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(Message started by: kim on Mar 4^th, 2004, 10:38pm)

Title: Goin Solo?
Post by kim on Mar 4^th, 2004, 10:38pm

For the first time in a laWng time cycle is starting WITHOUT insurance....i'm wondering how it might be to got through a cycle med-free.....done it b4, but not in a long time. In the beginning seems possible. After all this time......i still feel like i'm under water in suspended state. Never was good at rational panic.

Any ideas????

Title: Re: Goin Solo?
Post by Callico_Kid on Mar 4^th, 2004, 11:45pm

O2! It is relatively cheap, and works for me. Also, Verap and Lithium are not all that expensive as preventatives.

Other than that, what works for me is focusing my mind on something else that I can do with my hands while trying to fend off the beast. Not 100 percent effective, but I can usually work through one if I don't get hit unexpectedly.

No insurance is no fun. Haven't had it in 20years, and no one will insure me at a rate I can possibly afford.

Wish you the best! IT WILL END!!!

jc

Title: Re: Goin Solo?
Post by pubgirl on Mar 5^th, 2004, 2:48am

IM on its way to you Kim

W

Title: Re: Goin Solo?
Post by Charlie on Mar 5^th, 2004, 3:13am

Sounds shitty Kim. >:(

Got my first attack in 1969 and quit my Blue Cross the same year back in the good old days when I had some surgery for $500. I got back on insurance in 1983 when I got clobbered with gall-bladder surgery. It seemed like such a big deal back then...wasn't much more than $2,000 total. :-/

Damn insurance runs me about $3,000 a year now. Bastards. >:(

Things were different for me probably with 20 minute episodics and that the circulatory thing works so well. I guess there's only O2 and the technique that I can offer.

Sorry you have to deal with insurance as well as the horror.

Charlie

Title: Re: Goin Solo?
Post by cathy on Mar 5^th, 2004, 5:36am

Hey Kim im sorry to read this, i'll be calling you tonight hang in there love and hugs

Cathy :-*

Title: Re: Goin Solo?
Post by t_h_b on Mar 5^th, 2004, 6:08am

No insurance and little cash?

Melatonin, oxygen, psilocybin, and verapamil are all relatively inexpensive.

Title: Re: Goin Solo?
Post by cakelady on Mar 5^th, 2004, 6:30am

I just finishad a cycle insurance free.
Ditto to Verapamil, melatonin and O2
good luck

Title: Re: Goin Solo?
Post by suzy617 on Mar 5^th, 2004, 7:25am

Hang in there girl.
You have email.

[smiley=hug.gif]
Suzy

Title: Re: Goin Solo?
Post by Tiannia on Mar 5^th, 2004, 11:32am

Only other thing I can think of is the water treatment. You might have to be up 6 times a night to pee but if it helps.... :-/

Also only of the things that I do that seems kind of crazy but at least seems to make my middle of the night attack not take so long to get through is a cold washcloth (hell I've even wrapped a washcloth around a bag of ice) and I roll it us and place it behind my neck when I lay down to try and fall asleep. Dont know if it is the shrinking of the bloodvessles up into my head or what but it helps me and might be worth giving it a try.

I hope it is not bad for you sweetie.

Tiannia

Title: Re: Goin Solo?
Post by Cathi04 on Mar 5^th, 2004, 11:36am

Kim...You know I'm here....I know you are a seasoned veteran.......be stinky, be grouchy, be whatever you feel-but get through this.
Damn..how I hate the beast......

Miss :-* DG

Title: Re: Goin Solo?
Post by bobkip on Mar 5^th, 2004, 4:37pm

Tried this once when travelling on business, no meds or O2. I read this in one of the headache orgs newsletters,
don't remember which one now but it was specifically directed at ch.

Hot shower, as hot as you can stand, for 5 minutes. Then turn off the hot water completely and do a cold shower for another 5. It aborted the ch almost immediately but I haven't had the guts to try it again. If nothing else it will sure as hell wake you up. And it's about as low cost as you can get. Best of luck.
Kip

Title: Re: Goin Solo?
Post by kim on Mar 5^th, 2004, 4:49pm

Can't tell ya how comforting it is knowing i'm not so ALONE.

Ole kimmer has her "habitual ritual" to fallback on in tough times. I leaned that lil two-step all by myself years ago.....

So, i'll get the tub ready, i'll brew the coffee (24 hours - 7 days a week) and i'll do what i've done over and over more times that i can count.

The medicine is not going to perform miracles.....so i will learn to live without it anyhow....i'm purdy good at dat.

The one thing that means so much.......the one thing that makes my throat close up....the one thing that makes me smile at the end of the road is all you guys****can't thank ya's enough***

i know i can be troublesome and argumentative, and downrite weird at times. Tough shit. I ain't changin. ;;D

I loves yas more than i can ever say****

Thanks.

Title: Re: Goin Solo?
Post by cathy on Mar 5^th, 2004, 4:52pm

Hey omg I just got it...I got it I remember hang on it's coming to me....

ORGASMS!!! .....preferably lots of them cos it's always good to stock up never know when you might need one....

oh and btw...I think we'd rather not know how you get on... ;;D

Title: Re: Goin Solo?
Post by kim on Mar 5^th, 2004, 4:55pm

LOL. ORGASMS? Yeah well don't tellBrian. (psst he is ready to commit me to the nunnery ;;D).

You are only 34. I'm almost 44 - and ta tell ya the trewth, shweety, these days i'm more preoccupied with peeing in my pants than examining brian's ;;D

Yes. It SUX gettin older and ....................er...........whatnot. 8)

Title: Re: Goin Solo?
Post by cathy on Mar 5^th, 2004, 5:01pm

actually sweetie im 38 but whats 4 years between nuns lmao.... ;;D

Hey they have a new product over here called Tena Lady just for that problem, means you can, walk, run and even jump and here's the best bit, you can pee while you do it all..... [smiley=crackup.gif] not that i'd know anything about those sorts of things you understand....

Title: Re: Goin Solo?
Post by echo on Mar 5^th, 2004, 5:02pm

on 03/05/04 at 16:55:49, kim wrote:

i'm more preoccupied with peeing in my pants than examining brian's ;;D

)

At least you have a hobby. ;;D

Title: Re: Goin Solo?
Post by Melissa on Mar 5^th, 2004, 7:07pm

I went through my 2000 cycle without any meds. It was hot scalding showers, gallons of coffee, O2 and dramamine that got me through. It can be scary, but you can get through it! Clusters will NOT kill you, just keep remembering that.

Title: Re: Goin Solo?
Post by sherryberry on Mar 8^th, 2004, 5:52pm

Kim, miss ya. Love ya.
Hot shower, hot black coffee, ice packs.
It will get you through it....
and honey, ORGASMS, they DO work if only for a few minutes and I am 42 goin' on 43. It's not easy to achieve and it might be easier if you try it on your own... didn't Elaine and a few others give their approval to the "rabbit" LOL!! Hey, I'm gettin' one!

But truly, the only other thing I can suggest, which helped me a few times, is a tiny bit of tabasco up the nose (I applied it with my little finger) and/or ice packs on the bottoms of your feet.

We are the survivors. Those of us who could not get help medically and still had to raise our children. We found ways to do it and you will again.

Love you Kim, my twin in clusters.

I'm moving back east around May... some time while I'm there, we must meet somehow....

Sherry

Been entertaining the beast since feb 26th