I had a very busy day today. Most of it was good, but I was definitely traumatized today. I was so tired from not being able to sleep very well last night. I had my appointment with Dr. O.G. at 9:00am, so I had to get up early and get there. He asked me how I have been since our last appointment. I explained how I have felt panicky, anxious and paranoid. He said that I need to come back off of the Cymbalta. He sees' people that have the reaction such as I do. I guess it increases the adrenalin in the body and that is not the reaction that I needed. He said this might help with the recent problems I have been having. But I feel like I'm trading one side effect for another. My eye was cloudy and ear was aching today. We took a month to go up on the Cymbalta and we are only stepping down in 1 week.
I came home and S was outside, because her daughter wasn't feeling good overnight so she stayed home. I went and sat on the deck in the sun while the girls played. At least we had 2 hours until M had to be at school. 85 degrees outside and a perfect day.
I took M to school and headed to the Neurologist. Boy am I happy that they have ottomans by some of their chairs. Since Dr. L-G was running 40 minutes late I could rest my eye(s). I had no idea what I was sitting there waiting for!! She calls me back and we go into a different room, our last visit was on the other side of the building. She has me lay down and explains that some are not bothered by the sensation and others say it hurts. Well that statement did not faze me until the test was started. She takes what I will call a mini defibrillator. She starts at my fingers on my left side. This isn't that bad, she takes little breaks and marks the spot, measures, enters something in the computer. She slowly moves up my arm, and it starts to get more uncomfortable as she gets to the area above my elbow and below my shoulder. Then just as I to recover from the shocks (20 or so times in 7 separate areas). She shocks my neck!!!!!! My arm flys up and I scream out! She quickly acts like nothing just happened. Then she explains that the next part feels like acupuncture. I have never had acupuncture nor do I ever plan to in the future. She places this little needle under the skin, touching the nerve and more electric shocks. All of this was over in 20 minutes. I cannot believe that I allowed myself to go throught that. I mean what just happened? She looks through the reports she printed and said I have some good news. I am always up for good news. "You don't have carpel tunnel or nerve damage, but the bad part is I don't know what it is yet." I explained that I saw Dr. O.G. this morning and that he changed my medication. She said then we have to go back also. So I am slowly working my way backwards :( She said to call in a few weeks and we will see if she needs to up the Tegretol. I can still hope for something good to come of the blood workup I had done.
But this time M was ready to be picked up..and I was thinking I just couldn't believe how ugly that test was. Italked to my mom and I told her if I ever hear of anyone needing an EMG, I'm going to tell them how horrible it was. My arm was tired and my head was hurting. After we got home, we went back outside, I took pain medication and laid my head on a blanket in the grass while M played. I am wore out.
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