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I went to see Dr. Collins at Duke on Monday. Today is really the first day I've felt like posting something about it.
Basically, he told me "I got nothin'" and he's the third neurologist to do so. The Neurontin isn't working at all, so I'm coming off of that. But it was the bottom of the medical barrel when it comes to preventatives. So, I go see Dr. Whats-his-face that's the anastheseologist next Wednesday to basically tell him that nothing happened, and then he and Dr. Collins are going to talk about this total lack of progress.
In the mean time, I've been to another acupuncture appointment and been given another herbal supplement thing to take. While I'm coming down off the Neurontin (which has been adversely affecting the acupuncture), I apparently need more herbs to treat the symptoms while the original ones are going after the cause.
I think I'm starting to get sort of depressed by this, even beyond the ability of my Lexapro to balance things out.
Yesterday was my great uncle Harold's 99th birthday. Today, my parents left at something like 6:00 to go see him, since it's a five or six hour drive down there. I wanted to go with them, but I didn't feel well. I still really don't, but I don't really want to go back to sleep. I'm tired of sleeping. I'm missing too much of my life as it is and after basically a year of sitting up in my room to no real effect it's starting to catch up to me.
Basically, he told me "I got nothin'" and he's the third neurologist to do so. The Neurontin isn't working at all, so I'm coming off of that. But it was the bottom of the medical barrel when it comes to preventatives. So, I go see Dr. Whats-his-face that's the anastheseologist next Wednesday to basically tell him that nothing happened, and then he and Dr. Collins are going to talk about this total lack of progress.
In the mean time, I've been to another acupuncture appointment and been given another herbal supplement thing to take. While I'm coming down off the Neurontin (which has been adversely affecting the acupuncture), I apparently need more herbs to treat the symptoms while the original ones are going after the cause.
I think I'm starting to get sort of depressed by this, even beyond the ability of my Lexapro to balance things out.
Yesterday was my great uncle Harold's 99th birthday. Today, my parents left at something like 6:00 to go see him, since it's a five or six hour drive down there. I wanted to go with them, but I didn't feel well. I still really don't, but I don't really want to go back to sleep. I'm tired of sleeping. I'm missing too much of my life as it is and after basically a year of sitting up in my room to no real effect it's starting to catch up to me.