Hi everyone, hope your all enjoying your summer. I have been wanting to get back to blogging earlier, but unfortunately I have been quite ill since I last posted. I ended up in the hospital for a few days enduring invasive tests and had to have surgery a week ago. Then when I thought things were going to get better, I started experiencing the same symptoms that took me to the hospital in the first place. No one was able to find out what was wrong with me and I have been so frustrated and scared. So the other day I started thinking maybe it was one of my new medications I have been taking and sure enough, once I started researching it, everything I had been experiencing was listed on several websites about one of my meds. I had even mentioned the possibility of my meds causing my problems to one of my E.R. doctors, but he just brushed me off and said maybe it was psychological. Unfortunately, this happens a lot to women, especially when they take medication for depression and anxiety which is what I was taking for about 5 weeks before I started experiencing horrible episodes including fainting, a seizure, horrible burning sensations in my body and fever and chills.Then when I read up on the side effects of stopping the medication cold turkey, I was terrified by what thousands of people had experienced. I am now trying to wean myself from this drug and am scared to death to start experiencing what other people have experienced with withdrawls. Think God that with my nursing background I was able to find out for myself what the problem was before I was on this medication for any longer. I am telling you all this because I don't want you to experience what I have over the last few weeks. If your doctor can't find out what's going on with you, research it yourself! Don't let unknown illness take over your life! I have been unable to enjoy any aspect of my life for the last month and have felt completely out of control! Please pray for me to get through this weaning process, I so need it!
I am trying to keep my mind and hands busy so I started cross stitching again. I monogrammed the vintage grain sack above with my initial. I love how it turned out!
Hope to talk with you all soon!
Sincerely,
Melinda
you are right about researching, I had a friend with the same problem, she finally is on a different med, but now she has lots of hair loss, again the dr. told her it was unrealted, but she found it is a side effect, it just is a rare one...hope you start feeling better!!!!
ReplyDelete...sending you healing hugs sweet one...
ReplyDelete~ don't even get me started on the topic of this medicated world...
i just thank our Heavenly Father, that you had the foresight to use your trained knowledgable brain before it was even worse...
~ dwell on the possibilities and beauty in your everyday life and be back soon with your special gifted and talented self!
all my bestest xoxo's
OH Melinda... prayers are on the way. My oldest son had us watch the documentary called FoodMatters, we got it from NetFlix and I am telling you, it was eye opening to the effects of our medicine filled world.
ReplyDeleteI hope you are feeling better very, very soon.
I have had anxiety/panic attacks in the last couple of years after never having a history of them and what I learned that I had never read before was that they are a common but untold symptom of menopause... lucky me.
I now breathe through them but only after having gone to the hospital by ambulance with the symptoms going away shortly after admission. ugh.
$$$$$$ deep breaths and the knowledge that it wil go away is what gets me through them now.
oh to be young...
I will pray for your continued healthy progress and that you will find an alternative solution without side affects.
Take Care, t. xoxoxoxooxxoox
p.s. your stitching is beautiful :)
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I am so sorry that your ER doctor was such a jerk! It really is an outrage. Thank God you found out the truth. I will be praying for as you wean yourself off this drug and for peace and healing for you.
ReplyDeletehola Melinda, nos pasa muchas veces que los médicos no nos escuchan lo suficiente y una misma sabe la enfermedad que tiene, porque lo sufre y duele.
ReplyDeleteEspero que te cures esa depre y pases de tomar medicamentos, se feliz, vive y reza.
besos
Praying for you:)
ReplyDeletexo,
abby
Healing, strength and peace for you in Jesus name!
ReplyDeleteYou are in my thoughts and prayers. I can't even imagine everything you have gone through, plus having kids as well. Stay strong and believe in your tomorrows, okay? I have a feeling everything will work out for you. Thinking of you!
ReplyDeleteTake care, Sue
Praying that you feel better real soon. Doctors can be very uncaring at times especially when it comes to women, they need to take a class in bedside manners. We have to do as much research as we can about medications and symptoms that we have. Most of the time we figure out the problems without a doctors help. ANd...you cross stitch is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteMarianne :)
...we truly are the only ones in charge of our bodies...& God!
