy the Chiro, cleaned up the house, washed the floors, made dinner (had company) and then visited until 10:30. After that I was just tired. Today doesn't seem to be a repeat of waking up feeling good. I feel like I was hit by a semi. Guess I overdid it, or it was just a day when both the arthritis and the fibro decided not to kick up their heels.

Candice - Did you try acupuncture. That works not badly for tennis elbow. I would rather that than a cortisone shot. Cortisone is not good for the joint, nor your body. You also gain weight from them. That should scare you(lol).

Meme - Hello. Still running girl! Boy I get tired just reading your posts sometime. You probably can't outrun the problems you have, but who knows for sure!

Ally - SEX - ummmm! Well what can I say! Be careful walking if it is icy. Sure don't want to fall. That is why I like walking inside, however, that is coming to an end in the middle of April. Then it is outside I guess. My husband will go walking with me. We used to do lots of that. Would go out arount 9:00p.m. and walk for an 11/2 to 2 hours. Loved that. Then this fibro business started in the legs, and had to give that up. Am now trying to walk for at least 40-6- min.

Phyllis - Hope you are feeling better. Decided to start a new thread as the other one was getting quite long. I sure wish we were having 70+ weather. It is spring now - I think it sprung on Monday. It is really nice, and the air has a much softer feel to it. Also saw ducks swimming on a semi-frozen pond. The birds are chirping away like crazy. Haven't seen a Robin yet, however. The kids are out on their bikes, scooters, playing in every mud puddle they can find. Just being kids and having fun. Nice to see them after the winter.

Well everyone, take care, and I wish for you a day like I had yesterday. It surely was a gift.

Candice...I had an aunt who took cortisone for various ailments and ended up with knee and hip replacements. That used to be the miracle drug, and then they found out all the damage it could do. BUT, she would feel Soooo much better.
Same with my mother and her prednisone for asthma.
And they were always hungry.
I am keeping my fingers crossed that you don't need it.
Isn't this FM stuff the pits?
I am getting my period so don't know what to complain about first.

Well, forget that I whined about not having a man. Some days that feels like the best thing I have going.

I made salt potatoes for my kids for dinner and ate most of them. That would be PMS. Salt. Spuds.

Happy....I keep reading about this boundary that FM and CFS people should keep in mind. But when I have a really good day, I want to take advantage of it. It is so hard. It is up to 40 degrees here...whoopee. Rain for the weekend.

and I am already anxious about this! I just want the arm to be usable and it is not now!

When I had one in the right elbow in 92...it took 3 days and then no pain and it never came back! But I am older and more sensitive to drugs now!

Anne....accupuncture is not paid for by our insurance and the way my arm feels it wouldn't help much or it would take forever to heal. I had a very bad shoulder in 96 and chose the natural way and it took 2 years before I could use it and it still gives me trouble! If it is not better...and I need to quit typing cause that makes it worse...I just can't make up my mind. I don't think one shot cause weight gain..do you know this for sure??????? I no the oral meds do and I can't take those. I'm sacred to try it and scared not to !

Ally....What can I say..you are just too funny....Hope you know your life puts a smile on my face

Meme...come back! Ya still got a headache?????????????

Tootie.....did you have any problems with your shots?????????

Hi Candice, No the lanicane and cortizone shots did not make my joints worse.Sometimes, you just have to take the only "medicine" that's available in order to get relief.
I'm surprised that the doctor did not explain to you just how much is too much.My rehumi gave me what I thought was a combination lanicaine/cortizone.
I think it is awful that the doctor just let you leave the office without ensuring you that this one shot would not harm you.Sometimes, you have to ask, "is this what you would do with your arm??"
I think what the girls were saying was that the people they knew were getting shots and they just came closer and closer and finaly had to have surgery, but I really don't believe the shots caused the further deteriation.

