I had assumed that was just a bluff. If not, then I agree. It's not just antibiotic overuse, it's that it encourages the proliferation of antibiotic resistant microorganisms.
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I had assumed that was just a bluff. If not, then I agree. It's not just antibiotic overuse, it's that it encourages the proliferation of antibiotic resistant microorganisms.
GotGarlic
Chef Extraordinaire
Well, yes, I thought that was implied, but I guess not [emoji2]
I figured you knew that. But, from stuff I have seen people write on the internet, I'm not sure it's as widely understood as one would hope.
Caslon
Executive Chef
Ever read articles from Readers Digest with a similar title? "I am Joe's back". Hehe
My painful back spasms are almost gone now. There's residual reminders that a disk in my lower back got a lifting injury and the spasms are still ready to rise up if I don't let it gently heal on its own. Robaxin was useless. Me thinking I'm 20 years younger was a root cause.
My muscle strength is still there, to a lesser degree. However, my infrastructure is starting to let me down. A wake up call.
What happened was bound to happen sooner or later. I'm no spring chicken anymore. Got it! (body to self).
My painful back spasms are almost gone now. There's residual reminders that a disk in my lower back got a lifting injury and the spasms are still ready to rise up if I don't let it gently heal on its own. Robaxin was useless. Me thinking I'm 20 years younger was a root cause.
My muscle strength is still there, to a lesser degree. However, my infrastructure is starting to let me down. A wake up call.
What happened was bound to happen sooner or later. I'm no spring chicken anymore. Got it! (body to self).
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Yeah, I did a number on my back a year and a half ago that I can blame on thinking I was younger than I am.
GotGarlic
Chef Extraordinaire
My seventh-grade science teacher assigned each of those essays to us. I've always remembered them, and occasionally refer people to them; they're available online. Good info.
http://www.ue.net/body-eng/
I'm glad you're feeling better. Strength and flexibility exercises can help prevent problems like that. Have you ever considered yoga?
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GotGarlic
Chef Extraordinaire
Good point.
Caslon
Executive Chef
Little by little my back is taking baby steps to get better. I read that lower back muscles work 24/7. So true!
Barring physical therapy which my insurance would not approve, I was thinking of going to a massage parlor. I even asked here if they do physical therapy. In a similar situation back problem, the hospital therapy nurse put oil on my back and used a heated ball and went over that area. I still ask...do up and up spas and massage parlors offer a similar type of treatment/therapy? Probably. Expensive I bet.
Edit: "Sorry, we just do really really good back massages".
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GotGarlic
Chef Extraordinaire
Caslon, no, don't go to a massage parlor. Find a certified massage therapist. That will be soothing, but it won't help strengthen your back muscles. You need to do some kind of exercise for that.
Caslon
Executive Chef
OK. Sorry I brought it up.
GG, yes...do light activity each day while that bulging slowly heal
My painful spasms are slowly letting up while my that area heals. Robaxin was of no benefit. Time heals all wounds.
It wasn't my back muscles fault...lol
It was me picking up a 30 lb case of water bottles and carrying it in one hand, going down steps, and me assuming I'm 20 years younger. I repeat...I'm growing older. I needed this injury to wake me up.
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Caslon, I have gone to physiotherapy for various problems. They did some massage and taught me exercises. They gave me a printout for the exercises and a web link for more info about the exercises. You might benefit from just one or two sessions. I would go even if my insurance didn't pay for it. My first session cost a little more. Since then, they have cost about $80 Cdn / session.
Caslon
Executive Chef
I think I bulged a lower spine disk which is now slowly healing. As it heals, the muscle spasms have decreased. I didn't strain the lower back muscles...they tensed up with sudden painful reaction as a safeguard to my spine. Very ingenious us primates.
No wonder the muscle relaxers didn't do anything.
No wonder the muscle relaxers didn't do anything.
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Addie
Chef Extraordinaire
It was just a bluff. He knows his job. He practices outside of MASS. as wekk as ub the state he practices in, yet he keeps his license here. Just in case he is present when I need a med in a hurry. That doesn't mean he will use it. It only means, JUST IN CASE!
