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RE: Legs sensitive to the touch? - 3/9/2008 7:05:08 AM

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Personally, I see the whole thing as more mental than anything else. To get attention, good or bad, still attention.

You have no right to judge me. You do not know me. I was just looking for advice.

Gotta agree with LaTigresse.
Plus you just shrug off 90% advice that is given to you, it seems every medical professional you see seems to be incompetent. You must be driving them all up the damn wall.

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RE: Legs sensitive to the touch? - 3/9/2008 8:03:09 AM

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(warning. geek content.)

I think I would be very good at finding cheese in a maze.

As a workaround you should be able to plug an external keyboard into your laptop if you like. Either USB or PS / 2.

You can also insert a space by entering the ASCII code for a blank space (hold down the ALT key and type 255 on the number pad) or you can copy a blank space and hit paste (CNTRL V) when you need a space.

Or you can continue to use the underscore which is very distinctive. :-)

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RE: Legs sensitive to the touch? - 3/9/2008 8:11:11 AM

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AngelinkaJ's comments are very good. Unfortunately, you have to be your own advocate when dealing with medical matters. Don't assume anything regarding your treatment, what your doctor knows or does not know, are your doctors communicating with one another, et. There are probably good resources on the web for specific ways to do this.

Requesting and getting a copy of your medical records is probably a good start. You pay for that stuff and it's yours so they should give it up.

I would also think written notes describing your condition, your observations, when you went to the doctor, what was discussed, prescribed, etc. would be a very good thing to have and to provide to the doc when you go to see her/him.

These things I just pulled out of my head with no research and little reflection. I'm certain if you consult The Google you will find "more resources than at which one might shake a stick" as to what information you should have at hand and how best to employ it.

Good luck.

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RE: Legs sensitive to the touch? - 3/9/2008 11:26:17 AM

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        with your history of eating disorders and taking multi prescriptions have a brown bag session with your doctor bring all your medicines that you got from all your doctor's to see if any of them have adverse reactions to one another If all your doctor's don't commuicate back and forth(which they don't at times) then they only know what you tell them and with that many doctors and prescription's it's easy to leave a medicine out by accident .
             On another thread you shared you take cymbalta well that's in a classification like effexor and nerve sensitivity along with muscle spasms have been reported with cymbalta's use ,higher doses have been prescribed for people with p.n and other neuropathies .
              Ask your regular doctor to refer you to a internal medicine doc they threat the whole body and that way medicines prescribed are all accounted for some gp's give out samples and you forget to report your taking that the other doc's and before you know it your a precription cocktail of toxins .

                 With your history it wouldn't hurt to see a endocrinologist eating disoders can alter your body chemistry and this type of doc works from the metabolic aspect test's your endocrine system and all it's functions. You can have something called insulin resistance it's not diabeties but it's on it's way and the little fasting test when you get your 91 and so on doesn't determine insulin resistance a glucose tolerance test is used it's a long test to measure how your body breaks down glucose and with mild forms of this you can have the neuropathies.

Great new's is if that's the problem some diet changes some exercise and you can reverse it before it becomes type 2 diabeties it's like the bodies wake up call.

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RE: Legs sensitive to the touch? - 3/9/2008 11:38:04 AM

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I don't take very many medications anymore and that have all been changed since the pain started...I was taking Effexor, 300 mg, before I started Cymbalta...it was an evil pill...I had those electric shock sensations in my brain...I'm only on 20 mg Cymbalta right now. And I'm also taking Neurontin. Plus my thyroid pill and birth control...thats all.

The blood test I had done, I fasted the night before and then went in to get my blood taken...then went home and ate and then went back and had it taken again.

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RE: Legs sensitive to the touch? - 3/9/2008 12:41:30 PM

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You know, OP, when you have difficulties with getting medical help, it is often in the way you are presenting yourself. If you are doing so, the way you do here, in a very spacey way, they will not take you seriously.

