Medical Purrs Needed Badly

I'm going to have an Epidural Steroid Injection into my cervical spine done
this Wednesday. I'm hoping this will ease some of this pain I'm in (I
didn't think I was going to make it at work this morning, it was much worse
than normal and "normal" is very, very bad).

There are rare cases when this procedure can ease the pain for up to a year
(and sometimes a miracle occurs and it doesn't come back at all). I've
given up on miracles, but even a few days - heck, even a few hours - would
be a blessed relief.

I seriously don't know how much longer I can take this pain, it's to the
point of not wanting to live any more if I have to live this way. To
illustrate that that's how my subconscious is feeling, I'll relate a really
strange thing that happened last night...

Every night I take an Ambien (prescription sleeping pill) at 10PM along with
2 Flexerils (prescription muscle relaxers). Ambiens only last for 4 hours
so I take another at 2AM, along with 1 more Flexeril, in order to get back
to sleep (I keep these 2 pills in an empty pill bottle on my bed-side table
next to my alarm clock so I won't have to come completely awake to fish
around in the drawer for them, and I won't mess up and take more than the
1).

However, sometimes the first Ambien doesn't work so I have a "side"
prescription of Lunesta (same thing as Ambien only they're supposed to last
longer - but on me they don't). If, by 11PM I haven't fallen asleep, I take
a Lunesta (which I keep in a little basket on top of my bed-side table).
I've been doing this routine for years now.

Last night, at 2AM, I woke up and tossed my pills in my mouth and almost had
my water bottle to my lips ready to swallow when I realized that something
in my mouth "felt wrong" and I spit out the pills. I woke up enough to
realize that I'd poured the entire bottle of Lunesta into my mouth (about 20
pills). In my half-sleep I had reached *over* the bottle with the 2 pills
in it and pulled the Lunestas out of my basket.

At around 10AM this morning, sitting at my desk and crying again, I was
wishing I had not discovered my mistake last night.

So, purrs that this procedure works well would be so *VERY* much
appreciated - I really do want to live to see my grandchildren grow up and
have children of their own!

Hugs,

CatNipped

Lori, please know that you are always in our daily prayers and
that Lily purrs mightily for you.

Lily & her mama

"CatEyes" wrote in message
...
I'm going to have an Epidural Steroid Injection into my cervical spine
done this Wednesday. I'm hoping this will ease some of this pain I'm in
(I didn't think I was going to make it at work this morning, it was much
worse than normal and "normal" is very, very bad).

There are rare cases when this procedure can ease the pain for up to a
year (and sometimes a miracle occurs and it doesn't come back at all).
I've given up on miracles, but even a few days - heck, even a few hours -
would be a blessed relief.

I seriously don't know how much longer I can take this pain, it's to the
point of not wanting to live any more if I have to live this way. To
illustrate that that's how my subconscious is feeling, I'll relate a
really strange thing that happened last night...

Every night I take an Ambien (prescription sleeping pill) at 10PM along
with 2 Flexerils (prescription muscle relaxers). Ambiens only last for 4
hours so I take another at 2AM, along with 1 more Flexeril, in order to
get back to sleep (I keep these 2 pills in an empty pill bottle on my
bed-side table next to my alarm clock so I won't have to come completely
awake to fish around in the drawer for them, and I won't mess up and take
more than the 1).

However, sometimes the first Ambien doesn't work so I have a "side"
prescription of Lunesta (same thing as Ambien only they're supposed to
last longer - but on me they don't). If, by 11PM I haven't fallen asleep,
I take a Lunesta (which I keep in a little basket on top of my bed-side
table). I've been doing this routine for years now.

Last night, at 2AM, I woke up and tossed my pills in my mouth and almost
had my water bottle to my lips ready to swallow when I realized that
something in my mouth "felt wrong" and I spit out the pills. I woke up
enough to realize that I'd poured the entire bottle of Lunesta into my
mouth (about 20 pills). In my half-sleep I had reached *over* the bottle
with the 2 pills in it and pulled the Lunestas out of my basket.

At around 10AM this morning, sitting at my desk and crying again, I was
wishing I had not discovered my mistake last night.

So, purrs that this procedure works well would be so *VERY* much
appreciated - I really do want to live to see my grandchildren grow up and
have children of their own!

Hugs,

CatNipped




--
Irulan
from the stars we come
to the stars we return
from now until the end of time.

"Judith Latham" wrote in message
...
In article , CatEyes
wrote:
I'm going to have an Epidural Steroid Injection into my cervical spine
done this Wednesday. I'm hoping this will ease some of this pain I'm
in (I didn't think I was going to make it at work this morning, it was
much worse than normal and "normal" is very, very bad).