He was able to spot the tattoos on the back of the patient's hand. Poo stated that "love" and "hate" on the knuckles is the first sign of a tattoo junkie. Also, what doctor in his right mind would go overboard with a couple of "different" antibiotics?
It must be nice to be able to read minds when you are so many miles away.
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As I understand it, the "love" & "hate" tattoos on fingers are usually done in prison.
Addie
Chef Extraordinaire
Some of Pirate's long lost cycle friends had that on their hands. Do I dare ask? He hasn't been in touch with any of them. Most of them are now dead. Every so often, I hear him say "Another dust biter."
In his teens, he was known to them from when his father worked part time in a barroom as a bartender. He would go in to get money from his father, and all the bikers liked him. So they would reach into their own pockets instead of his father. That kid has a nice racket going. I only heard about this activity of his about five years ago.
GotGarlic
Chef Extraordinaire
That would be illegal since PAs in Massachusetts are required to work under the supervision of a physician, their scope of practice has to be defined by the facility they work for, and prescribing Schedule II drugs has to be reviewed and approved by a physician within 96 hours.
Also, physician assistants don't have their own licenses - they're nationally certified and practice under the license of their supervising physician.
Addie
Chef Extraordinaire
The last two weeks of April I began to feel very sick and in a lot of pain. I chalked it up to just getting old. But the pain became unbearable and once again my heart started racing. Off to the ER again. The ride to the hospital was a nightmare. I swear that driver found every single large pothole. I was rushed into the special room for heart patients only. I know that room very well. Within a minute or so, I had two IV's going. One was for blood. (So that is why the medic asked my blood type in the ambulance!)
I had complained to Pirate the night before that I felt I was being overmedicated with the Coumadin. "Oh Mom, you aren't happy unless you can find something wrong."
Sure enough. When I had my leg amputated, as it is with the majority of heart patients, being placed on Coumadin is the usual common practice with surgery. The problem was that no one ever entered into my records just how long I should stay on it. Some days the dosage was at the very lowest, other days way too high. The high ones are what caused the problem. And when they couldn't get a reading they liked, the dosage went up. It seems I had been slowly bleeding to death from my intestines. And I also had a massive internal infection in my digestion tract. By this time I was black and blue from head to foot. I not only was losing blood internally, but a number of the discolorations erupted and I was losing blood that was also.
The doctor I had been assigned to sat down with me last night and explained every little tidbit of information he had at hand. He then gave me the words I wanted to hear. He said, "You will be discharged tonight and on your way home to sleep in your own bed." When I heard those words, I told him I could give him a great big hug and kiss. He leaned forward and returned just the hug. But I did give him the kiss. So here I am. I still am in some pain, but not like two weeks ago. I have a plethora of antibiotics and some pain meds.
Pirate says I have all of my coloring back. He asked me if I was going to sue. Absolutely not! I reminded him of our family motto. "If you didn't do an honest days work for your money, then you don't deserve it." Case closed.
One last word from Pirate. "Hey Mom., guess what. For the very first time you were right and I was wrong." Then he ran into the bathroom to hide! Chicken!!!
I had complained to Pirate the night before that I felt I was being overmedicated with the Coumadin. "Oh Mom, you aren't happy unless you can find something wrong."
Sure enough. When I had my leg amputated, as it is with the majority of heart patients, being placed on Coumadin is the usual common practice with surgery. The problem was that no one ever entered into my records just how long I should stay on it. Some days the dosage was at the very lowest, other days way too high. The high ones are what caused the problem. And when they couldn't get a reading they liked, the dosage went up. It seems I had been slowly bleeding to death from my intestines. And I also had a massive internal infection in my digestion tract. By this time I was black and blue from head to foot. I not only was losing blood internally, but a number of the discolorations erupted and I was losing blood that was also.
The doctor I had been assigned to sat down with me last night and explained every little tidbit of information he had at hand. He then gave me the words I wanted to hear. He said, "You will be discharged tonight and on your way home to sleep in your own bed." When I heard those words, I told him I could give him a great big hug and kiss. He leaned forward and returned just the hug. But I did give him the kiss. So here I am. I still am in some pain, but not like two weeks ago. I have a plethora of antibiotics and some pain meds.