You cannot talk to a medical professional and say, "I get, like, headaches, and stuff". That will not work. You have to be extremely PROACTIVE and assertive and mature in how you discuss your issues.

You are from NY; there are many qualified places to get help. But you have to take control of the way you are doing this. Request your tests and records from every doctor, bring them to all the doctors and discuss firmly but quiety, not hysterically, your symptoms and how you have tried to deal with them.

Continually coming to the board with this questions, given your extreme issues, is not going to help you at all. Strangers cannot advise you, only from our own experiences but you have multiple issues going on.

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RE: Legs sensitive to the touch? - 3/9/2008 12:56:34 PM

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            The glucose tolerance test is when you fast and they give you a drink resembles maybe orange soda called glucola then you have to stay put for over three hrs and within every hour your blood is drawn a total of 3 draws .It's a pain in the ass waiting and If you don't like blood draws it can be uncomfortable . You had a rapid fast glucose test ask for a glucose tolerance test GTT and prepare to sit so bring a book .
On the other thread you said you have cycle issues have you ever had an evaluation for poly cystic ovarian disease/syndrome there was a reported link too it with chronic dieters and eating disorder survivors through national institute of health   (NIH)  study on estrogen dominant pcos .
       It's not just only ovaries it effects it's a whole system syndrome hormone's becoming imbalanced can set off a chain reaction of sickness.  I happen to believe get the body well from within then the somatic signs leave in the least you've had those tests and not wondering why is this happening .
      Careful going on those websites reading medical advice people who are prone to somatic response (example you read this and that and your mind convinces you that's it i have that ) not to be confused with hypcondrias somatic is when your mind actually convinces your body to have the signs of certain diseases .It's a hot mess   and you aren't doing it on purpose it's just a misfiring in your body/mind connection .             good luck

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RE: Legs sensitive to the touch? - 3/9/2008 1:04:16 PM

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I have been tested for PCOS, I don't have it. I have hypothyrodism though. All my female hormones are normal. And my ultrasounds are normal.

I will ask my doctor about that test. Thanks!

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RE: Legs sensitive to the touch? - 3/9/2008 1:37:31 PM

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          Please be kind to yourself ,your story thanks for sharing and I want to hear positives from you .I understand it's a downward slop being on medicaid I'm one out there that can't get medical insurance cause I have a congential /chromosomal disorder and it's what docs call a cash cow and well medicaid pays only what they will and the docs have to eat the rest and alot of docs refuse medicaid based on the strong arming of their red tape saying they will cover and then paying so little .

The old saying is you get what your paying for well if the tax payers knew how badly people can be treated due to circumstances they aren't in any position to better themselves .It's considered a handout but the long term effects of being trapped on medicaid and the public aid that in itself is self defeative it's designed too keep you dependant we need a change .My mom's words (where can i sit on my ass and collect a check and get medical ) she was never motivated to want more cause hey how many out there wouldn't mind collecting a check for doing nothing ? only price is your self respect and eventually you are dehumanized by the system .I hope it's changed since my childhood .

On paper according to medicaid I'm mentally retarded with an IQ of 77 cause one doctor was published claiming all chromomal mutations resulted in various degree's of retardation and being raised by a welfare mom she never challenged the report.Why that happen's was that medical care that was available from medicare supporting doctors was simply out dated and they never updated the research .I am socially and educationally challenged but by no mean's did i sit back and accept that label .
           I think it does piss the doctors off but professionally they can't or shouldn't take it out on you cause of your situation.If they have then fight back and call your caseworker through medicaid and do an offical question of conduct complaint .I so want you to find happiness and relief from what 's happening.
            Also once you get the testing and find out what's wrong and you can't stand medicaid you can opt out and go to medical research and you are helping other 's in the process it's a team of docs and yes your a lab rat at times but you get the best care and new innovative minds that are making changes in this field .I had no other option I was not going to go the medicaid route anymore .

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