So, what do all these illnesses mean? Ouch! It means that I am tired a lot... and get fatigued easily. It means that I hurt a lot... and any kind of exercise hurt (it was training and doing the Avon 2 Day Walk for Cancer which triggered my Dercum's). It means I wake up and spend most mornings retching (luckily with little vomiting), with movement making it worse. I get horrible headaches from time to time. I get pain and bloating in my stomach. And blah, blah, blah...whine, whine, complain. You'll learn more as I talk about my days....
It also means I have to take a whole bunch of pills!! And (as mentioned previously) a few shots.
So, what all do I take? Here's the CURRENT scary list (and what I take it for):
- Humulog Insulin -- 3 times/day with meals (15-20 units depending on carbs in meal) Diabetes
- Lantus Insulin -- this is the delayed release type, 1/day (34 units) Diabetes
- metformin -- 1000mg 2/day Diabetes
- Propanolol ER -- 160mg/day Migraines
- Ambien -- 10 mg 1/day Hypersomnia/Narcolepsy (helps me to stay asleep all night!)
- fluoxetine -- 40mg 1/day Depression/OCD
- Lisinopril -- 5mg 1/day Diabetes (to prevent kidney/liver damage)
- Lo Loestrin -- 1/day Estrogen Replacement
- HCTZ -- 25mg 1/day High Blood Pressure
- Erythyromycin -- 500mg 2/day Gastroparesis
- Prilosec -- 1/day Gastroparesis
- Vicodin -- up to 3 pills (7.5/750mg) as needed for pain
- xanax -- up to 3 pills (.5 mg) as needed for anxiety
- phenergan -- around 7mg (1/4th pill) up to 2/day as needed for nausea
- Bonine -- thinking of replacing phenergan with this because it causes less drowsiness -- 1 pill/day -- kinda alternating right now
Those are the prescription drugs (and OTC ones), here's the supplements I take:
- centrum silver 1 a day vitamin
- Vitamin D
- Magnesium
- Vitamin B-12
- probiotics
- low dose aspirin
- Flax oil (either through flax fit tablets or straight up flax oil)
- Gas-x
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