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Post by rational on Feb 20, 2015 14:38:53 GMT -5
In many cases the nerve is not causing the muscle to do anything. For example, amputees often experience phantom pain - perhaps what feels like a knife cutting into their foot. There is actually nothing causing the pain except that the nerve continues to stimulate the brain. In the case of pain caused by problems in the spinal column the pain is only due to the fact that the nerve is stimulating the brain and the brain believes that there is injury/pain in some part of the body. In the case of phantom pain it doesn't even matter is that body part is missing. That's true some of the time. In my case the constant 'knife' pain when the nerve jolts the muscle, initially weakens the muscle but also puts it into spasm. If the nerve has been firing often throughout the day, I can get an area, sometimes the size of a fist, that is as hard as a rock. If I use a muscle relaxer along with an anti inflammatory I can sometimes get it under control. I first have to get the nerve to settle down some how, but the other does help a little. Mostly I find nothing works well. Stretches help some too. You tend to use everything you can to get it under some semblance of control. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I'm finding the later is my reality lately. You just need to control your nerves. After all, you are in charge. I knew someone who had a similar issue and had nerves disabled to ease the problem. In some cases botulinum toxin can help the spasm. Doesn't sounds like a good time, in any case!
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Post by dmmichgood on Feb 20, 2015 15:27:06 GMT -5
Well, I'm back and I did sleep without any pain meds. & no pain patch.
I did wake up earlier than usual and with annoying(not severe)hip pain.
It was a good experiment.
If it a muscle spasm, snow, you might talk to your doctor about the Lidocaine patch.
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Post by snow on Feb 20, 2015 17:56:51 GMT -5
That's true some of the time. In my case the constant 'knife' pain when the nerve jolts the muscle, initially weakens the muscle but also puts it into spasm. If the nerve has been firing often throughout the day, I can get an area, sometimes the size of a fist, that is as hard as a rock. If I use a muscle relaxer along with an anti inflammatory I can sometimes get it under control. I first have to get the nerve to settle down some how, but the other does help a little. Mostly I find nothing works well. Stretches help some too. You tend to use everything you can to get it under some semblance of control. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I'm finding the later is my reality lately. You just need to control your nerves. After all, you are in charge. I knew someone who had a similar issue and had nerves disabled to ease the problem. In some cases botulinum toxin can help the spasm. Doesn't sounds like a good time, in any case! haha, I'll get right on that controlling my nerves. I need more practice...
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Post by snow on Feb 20, 2015 17:58:28 GMT -5
Well, I'm back and I did sleep without any pain meds. & no pain patch.
I did wake up earlier than usual and with annoying(not severe)hip pain.
It was a good experiment.
If it a muscle spasm, snow, you might talk to your doctor about the Lidocaine patch. You can buy them over the counter can't you?
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Post by dmmichgood on Feb 21, 2015 0:17:36 GMT -5
Well, I'm back and I did sleep without any pain meds. & no pain patch.
I did wake up earlier than usual and with annoying(not severe)hip pain.
It was a good experiment.
If it a muscle spasm, snow, you might talk to your doctor about the Lidocaine patch. You can buy them over the counter can't you? I don't really know, you might find it on the internet.
