Alma31
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- Feb 15, 2015
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- GA
I am new to this forum. I had to retire in 2011 due to CAD and pain. I have always been upbeat and positive, and I used to be able to keep up with the house chores, although I have never been obsessive compulsive. Between the brain fog and the pain that takes over, the morning is the WORST.
I have always been very active: taught HS for 20 years while I studied for the last 11 yrs to finish 2 degrees until my body broke down. In 2003 my father died and I was devastated. My mother declined in mental health after his death and was put in a home in 2008, for total care after a stroke. I was very close to her. She was in a wheelchair for 5 yrs, dying last year. It was an agonizing slow death for me seeing her like that for 5 yrs.
Lately, I have been having dizzy spells since Jan 7th, brought about an 11 hr car ride with stops to attend a family funeral. The dizziness is when I lower my head, turn it, look down or up. My balance has been affected after my lumbar back surgery 2 yrs ago, but my spinal stenosis pain went away. Last week I saw a top rheumatologist here in GA, and a top ENT to see if my inner ear is causing dizziness, who prescribed a brain MRI. I feel constantly exhausted, specially in the morning and night. The afternoons are better and I refuse to lie down and let life pass me by. I walk a mile once or twice a week, go to the gym to lift minimum weights on the machines and do the elliptical, or swim. After exercise, it's payback and the pain is almost intolerable during that night and the following day. I can't exercise but every other day, or on the 3rd day.
Gabapentin makes my life tolerable. Clonazepam .5 (1 to 2 a day)helps with my anxiety and helps me to sleep at night. Cymbalta is new for me, and I hope it will work for the pain and depression. My calves and legs hurt greatly (I stretch them), including my right foot and I have nerve tingling and numbness in the feet, but no diabetes.
I don't overdue any medicine and sometimes I might result to one hydrocodone/acet.
when nothing else works only to take one pill. At night hydro keeps me up. I also have sleep apnea and use a CPAP.
I hope this post will help someone, and I wonder if any has dizziness and balance problems too. Hang in there and don't give up! I have hobbies and little projects to distract me.
I have always been very active: taught HS for 20 years while I studied for the last 11 yrs to finish 2 degrees until my body broke down. In 2003 my father died and I was devastated. My mother declined in mental health after his death and was put in a home in 2008, for total care after a stroke. I was very close to her. She was in a wheelchair for 5 yrs, dying last year. It was an agonizing slow death for me seeing her like that for 5 yrs.
Lately, I have been having dizzy spells since Jan 7th, brought about an 11 hr car ride with stops to attend a family funeral. The dizziness is when I lower my head, turn it, look down or up. My balance has been affected after my lumbar back surgery 2 yrs ago, but my spinal stenosis pain went away. Last week I saw a top rheumatologist here in GA, and a top ENT to see if my inner ear is causing dizziness, who prescribed a brain MRI. I feel constantly exhausted, specially in the morning and night. The afternoons are better and I refuse to lie down and let life pass me by. I walk a mile once or twice a week, go to the gym to lift minimum weights on the machines and do the elliptical, or swim. After exercise, it's payback and the pain is almost intolerable during that night and the following day. I can't exercise but every other day, or on the 3rd day.
Gabapentin makes my life tolerable. Clonazepam .5 (1 to 2 a day)helps with my anxiety and helps me to sleep at night. Cymbalta is new for me, and I hope it will work for the pain and depression. My calves and legs hurt greatly (I stretch them), including my right foot and I have nerve tingling and numbness in the feet, but no diabetes.
I don't overdue any medicine and sometimes I might result to one hydrocodone/acet.
when nothing else works only to take one pill. At night hydro keeps me up. I also have sleep apnea and use a CPAP.
I hope this post will help someone, and I wonder if any has dizziness and balance problems too. Hang in there and don't give up! I have hobbies and little projects to distract me.