Vibrating Foot One of my new and exciting symptoms is my left foot, close to the heel is vibrating. It is so strange, it is almost in a pattern like my cell phone is in my shoe or something. It happens 24 hours a day and it is actually keeping me from a good sleep,… Continue reading Vibrating Foot
Author: Average Joe
Welcome to the Average Joe Weekly blog. This is basically my place on the web where I can help spread some of the knowledge that I have accumulated over the years. I served 10+ years in the Marine Corps on Active Duty, but that was some 25 years ago.
Pain
PAIN!!! Can you imagine being told you’ll be in pain 24 hours a day 365 days a year? now imagine there is no cure… …still smiling? Didn’t think so
Pondering the future
Pondering the Future Sitting in the hospital as my mother-in-law is being prepped for Renal Angioplasty, I ponder my life on several levels. First being in the hospital has reminded me that in the past 18 months, I have been in the hospital three times. All three of them were via the Emergency Room and… Continue reading Pondering the future
Feeling Good!!!
Feeling Good!!! I have been back on my normal (1800mg) dosage of Gabapentin for 5 full days now and I’m feeling so much better. Changing medications is never easy, but this time was rough. After a few days of flu-like symptoms, I feel great, I’m thinking clearly and I’m being a productive member of society… Continue reading Feeling Good!!!
Heat Intolerance
Heat Intolerance One of the biggest problems I face in the summertime is heat intolerance. The hotter it gets the more my symptoms to seem to rear their ugly little heads. Currently, we are in a heatwave (100 degrees in Virginia) and my office at work isn’t much better (80% humidity and 80 degrees), due… Continue reading Heat Intolerance
My Adventures with Lyrica – Product Review
My Adventures with Lyrica If you follow this blog, then some of this is a recap, and some are new, so stay with me on this. My neurologist basically was concerned that since Virginia made Gabapentin a controlled substance that I would have trouble using Gabapentin at work and getting the prescription filled easily. So… Continue reading My Adventures with Lyrica – Product Review
Why Virginia Why, I want my Gabapentin Back!!!
Why Virginia Why? I would love to have someone in the Virginia General Assembly explain to me why you know so much more about treating chronic pain than those that suffer from it. Why did you choose to make a medication that was helping thousands of Virginians that suffer from chronic neuropathic pain harder for… Continue reading Why Virginia Why, I want my Gabapentin Back!!!
Ended up in the ER due to Lyrica
Ended Up in the ER Due to Lyrica Since I started taking Lyrica, I had noticed that I was itching and coughing a whole lot more than normal. I just assumed that I was starting to come down with a cold or something. After four full days on Lyrica couldn’t take it anymore and I… Continue reading Ended up in the ER due to Lyrica
Coming to Terms With Being a Marine Who Never Went to War
Coming To Terms with Being A Marine I have written about this before and I stumbled upon this article from the New York Times Magazine that may help others if they have the same problem. I can so relate to this as an active duty Marine for 10 years and I never saw any action.… Continue reading Coming to Terms With Being a Marine Who Never Went to War
Lyrica is making my job harder
Lyrica Is Making My Job Harder I had only been at work for a few hours and the bad choices and poor decision making is really running rampant today. Twice I ended up taking way too much time to problem-solve something very simple. I’m pretty good at what I do (IT) and I’m often called… Continue reading Lyrica is making my job harder
