Thursday, September 16, 2010

Sept 16th Drs, pills and pain

Wow its the 16th of September already. Lots has happned since my last post.

My brother came in on Saturday and that evening mom had another episode of feeling like she was floating away. I had Mike run up and purchase a blood pressure cuff. It has been a wonderful purchase to know what is going on. It was 156 which was high but not as high as the 180's. I think after taking her blood pressure over the past few days that her blood pressure med is too much for her and it was dropping her blood pressure down to the 80's.

OK on the the neurologist story. Her appt was at 5:55pm on Wednesday. We were there for 2 1/2 hours before we saw the dr. Can you believe 2 1/2 hours. I thought her oncologist was bad at an hour. He says the problem is nerve but he can't tell where and with her pain level so high they can't do the normal test to find out where the nerve is pinched. So they scheduled her for a MRI on next Wednesday the 22nd. He gave her a pain med that targets the nerve. Nuerton(?) 300 mg. We gave it to her around 10pm and she really woke up fully at 6:30pm the next day. At 5am she fell out of her bed and hit her head on her night table. I called the drs office at 3:30pm and they said the dr would call her in a new script for 100mg. She took the 100mg last night and this morning and it hasn't really touched the pain. We are going to try 2 100mg pills tonight at bed. They are capsules so we can't cut or divide them. Her follow up appt with the neurologist is on the 24th with the nurse pract. They assured me she does not run 2 hours late.

Guess that is all the updates right now. Next week maybe we will know what is causing her pain.

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