When the innkeeper is sick

[ChrisandShelley]

I sure hope you get to feeling better. It's one thing when you have a job that has disability insurance, but small business owners are just hung out there..

I sure hope you get to feeling better. It's one thing when you have a job that has disability insurance, but small business owners are just hung out there.

It's now almost 2 months. I still haven't 'gone to work.' Gomez and Lurch have been doing everything. It took me a week to do last weekend's laundry.
I've tried everything the Dr gave me. Nothing works. I'm trying OTC stuff and eye of newt now.
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It may be time for a specialist. Sometimes an obscure issue is just something outside of the local doctor's scope.
I hope you find the problem and that it is an easy one to solve. I will keep you in my prayers.

 

[Silverspoon]

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!

 

[Morticia]

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!.

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!

It's remarkably quotidian - shingles. Apparently the pain can go on for months, possibly years, after the rash is gone. However, the rash isn't gone so I'm still in the throes of the disease itself.
I'll offer up this PSA - get the damn vaccine! If you had chicken pox as a kid, you have the herpes virus living, albeit dormant, in your spine. All it takes is a trigger, generally stress.
The vaccine is covered by your health care, if you have any, once you're over 60. Prior to that it's pretty pricey, but this event has already cost me thousands in lost revenue and expenses paying for an employee to cover for me.

 

[JimBoone]

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!.

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!

It's remarkably quotidian - shingles. Apparently the pain can go on for months, possibly years, after the rash is gone. However, the rash isn't gone so I'm still in the throes of the disease itself.
I'll offer up this PSA - get the damn vaccine! If you had chicken pox as a kid, you have the herpes virus living, albeit dormant, in your spine. All it takes is a trigger, generally stress.
The vaccine is covered by your health care, if you have any, once you're over 60. Prior to that it's pretty pricey, but this event has already cost me thousands in lost revenue and expenses paying for an employee to cover for me.
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Mean stuff from all I've understood. We took the vaccine, earlier version when it first was available, and yes, quite pricey at the time, have prescriptions on hand for the new and improved version, sounds like we should hurry up and get the shots behind us.

 

[TheBeachHouse]

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!.

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!

It's remarkably quotidian - shingles. Apparently the pain can go on for months, possibly years, after the rash is gone. However, the rash isn't gone so I'm still in the throes of the disease itself.
I'll offer up this PSA - get the damn vaccine! If you had chicken pox as a kid, you have the herpes virus living, albeit dormant, in your spine. All it takes is a trigger, generally stress.
The vaccine is covered by your health care, if you have any, once you're over 60. Prior to that it's pretty pricey, but this event has already cost me thousands in lost revenue and expenses paying for an employee to cover for me.
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The good News is you know what it is and it’s not any of the horrible things that scare Us all.
I hopenthat knowing calms some of the stress of worry. Is there a therapy to calm it down?
Get well soon!

 

[Morticia]

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!.

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!

It's remarkably quotidian - shingles. Apparently the pain can go on for months, possibly years, after the rash is gone. However, the rash isn't gone so I'm still in the throes of the disease itself.
I'll offer up this PSA - get the damn vaccine! If you had chicken pox as a kid, you have the herpes virus living, albeit dormant, in your spine. All it takes is a trigger, generally stress.
The vaccine is covered by your health care, if you have any, once you're over 60. Prior to that it's pretty pricey, but this event has already cost me thousands in lost revenue and expenses paying for an employee to cover for me.
.

The good News is you know what it is and it’s not any of the horrible things that scare Us all.
I hopenthat knowing calms some of the stress of worry. Is there a therapy to calm it down?
Get well soon!
.

There are prescription meds (none have worked) and there are OTC ointments (work for a couple of days).
It's the open -endedness that's giving me some grief. Some people it's 3 weeks, some people it's years. It's really just wait and see. So there's no therapy for it and the Dr has nothing else to try.
What I might need is mental therapy for 'how to live with chronic pain.' 'Get over it' hasn't helped thus far. ;-)

 

[Silverspoon]

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!.

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!

It's remarkably quotidian - shingles. Apparently the pain can go on for months, possibly years, after the rash is gone. However, the rash isn't gone so I'm still in the throes of the disease itself.
I'll offer up this PSA - get the damn vaccine! If you had chicken pox as a kid, you have the herpes virus living, albeit dormant, in your spine. All it takes is a trigger, generally stress.
The vaccine is covered by your health care, if you have any, once you're over 60. Prior to that it's pretty pricey, but this event has already cost me thousands in lost revenue and expenses paying for an employee to cover for me.
.

