I've been trying to post it sure isn't easy with the voice software not working real well. Part of that is due to a change in my medication. I had to go to neurologist because of my second infusion. He had to give his blessing. He had me take a blood test which have never been an issue. This time he tells me I have low sodium he wants to decrease by trigeminal pain medication and give me a new one call Baclofen. This medication did not decrease the pain and gave me side effects. Two of the side effects were not that big a deal because they went away not long after I woke. They were a pounding noise that sounded like it was coming from the attic. I knew it was not real. The other was very strange. The edges of things like the ceiling fan had a strange blue florescent light. The one that was a real problem was that it made my eyes blurry and I could not read the menus on my PC. I could make some things larger but the menus were still small. I could do some things by memory but other things I had to guess at. This cause some significant problems especially posting on the blog.
I told the doctor the pain was still there and so I increased the pain medication on my own. This seemed to annoy him and my next blood test showed the sodium was low. The next step was to decrease my pain meds and raise the dosage of the one you give me side effects. I guess he is large and in charge. Fortunately the increased dosage did not add to the side effects. The jaw pain is back though. Got the impression that he does not care and is instructions will be followed. I got used to my primary care doctor who let me make decisions and then did his best.
I get a blood test next week so I will try to endure the pain. The strangest thing is that neither him or his nurse or found on the Internet knows what specifically comes with low sodium. My wife asked his nurse what it was when they did blood tests a few years ago. She had no answer and was speechless because they don't know. Dr. is just covering himself. Seems pretty stupid to me that they don't know what it was a few years ago but now it matters.
I had hoped to start posting animal stories because the cats are coming in their shells and we are finding the animal interactions pretty funny. Lacy, The Sweet cat is also the instigator and it pretty funny. Hopefully I'll be able to post more next week.
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