STEAM ROOM FOR ANGER
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I've been really snotty w.dh and dd for the past month. Can't help it. Cancer does indeed change one's personality, along with the wbr I had months ago.
I've been able to hold my temper in public pretty much, even tho I've wanted to put the malocchio (evil eye in Italian) on scores of idiots.
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Not so Lita, again Benzo's and Hydrocodone (probably other narcotics) together slow the breathing. It depends on other factors like how much and individual health, etc. I'm too tired to find the research. Trust me.
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Runor, I actually had a doctor that said he did that. Takes a few antibiotics at the first sign. He was the best, always laughing. Went back to Oklahoma.
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marijen- I didn't think you were snotty in your posts. All is good! I hope you didn't think I was snotty with the 9 pills thing - LOL!
Jaycee-Questions for you on the UTIs: 1) how long between stopping the antibiotic and another UTI shows up on average? 2) have you noticed any patterns (ie sexy time at night, then UTI come morning or afternoon)? If you wanted to, you can start the Uricalm now. No need to wait. One thing I read was to not drink a bunch right before or right after taking it. Wait about an hour, then drink all you want.
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Lula, Not Me! : I think you meant Jaycee? I don’t get UTIs. At least not for 7 years.
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Raising my hand - on the snotty!!!
I've been standing up for myself - more to my DH and my dad. As - I feel they tend to be wayyyyyy too hard on me. It's funny that I married someone - who could punch my buttons - like my dad does.
Anyway - told my DH to "F*ck-*ff" the other day. I really couldn't help it!!! It just came out!!! And, Arimidex - is not exactly a happy pill. LOL.
I think I'm making up - for all the other times - that I should have stood up for myself....
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marijen- yep, you’re right! Letrozole brain strikes again!!😂
Dancingelizabeth- you go, girl! I think this whole cancer diagnosis/any major life threatening illness readjusts your thoughts on life. A lot of the stuff we used to think mattered we find really doesn’t and we no longer are willing to spend time putting up with other people’s crap. Sometimes my DH thinks I’ve gone off the deep end.
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Not me. I’m expecting to hit perfection by 5 years out.
Perfectly what, haven’t figured out yet. One thing at a time.
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I have permanent letrozole brain.
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Lita, mia famiglia! Go ahead and put the evil eye on whatever idiot you encounter. As far as I'm concerned the world is plum overrun with them and they need a good thinning out. Since it is illegal to run over them with your car when you see them on the sidewalk and considered bad form to crush them beneath the wobbly wheels of your grocery cart as they plug up the isles with their own carts that they leave out in the middle of nowhere, their unwashed offspring running to and fro, screaming, touching everything, picking their noses, yup, EVIL EYE them all!
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Jaycee49...I wondered if any of your doctors had mentioned Methenamine (Hiprix) to you? If not, you might read about it’s usefulness in keeping UTI’s at bay. My mother suffered for years until a urologist prescribed it for her. What a difference it made in her life. I just wanted to mention it to you..
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Jaycee - great news on the pet scan!
I agree, I think the waiting for results makes me super cranky.
I really don't like that about myself but I'm becoming easier on myself about it too.0 -
Lula, I get a new one in about 7-10 days after finishing a course of antibiotics. Sex is not an issue for me since I am unable to have "regular" sex anymore. There are plenty of enjoyable alternatives. This morning, I ordered some Uricalm Cranberry from Walgreen's online to have delivered to my local store. I'll probably start taking the D Mannose I have here soon. The diarrhea side effect scares me a little.
Biscuits, there is a whole thread on UTI's here. Very good info there, including about Hiprex. No doctor has ever mentioned it. I guess I'll mention it to them. It is an antibiotic so I wonder if resistance can occur.
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Interactions between your drugs
Majorlorazepam hydrocodone
Applies to: Ativan (lorazepam), hydrocodone
Using narcotic pain or cough medications together with other medications that also cause central nervous system depression can lead to serious side effects including respiratory distress, coma, and even death. Talk to your doctor if you have any questions or concerns. Your doctor may be able to prescribe alternatives that do not interact, or you may need a dose adjustment or more frequent monitoring to safely use both medications. Do not drink alcohol or self-medicate with these medications without your doctor's approval, and do not exceed the doses or frequency and duration of use prescribed by your doctor. Also, you should avoid driving or operating hazardous machinery until you know how these medications affect you. It is important to tell your doctor about all other medications you use, including vitamins and herbs. Do not stop using any medications without first talking to your doctor.