Mean stuff from all I've understood. We took the vaccine, earlier version when it first was available, and yes, quite pricey at the time, have prescriptions on hand for the new and improved version, sounds like we should hurry up and get the shots behind us.
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Yes, get the vaccine. We both had the early version as well as the recent one. It just does not make sense to risk being disabled and in pain when you can avoid it.
And Mort, I’ve heard from a relative how debilitating and painful shingles can be. So very sorry to hear you are experiencing the symptoms without relief. Hang in there...good, healing thoughts coming your way for an imminent recovery.

 

[gaelstorm]

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!.

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!

It's remarkably quotidian - shingles. Apparently the pain can go on for months, possibly years, after the rash is gone. However, the rash isn't gone so I'm still in the throes of the disease itself.
I'll offer up this PSA - get the damn vaccine! If you had chicken pox as a kid, you have the herpes virus living, albeit dormant, in your spine. All it takes is a trigger, generally stress.
The vaccine is covered by your health care, if you have any, once you're over 60. Prior to that it's pretty pricey, but this event has already cost me thousands in lost revenue and expenses paying for an employee to cover for me.
.

The good News is you know what it is and it’s not any of the horrible things that scare Us all.
I hopenthat knowing calms some of the stress of worry. Is there a therapy to calm it down?
Get well soon!
.

There are prescription meds (none have worked) and there are OTC ointments (work for a couple of days).
It's the open -endedness that's giving me some grief. Some people it's 3 weeks, some people it's years. It's really just wait and see. So there's no therapy for it and the Dr has nothing else to try.
What I might need is mental therapy for 'how to live with chronic pain.' 'Get over it' hasn't helped thus far. ;-)
.

I have had good luck with Neurontin (gabapentin) for nerve pain for about 25 years now. I have a serious back problem--herniation, compression fracture, curving this way and that and stenosis. Not to mention I've shrunk 3 !!! inches. Yea, taking disability retirement to run a small motel I inherited might have not been the right move. Only eight rooms but very very hard to find help didn't help.
Before that I already had had one of the first and worst tendinitis from computers. And I mean wrist to elbow Non functional hands. It is so hard to do absolutely nothing. Open doors, turn magazine pages. Not even be able to tear the top of a Lean Cuisine and eat it. I had the brilliant idea that if I couldn't work I might as well start on a Masters. Bad mistake. By the time I wrote class notes I ruined the other hand. Did I mention that driving was out of the question.
So I feel your pain. Try gabapentin. I take all at night so I can go to sleep, stay asleep and avoid the unfortunate side effect of making you spacey, stupid. I call them my "stupid pills". Which is ok at night. : )

 

[gaelstorm]

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!.

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!

It's remarkably quotidian - shingles. Apparently the pain can go on for months, possibly years, after the rash is gone. However, the rash isn't gone so I'm still in the throes of the disease itself.
I'll offer up this PSA - get the damn vaccine! If you had chicken pox as a kid, you have the herpes virus living, albeit dormant, in your spine. All it takes is a trigger, generally stress.
The vaccine is covered by your health care, if you have any, once you're over 60. Prior to that it's pretty pricey, but this event has already cost me thousands in lost revenue and expenses paying for an employee to cover for me.
.

The good News is you know what it is and it’s not any of the horrible things that scare Us all.
I hopenthat knowing calms some of the stress of worry. Is there a therapy to calm it down?
Get well soon!
.

There are prescription meds (none have worked) and there are OTC ointments (work for a couple of days).
It's the open -endedness that's giving me some grief. Some people it's 3 weeks, some people it's years. It's really just wait and see. So there's no therapy for it and the Dr has nothing else to try.
What I might need is mental therapy for 'how to live with chronic pain.' 'Get over it' hasn't helped thus far. ;-)
.

I have had good luck with Neurontin (gabapentin) for nerve pain for about 25 years now. I have a serious back problem--herniation, compression fracture, curving this way and that and stenosis. Not to mention I've shrunk 3 !!! inches. Yea, taking disability retirement to run a small motel I inherited might have not been the right move. Only eight rooms but very very hard to find help didn't help.
Before that I already had had one of the first and worst tendinitis from computers. And I mean wrist to elbow Non functional hands. It is so hard to do absolutely nothing. Open doors, turn magazine pages. Not even be able to tear the top of a Lean Cuisine and eat it. I had the brilliant idea that if I couldn't work I might as well start on a Masters. Bad mistake. By the time I wrote class notes I ruined the other hand. Did I mention that driving was out of the question.
So I feel your pain. Try gabapentin. I take all at night so I can go to sleep, stay asleep and avoid the unfortunate side effect of making you spacey, stupid. I call them my "stupid pills". Which is ok at night. : )

 

[Morticia]

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!.

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!

