The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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I was awake, others said it happened. Me? It's like taking a new med with me, how would I know any side effects, I already have them. Never felt a thing, business as usual.

New here & not really sure how to get around. Check out my profile if you want more details. DD is Aspie & I have provisional diagnosis of same. Looking to meet new people, support & be supported.

2 more days and it's holidays ! !!

Hi, everyone! Just thought I'd drop in for a moment...

To WrongPlanet!! !

how ya been?

I've been alright, Nan. Thanks for asking! How are you? BTW, I read where you tried out Acupuncture. I'm so glad that helped you. I am due to start having it again, and it really helps me, too.

Picking and freezing strawberries here. Raspberries are close. Blackberries are next. I'm pulling up the rat tail radishes which self sowed all over the garden and piling them on the blueberries to hide them from the birds. When I pick a bad strawberry, I throw it over the six foot fence onto the park lawn. The birds are happy to have it so easy. You should see the robins compete to make my yard their territory. The pink, red, and yellow California poppies are stopping traffic. The bumblebees are happy.

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I just honked up trying to post, so if this is like a triplicate, sorry!


Acupuncture worked well for the torn/strained muscle pain. Got them out of spasm in 20 minutes. Would limp in, get wired up to the electrodes, and walk out normally. Leg is now healed, for all intents, and I'm starting to be able to climb stairs normally. Slowly, but doing it. The accupuncture is not doing as much for the disc issues - we are dropping my lung meds dose down (it may have contributed to the back thing anyway) and as it drops the pain in my back/leg intensifies exponentially. Apparently that med inhibits inflammation, which is an issue right now. So, damned if I stay on it (maybe blow some more discs) and damned if I don't (it hurts worse now). Am using a big bag of frozen cut corn on my back every hour for about 10 minutes and you would not believe how much it helps. Also doing PT twice a week, with written homework for exercises/stretches to do and things to avoid. Am about to start swimming-aerobics for geezers, as being in water would be good - less strain on everything. On the good side, they'll all be older and look crappier in a swimsuit than I do....

Have had two accupuncture treatments specifically aimed at the discs (traditional, not electrical stim) and felt a little better that night, but in horrific pain the next day. Days that followed brought rapid relief, with improvement to better than prior to treatment. Since pain is such an issue, and since the only thing the "regular" docs will offer is surgery or heavier pain meds, I've decided to just back off on the accupuncture for a bit until the back and the pain are more stable. Will then return to let her "mop up" what's left. Just cannot handle that kind of searing pain. Wow, it was like being stung by bees, constantly. No more for meeeeee! And the "docs" - jeez, their answer is always "let me write you a script for something stronger". The Kid says that if I wanted to I could make a WHOLE lot of money passing those things along. I have avoided taking them unless necessary and always pass on the "something stronger". Stretches and a bag of corn seem to work, so why chance an addiction to something nasty?

I wonder if she was being too rough with the needles? When I first went for acupuncture, I went to a student clinic at a nearby school. I could not take the jabbing needles, and finally quit going. I went to a different place, to an experienced acupuncturist, and wow, what a difference. I actually asked her if she'd begun placing the needles yet! Having said that, some acupuncturists can be heavy handed, and some, not.

I hear ya! I loathe pain meds, because most of them make me ill. Usually in the form of nausea, vomiting, and severe headaches. I only use them when I absolutely have to. I wonder if people on the spectrum aren't more sensitive to chemicals, or something.

She was fine with the needles and has been doing this for years. I actually only felt one going in at the last visit and usually I don't feel any at all. I got this weird referred pain during the last treatment, and asked her to remove that one needle. Problem was, there WAS no needle there! It was really very unpleasant, but eventually settled down so I just ignored it. Otherwise was an uneventful treatment. The bee stings came the next day, in various locations. First time I had "regular" acupuncture, rather than using electrical stimulation, so I'm not sure if that made the difference. Am still going to give it some rest - hypersensitive from the steroid withdrawl, I think. No sense suffering needlessly - it hurts enough without adding to it. Once the steroids are at a low level and things have evened out I'll go back, though. She's done a world of good that the "regular" docs didn't.

Oh, got the bill from the emergency room, finally. Over $5,000, with $486 for one vicodin tablet! (glad i have insurance!! !! !)

The Kid has hell with meds, too. When they took out her wisdom teeth she was soooooo stoned, for a long time. At one point she was crying because I would not get her a hamburger. (She looked like a chipmunk and was still spitting out blood!) Any procedures I've had where I have had to be sedated, they say I'll be "out" for an hour or two and it's usually more like 10 hours with them starting to panic because I'm not waking up, and then I'm still stoned a couple of days later. I do wonder if Spectrum does have an impact - her nervous system is all honked up ("dysautonomia"), much worse than mine, on a good day.

holidays ! !!
yay

heya hartz

Woo hoo! Somebody at church gave me a couple dozen pollywogs to put in my frog bog!
And today my son, his wife, and nine month old grandson who live in Florida are coming to spend the night!! Baby boy is so cute and jabbery.

Hey, yourself, Lemon! Have a wonderful holiday!

Getting older, but not old (it's a link)