The doc's office called and said the xrays were fine but the doc wants to talk to me about my bone density test.I do not fit the profile for osteoporosis, but I'm sure there is some loss due to age and maybe not eating right with all the diets I have been on.Especially where I had no cheese for a long time and my stomach was bothering me with all the suppliments I was trying to take.
Now that I'm eating healthier, but not losing again,my next test may show an improvement.That's why I think small weights are important, because for some reason I do not understand, the repitions of small weights improve muscles and then causes bone strength.
Of course you can not use small weights when you have such pain.and mind you, I started with this stuff when I was rather young and a size six also.At the first time it happened to me, I belonged to a HMO and the young doc said it was my unhappy marriage causing me "grief"{in my head} and would not treat me unless I went to a shrink. Well I made an appointment with their shrink and after explaining to him the situation I was living with, he said "you have a bad marrigae" Being the cynic that I am, I lauged so hard that he became embarassed.
Since I came down to Texas tho, and changed the way i'm eating I must say{knock on wood}that some of that has subsided. But not completely, but like I said before, I have a brace for evey part of my body excepting the tush.
Candice get the shot or ask for a MRI to see if they can come up with other than the old adage,"tennis elbow".
My oldest brother, a few years ago was complaining about the very same pain, and I told him what it was. He said I could have saved some money for the doc visit since his family doc did nothing, offered him nothing. He followed my advice and put it in a sling, put some ice on it and eventually it went bye bye.

Maybe you can anyalize it this way, you had a shot once before and you know that you were not allegic then, so chances are good that you are not going to have a reaction now plus you have had some time between shots so the chances of "accumilation" is not there either. Cortizone is feared the most and yet can be a life saver.
For a while I have been explaining the pain as former 'football injuries" and people would say, did you play football? So I said no, I just wanted to sound like a man and not a woman with mental problems!!
good luck what ever direction you take!

TA TA ladies with all the cute animules

Still running. No rest for the weary!!!

I have had a headache/migraine every single day this week...since Sunday. I'm sick of this!

Yesterday I helped my daughter put up border in Ross' room (Woody and Buzz Lightyear)...we did a good job! It really looks cute. He has the wall decorations and the bedspread, etc. Kids today have so much!!! TOO MUCH! He has more toys than he could ever hope to play with. And everytime he goes shopping he thinks he is supposed to get something else! They have taken the day off today and took him up to a private school to enroll him for Kindergarten. They want me to go get him everyday at 12 and keep him until 6...PLUS the baby who turned 2 last Sat. I hate to tell them no because they don't have anything else to do with him, I just don't know what to do.

I have a Kroger shop to do tonight. It will be the first one and I dread it in a way! They are paying me $15 to do the shop which should only take about 30 min. plus they are paying me another $10 driving (and I have to go to Cookeville tonight anyway). So that's not too bad I guess. I have another one to do on Tues. too. For those of you not knowing what I'm talking about, I've started doing some "Mystery Shopping" ... where you go into a store or a restaurant and buy stuff and ask questions, etc. and then fill out a computer generated form on how their performance was. I've been doing Shoney's restaurant once a week for the last month. With that one I get my food free just for critiquing the food, cleanliness and staff. It only takes me about 5 minutes to do that one. I think the Kroger one is going to take longer, though. I have to find people in each department and ask them a certain question. Like in the deli I have to ask when the salad was made and in the bakery I have to ask how long in advance you need to order a BD cake, etc. Each week the questions change. I hope I can remember it all when I get in there. I can't take the audit form in with me!!!

Phyllis...didn't you say you liked bears??? That is the next page of clip art I'm doing on my clipart site. I'll come back in here and post it for you when I get it finished. I have some cute teddy bears!!!

Candice...go get the stupid shot...that's better than hurting all the time. So it takes 3 days to get to where you can use your arm...you can't use it now anyway so what difference does it make! If the shot made your other arm better it's a no brainer! Good luck!!!

Ally...what is salt potatoes? (All my food is salty!!!) That's what I usually crave all the time is something salty but I've never heard of salt potatoes.

Anne...I always do the same thing when I have a good day...kill myself and have to go to bed for a week afterward. But it just feels so good to be able to DO something, doesn't it? The doctors (or nobody else for that matter) understands us. They have told me repeatedly to take frequent rest periods, even when I'm feeling better...and hubby stays on my case all the time about getting more rest...but every day I think...just a little while longer and then I'll go lay down...but "then" never seems to come! The way my work is piling up I need a good MONTH!!!

It is supposed to rain here for the next couple of days...oh joy...more pain!

Gotta go and wash clothes...they've really piled up this week! UGH!