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Post by bitterbetty on Mar 4, 2015 16:38:34 GMT -5
Ah! Its such a shame you have no contact with him. If you believe in God maybe you can pray to him and ask him if your friend needs help then can he show you a way to contact him. It seems to be on your mind a lot, I really hope you find a way to contact him and that he is alright. Maybe it will lift his spririts if he hears from you. First step maybe could be to do a quick search on Google. It is amazing what you can find on there isn't it :-). Good luck! Hmmm. Would you recommend that I 'pray' about this first? Good grief, you are beginning to sound like a worker, (not that there is anything WRONG with that). But, isn't that what friends and workers always tell people to do?! Pray about it. And while I agree that praying about is good and right, there are times in your life that you can utilize OTHER things that the Good Lord created for our use! If a person can believe in the power of prayer, which is NOT FINITE, surely a person can also believe it's possible to tap into you 'gut feel' and/or 'go with your gut'. What is your gut prompting you to do? I am not talking about being unwisely IMPULSIVE here. But, I do believe that God gave us 'feelers' to put out there and that we can use those. Sometimes, if you delay too long on something, you end up doing NOTHING which can be either negative or positive-or you delay until it is too late. As a veteran nurse who was not always a veteran nurse I recall those days when I was still a young nurse looking to veteran nurses for guidance. I came across a situation one evening in which the head knowledge I had been given was not giving me the answers in what to do, so I asked a veteran nurse what I should do and she said, "Go with your gut feel." Okay.....that's what I did and it turned out alright, which is not to say that every time you go with your gut it is going to turn out the way you want. Is it a crap shoot sometimes? You bet!
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Post by bitterbetty on Mar 4, 2015 17:03:07 GMT -5
You know, the more I think about this the more I think you are hitting close to the truth! In my dream, this man didn't seem very happy and not content with the state of his 'concrete' middle self. I don't know if that makes a lick of sense or not, but anyhow, I think maybe there is grief going on in his life; more right now than usual. Perhaps he needs some warmth, comfort and a little cheer in his life right now. I still care for him; never stopped, but like I say, we have been out of contact and I have no idea how to contact him. Ah! Its such a shame you have no contact with him. If you believe in God maybe you can pray to him and ask him if your friend needs help then can he show you a way to contact him. It seems to be on your mind a lot, I really hope you find a way to contact him and that he is alright. Maybe it will lift his spririts if he hears from you. First step maybe could be to do a quick search on Google. It is amazing what you can find on there isn't it :-). Good luck! Bravo, Mary. I think you are revealing some honesty here, which I find very refreshing...in that...yes, maybe he needs help and maybe he needs his spirits lifted. As an old nurse and (getting older) person I have to say that I am sort of pleasantly surprized and also have growing respect for people who are simply honest about how they feel, even if it's not always 'up'. There is nothing WRONG with saying, "I'm having a bad day.", or "I'm going through a rough time.", or (God forbid), "I'm having a struggle.", or even, "I'm feeling sad." Of course, in friend and worker circles, 'struggle' is a BAD WORD and you should be ashamed if you are not perfect. I'm telling you, many of us are geared to be STOIC. That can be good I suppose and get us through some tight spots, but it can also be BAD in that is hampers honesty and does not reveal how one HONESTLY feels. But, it's good to be honest; honest with yourself especially, but it's also good and healthy to be honest with others and it's okay to state how you really FEEL.
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Post by kurtzphil69 on Mar 4, 2015 18:29:35 GMT -5
Ah! Its such a shame you have no contact with him. If you believe in God maybe you can pray to him and ask him if your friend needs help then can he show you a way to contact him. It seems to be on your mind a lot, I really hope you find a way to contact him and that he is alright. Maybe it will lift his spririts if he hears from you. First step maybe could be to do a quick search on Google. It is amazing what you can find on there isn't it :-). Good luck! Bravo, Mary. I think you are revealing some honesty here, which I find very refreshing...in that...yes, maybe he needs help and maybe he needs his spirits lifted. As an old nurse and (getting older) person I have to say that I am sort of pleasantly surprized and also have growing respect for people who are simply honest about how they feel, even if it's not always 'up'. There is nothing WRONG with saying, "I'm having a bad day.", or "I'm going through a rough time.", or (God forbid), "I'm having a struggle.", or even, "I'm feeling sad." Of course, in friend and worker circles, 'struggle' is a BAD WORD and you should be ashamed if you are not perfect. I'm telling you, many of us are geared to be STOIC. That can be good I suppose and get us through some tight spots, but it can also be BAD in that is hampers honesty and does not reveal how one HONESTLY feels. But, it's good to be honest; honest with yourself especially, but it's also good and healthy to be honest with others and it's okay to state how you really FEEL. Honesty is highly important. Important in many, many ways. Conversely DIShonesty tells us a lot! For example, if a person cannot be honest with a friend, the integrity of the friendship is in question. If there is dishonesty in a marriage, the marriage has got a problem. Any relationship in which honesty is blocked and there are dishonest cover-ups is a relationship that is not healthy and whole and maybe not fulfilling either. I think a good 'barometer' is to ask yourself if you feel you can BE your honest self around someone. If you feel you can't, then there's a problem there. And, I'm not saying 'who' the problem lies with. I could be you and there are things you feel you need to cover up because for those things to be revealed would be a big problem. On the other hand, the problem could be with the other person having too high expectations of you and expecting you to be 'perfect' and always upbeat and unaccepting you because of faults you have.
