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I'm glad that you decided to go to the doctor, please keep us posted! And I can't even believe that your doctor said not to come until after you have been feeling crappy for five days! Not to scare you, but someone could be dead from anything in five days!
Always remember that if you can't afford to pay for a doctor and have them see you up front, I believe that it is the law in all states that if you go to an emergency room even if you don't have the money, they cannot turn you away. It will end up costing you a boatload more in the end, but you can pay them a very small amount every month (like $10) until it is paid off. It's better than not going to see a doctor at all if you feel that there is a major problem!
In my opinion, your body is adjusting to the lack of toxins from quitting analogs. It should go away soon. If it doesn't after a month. See a Doctor.
Hmm, it could also be that. Do you have more information on how that works? I'd love to see it.
Things are a bit different when you have multiple sclerosis. Weird stuff happens (like the sensation of beetles crawling on the scalp, cold raindrops on your forearms, vertigo, numbness, etc.). These are typically minor neurological misfirings as your body attacks its own nervous system. Fortunately, your body also usually repairs the damage to the myelin sheathe, so these same symptoms will usually disappear within a few days. If I went to the doctor every time something happens, I'd be living there - and broke.
My neuro doc still hasn't called me back even though I explained to the nurse in detail. Dramamine didn't work. I've still got the whirlies. After being off of the vaping for 24 hours, I saw no difference other than a lot of dirty ashtrays *yuck*. I just started vaping again because it doesn't seem to have anything to do with it.
I've given up analogs a few times (never sucessfully, but I am keeping my fingers crossed this time) but I have made it 4 mo's, 5 mo's and 3 mo's. Each time I went through a time period where I felt kind of dizzy kind of like a buzz but not exactly. And then of course there is the horrible caugh and flu like systems that follows as all the garbage cleans out of your system... but what I remember most in those first few days was the light headed feeling I got! Guess everybody reacts differently while they detox!
Things are a bit different when you have multiple sclerosis. Weird stuff happens (like the sensation of beetles crawling on the scalp, cold raindrops on your forearms, vertigo, numbness, etc.). These are typically minor neurological misfirings as your body attacks its own nervous system. Fortunately, your body also usually repairs the damage to the myelin sheathe, so these same symptoms will usually disappear within a few days. If I went to the doctor every time something happens, I'd be living there - and broke.
My neuro doc still hasn't called me back even though I explained to the nurse in detail. Dramamine didn't work. I've still got the whirlies. After being off of the vaping for 24 hours, I saw no difference other than a lot of dirty ashtrays *yuck*. I just started vaping again because it doesn't seem to have anything to do with it.
Oh goodness, sorry to hear that! Well, keep on their butts, especially if you feel differently now than you do when you usually are having "normal" strange things happening.
I have medicare and I go to the doctor all the damn time. Before medicare I relied on my local hospitals sliding scale, and the generic $4 scripts. That sure wasn't enough though, I had to go without my medication for about 8 months. The crap would of cost me 800 bucks a month.
It's a giant conspiracy. Go to the doctor because you have a condition and you can't work. They prescribe this supposed magic pill that is supposed to get you back to work. But you can't afford it because you aren't working in the first place. You sell the stuff you own to get this magic pill, and it doesn't work. And then the cycle continues.
I honestly don't know how some people make it.
Yeah, I hear ya. The medication that I take isn't covered by the $4 thing at walmart, but my doctors office gave me this special card for a local pharmacy that gets me a discount through the drug company somehow. It's called something something 40b, I can't remember. I just know that before I got the card, I paid $11 for 14 pills and after I got the card I paid $13 for 60 pills!
my fianceé has MS and dizzy spells are quite common in her case. Particularly when taking her injections (rebif immunomodulator) I would look at that first and if you're also experiencing vertigo get your ears checked, MS can sometimes mimic Ménière's
Just thought I'd give y'all a quick update: I'm starting to feel like a "normal" (and I use that term loosely) human being again. It's likely that it is/was just the MS messin' with me - or - the increased level of oxygen that my body isn't used to because I quit smoking. I've been vaping up a cloud again - Couldn't wait to pitch those nasty analogues and clean out the ashtrays to use as PV holders.
You wanna talk about a big pharma conspiracy?!?! My daily injections for my MS cost approx. $1800 - $1900 for a month's supply!!! No wonder I'm uninsurable!
Thanks again everyone for your suggestions and support.
I've been vaping up a cloud again - Couldn't wait to pitch those nasty analogues and clean out the ashtrays to use as PV holders. You wanna talk about a big pharma conspiracy?!?! My daily injections for my MS cost approx. $1800 - $1900 for a month's supply!!! No wonder I'm uninsurable!
Thanks again everyone for your suggestions and support.
Just thought I'd give y'all a quick update: I'm starting to feel like a "normal" (and I use that term loosely) human being again. It's likely that it is/was just the MS messin' with me - or - the increased level of oxygen that my body isn't used to because I quit smoking.
You wanna talk about a big pharma conspiracy?!?! My daily injections for my MS cost approx. $1800 - $1900 for a month's supply!!! No wonder I'm uninsurable!
Thanks again everyone for your suggestions and support.
That is awesome to hear, glad that you are able to vape again and have thrown out the analogs.
Just thought I'd give y'all a quick update: I'm starting to feel like a "normal" (and I use that term loosely) human being again. It's likely that it is/was just the MS messin' with me - or - the increased level of oxygen that my body isn't used to because I quit smoking.
You wanna talk about a big pharma conspiracy?!?! My daily injections for my MS cost approx. $1800 - $1900 for a month's supply!!! No wonder I'm uninsurable!
Thanks again everyone for your suggestions and support.
WOW... that is a LOT of money... that just isn't right. I thought I had it bad, my son has to take meds on a daily basis. His doctor was nice enough to give us samples for the past 6 mo's but that has run out and I just recently filled his first script. I was shocked to see it was going to cost us $205 a month. He is fully insured, but this particular med is not covered (and there is no generic). It seems that Lilly (the pharm company that makes it) has a program to help people with their meds but because he is fully insured we don't qualify. Doesn't make sence to me... Who cares if we are insured if the insurance doesn't cover what we need.
So now I know where the money I am going to save from not smoking is going to go!
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