Candice. Here is a website for you to go read if you so desire http://onhealth.webmd.com/family/col...em%2C46610.asp

When I was having shots in my back joints, the anethesiologist told me that the facet joints are not the same as other joints. If they should disintegrate that would be a good thing, as the pain would go away. One day, apparently, they will fuse themselves to the sacrum, and I shall be pain free (hahaha) but stiff, as those are the joints that allow us to turn and move.

Will talk later.

OK...got the bear page done...or should I say Pages! I had too many to go on one page so had to do two. Took me a couple of hours to do them! I had 58 gifs. That makes 24 pages on my clip art site now. I made one page of just clip art...it is at:

http://memeart.tripod.com/TeddyBears.html

Then I made another page of some clip art and some animations...it is at:

http://memeart.tripod.com/MoreBears.html

To see the rest of the site click on the "Back to clip art and animated gifs" link at the bottom of the page.

If you all come across any animated bears that I don't have send them to me or let me know where they are and I'll add them to my collection!!!

OK Meme, went and had a look. Really good. I enjoyed them and shall be taking a couple (I think you said we could, didn't you). Lots of work, but they make it worthwhile I am sure, after you see how it all comes together.

Candice. Shouldn't do any harm to the shoulder joint with just a shot or two. Sorry to alarm you. Went looking for your name (animated) but can't find it anywhere. Am still looking. My arm is still sore as well. It feels like it did about 23 years ago. That was a tendon thing, and took a long, long, time to heal. Will have to go to the Dr. next week, I guess, if it continues. My knee and my back are really sore. Apparently, the pain in my knees is coming from L4/5 disk (so says the Chiro). When he bent my knee the other day, the pain was dead center in the lower back, so I think he is probably right. Sure doesn't feel like fm. The pain is actually acute and that bites.

Phyllis - Did you just have the shots. I am sorry, but I think I must have missed something. Hope they are helping if you did.

Ally - You know I am happily married, but if something should even happen to my husband, I would never even consider getting married again. I would just take the time to be selfish, and pamper myself. My Mom was on her own from the time she was 58. My Dad dies when he was 59. I asked her one time about dating, and she said no, she would only compare other men to my dad. She was happy and content just the way it was. I am pretty sure that is how I would be as well. You don't have to worry about cooking a big supper, washing extra clothes, arguing or anything.

We must try capture Meme and give her a good long rest. Meme you must be running yourself thin, by now.

I am going to try to put in a graphic, but for some reason they are not working.

Oh Candice...I hope I didn't scare you. I want you to feel comfortable doing whatever is going to make you feel better. One of my friend's husband was a truck driver and had shots about once a year. I knew he would wait til he could hardly walk before he got another. All this was to keep him from having surgery and finally he did. But I do remember that after the shot he would want to go out dancing.

Meme....I take Midrin for migraines and realized a while ago that I haven't had one in quite a while. The other thing I read in the paper this weak was that wheat (gluten) causes some people to have headaches. And I cut out a lot of bread etc, so maybe that is why headaches have decreased.

Tootie...I like your positive look on things. You've got it tough, but you always seem upbeat.

Happyanne....My exbeloved is here right now. That's all I need in order to find my single status just fine and dandy. He is filling up jugs of water from my sink cause his water is undrinkable.....and he is arguing with my kids and they are getting disrespectful and the whole thing makes me want to throw up.
Can you imagine going over to the woman's house who wanted to be done with you and ask if you can have some water?

Hi alley. yes I can imagine your beloved or even my beloved doing such a thing. I think they THINk they still have some kind of "rights".
I can not get over some of the anger I feel when my beloved is mentioned. Yet, some how when someone attacks him or makes unfavorable remarks, I almost appear to be defending him. I "feel sorry" for his behavior and I guess that was because I was calling him "not well" for the longest time and therefore felt sorry for his strange behavior.

I have resorted to using the walking stick and a crutch to prevent that bad pain in the thigh and calf when I take a step.But oddly enough I can stand without pain.

Happy you were doing so well, sometimes I feel this can't be fibro either.Meme has the strength of all of us put together don't you think?
I have to go the vicadin is kicking in and making me feel woosy
bye

I think if I would stay off the puter my arm would feel better but my mind wouldn't! Anne Thanks for the site...I was at WEb MD most of the night looking up stuff..I'm worried it will make my anxiety worse....even the lidocaine the dentist uses makes me anxious!


