dayton

Oh, wyooooohooooo, it's me, the board monopolizer!!! thought I'd cheer ya up a little, ok, very little. More questions. I bet you think I just sit on my big fat derriere and dream these up right? Alright, I do LOLOLOL!!!! hmmmm, forgot my questions, is that part of this??? uh, yeah, right. ok, oh just remembered. geez, what happened to my memory, the fibro, right? Ok, my lumbar blocks are done as an outpatient and I am completely sedated and I have the black/red/orange hands to prove it. It doesn't sound like some of you are completely out,right? I mean I go out like a light and then the next thing I know I'm in recovery. I just wish they'd find some other place to put that frilling needle, geez. My hands are very small and they always complain about my tiny veins and that really hurts. My copay is $378 and I've already had uh, tomorrow makes 3 and he said I had several more to go. He hopes by July not to have to do anymore. How can he tell when not to do them??? Also, I don't mean to get personal but how is your insurance paying?? I mean I'm scrambling to pay $378 each and I have bc/bs which pays 90 percent, geez, how do you guys do this???? I sent in $100 for my bone scan and my copay on that was almost $300 also. I quit the neurotin because it made me so ill. I just have the numbness in the right leg and the little tingles in really both arms. I did not have that before the blocks started. I guess on that funny face scale I'd rate about a 0 to 1 1/2 pain and that's mostly from the numbness. However, if you touch the top of my foot, it still hurts, but just in that one area, it's as the dr. says "localized". I've never had the severe pain except for that one night where it felt like my leg was in a furnace (now that was pain -- a true 10!!!)and I've never had it since. I'm still working full-time but have learned to pace myself at sitting as it makes my legs more numb. Well got to run. Thanks for answering all my questions. Hopefully others can learn something too. Also one comment, I asked the nurse if they see a lot of this as I thought it was relatively "rare". She said, goodnes no, we see a lot of this. It's very common and mostly in women!!!! Didn't realize that...