ReplyDeletePraying this finds you feeling better.
Sending positive thoughts your way.
ReplyDeleteI experienced that type of response from an ER doctor once. Actually it was on vacation in California, and we went to UC - Davis Medical Center. I was having horrible dizziness and 120 pulse rate. Waited four hours til they saw me. All these doctors and interns stood around looking at me and not being able to figure out what was wrong. I had told them the medicine I was on, but they dismissed that it had anything to do with how I was feeling. They said I probably had diabetes. I went back to the motel room and looked at the prescription, and it said something about false positive sugar readings in tests. Cost over $4,000 to find out they were a bunch of dorks!
Hope you're feeling better soon.
Tracy Screaming Sardine
Sending prayers for you, Melinda. Hoping for a speedy recovery and strength too. I always love your photos. Been missing you
ReplyDeleteBlessings
Stay strong Melinda and remember there is a a huge group of people in this blogging community who cherish your friendship and care about you!
ReplyDeleteGet well my friend! Please reach out if you need anything!
Big hugs, Cheryl
Dear Melinda,
ReplyDeleteI've been wondering how you've been feeling. How scary this month must have been for you! I admit that I don't always trust medicines these days, so you were right to research things on your own. I'll pray that your weaning process works well and that you won't ever need any meds. I'm glad to see you're taking care of yourself and working with your hands. That cross-stitch is AMAZING! I assumed it was originally part of that gorgeous grain sack.
Remember how talented & loved you are dear Melinda! (have you seen your blog in Romantic Homes yet?)
Take care,
Susan
Oh my Melinda...I've been thinking about you so much lately. I am glad you are on track to feeling better...take one day at a time and keep thinking positive. Keeping busy is a big help and your creations are just so lovely!
ReplyDeleteTake care friend,
Sandi
Oh Melinda, take it easy and you will be fine. Unfortunalty doctors don't seem to know what they are giving their patients these days, they rely on the drug reps to tell them what the drugs do and of course they won't tell of the horrible side effects, they wouldn't get the sales that way. I am so angry at some peoples greed, putting the innocent at risk. It seems to be rampant now, what we eat, what we drink, what we use. It's so wrong.
ReplyDeletexx Sandi
Melinda, my thoughts are with you. I am so sorry about what you have had to go through. My Mum experienced a very similar thing last year with anxiety medication. It is very scary not knowing what is going on with your body. My yoga teacher tells us every lesson, 'slow down, nurture the body and honour the soul'. A mantra I find useful at stressful times. So, slow down, surround yourself with all of your beautiful treasures. Nurture your body by taking time to lay down on your gorgeous white sofas and bed linen. And honour you soul with fresh flowers, fine tea cups and stillness. All my love and best wishes to you. Jacqueline xx
ReplyDeleteHi Melinda! I'm so glad to see that you're back. I am sorry that you've had to go through all of that. I agree that you really have to be your own advocate with doctors and stick to your guns when you feel something is not right. Years ago I felt my doctor was not taking me seriously so I ordered a copy of my medical chart. I found that he had written in my chart, "She frets a lot". This of course meant that I was not to be taken seriously. So I can absolutely relate to what you are feeling and going through. Hang in there and I am sending good thoughts and prayers your way! Have a lovely day! :)
ReplyDeleteJennifer
So sorry you have been going through this. Hope you are able to heal quickly and well.
ReplyDeleteOh bless you i am so very sorry that i missed this post and so very sorry to hear of your pain and fear. I am so glad you researched this although it should have been down to the medical profession but sometimes they seem to let us down. I am always her if you need to talk you have my email address. Sending you positive and healing thoughts...hang in there you will get through this difficult time i am sure. Big hugs dee xx
ReplyDeleteHi Melinda,
ReplyDeleteThis is my first time visiting your blog and I just had to write to tell you that I was on Effexor/venlafaxine for a few years and when I was weaning my self off it I experienced "brain shivers". They were so ugly and horrible, but I persisted with the weaning and have been off the medication for more than a year now. I have my life back! Remember to take each day as it comes and to take care of yourself. I am an RN also and nurses are notorious for caring for everyone else first and leaving little or no time for ourselves. I am a new follower.
Kind regards, Laura