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I, TOO, HAVE SLEEP APNEA. I USE BI-PAP AT NIGHT.
I am interested becuase I fill like I am depressed and my doctorjust put me on Cymbalta.
I have c p and I am single parent at the same time.
Because I think I have this condition…Dr. won’t say I have that I have it though…
I have PTSD, fibromyalgia, and just had a mastectomy for breast cancer.
I have degenerative disc disease and living with servere pain after cervical fusion. I am feeling hopeless. Suggestions welcomed.
I am on a journey, and today it brings me by you. Shadows follow us like a good friend, never failing to be by our side when we are in the dark and in need of light.
I was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease this last spring(2006). I am interested in new treatments and people going through the same thing I am. Have been fighting bipolar and depression for years. The anxiety and pain set in after the Crohn’s dx.
I suffer from severe Endometriosis, Infertility with concommittant ME/CFS/FMS. I would like to hear from people similary affected to learn & share coping strategies
I have been living with depression my whole life. Within the last year I was diagnosed with Bipolar and I am looking for others who have Bipolar to discuss and share experiences.
I am 48 years old. I have had Fibro since a car accident in May 02. I have three grown kids which have all moved out in the last 3 years. They are all doing fine. It is hard for them to see me down, espically because I was such a strong person. I was typical Super Mom! But now I do what I can. They keep in touch often. We get toghter at least once a month and eat out or do pot luck. I have been married for 28 years. I have 5 cats and one dog living with us. I love my pets so much!
My mother has alzheimers and my step-dad just passed away. He was her buffer and also kept her aware of things. Since I am the only one of the siblings that lives around here it falls on me to do whatever needs to be done. I need someone to talk to. Besides that I am a single parent with a disabled daughter still at home. My sons are on their own so I carry the “load” myself. Mom is getting to the point where she is very impatient with me. Usually I go to see her every day but don’t have much emotional/physical strength to continue to do so. She lives in assisted care so I hope she is getting good care. She probably can’t understand that I need time to take care of my daughter and myself too.
i have UC, fighting from getting booted from the Navy because of it, and you wanna know more about me, check out my facebook or my myspace
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=502005365
http://www.myspace.com/jimmysquirrel
I am a woman who had ulcerative colitis since I was in my 20’s and now it is blamed on all of these autoimmune disease reactions I am having that are making me miserable and affecting my life like nothing I have ever experienced. I am in so much pain and now they want to start me on Remicade. Well, my rheumatologist does, my medical doctor and GI doctor want to send me first to the University of Virginia Medical Center for evaluation first. They are wanting a second opinion before they try Remicade due to my liver problems. Well I am still in misery and so much pain and depression. I just lost my Mom right before Christmas and I am having a hard time coping with the grief, she was living here with me, was sick but such a reason for me to keep going to take care of her needs. It was almost too much but we needed each other so much. I am praying every day that my heart and mind can take all of this, I believe HE will not let us have more than we can bare, so I am ready to unload, my shoulders are too heavy and sore to carry anymore at this time. I just ask for support and prayer right now and medical advice as I write in my journals about some of my problems.
i delivered a beautiful baby girl (last of my 5 children) in sept. Love her and all of them to pieces…but i’m falling apart!!!
I am Bipolar, and although they say it is mild, and I can believe that, at times it is very difficult to live with, esp. when I start going into an episode. I want to connect with other people that are bipolar, and esp. when I’m beginning to go into a crisis stage, or episode. I need someone to talk right then that really understands. Sometimes I’m fine, and can be encouraging to others, but when I’m on the down side, I’m no fun to be around. Even lately, my manics are no fun. I have a chronic kidney failure condition, with one kidney as well, so the doctor had to reduce my meds for the bipolar. So now I’m taking only 150 mg. of Welbutrin, as compared to 300 and only 600 mg. of the Neurontin, as compared to 1800 mgs., so the manics are breaking through. I’m a rapid cycler any way, so any reduction in my mood stabilizer can really affect me. So hopefully, I’ll find people in here just like me
I grew up in a town outside of New York City, moved to Maine in 1979 to go to college. Have done a lot of traveling in between and lived outside the northeast entrance to Yellowstone National Park for awhile, I’ve lived in western Mass, and have lived all over southern Maine. I have two children, Josh, 17 and Nicole, 16. I raised them as a single mother, when their father decided to disappear when the kids were still in diapers - never to be found again - at 39, I finally found someone to spend my life with, but my kids are my joy and my love and my heart. We went through so much together, and have a bond that those who have struggled understand well. I have been diagnosed with depression, anxiety disorder and post traumatic stress disorder…I am also a recovering alcoholic and drug addict (12 years).I am trying to overcome all of these things, some days are good, and some are really rough, but this is what i need to deal with. I love to be alone and live a very quiet life. I live for my music, it feeds my soul, and i love to read, and am trying to perfect the art of stained glass. In my heart there is an artist that wants to be released but hasn’t found the perfect outlet yet…I spent too many years of my life being badly abused in every way, which left its scars, but made me the person I am today. I try not to dwell on the past, although I do get flashbacks from time to time, and when I get them, it’s like i am reliving them and it is very painful, but then I also realize I had someone watching out over me, because I really shouldn’t have survived; but I did. I love the peace I feel from living in the woods; I love to hike up mountains, have spent a lot of time climbing the White Mountains in New Hampshire haven’t done it in a while, but hope to get back into it again. there’s nothing that feels quite like standing on the top of a mountain - it’s magical. I love anything that has to do with art, even my pathetic guitar playing, and even though i have a terrible voice, i love to sing, i feel music in my soul…there’s not much more about me, except that I am happiest when I am outside, waking through the woods, sitting by a river, kayaking, x-country skiing…just put me outside - that is where I get my spiritual strength from…
I was just dignosed with breast cancer and am looking for support.
I have Had Major Recurrant Depression since 1990Am concerned about weight gain. Have begun Cymbalta therapy and discontinued Wellbutrin. Already gained weight, perhaps ten pounds in less than a week to ten days.I cannot deal with any weight gain. Body image distortion would exacerbate all the situations I am already dealing with. My depression is of course biochemical, but the context of my life is quite challenging right now. Weight gain would create further crisis. First posting and question. HELP please, Community?