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OK so this has been my week.................

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monday- i think i slept LOL

tuesday - i went for an MRI on my brain and neck. they wanted to do a regular MRI and one with contrast. Well let me tell you being in that paper towel tube up to my keioster was soooo not fun. i bet my blood preasure sky rocketd and nearly had a serious anxity attack... ok so they finish the regular MRI and the dude says i don't think you will make it through the contrast and i was like prolly not so we decided we would send the results to my ear nose and throat dr. i have been having an ear ache for nearly a year now (on and off). i called up his nurse later on and told her what the deal was. later on my other dr. who just so happens to be the brother to myERNT dr, finally calls back he rearranges my meds.
the most morrible thing in the world is an MRI... i would rather have to drink 12 bottles of the chalk for a CT then do any part of an MRI horrible.

wednesday - i slept all day (no more nity nite meds wooohoooooo.) and my old man's 40th birthday was yesterday. i bought him windows XP professional a 100 gig HD and he will be getting a new printer as soon as he picks one out he likes. he comes home from job 1 has to go to job 2 and comes home with cake (i cant drive to get him cake) it was his forty and dint want to make an issue out of it but he is now eleiglible for the silver care plan LOL

thursday - (today) i slept til noon and got a call from the ENT.... he told me i had no tumors blockages ect. YAY i told him my husand said the result would be "ok, robin you are fullash*t" ok but i already know that... so i tell the dr. what my husband says and he laughs and tells me well we didnt find any of that in there either (i think the MRI lies or the doctor does) but his brother (my "other dr.) knows the truth LOL . so now they are thining it might be TMJ he didnt see anything worng in my jaw area but he said his advice was to his the dentist... so now i need to find a dentist in this area.

i am suposed to go back to work in saturday but since i have ANOTHER med change i am going to have to extend my leave... it's good in some ways bad in others
anywho thats been my week so far
what has yours been like?
 
Tell Russ I said, "Happy Birthday!!". I think in some respects men just get better and better as they get older ;-)

Sounds like you had a poopy week! *Makes mental note to self to never have an MRI.*

My week was just like all the other weeks, feed geckos, clean gecko cages, do laundry, drink lots of caffeine, play with Conor, tell Hayden to clean his room and do his homework, miss Steve when he is at work. I did get some new geckos this week though! Three bold striped females from Jeanne @ USA Geckos, a Giant female from Steve Sykes, and oh yeah last Friday I got my "mystery gecko" LOL, hope it's not a mystery figuring out which babies carry the trait hehee.
 
I'm glad you don't have any tumors, etc. and everything checked out okay.

Do you grind your teeth at all? My left TM joint was locked for around 3 months. I could only open my mouth about 1/2 inch. I had to put teeny tiny pieces of food in my mouth or I couldn't eat. It was really painful. I was really scared to have surgery so I waited 2 months before I had it looked at. They did an x-ray of the TMJs and it was NORMAL! My stupid jaw is locked and the x-ray is normal. It was locked because of my severe teeth grinding. I did it at night and sometimes it was so loud it would wake me up. I also did it when I was upset, stressed, etc. It made my head hurt too.

I was scheduled to have surgery and one night I was laying in bed and heard all this popping and crackling on the left side of my head. It unlocked! Man what a relief.

I don't grind my teeth any more. It took me months to stop it completely. It was a very long and hard battle, but I won.
 
Robin, it sounds like a horrible sh*tty week with a lot of horrible medical procedures. I am glad you are OK; hope you can kick back for a while and not have to suffer through any more grievous tests.
 
i used to grund my teeth horrible as a kid... i remember my dentist had to pull four baby teth molars because i had grinded completely through them. sometime later i quit... when i was in either middle school or high school i always was sore in my left jaw (same side as ear pain) but i chewed pens allot. they told me i had TMJ then and wanted to make me some mouth piece but i just quit chewing on the pen caps and the pain went away. i do not think i grind my teeth anymore but sometimes i do find myself clinching my jaws rather tight and might even do it in my sleep. if thats the case ima go to wal mart and buy me a football mouth piece you can mold to your mouth (they work well) and maybe that will stop it but in the mean time i will go see a dentist



kelli wtf is the "mystery gecko"?
 
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