There are rare cases when this procedure can ease the pain for up to a
year (and sometimes a miracle occurs and it doesn't come back at all).
I've given up on miracles, but even a few days - heck, even a few hours
- would be a blessed relief.

[Snip]

At around 10AM this morning, sitting at my desk and crying again, I was
wishing I had not discovered my mistake last night.

So, purrs that this procedure works well would be so *VERY* much
appreciated - I really do want to live to see my grandchildren grow up
and have children of their own!

Hugs,

CatNipped


I'm so very sorry that you're in so much terrible pain.

Please don't give up on miracles, they can happen and why shouldn't one
happen to you? I hope you've moved any pills other than those you are
supposed to take, well away from your bedside. Keep focused on wanting to
see your grandchildren grow up and have their own children.

Purrs and prayers being sent for this procedure to work.

Judith

--
Judith Latham
Stourbridge, West Midlands. UK.

Thanks, Judith - yes, I did move the Lunestas into the drawer so this won't
happen again.

Hugs,

CatNipped

"CatEyes" wrote in message
...
I'm going to have an Epidural Steroid Injection into my cervical
spine done this Wednesday. I'm hoping this will ease some of this
pain I'm in (I didn't think I was going to make it at work this
morning, it was much worse than normal and "normal" is very, very
bad).

There are rare cases when this procedure can ease the pain for up to
a year (and sometimes a miracle occurs and it doesn't come back at
all). I've given up on miracles, but even a few days - heck, even a
few hours - would be a blessed relief.

I seriously don't know how much longer I can take this pain, it's to
the point of not wanting to live any more if I have to live this
way. To illustrate that that's how my subconscious is feeling, I'll
relate a really strange thing that happened last night...

Every night I take an Ambien (prescription sleeping pill) at 10PM
along with 2 Flexerils (prescription muscle relaxers). Ambiens only
last for 4 hours so I take another at 2AM, along with 1 more
Flexeril, in order to get back to sleep (I keep these 2 pills in an
empty pill bottle on my bed-side table next to my alarm clock so I
won't have to come completely awake to fish around in the drawer for
them, and I won't mess up and take more than the 1).

However, sometimes the first Ambien doesn't work so I have a "side"
prescription of Lunesta (same thing as Ambien only they're supposed
to last longer - but on me they don't). If, by 11PM I haven't
fallen asleep, I take a Lunesta (which I keep in a little basket on
top of my bed-side table). I've been doing this routine for years
now.

Last night, at 2AM, I woke up and tossed my pills in my mouth and
almost had my water bottle to my lips ready to swallow when I
realized that something in my mouth "felt wrong" and I spit out the
pills. I woke up enough to realize that I'd poured the entire
bottle of Lunesta into my mouth (about 20 pills). In my half-sleep
I had reached *over* the bottle with the 2 pills in it and pulled
the Lunestas out of my basket.

At around 10AM this morning, sitting at my desk and crying again, I
was wishing I had not discovered my mistake last night.

So, purrs that this procedure works well would be so *VERY* much
appreciated - I really do want to live to see my grandchildren grow
up and have children of their own!

Please, please be careful. I know from my own experience that if you
don't manage to go to sleep right away with Ambien, you can do some
very strange things in the twilight zone. Sometimes you really have
to make a point of letting it 'take you' when you first take it. If
you fight it at all, even unintentionally, you get into that awful not
awake, but can't go to sleep either place. If I have to supplement
the Ambien, usually I do better if I take some type of
diphenhydramine.

Sometimes when you are awake at 3am, in that place between too late to
take something else for sleep, and too early for pain medication, and
feel like you are there all by yourself, know I'm often there too.
I'd guess we have plenty of company, though I wish no one had to go
there.

Jo

"CatEyes" wrote in message
...
I'm going to have an Epidural Steroid Injection into my cervical spine
done this Wednesday. I'm hoping this will ease some of this pain I'm in
(I didn't think I was going to make it at work this morning, it was much
worse than normal and "normal" is very, very bad).

There are rare cases when this procedure can ease the pain for up to a
year (and sometimes a miracle occurs and it doesn't come back at all).
I've given up on miracles, but even a few days - heck, even a few hours -
would be a blessed relief.

I seriously don't know how much longer I can take this pain, it's to the
point of not wanting to live any more if I have to live this way. To
illustrate that that's how my subconscious is feeling, I'll relate a
really strange thing that happened last night...