Pirate says I have all of my coloring back. He asked me if I was going to sue. Absolutely not! I reminded him of our family motto. "If you didn't do an honest days work for your money, then you don't deserve it." Case closed.
One last word from Pirate. "Hey Mom., guess what. For the very first time you were right and I was wrong." Then he ran into the bathroom to hide! Chicken!!!
Caslon
Executive Chef
Glad you got thru that Addie. I bet what you mentioned about not carefully being followed up with meds will be a news item on some net news site sooner or later, if it hasn't been already.
I just got a 2" foam pad from Amazon to go on my bed. It seems mornings are the worse for back ache sufferers, and, my bed is firm. I'd been sleeping on the couch for the last 8 days which has softer cushions. I miss sleeping in my bed.
Ha! It only took me 3 hours going thru all the many foam pads available on Amazon before rolling the dice on one. I chose one with the best FakeSpot grade and the least amount of negative reviews. Time will tell.
https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Sleep-Solutions-Certipur-US-Certified/dp/B01FMLXUTO/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=advanced%2Bbed%2Bfoam&qid=1557024675&s=gateway&sr=8-4&th=1http://
I just got a 2" foam pad from Amazon to go on my bed. It seems mornings are the worse for back ache sufferers, and, my bed is firm. I'd been sleeping on the couch for the last 8 days which has softer cushions. I miss sleeping in my bed.
Ha! It only took me 3 hours going thru all the many foam pads available on Amazon before rolling the dice on one. I chose one with the best FakeSpot grade and the least amount of negative reviews. Time will tell.
https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Sleep-Solutions-Certipur-US-Certified/dp/B01FMLXUTO/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=advanced%2Bbed%2Bfoam&qid=1557024675&s=gateway&sr=8-4&th=1http://
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Addie
Chef Extraordinaire
Glad you got thru that Addie. I bet what you mentioned about not carefully being followed up with meds will be a news item on some net news site sooner or later, if it hasn't been already.
I just got a 2" foam pad from Amazon to go on my bed. It seems mornings are the worse for back ache sufferers, and, my bed is firm. I'd been sleeping on the couch for the last 8 days which has softer cushions. I miss sleeping in my bed.
Ha! It only took me 3 hours going thru all the many foam pads available on Amazon before rolling the dice on one. I chose one with the best FakeSpot grade and the least amount of negative reviews. Time will tell.
https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Sleep-Solutions-Certipur-US-Certified/dp/B01FMLXUTO/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=advanced%2Bbed%2Bfoam&qid=1557024675&s=gateway&sr=8-4&th=1http://
When it became necessary for me to have Pirate stay here with me as my caregiver, I had to get a bed real fast for him. I have a hospital bed and the mattress stinks. I can feel the springs in it. But according to the company that installed it, the mattress has to be able to bend should I want to raise the head or feet end. So I had already purchased a sort of camping bed for Pirate and gave him my mattress. DISASTER! Dang near broke his back. Purchased a what I thought to be a thick foam padding for him. Neither one of us are very happy with our sleep arrangements. After this dang upcoming wedding for my grandson, we will pitch our funds together and get proper bedding support for the both of us. The last really good mattress I bought I was able to go into the store and try it out. So until I can get around with my artificial leg, we will have to put up with what we have until August 3rd. Then my daughter (who doesn't know it yet) is going to take me to Mattress Firm which is only about five-ten minutes from my home and purchase two mattresses that we can get a good night sleep on.
Good luck in your quest for a solid nights sleep.
Caslon
Executive Chef
What's that you say? Never get old? Hehehe
I did Addie. I got a good nights sleep with this new foam mattress pad. My back didn't like the firm mattress I was sleeping on and it re-injured whatever progress I was making otherwise. A softer sleeping situation is what was needed, besides the couch. My back lower back injury might actually be getting better. $85 possibly well spent, maybe.
I did Addie. I got a good nights sleep with this new foam mattress pad. My back didn't like the firm mattress I was sleeping on and it re-injured whatever progress I was making otherwise. A softer sleeping situation is what was needed, besides the couch. My back lower back injury might actually be getting better. $85 possibly well spent, maybe.
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