Chronic Illness Blows...

Oh goodness this sounds serious and how horrid for you to go through it, I'm here for you if anything I can do to help... Ok, I'll whine with you for starters - almost 4 a.m. and although I slept a few hours earlier I've been awake since about midnight. Watched a movie I've seen a hundred times but really should be sleeping. I think my biggest complaint is stress over money, or should say lack of it but am very thankful that although tired my health has been fairly well.

I thought that it was men that ignored obvious medical crisis symptoms. You must go to the Dr of ER and go now. The last person I knew that coughed up blood is no longer with us. Go Go Go Go Go Go. get the message!!! Please. I hate to lose friends so I am being selfish. Go GO Go Go Go Go.

I have been away from here for ages, but when I saw your discussion I just had to send you my best wishes and I hope this goes away real soon with no infection to follow. I feel my whinging would be trivial to this so I will leave it for another time. My thoughts are with you dear Lecanis xx

Sorry to know that you have a chronic illness and can't sleep because of that. I think you should see your doctor immediately coz you are coughing up blood. I think you have a serious lung problem. Stress and sleeplessness aggravate your condition. My son also had some lung problem before and he had been on medication for 6 months non-stop and was advised to have enough sleep. So far he is ok now. Wish you too get well. I suggest you see your doctor soon and just have enough rest. Take care of yourself

I haven't whined about mine for awhile. I have been in "remission" for awhile but I have my days. Those days when I just cannot get out of bed. I'm too paralyzed to move because I just don't feel good physically and don't feel like facing the day. I have to go to the doctor with so much as a sniffle and they have to draw blood and I go through the "I hope my cell counts are fine." I don't fear cancer in fact I will probably in the end die from it as my chance of it coming back in some other form is about 75% and that always seems to be in the back of my head. I just want to be there for my kids and their teenage angst years. I can't wait for it actually, I want to see them turn out as people but in the back of my head I always have to wonder if that is in the cards for me.Sometimes it gets to be very hard to live with. I hope your ok my dear and that you feel better soon!

I know how you feel no matter what you do its always there and takes over your life. I have a chronic illness and it rules my life from what I eat to not being able to have a proper job. I have to always be prepared and I have a tendency to not be able to go out as I am to ill and have 0 energy. Is embaressing and stressful people think that we put it on and blow it outof proportion but if they had it then thay would know how horrible it is and how much it affects the simplist thngs in our lives. Breath or otherwise I'll go on for days...

I am fighting hard to keep depression at bay, after 5 years of it I have finally tamed the evil snake called depression and I have finally slowed the rollercoaster down that was my life, trouble is I've got the damn tiredness, lethargy and my waterworks problem to get sorted out, and having the GP throw antidepressants at me to keep me quiet doesn't help. I still haven't taken them, I am going to see another GP on Tuesday to see if she's any better and recognises CFS. Good job I am going on an anger management course, one day I might get really angry at this uncompassionate doctors who treat you like a damn number, there rant and whine over thanks my friend x

I am really sorry you are not feeling well, and I hope you will soon be better. Nopes, today I am not in the 'whining' mood, though many a time, I do whine. But I have been suffering a lot from lack of sleep lately. Reason 1: the rising temparature; I think the summer is setting in. Reason 2: Mosquitoes. Reason 3: My cats think it is a good idea to play catch all over my sleeping body. I really do feel heavy all over now. :)

I think it goes without saying that if you are coughing up blood that there is nothing normal about your situation and it shouldn't just be ignored. I am sure you are aware of this, however. I have a chronic illness which I have procrastinated about for too long. As people have reminded me when you have children its not just about you anymore. There is the impact of you being sick or perhaps even worse that a child would have to deal with. I have to admit, it gives me plenty to think about. Anyway, I have finally gone in after 4 years of ignoring my condition and I have been referred to a specialist. I have to have a liver biopsy which I understand is very painful, although they do anesthesize the area. I am not looking forward to it, but know its something I don't have a choice but to do if I am to maintain good health. I hope you seek the advice of your physician and don't let your symptoms worsen.