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Post by bitterbetty on Mar 4, 2015 19:03:03 GMT -5
Bravo, Mary. I think you are revealing some honesty here, which I find very refreshing...in that...yes, maybe he needs help and maybe he needs his spirits lifted. As an old nurse and (getting older) person I have to say that I am sort of pleasantly surprized and also have growing respect for people who are simply honest about how they feel, even if it's not always 'up'. There is nothing WRONG with saying, "I'm having a bad day.", or "I'm going through a rough time.", or (God forbid), "I'm having a struggle.", or even, "I'm feeling sad." Of course, in friend and worker circles, 'struggle' is a BAD WORD and you should be ashamed if you are not perfect. I'm telling you, many of us are geared to be STOIC. That can be good I suppose and get us through some tight spots, but it can also be BAD in that is hampers honesty and does not reveal how one HONESTLY feels. But, it's good to be honest; honest with yourself especially, but it's also good and healthy to be honest with others and it's okay to state how you really FEEL. Honesty is highly important. Important in many, many ways. Conversely DIShonesty tells us a lot! For example, if a person cannot be honest with a friend, the integrity of the friendship is in question. If there is dishonesty in a marriage, the marriage has got a problem. Any relationship in which honesty is blocked and there are dishonest cover-ups is a relationship that is not healthy and whole and maybe not fulfilling either. I think a good 'barometer' is to ask yourself if you feel you can BE your honest self around someone. If you feel you can't, then there's a problem there. And, I'm not saying 'who' the problem lies with. I could be you and there are things you feel you need to cover up because for those things to be revealed would be a big problem. On the other hand, the problem could be with the other person having too high expectations of you and expecting you to be 'perfect' and always upbeat and unaccepting you because of faults you have. Well of COURSE honesty is important! But, in some cases, that is half the battle-(being honest with yourself)-The other half of the battle is WHAT to do with HOW you honestly feel...It's one thing to come to terms with how you really feel and what you are really going through, but then what? I think this is where a lot of folks get frustrated...or feel sort of lost...
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Post by kurtzphil69 on Mar 5, 2015 13:15:31 GMT -5
Well, anyways, back to hardness of the heart. In some cases you cannot determine who is hard within their heart and who is not. The outside appearance and demeanor are not always good indicators...but in other cases, the outside does match the inside. One thing I know about myself is that when I have a dream that really sticks with me, it begs to explore the concepts within the dream, even if I don't do anything significant about it. Other cases, it may prompt me to reach out to someone or at least TRY. I also know for myself that I can harden my heart rather easily. It's simply a matter of blocking my feelings and not allowing myself to feel. This is more of a defense mechanism than anything else. I've also hardened my heart when I have grief in my life. Anytime there is loss there can be grief. I really don't think our society (sometimes) and some employers allow enough time for folks to process grief. They will give you a few days off maybe for 'berievement leave' and then it's back to work before you know it. When my dad died a few years ago I didn't have enough time off work minus the stress of work and I ended up having some unresolved grief that lingered, and I started to do some things that were not healthy. I ended up going into grief counseling through the employee assistance program and that really helped! Right now, I really don't want my heart to be hard, but still I feel the hardness start to creep in at times...
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