Every night I take an Ambien (prescription sleeping pill) at 10PM along
with 2 Flexerils (prescription muscle relaxers). Ambiens only last for 4
hours so I take another at 2AM, along with 1 more Flexeril, in order to
get back to sleep (I keep these 2 pills in an empty pill bottle on my
bed-side table next to my alarm clock so I won't have to come completely
awake to fish around in the drawer for them, and I won't mess up and take
more than the 1).

However, sometimes the first Ambien doesn't work so I have a "side"
prescription of Lunesta (same thing as Ambien only they're supposed to
last longer - but on me they don't). If, by 11PM I haven't fallen asleep,
I take a Lunesta (which I keep in a little basket on top of my bed-side
table). I've been doing this routine for years now.

Last night, at 2AM, I woke up and tossed my pills in my mouth and almost
had my water bottle to my lips ready to swallow when I realized that
something in my mouth "felt wrong" and I spit out the pills. I woke up
enough to realize that I'd poured the entire bottle of Lunesta into my
mouth (about 20 pills). In my half-sleep I had reached *over* the bottle
with the 2 pills in it and pulled the Lunestas out of my basket.

At around 10AM this morning, sitting at my desk and crying again, I was
wishing I had not discovered my mistake last night.

So, purrs that this procedure works well would be so *VERY* much
appreciated - I really do want to live to see my grandchildren grow up and
have children of their own!

Hugs,

CatNipped


Poor dear Lori, my heart goes out to you. Big hugs and purrs continuing. I
don't know what else to say except so many peoples' lives would be so much
poorer without you. Please hang in there.


--
Theresa and Dante

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Purrs are on the way.

--

Joy

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of
masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch. - Leo Dworken

"CatEyes" wrote in message
...
I'm going to have an Epidural Steroid Injection into my cervical spine
done this Wednesday. I'm hoping this will ease some of this pain I'm in
(I didn't think I was going to make it at work this morning, it was much
worse than normal and "normal" is very, very bad).

There are rare cases when this procedure can ease the pain for up to a
year (and sometimes a miracle occurs and it doesn't come back at all).
I've given up on miracles, but even a few days - heck, even a few hours -
would be a blessed relief.

I seriously don't know how much longer I can take this pain, it's to the
point of not wanting to live any more if I have to live this way. To
illustrate that that's how my subconscious is feeling, I'll relate a
really strange thing that happened last night...

Every night I take an Ambien (prescription sleeping pill) at 10PM along
with 2 Flexerils (prescription muscle relaxers). Ambiens only last for 4
hours so I take another at 2AM, along with 1 more Flexeril, in order to
get back to sleep (I keep these 2 pills in an empty pill bottle on my
bed-side table next to my alarm clock so I won't have to come completely
awake to fish around in the drawer for them, and I won't mess up and take
more than the 1).

However, sometimes the first Ambien doesn't work so I have a "side"
prescription of Lunesta (same thing as Ambien only they're supposed to
last longer - but on me they don't). If, by 11PM I haven't fallen asleep,
I take a Lunesta (which I keep in a little basket on top of my bed-side
table). I've been doing this routine for years now.

Last night, at 2AM, I woke up and tossed my pills in my mouth and almost
had my water bottle to my lips ready to swallow when I realized that
something in my mouth "felt wrong" and I spit out the pills. I woke up
enough to realize that I'd poured the entire bottle of Lunesta into my
mouth (about 20 pills). In my half-sleep I had reached *over* the bottle
with the 2 pills in it and pulled the Lunestas out of my basket.

At around 10AM this morning, sitting at my desk and crying again, I was
wishing I had not discovered my mistake last night.

So, purrs that this procedure works well would be so *VERY* much
appreciated - I really do want to live to see my grandchildren grow up and
have children of their own!

Hugs,

CatNipped

Purrs that the treatment helps you for longer than your worst thoughts. I'm
sorry it is getting so bad. I wish I knew what to say, but I don't. Hang
in there.

Cheryl

"CatEyes" wrote in message
...
I'm going to have an Epidural Steroid Injection into my cervical spine
done this Wednesday. I'm hoping this will ease some of this pain I'm in
(I didn't think I was going to make it at work this morning, it was much
worse than normal and "normal" is very, very bad).

There are rare cases when this procedure can ease the pain for up to a
year (and sometimes a miracle occurs and it doesn't come back at all).
I've given up on miracles, but even a few days - heck, even a few hours -
would be a blessed relief.

I seriously don't know how much longer I can take this pain, it's to the
point of not wanting to live any more if I have to live this way. To
illustrate that that's how my subconscious is feeling, I'll relate a
really strange thing that happened last night...