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Other drug and disease interactions
- hydrocodone interacts with more than 500 other drugs and more than 10 diseases.
- Ativan (lorazepam) interacts with more than 300 other drugs and more than 10 diseases.
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Thank you, Lita for malocchio.
I can use malocchio, and still be otherwise pleasant to the idiots.
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Jaycee- getting a new one in 7-10 days after finishing the antibiotic may actually be from the antibiotic not completely killing the bacteria and it recurring vs it being a new one altogether. I’ve dealt with UTIs since I was a baby (one of my ureters didn’t form properly in utero). Has your dr ever had you try a broader spectrum antibiotic than the cipro? Maybe some sulfamethoxazole? I usually take Cipro or Septra but my dr gives me sulfamethoxazole if it comes back within 1-2 weeks. Basically in those cases the first antibiotic works enough to relieve the symptoms and significantly reduces the bacteria but not completely. Antibiotic is finished and the infection comes back strong with symptoms making life miserable as the bacterial load grows. Might be worth asking about. On the diarrhea incidence, certain sugars can cause it. Another reason to not take mega doses of it as a preventative.
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I just need to rant about this, my husband is asleep right now and I can't wake him to let loose to him about this, up but I'm coming close to punching a hole in the wall if I don't yell about it to someone!
When I got on Facebook this morning I saw that my mom had put a wonderful post about me shaving my head yesterday with a nice, BIG PICTURE of the clippers and a clump of my hair sitting beside them saying how emotional the day was. This really ticked me off!!!!!
I'm not embarrassed, ashamed, afraid or anything else that I have cancer (I have epilepsy too and feel the same way) I just don't want the whole WORLD knowing! The people who I want to know about these things all know, the ones that I don't want to know don't. I don't want to start getting posts, texts, emails, phone calls or anything else from people I don't know, haven't heard from in years, one's I hate, one's that I know hate me and who ever else telling me how sorry they are for me and that they love me saying that they know I'm strong and I'll make it. I'll get things from people who will say that since their mom, grandma, aunt, second cousin, sister-in-law's aunt, people that they worked with 20 years ago and who knows who ever else, saying they that THEY know what its like since that other person had cancer, and THEY know what I'm going through right now. Sorry but if YOU aren't the one who actually has the cancer then you have no clue what it's like and I'm going through!
I don't know if anyone else feels the same way but I just needed to let loose about it. I don't want any holes in the wall!!!!!
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Oh, Groo, how RUDE. She should have asked you first before posting that. Her post is obviously attention seeking for HERSELF. All her friends will be so sorry for HER that her daughter has cancer. You don't need the ripple effect from that post. That's the problem with Facebook. Her friends will see it and if they like or comment or whatever, then all of THEIR friends will see it. I keep my Facebook friends list down to about fifteen. That's all I can handle. Can you talk to your mom about what she did and maybe prevent a repeat?
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Groo~I am so sorry your mother did that to you. That's such an intrusion of your privacy I am so very sorry!! that beyond sucks and makes me mad. No less from a family member. Ugh!!! Sending hugs. ~M~
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Groo, can you ask her to take it down? At least minimize the damage? I'd be furious as well—completely overstepping.
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GrooGruxQueen: yes, that is rude and inappropriate. Can you ask her to take it down? Also, ask her to ask you before she posts anything about you and your health.
My daughters are now 16 and 19, and I know better than to post on Facebook without asking them first.
Unfortunately, it's really all about your mother and her feelings. My sister was the same as our parents' health declined. She posted every little thing that happened to our Mother, usually in the terms of how it affected her!
Good luck.
