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Feeling sore in my upper back between my shoulder blades. I don't know how it got that way. I layed down and put a cold pack on it, fell asleep . Feeling some better.
 

Ruthanne said:
Feeling sore in my upper back between my shoulder blades. I don't know how it got that way. I layed down and put a cold pack on it, fell asleep . Feeling some better.
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That must get stressful. Nothing like an "itch" that you can't "scratch."

I've awakened in the night with a neck pain on one side and found it very hard to get comfortable enough to get back to sleep.
 
dilettante said:
That must get stressful. Nothing like an "itch" that you can't "scratch."

I've awakened in the night with a neck pain on one side and found it very hard to get comfortable enough to get back to sleep.
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It is concerning, you are right. When I move my head forward it's painful. I'll probably get the heat pad out. Have you ever alternated ice packs with heating pad? I can't recall if I've done that before.
 

Ruthanne said:
Feeling sore in my upper back between my shoulder blades. I don't know how it got that way. I layed down and put a cold pack on it, fell asleep . Feeling some better.
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I get stiff and sore muscle in my upper back, only on the left side, sometimes. It is due to an injury or two that happened years ago. I don't treat it with anything. I guess I could try a heat pad.
 
dilettante said:
No, I keep thinking about it but I never have.

I usually take one acetaminophen and apply a Menthol and Methyl Salicylate patch. Don't use a heating pad with a patch though.
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I don't want to fall asleep with a heating pad plugged in. Recently I saw an ad for a pet pad that supposedly kept them warm by retaining body heat. I wondered about getting one for myself but haven't done so yet.
 
Many of my friends are older than me so have had significant health problems and have died. Another friend took a bad fall and has a small inoperable brain bleed.

. They are sending her home tomorrow because it’s not worsening and there’s nothing they can do. She has so many other issues that I am worried about her. I’m also her medical POA but thankfully she has been clear about her wishes.
 
Reflective. Certainly not on a high. Actually, on a bit of a slow decline. Music is helping, someone else's creativity. Someone else's distraction. But my own mood? Running in the negative.
 
When I joined here a little while back I was fighting a black cloud of panic disorder. My doctor had me try medication again and after a few weeks it has really helped. I go back to see him in a few weeks. I might have to ask him to take a hard look. I've been feeling way too good lately. Not trying to be funny, I just hate taking anything I don't need and I'm perhaps way too relaxed now.
 
dilettante said:
When I joined here a little while back I was fighting a black cloud of panic disorder. My doctor had me try medication again and after a few weeks it has really helped. I go back to see him in a few weeks. I might have to ask him to take a hard look. I've been feeling way too good lately. Not trying to be funny, I just hate taking anything I don't need and I'm perhaps way too relaxed now.
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Dilettante, good luck with the meds.

I get stressed out easily in decision-making situations, especially when there is another person present who is part of the decision. My affect becomes aggressive, or so my sister says, when observing me. I'm trying to dial it back. I didn't think I appeared aggressive.

Not considering any medication, though.

Good luck.

In other news, I just have too many worries for my liking. I just want a few days without worries. Too much to ask for ? Ha Ha.

My life is pretty good except for the fact that normal things that happen to me stress me out way too much. Things like selecting a medicare advantage plan for next year. Selecting a new internet provider since my current isp is going away in a month. Etc. There always seems to be something, lol.

I am going tom play a half hour of pickleball today at the YMCA. It's one of my ways to 'forget about my worries'.
 
I'm depressed, as so often. I was much better for weeks but now back to feeling very low.

Here's a question, why do friends always feel they must DO something for you if you tell them you are depressed? They start giving advice, asking intrusive questions or telling you how they often feel the same. It doesn't help, it just annoys me. What I need is to be LISTENED to. Nobody can solve anyone else's problems. Nobody can ever fully know how another person feels.
 
dilettante said:
When I joined here a little while back I was fighting a black cloud of panic disorder. My doctor had me try medication again and after a few weeks it has really helped. I go back to see him in a few weeks. I might have to ask him to take a hard look. I've been feeling way too good lately. Not trying to be funny, I just hate taking anything I don't need and I'm perhaps way too relaxed now.
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Glad it has worked. I hope you find what really works, anxiety is awful.
 
RandomName said:
Dilettante, good luck with the meds.

I get stressed out easily in decision-making situations, especially when there is another person present who is part of the decision. My affect becomes aggressive, or so my sister says, when observing me. I'm trying to dial it back. I didn't think I appeared aggressive.

Not considering any medication, though.

Good luck.

In other news, I just have too many worries for my liking. I just want a few days without worries. Too much to ask for ? Ha Ha.

My life is pretty good except for the fact that normal things that happen to me stress me out way too much. Things like selecting a medicare advantage plan for next year. Selecting a new internet provider since my current isp is going away in a month. Etc. There always seems to be something, lol.

I am going tom play a half hour of pickleball today at the YMCA. It's one of my ways to 'forget about my worries'.
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Oh my goodness I get like that, ordinary everyday matters that never bothered me before become like mountains to climb. I get overwhelmed too easily.
 
I mentioned the other day to a senior friend-that when 'normal things" happen ,I often get stressed and depressed about it-and she said she does too. We are both widows so there is no one there to bounce off, sort of, so we have to handle those things alone.

Another friend of mine, fairly new to widowhood, always says from time to time, ' Everything is on me!' even though her two adult children still live at home. And all of us widows and widowers know how "everything" is on us!

But then I think back, and realize, I handle my monthly budget well, I try to get broken things repaired or replaced,
I take care of my car maintenance, and have been able ,every week, to get rid of some stuff I do not need.

But if my TV doesn't work ( it might be a simple check to make sure all the plugged in stuff is plugged in) or the TV dish fills with snow after dark ( a little challenging to hold a flashlight and brush it out at same time) or I inadvertently push the wrong thing on my police/EMS/Fire scanner ,if the phone rings, in my bedroom, trying to lower the scanner audio- it just gets me down- and happened a few days ago.

I start playing around too much with the scanner buttons, and always think I broke it, but somehow I manage to calm down and the scanner comes back on the right channels.
I have the detailed instruction booklet on the same table the scanner sits on, but this is by far, the most sophisticated scanner I have ever had , and I hate to read all the remedies, for stuck channels, etc etc.

These are little normal things but also feel that stress often comes from other people in our lives. The fairly new widow often gripes to me about things I sure cannot change. And I felt someone was trying to take advantage of me about a month ago-
and it gave me stress to hear her tale of financial woe- but this is someone I hardly know and I sure did not offer her any cash.
 
Was taken ill again yesterday. I never got out of bed. Finally got up at 7:00am this morning.

It's raining, a little windy, and not very nice. My dog liked all the smells though.
 
still sick. better than yesterday but not well enough to work tomorrow. i hafta be 24 hrs without a fever before i can go back. as labor intensive as my work is, if i'm not at least 50% able to do my job then there's no point in being there.

i'd be like walking a dog that's dragging it's butt on the ground the whole time. friday it took me 3 hrs to collect all the er trash and clean 6 bathrooms and do two bathrooms in the old special procedures unit. that was barely manageable.

turned around 3 hrs later and checked into er for the 3rd time in a week. i decided to start another bucket list. my first item is to see all of the er drs as a patient before i die. lol!
 
Honestly? A little "lost". Sometimes the gap between what I want, and what I have, is too great. It's not about money, desire, or want. I have most everything I could ever dream of. But you know, there's a gap. Tis the small things. Then the more adventurous. I know who I am, and where I fit in the scheme of things, and I have to deal with the insignificance of it all. So, down, I guess.
 

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