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Sorry, I looked it up, the Prilosec is the one you need to take with food in order for it to work. Janine

Hi You should be able to access your ins co drug formulary on line, or call them to see what proton pump inhibitor is covered. I use nexium because it is covered by my insurance and it works. Protonix I believe is one of the ppi's you need to eat something when you take it to make it work otherwise it is inactive. Or call your doc and ask for samples and have his office call your insurance company to get a ppi approved. Janine

Hi, I have the same issue. The ins wont cover Protonix or nexium because so many over the counter products are available. Find out what your insurance does cover there are many choices and it just may be as simple as getting a pre approval. Peace Janine

Hi Lunie, Nusing school is notorious for trying to weed out anyone who suposidly can not hack it in nursing. Fight them. They tried to boot me for working night shift and then going to clincal saying it was unsafe, BS. They cant throw u out you can sue them...... Nursing teachers will try anything to mess with your mind. I will try to find an article i read a while back about this, I think it was in AJN, something about eating our young. Sad to say but for a profession where your there to help people, nurses tear eachother apart, a bunch of type A personalities competing and stabbing eachother in the back. it starts in nursing school and continues in the work place. All you can do is fight. Wish i could say something more positive Janine

Hi H, The answer to your first question is yea. I have started countless IV's, sometimes 20-30 a night in the ER. Patients complained all the time about the taste. You can taste the saline and medications. Its quite common. Obviously your doc needs an IV to prove him wrong. Question #2, all the time. Im buzzing and shorting out right now. Janine

SSDI..... Just like any other insurance company medical, health, disability. The people who are employed by the system are trained from the begining to look for anything in cases that would be basis for denial. I worked as a case manager/house supervisor in a hospital for years. Part of my job was to make sure there was nothing in a patients chart that would be resaon for denial. HARD JOB!!! There are big thick code books and a case managers book that tells you how to avoid claim denials. Just like the people fromt he insurance companies have their mannuals on what to look for to deny a claim. My daughter inlaw worked for Anthem for a few years. She was put through orientation and training and taught how to deny claims, not how to help people. A co-worker of mine works for a local cooprative health insurance company created by the local hospitals to cover their employees, her job is case manager and she looks for anything to deny claims. (you could imagine the heated debted we have). Its a game. SSDI is ran no different from private companies. this shouldnt be suprising to anyone. They do not care about the individual. In rare cases you wll find a worker or judge who does care but its rare. Insanity......................

Hi, Its really not getting any better. I feel so bad. So if I go to the ER and say help, I feel like Im shorting out.... LOL

Hi, I have a small cadiac event monitor, I did use it for 30 days 24 hours a day for diagnostics, I asked to keep it. I use it when I am having cardiac symptoms. I call an 800 number and download what the monitor just recorded. Just call get the right extention and then push a button and it transmits sound, then an RN looks at the transmitted strip and tells me if I need to go to the hospital. Its comforting to have since one of my issues has always been, how do I know if Im having a heart attadck or leathal rythm if I have constant chest pain etc... I have good documented disrythmias, which helps with disability. B4 the monitor it was hit or miss to catch documentation by the time I got to the ER and was actually seen. Janine

LOL If you get symptomatic it is a good time to do all those tests. However, they like to drag things on forever so I doubt you will get them all done at once. Get what you can while you can. It wont hurt to ask. A lot of these blood tests are done, if done properly, after an IV is in your arm, they should use it to draw blood for the tests and not individual "sticks".

Oh Poor Lunie, Got to love the ER staff I guess you didnt know, if you are not crazy b4 yu get diagnosed part of the treatment plan is to make sure your crazy within a year of diagnosis, at the very least to make sure you doubt your own sanity anyway. I have not acted upon my impulses to purchase pointy steel toe boots yet but I get closer and closer every day. The craziest thing I have ever done is yet to come, Ill let ya know, its gonna be good. I have however called the doctors line at Mayo and duke and said "Hi this is Janine Rn, I need to have you fax me (med records, test instructions etc..) Dr so and so would like to review them. Now I didnt lie and didnt say I was from the docs office and I am an RN and my doc did review the info. I didnt even use a fake name, love the medical field.... my name is Janine the records were for Janine duh! But I accomplished what would have normally taken weeks if left up to the docs office. Janine

Hi H, Everyones advice is great. I can add.. make sure you have someone with you, rest before and plan on resting after. See if they can order a plasma metanephrine test on you if you get symptomatic. The Mayo clinic in Jacksonville Fla does the test, your docs office can call for instructions on drawing and sending the blood. Dont stress out too much. We all survived at least one if not multiple TTT's. Good Luck Janine

Hi Guys, I dont know if its stress or lack of some meds or what but since yesterday I keep getting these electrical jolting feelings in my face, head, and arms everytime I stand up. I feel like Im going to pass out so I lay down and they continue. It feels like Im am "shorting out". I hate passing out!!! I feel like I am constantly fighting synope. This is new...... I dont want any new symptoms, the regular ones are enough. Anyone ele get this? Do you know what it is? Ugh Janine

that will be 129.99.... lol

I Passed out cold 7 min into the test..... felt like crap for days afterward. The stabbing pains in my chest were explained to me. I get 2 types. One type kinda starts in the center of my chest, my throat gets tight, I get real aware of my breathing, sometimes it radiates up my neck and down my arm. It was caught on an echo, myright ventricle is sort of caving in on itself to pull the blood through my body with a drop in bp. The second it like jabs in my ribs, it coinsides (sp) (cant spell ya'll know that) with a drop in my o2 saturation , most likely pulmonary. they both are horrible! Hope it goes well for you Janine