It's remarkably quotidian - shingles. Apparently the pain can go on for months, possibly years, after the rash is gone. However, the rash isn't gone so I'm still in the throes of the disease itself.
I'll offer up this PSA - get the damn vaccine! If you had chicken pox as a kid, you have the herpes virus living, albeit dormant, in your spine. All it takes is a trigger, generally stress.
The vaccine is covered by your health care, if you have any, once you're over 60. Prior to that it's pretty pricey, but this event has already cost me thousands in lost revenue and expenses paying for an employee to cover for me.
.

The good News is you know what it is and it’s not any of the horrible things that scare Us all.
I hopenthat knowing calms some of the stress of worry. Is there a therapy to calm it down?
Get well soon!
.

There are prescription meds (none have worked) and there are OTC ointments (work for a couple of days).
It's the open -endedness that's giving me some grief. Some people it's 3 weeks, some people it's years. It's really just wait and see. So there's no therapy for it and the Dr has nothing else to try.
What I might need is mental therapy for 'how to live with chronic pain.' 'Get over it' hasn't helped thus far. ;-)
.

I have had good luck with Neurontin (gabapentin) for nerve pain for about 25 years now. I have a serious back problem--herniation, compression fracture, curving this way and that and stenosis. Not to mention I've shrunk 3 !!! inches. Yea, taking disability retirement to run a small motel I inherited might have not been the right move. Only eight rooms but very very hard to find help didn't help.
Before that I already had had one of the first and worst tendinitis from computers. And I mean wrist to elbow Non functional hands. It is so hard to do absolutely nothing. Open doors, turn magazine pages. Not even be able to tear the top of a Lean Cuisine and eat it. I had the brilliant idea that if I couldn't work I might as well start on a Masters. Bad mistake. By the time I wrote class notes I ruined the other hand. Did I mention that driving was out of the question.
So I feel your pain. Try gabapentin. I take all at night so I can go to sleep, stay asleep and avoid the unfortunate side effect of making you spacey, stupid. I call them my "stupid pills". Which is ok at night. : )
.

It doesn't work for me. I was up to a quite high mg/day and no mitigation at all. I know people for whom it is a miracle. I got all the side effects and none of the intended effects.

 

[Tom]

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!.

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!

It's remarkably quotidian - shingles. Apparently the pain can go on for months, possibly years, after the rash is gone. However, the rash isn't gone so I'm still in the throes of the disease itself.
I'll offer up this PSA - get the damn vaccine! If you had chicken pox as a kid, you have the herpes virus living, albeit dormant, in your spine. All it takes is a trigger, generally stress.
The vaccine is covered by your health care, if you have any, once you're over 60. Prior to that it's pretty pricey, but this event has already cost me thousands in lost revenue and expenses paying for an employee to cover for me.
.

Shingles is terrible and the harsh symptoms are oddly ignored by society -- my deepest sympathy. I got vaccine, hope it works for me. Best wishes.

 

[Morticia]

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!.

Oh My...pain still there. This has gone on too long to ignore. Get yourself to a major medical facility with a neurologist that can get to the bottom of the cause. I'm assuming your doctor has done the MRI and blood work to rule out the obvious but can refer you to someone who can continue the search for a solution. Good luck!

It's remarkably quotidian - shingles. Apparently the pain can go on for months, possibly years, after the rash is gone. However, the rash isn't gone so I'm still in the throes of the disease itself.
I'll offer up this PSA - get the damn vaccine! If you had chicken pox as a kid, you have the herpes virus living, albeit dormant, in your spine. All it takes is a trigger, generally stress.
The vaccine is covered by your health care, if you have any, once you're over 60. Prior to that it's pretty pricey, but this event has already cost me thousands in lost revenue and expenses paying for an employee to cover for me.
.

Shingles is terrible and the harsh symptoms are oddly ignored by society -- my deepest sympathy. I got vaccine, hope it works for me. Best wishes.
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Shingles is terrible and the harsh symptoms are oddly ignored by society -- my deepest sympathy. I got vaccine, hope it works for me. Best wishes.

It needs a sexier name. Then it would get attention. ;-)
It's ageism. If the 20 and 30-somethings were suffering like this, there'd be more attention paid.
I can't imagine if I had a real job! I would have had to take a leave of absence, if I was lucky enough to work for a place that offered that.
Gomez got the vaccine, he's been fine. I'd say the vaccine works.
Lots of people I've spoken with say they've had it and commiserate with me.
My allergy doc today was shocked the pain meds don't work. When I told him what I'd been taking, and the dosages, he said I should have been in la la Land. Or at least not in pain.

 

[TinaC]

So sorry you're having to go through this. Healing thoughts and prayers going out to you today.
Just got shingle dose #2. Ouch. But we do what we gotta do.