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I will share a facebook story. My father, who was remarried, had a brain aneurysm and fell into a coma after surgery. My father's wife called to tell me. That night her grandchildren, not biologically related. Started posting stuff on facebook. I asked them to take it down, since I haven't told my 2 sons yet. Well the one grandkid wrote me at a nasty note. His mother and my father's wife called to profusely apologize, saying he didn't know it was me asking for them to take it off facebook. I said ok I just didn't want my kids finding out there grandfather wasn't expected to survive from a facebook post.
I also told relatives not to post pictures of me on facebook, they do it anyway not getting my permission. It truly is a nightmare.
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Maybe thats her way to help her cope but should have asked first. Ask her to take it down. If she feels she needs to cope with your cancer by sharing with her friends in fb, not much you can do. Hopefully its a didnt think about it rather than the former. Gl
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GrooGrux, a song came into my head, sung to the tune of "There's a Hole in The Bucket"
There's a hole in the wall dear mother, dear mother
A hole in the wall and I blame it on you!
You blabbed it on facebook on facebook dear mother
You blabbed and I slugged it, this hole is for you!
Moms. Some days..... Sorry.
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By the end of your post, runor, I was reading to the tune of the song. Couldn't read it without the tune in my head. Very funny.
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Groo, that's terrible. My mother would have done something like that, too. It was always all about her. I had a strict NO FACEBOOK policy during my year of treatment. When it was over, i posted some information, but no pics of my chemo hair. It didn't stop my mother from introducing me to her friends as "This is C, the one who has breast cancer." She was a huge gossip and my story hit her gossip mill like a wildfire. Grrrr. She never could understand how much that hurt me.
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I hate gossip. This conversation has reminded me of this story:
The Gossiper
A woman repeated a story (gossip) about a neighbor. Within a few days everyone in the community knew the story. The person she talked about heard what had been said about her and she was very sad. Later, the woman who had spread the story learned that it was not true. She was very sorry and went to a wise rabbi and asked what she could do to repair the damage.
After giving this some thought, the rabbi said to her, "Go home, get one of your feather pillows, and bring it back to me." Surprised by the rabbi's response, the woman followed his advice and went home to get a feather pillow and brought it to the rabbi.
"Now," said the rabbi, "open the pillow and pull out all the feathers." Confused, the woman did what she was told to do.
After a few minutes, the rabbi said, "Now, I want you to find every one of the feathers and put them back into the pillow."
"That's impossible," said the woman, almost in tears. "The window is open and the wind has scattered them all over the room and blown many feathers outside. I can't possibly find them all."
"Yes," said the rabbi. "And that is what happens when you gossip or tell a story about someone else. Once you talk about someone, the words fly from one person's mouth to another, just like these feathers flew in the wind. Once you say them, you can never take them back."
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Groo, that's so totally inappropriate I don't even know where to begin. So I'll just say I'm sorry.
If my temper was up on something like this I swear I wouldn't be speaking to my mother for a long long time. [Not that my mother would -- she's as private about these things as I am] Not to mention the violence. I'm outraged on your behalf.
Can't really fix this so I offer you a hug. And promise if your mother is a friend of a Facebook friend of mine I won't look at the picture.
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So my first thought is- is there enough room here for all my vents right now! ?Widely inappropriate that your mother or anyone else would post information about you and your cancer on Facebook. I use caringbridge.org to post and keep folks updated about my treatment for stage IV breast cancer. I find it hard enough to deal with the diagnosis and so hard and draining to deal with other peoples’ BS. What I need right now is empathy, compassion and love not drama and negativity! Fortunately I do have a lot of good support but there are a few family members that I am about to tell to leave me alone! They don’t help and they make my illness about themselves! I’m going through the roughest time of my life and they just can’t figure out how to be empathetic. I find it so hurtful and aggravating that I deal with this- have to go see my counselor again. Honestly I wish they would go see counselor and figure out how to be compassionate. I have one relative who has canceled dinners on me three times now! Obviously I’m not a priority in her life. And my nieces who ran to the doctor over my diagnosis because they are worried about themselves but don’t reach out to me! My own daughter isn’t worried about herself but these two freak out cause it may happen to them. Hey guess what I’m living it how about some compassion? It’s all from one family, no surprise I guess. If they were not family I would have walked away already. I just don’t get how people can be so darn clueless! Thanks for listening
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