This site is still not working right with Netscape and we couldn't get IE downloaded...Just before it was finished downloading it would say you do not have enough room on drive C and we were putting it on drive D! My son thinks it is because it was originally on C and deleted. Meme any ideas on this one????????????

Sorry you gals are in so much pain! I just can't type much to get to ya all! I appreciate you sharing your knowledge!

Gotta check MEME's bears out.........

Only one...get a bigger computer!

not april fools !!
Just lost it; it's something I did this time.
The bears are wonderful and the annimated bunny is just too cute. I can see them but can't copy, sorry.

I'm still walking with a crutch and stick. helps to keep the pain level down.Have an appointment with the Rehumi monday. If it's still this bad, I WANT a shot in the hip.Haven't had cortizone shot anywhere in my bod since I left New York. But I could have used it this past week. I tried hot baths, heating pad and I was going to try ice next but the heat seems to help.
Happy I tried to get that Docs no? little electronic device but no can find any info on the site you sent me to.

I guess I could have gone to a Chiro, but I have so little faith in MD's and less in bone crack-ers.
Sun is out today, and so I can't blame the weather for anything. The forecast is predicting 70 and above this week and.I just realized that it's
a year since my emergency visit to get blood and I'm not back to the strength that I had a year ago.
I can't even open a bottle of soda/cap. When I buy one if I'm out I have to ask people to please crack it open for me like a jerk. I offer a weak excuse like the cast just came off my broken arm etc.
Spent sometime cooking for my son and his company.this week end.
Still feel like DIL just tolerates me.I want to run home when I feel that way and my son gets angry.{ he hasn't a clue}
I didn't get much sleep last night so even tho it's a pretty day I want to stay in bed.

toodle doo

Why the Vioxx made me less anxious???????????

Meme...that's no help I already knew that

Toots....it was nice today here too but I didn't get out either!

Arm still not better and last night my eyes were bothering me so I had to use drops and keep them shut..so I couldn't see the 'puter! They are better today..must have gotton something in them like shampoo!

I lost the water weight gain of 2 pounds and one more! Isn't that exciting! For me it is.........Wonder when I should stop losing???????? I ordered a size 14 dress through the mail and it was way too big!

I'm kind of excited, too...but not about weight loss(wish it were!!!)

I just got my own domain site!!!
It will be www.design-max.net
Isn't that neat? But it is going to be a lot of work for awhile! (just what I need...more work!) I have to set my old family galleries site up all over again. It was completely done away with. Good thing I saved everything on a disc so all I will have to do is upload it and then fine tune it to the new site. Still...will take several days work to get it all working right. Soon as I have it done I'll let you all take a look. Who knows...maybe you'll want to give me some business! It is a web design business. I make personal and business pages on the internet. It is $29.95 a page and stays active for a year. That's really a lot cheaper than most domain host! You send me your pictures and data and I make you a page with whatever you want on it. I have Teletubbies, Barney, Pokemon, Toy Story, Veggie Tales, Winnie the Pooh, Barbie, all kinds of sports, wedding, anniversary, baby, Easter and Christmas pages and can make anything else you want. I think it's neat to have a page made around Christmas to send out instead of cards, and I also like the idea of wedding, anniversary and graduation pages. I have one on a free site now...it is at http://design_max.tripod.com/webdesign.html But it needs updating bad. There are a few of the pages that are still linked to the old site which has been done away with. I can't wait to revamp it all on the new domain. Time, time time...I need more time! I need about 36 hrs. in a day and at least 10 days in each week and then I'd STILL probably be behind!

I have THREE rug-rats today. I took Ross to school this morning and then had to go pick up my other two (3 & 5) for the rest of the day...their mother is in bed with a bad ear infection. I'll have them all 4 until after dinner tonight!!! (And I have to teach from 6 to 7:30 tonight...guess hubby will have to watch them then)! I need a vacation...which one of you would want to put me up for a week??? (I don't want to come if there are going to be kids there!!!) And I promise NOT to bring a child or a piano with me!!!!!!!

It is rainy here and I'm suffering bad!