Every night I take an Ambien (prescription sleeping pill) at 10PM along
with 2 Flexerils (prescription muscle relaxers). Ambiens only last for 4
hours so I take another at 2AM, along with 1 more Flexeril, in order to
get back to sleep (I keep these 2 pills in an empty pill bottle on my
bed-side table next to my alarm clock so I won't have to come completely
awake to fish around in the drawer for them, and I won't mess up and take
more than the 1).

However, sometimes the first Ambien doesn't work so I have a "side"
prescription of Lunesta (same thing as Ambien only they're supposed to
last longer - but on me they don't). If, by 11PM I haven't fallen asleep,
I take a Lunesta (which I keep in a little basket on top of my bed-side
table). I've been doing this routine for years now.

Last night, at 2AM, I woke up and tossed my pills in my mouth and almost
had my water bottle to my lips ready to swallow when I realized that
something in my mouth "felt wrong" and I spit out the pills. I woke up
enough to realize that I'd poured the entire bottle of Lunesta into my
mouth (about 20 pills). In my half-sleep I had reached *over* the bottle
with the 2 pills in it and pulled the Lunestas out of my basket.

At around 10AM this morning, sitting at my desk and crying again, I was
wishing I had not discovered my mistake last night.

So, purrs that this procedure works well would be so *VERY* much
appreciated - I really do want to live to see my grandchildren grow up and
have children of their own!

Hugs,

CatNipped

"Jofirey" wrote in message
...

Please, please be careful. I know from my own experience that if you
don't manage to go to sleep right away with Ambien, you can do some very
strange things in the twilight zone. Sometimes you really have to make a
point of letting it 'take you' when you first take it. If you fight it at
all, even unintentionally, you get into that awful not awake, but can't go
to sleep either place. If I have to supplement the Ambien, usually I do
better if I take some type of diphenhydramine.

Seriously. I can't take Ambien anymore. I've done stupid things after
taking one even though I consciously try to remember to go straight to bed
after taking one. I've actually gotten on the treadmill to work out
thinking that in addition to the Ambien will help me sleep only to wake the
next day with bad injuries. happened a few times now. It's really scary to
wake up that way. I threw out all I had left.

"CatEyes" wrote:
I'm going to have an Epidural Steroid Injection into my cervical spine done
this Wednesday. I'm hoping this will ease some of this pain I'm in (I
didn't think I was going to make it at work this morning, it was much worse
than normal and "normal" is very, very bad).

We'll be purring for the procedure to have a very, very good effect on
that terrible pain.

CatEyes wrote:
I'm going to have an Epidural Steroid Injection into my cervical spine done
this Wednesday. I'm hoping this will ease some of this pain I'm in (I
didn't think I was going to make it at work this morning, it was much worse
than normal and "normal" is very, very bad).

There are rare cases when this procedure can ease the pain for up to a year
(and sometimes a miracle occurs and it doesn't come back at all). I've
given up on miracles, but even a few days - heck, even a few hours - would
be a blessed relief.

I seriously don't know how much longer I can take this pain, it's to the
point of not wanting to live any more if I have to live this way. To
illustrate that that's how my subconscious is feeling, I'll relate a really
strange thing that happened last night...

Every night I take an Ambien (prescription sleeping pill) at 10PM along with
2 Flexerils (prescription muscle relaxers). Ambiens only last for 4 hours
so I take another at 2AM, along with 1 more Flexeril, in order to get back
to sleep (I keep these 2 pills in an empty pill bottle on my bed-side table
next to my alarm clock so I won't have to come completely awake to fish
around in the drawer for them, and I won't mess up and take more than the
1).

However, sometimes the first Ambien doesn't work so I have a "side"
prescription of Lunesta (same thing as Ambien only they're supposed to last
longer - but on me they don't). If, by 11PM I haven't fallen asleep, I take
a Lunesta (which I keep in a little basket on top of my bed-side table).
I've been doing this routine for years now.

Last night, at 2AM, I woke up and tossed my pills in my mouth and almost had
my water bottle to my lips ready to swallow when I realized that something
in my mouth "felt wrong" and I spit out the pills. I woke up enough to
realize that I'd poured the entire bottle of Lunesta into my mouth (about 20
pills). In my half-sleep I had reached *over* the bottle with the 2 pills
in it and pulled the Lunestas out of my basket.

At around 10AM this morning, sitting at my desk and crying again, I was
wishing I had not discovered my mistake last night.

So, purrs that this procedure works well would be so *VERY* much
appreciated - I really do want to live to see my grandchildren grow up and
have children of their own!

Hugs,

CatNipped


Oh, CN, that is terrible! Sending major purrs and good vibes that the
procedure will be a success. I'm living with chronic pain, and while
mine is not nearly as bad as yours, I understand how much it takes away
from your life. Hang in there for Wednesday, okay?

Ginger-lyn