The more involved everything becomes. I had to have a CAT scan earlier this week because I have been experiencing great pain in my abdomen where I had a hernia and surgery to repair it several years ago. Recently the pain has been so bad I went to see the doctor once again, turn out the cat scan didn't show anything and he believes it to be some sort of neuropathology, so he's sending me to some sort of pain manager. What does that mean? Can they fix it or not? I don't want to manage anything else, let alone my side pain.
On another note another doc wanted to do some other things but because of my heart issues I have to have cardiac clearance.
Good grief I have to go to two docs to have who knows how many tests just to see if I am a candidate for such treatment.
I'm coming to believe that getting old really does suck.
Nothing is simple anymore.
Before you go somewhere you have to be sure you have all of your meds, when planning a trip you have to count your meds and possibly order more. These are things that we never thought of when we were young and beautiful and free of such maladies.
Do you think that we get used to being old? I don't want to ... I want to fight it, I'm not ready to be old yet.
My poor Granddad is having such a hard time. He's not feeling good and he is getting injections in his knees that is supposed to re-create cartilage for him. Tomorrow is his last treatment, and so far he says it's not helping.
This year he will be 94, and I am awed by his perseverance, I don't know if I could have gone what he has been through, I'm not even halfway there yet and I'm freakin out.
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Getting old scares the living daylights out of me.
When I was 4 1/2 months preg. with my youngest child - I had to have an appendectomy, well 2 years later I started having pain in the surgical site - I too had to have a CAT scan to see what was wrong - they thought I had a hernia from the surgery?????? Crazy - they never did find out what was causing the pain. If I bend over far or stretch back far - it feels like my stomach muscles are rolling on top of each other. Sounds nasty, but I beleive they did not stitch my muscles back right since I was preg. for the surgery.
Hope you get yours fixed!!!
I've heard it said that life begins after 40 but nobody ever says what it begins. So far I've begun to get fatter, greyer and slower.
Anon:Yes, I am experiencing your same symptoms.
I have a great hairdresser, and she handles the gray. Slowness is usually only a morning issue. Fatter is really pissing me off. I eat less than I ever have in my life and am huge. I'm having my thryoid checked again, hopefully they can boost that and I can loose of few!
its just mother natures way, ride it out as best you can not missing any moments of grace in your life.
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