I have insomnia!!! I know it is one of the symptoms of Parkinson's but it is getting really old very quickly!! The other night I went out to dinner with three of my closest friends, Jackie, Carol, and Nancy. They are such wonderful and caring friends. When I was lying awake in bed last night, I kept thinking about the things that they said to me and I got teary! They always say the nicest things and they are most definitely my "go to" people who make me feel good!
I can definitely get a decent night's sleep if I take some liquid medical marijuana or if I take 600 mg of Gabapentin a day. The problem is that I usually feel like I have a hangover when I take the marijuana. If I take 300 mg or more of the Gabapentin, the room starts spinning and that's not good!I don't think that the Gabapentin is doing much of anything to help me so I only take one tablet once or twice a day! Last night Dan and I stayed in a hotel after visiting with my mother-in-law. I slept about two hours total, I just laid there wide awake most of the night. I didn't want to put on the TV because I didn't want to wake Dan up! I kept trying to fall back to sleep but it just didn't happen!!
After I saw my neurologist on Wed., I decided to stop my laser treatments and see what happens. I think I am worse from when they started, maybe nothing to do with the laser but I am going to take a break from the treatments. I will see a new pain management doc about an ablation which will deaden the nerves in my SI joint! If I could get rid of my sciatica pin, I could go back to Boxing for PD patients and back to the drumming classes at the gym! I need to do something more physical than hobble back and forth around my house! I really hope that an ablation is a workable option for my Sciatica pain.
I started to set my table for Christmas Eve dinner. It takes me so long to do anything any more that I have to do it in stages! My Amaryllis bulbs are almost blooming! The white bulb, which will bloom with white flowers is in a red glass container and the red bulbs will bloom red!
I suffered from severe neck pain for years. I had 3 facet injections which worked temporarily. I had an ablation 4 years ago. Initially, my pain was worse for a couple of weeks. After that period of time, the results were amazing. I still have occasional pain but it is rare and very mild. A difference of night and day I highly recommend an ablation.
My Parkinson's symptoms seem to be different almost everyday. Some days I am dog tired and other days I seem to have some energy. It is difficult to make plans too far in advance because I never know what my Parkinson's will be like on any given day. My worst Parkinson's symptoms are being off balance and overwhelmingly sleepy!! I don't know if it is a Parkinson's symptom or not but I now have such vivid and bizarre dreams! Perhaps it is the liquid medical marijuana that I take at night to help me sleep!! My sciatica, however, seems to stay the same. It is just pain all of the time unless I take Tylenol or a muscle relaxer. I have spoken to several people who have Parkinson's and many also have sciatica. I asked the doc this morning and he said there is no corelation. Today I saw a new neurologist at a city hospital. He diagnosed me with Akinetic-rigid Parkinson's. He told me that there are two different types of Parkinson's diseas
I was diagnosed with PD about a year and a half ago but I think I had it for close to a year before that. Once I got on the Carbidopa Leodopa, my life settled back into a "new normal" routine. My painful Sciatica has always bothered me more than the PD. I don't have tremors, at least not yet. I think that is because I am in the early stages. I have a handicap license plate so I don't have to park as far away from an entrance as I use to have to park. My husband is always willing to drop me off at the entrance if I don't want to walk as far. But I try to do the walk so that I stay agile and my muscles don't freeze up too much. My most noticeable trait is my slow, and shuffling gait. I can still drive, totally take care of all of my personal needs, go out socially, travel, cook, etc. I am scared when I have to go up a flight of stairs because I am off balance and I feel like I might fall backwards. I have a death grip on the handrail! I am not a
June 2 is a very special day in our family. It was the day that my beloved daughter Amy was born. I was so excited to have a beautiful little girl. She was my most precious gift and that feeling has never changed. Amy died at age 18. After her death, life had no meaning for us. We just wen through the motions of living and existing because we still had to finish raising Renee, who was only 13 when Amy died. Dan had told me that friends of his, also bereaved parents, had adopted a little boy from Ukraine. I thought they were absolutely crazy. Fast forward a few years and that tiny seed grew in my mind. Maybe it was Divine Intervention, I don't know, but we decided to adopt from Ukraine. I am so thankful to Ukraine for giving me two of their most precious gifts. We must have been twice as crazy as his friends because we adopted not once, but TWICE!! We adopted Olivia in March of 2007. There is so much paperwork to adopt and we had to make several trips
I suffered from severe neck pain for years. I had 3 facet injections which worked temporarily. I had an ablation 4 years ago. Initially, my pain was worse for a couple of weeks. After that period of time, the results were amazing. I still have occasional pain but it is rare and very mild. A difference of night and day
ReplyDeleteI highly recommend an ablation.
Thanks you so much!!
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