Happy Birthday Sue!
'Shindig'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Happy Birthday Sue!
The status meeting call I thought I as supposed to be on first thing this morning has been rescheduled at the last minute, thus thwarting our cleaning lady who apparently could only come in to vacuum at this exact time. Mwah ha ha.
Happy Birthday Sue!
Promotion-ma for your DH, Strix.
Happy birthday, Sue!
Well crap. This cold has settled in my lungs and it is asthma-rific. Woke up this morning wheezing like a wheezing thing that wheezes. One breathing treatment down plus a course of prednisone started. Wheee?
Is your painkiller causing your headache?
A new guideline out of the UK advises physicians and healthcare professionals to consider the possibility of “medication overuse” in their patients who have been taking pain medicines for up to half of the days in a month, over three months.
They occur when people take painkillers or triptan drugs too often for tension-type (“every day”) headaches or migraine attacks. Doing this can reduce their effectiveness and cause further pain.
I used to get terrible rebound headaches from caffeine, back when I was drinking 4-5 cups of coffee every day.
I don't have normal breakthrough pain medication, so thankfully I'm unlikely to be suffering from that, at least, although it's of course a concern. I'm on maintenance methadone (never increases), weekly dilaudid (too infrequent for rebound), and that's it.
It might be a new guideline, maybe in the UK, but I have found most doctors are aware of it.
Separately--oh, my god, when am I going to be back in my groove? I can't get work working, my apartment is ankle deep in all my belongings, I won't have a car until I do some cab juggling this afternoon. I'm entirely off balance, and feeling it...
I have to wrestle work into submission first.
My personal life can wait.