Welcome to growing old as a quad, guys. Throw in depression and anxiety as well. Larry, 38 yrs.post
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:46:06 -0700 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Longevity To: [email protected]; [email protected] MY SITUATION SOUNDS KINDA SIMILAR GREG-- IVE NEVER HAD SPASM'S IN ABOUT 12 YEARS POST UNTIL THIS YEAR. IN THE PAST I ONLY HAD THEM IF I HAD A UTI. NOW AFTER IV'E BEEN UP IN MY CHAIR 3 OR 4 HOURS I BEGIN GETTING TIGHTNESS AND PAIN ACROSS MY BACK AND HAVE TO TAKE PAIN MEDS TO HELP WITH SPASMS AND PAIN. AT NIGHT AT TIMES I GET SOME A.D. AND HAVE MY WIFE TURN ME AND OR GIVE ME MORE PAIN MEDS. WE DON'T HAVE A CLUE WHAT'S GOING ON, DO YOU THINK AN MRI WOULD HELP AT ALL? I DON'T KNOW IF I GOT ANY CALCIFICATION IN HIPS OR BACK LIKE YOU SPOKE OF. HOW DID YOU FIND OUT? LIKE YOU SAID THOUGH---ON SOME THINGS OPERATING MAY MAKE IT COME BACK WORSE. THIS STUFF CAN NAG AND WORRY A PERSON TO DEATH, HOPE THINGS GET BETTER FOR ME AND YOU AND OTHERS WITH PROBLEMS ON THE LIST. DAN H. *** --- On Sat, 7/11/09, Greg <[email protected]> wrote: From: Greg <[email protected]> Subject: [QUAD-L] Longevity To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 8:47 PM I thought 27 years post was long, you guys have real longevity. My body started to break down about 20 years post. I had to start pain meds and daily antibiotics. 3 main areas of break downs. 1. My UTI’s got so frequent they wanted to do a bladder augmentation, but tried a daily antibiotic first. It’s worked pretty good. 2. My b-program seems to be slowing down. Probably from the pain meds. But I did one of those “Drink Barium Tests” and had some x-rays. One of the diagnoses was “Thickening of the rectum walls”. My guess is it’s from doing so many b-programs with “Bullets”, etc. I think this is the most stressful part of my routine. I sweat so bad while doing it and need more and more and longer dig-stims. It’s just getting harder and harder on me to do it. If it gets much worse I’m going to have to look at other options… like… Just “Bagging It”. 3. Then my biggest break down I think are my hips. An injury caused Heterotopic Ossification. Excess bone growth, where bone starts to grow into the muscles. Very painful. They can cut it out, but that can cause it to come back even worse. I went 20 plus years with no spasms and no pain meds. Now, without pain meds I spasm so bad it makes me grunt. My chest and abdomen constrict so bad it feels like someone is standing on my chest. If I recline it’s bad enough it is hard to breath. How are you other long termers? Greg _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009