Hmmm...well, you're not completely alone. I just moved from Arizona to Georgia about 3 weeks ago. I really like it here, but, due to the change of climate, my sinuses have been going crazy since we arrived here. My nose is constantly running and when I go to sleep, I wake up a few hours later cause I'm all congested. Then, if that's not bad enough, over the past week I've developed a nasty cough too. I cough so much and so long at a time, my stomach starts hurting and I have to sit on the toilet with the wastepaper basket in front of me cause I'm coughing so hard and so much that I'm puking or spitting up out one end while pee is coming out the other! Then tonight, I finally get to sleep, only to be woken up by my youngest son an hour later cause he his ear hurts. This is because he's been having the same sinus problems as me since we moved here and it's draining down into his ear. Anyway, poor kid was so misserable he had tears streaming down his face and because I have no medicine in the house or anything that can be used as home remedies, I have to go drive 4miles to the walmart which is the only store open at the time to get some stuff. So now, I'm tired but can't get back to sleep.

I would have responded last night but I went to sleep whining that my honey had a headache and I wasn't going to be able to sleep because I get "frustrated" when I don't get lovin when I want it. My doctor will swear I have COPD because the only time I ever see him is when I have bronchitis, which is about 4-6 times a year. He has put me on medication for it that he will swear is working. Wouldn't he be surprised to know I only take those medications when I can't breath and then I end up having to see him because I STILL can't breath so a rational person would think that the medication he has me on ISN'T working. But no, that would make too much sense for someone who went to school for 8+ years to wrap their head around. Sorry. My rant is over. I'll leave now.

*nods* Chronic illnesses are like that.. oneday it blows very hot with all the symptoms on tow but another day it is very cold no symptoms at all... Anyway I am very very sorry to hear that you are unwell. How long have you been suffering? Have you shown your doctor, please do if you have not.. Coughing up phlegm, by itself is terrifying for me and you say you are coughing up blood... so cooly.. How can you do that dear? have you got used to it? Please get well soon, All the best to you. God Bless..

What would you do if I told you I know the cure for you and many peoples illnesses would you like to know. I know how to make you like new let me know soon its free all you have to do is follow directions I give you. You will think its a miracle YHWH bless you in the name Yashua no one likes to be sick I have the answer if you do agree after you are healed you must help other sick people with my instuction ok.

This is pgainey31959, And my first wife had a Lithium Imbalance which she ended up in a State mental institute, and the only reason she ended up their she beleived that if she would go off her med's she would get better. Well obvious'ly not. She lost her husband, and daughter, I had to learn in one day to be both Dad and MOM when the baby was 2 yrs. old. And then let's speak on my second wife, Well she grew to have Depression really bad she would get to have different personalities, she have difference's in how she dressed, and lived, But enough of that I could keep going on beleive me. So as far as hating untill the next spell come's on, or not being able to go to sleep because of this or that, I just want you to know there is somebody here that understand's. I realize you don't know me, But PLEASE beleive me when I say been their done that.

Hi Lecanis! It's very good to see you. I hope that you start feeling better soon, you are in my thoughts!

I'm sorry that your not feeling well and please promise that if your still doing this in a couple of days that you will go and seek medical help.. Now what chronic illnesses do I have .. I have chronic bronchitus once I get it I pretty much keep getting it until summer. I have seasonal allergies. and I have metabolic condition I'll never get rid of. So I know How much it blows I'm hoping that you'll feel bettet soon.

Hi Lecanis, So sorry to hear about your constant coughing up blood. I still have to catch up on your health situation, but what is the chronic illness that you ahve that causes this. I wouldn't want any other readers to think it's okay to stay at home if coughing up blood. Whenever I see a new doctor, and they hear or I tell them that I cough up blood daily (mostly just in morning), they usually freak out, and yell that tests have to be and that it is so dangerous. But if you talk to a couple of my doctors, they nod, as they know. IN 2004, I coughed up blood again, and too many infections were found in my lungs. They almost removed a lung, which I talked the surgeons out of desperately. Thankfully, I healed, and now with scars, I cough up regularly, so not to worry about now, unless gets intense. But years further back (I don't want to spill too much privacy), I had a much worse experience coughing up blood. Docs didn't think it was bad, just pneumonia (which can still be fatal), but they were wrong. And this was a very hard battle in my life/health. Best of Luck, and hope you can keep more of your blood to yourself! :o)

I hate sleeping-never know when ya might miss something-LOL Hugs, I hope you get to feeling better :)

I am sooo sorry to hear about your illness and that its not allowing you to sleep. I have a cronic illness that I take medicine for. I am in pain all the time. But if I stop my meds for any reason I am in horrific pain. I have sleeping issues due to the fact that I can't get comfortable. I totally understand the frustration. Although I dont know your particular problems I can sympathize with the pain and lack of sleep.

Sorry you are not feeling better. Do you have cystic fibrosis? Just curious... I also have a chronic illness; and yes it is difficult. Guess we just have to keep on keeping on as long as we can. Stay strong!