I have been eating sushi and raw, yes raw tuna for years at least 2 times a week, I love sushi. I have had in the recent year been tested for mercury as well as lead and other metal toxicity and my levels are low or non existant. I grew up on the coast of NJ and have always eaten sushii and fresh fish of all kinds. So I have had constant/regular intake of tuna raw and cooked for over 40 years. Sorry but its media hype. I know the waters are polluted and its really sad. I think its a crock that when someone does a study on a few, 3 I think, sushi reseraunts in california and finds high levels of mercury in their tuna, which is most likely from the same source since all the reseraunts were local, not very scientific. And if you knew what was in the food you were eating from the grocery store you would be appaulled. Dont dis the tuna............... this latest media hype has no foundation to stand on. Peace Janine

I know the miodrine thing scared me since he gave me the rx when I first seen him. My PCP gave me some refills but cant until she sees me again which I can not even afford to pay for right now. Its all I can do to come up with a co pay. This sooooo suckssssss!!!!! I have been on the phone with every doc I know/have seen and some new leads on POTS docs and there just is no one willing to help me. The bad thing is that the meds I was on were helping so much after all the time my body took to get used to them, all the initial bad effects etc... I was at a place that I could live with. Its going to be at least a month before I get any help. I do have an appointment with my new internal med doc next week but i know she knows nothing about POTS so I dont think i will be getting the correct meds there, I have a feeling i will be undergoing many more tests to look for a "normal" illness to explain my symptoms. I hope I have the energy to convince this new doc..... ugh.

Well I went and................................. The doctor wasnt there!!!!! They shuffled me around and rescheduled for The end of march. I asked for refills, my florinef drug seeking self. Just give me my beta blocker... They sent me upstairs to pediatrics to Dr Borris who I saw originally , almost passed out several times, heart rate was 160. They said adult cardio did not call them, finally after breaking into tears and almost hitting the floor Dr Borris came out and wrote me RX for a few meds but didnt write me my miodrine, said he never heard of if, HE GAVE ME THE RX and refills 6 months ago. He didnt write me klonopin either said I needed to be seen for that...... Hello someone see me!!! ........................am I on the correct planet? Went back down to adult cardiology and they rescheduled my end of march appt for April. Well I have some of my meds but I know that without klonopin the beta blocker alone will not keep my tachy under control and without the miodrine Ill be symptomatic so I look forward to a month or so of POTS ****. My PCP is out of network on my new insurance and well pft IM REALLY ANGRY!!!! Going to cry now since the doc wasnt there to kick. Peace Janine

LOL, Lunie u are a trip!!! We are related the POTSY Sashquach RN sisters............ I am thinking positive, I am thinking positive !!!!! I am not shaving my legs, i decided not to care. Thank you AJVDK, Sophia3, Jacquie802, Ernie, Belinda, and Lunie. I did survive the flu although im still hacking, its was horrid ( I should have went and kissed my ex, lol) I have everything in a folder in my car so I cant forget it. No sense in being prepared if I leave the papers on my kitchen table which I have done. Ill let you all know how it goes. Peace Janine

Hi, When I feel like eating I usually have this on hand.... I take a big package of boneless skinless chicken breast and marinate overnight in a bottle of balsamic vinegar dressing. I grill all the chicken, let it cool and chop it up, 1 inch slices or whatever. i put serving size portions in zip lock bags and freeze. I leave one portion out if Im hungry. Then you can use the chicken to throw on top of fresh salad, I like to buy the organic bags of mixed spring greens and throw in some fresh spinach and basil, put on some croutons and youur fav salad dressing,. Or you can put the chicken in a flour tortilla with some cheese and nuke for a minute then add veggies, same with a pita. Does roasted garlic hurt your tummy? I can only eat garlic this way. I usually roast 4 or 5 heads of elephant ear garlic, its milder. I spray with olive oil in my sprayer thingy and slow roast in the oven until its mush. i usually do this when I roast sweet potatoes or have something in the oven. Then I toast good bread, again sprayed with oliv oil then rub a clove of the roasted garlic on the bread. Or I put the roasted galic in the food processor with soft butter and then into a container back into the frige. Wish i was hungry, just ate my old standby, organic lentil soup. Amy's brand is the best if you can get it. Another thing I do with pitas and flour tortillas is cut them into triangles, spray with olive oil sprinkle with sea salt and bake. I cant handle fried potato chips and I hate the baked ones. I have this thing from pampered chef, you put oil in it and you pump it up with air and it sprays a fine mist of oil. I love the thing. Peace Janine

LOL, sure tell me to bring a weapon. If I take a pillow headline will read "Crazy Woman Suffocates EP......" Thanks for the support, Ill let u know. Peace Janine

Hi, New insurance, new docs. My long awaited appointment with Dr Souza is on tues. I better start shaving my legs now, its gonna take me 2 days and 5 razors to do it. I am armed with info and comebacks thanks to all of you but I am so worried about the rejection. I do believe, at this point, if I hear "YOur menopausal with anxitey attacks" Im am gong to flip out, litterally. I donT want to do all the tests again to "prove" I have POTS again. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH............................... .......... Maybe Im just over reacting right now, Ill save the rant for after the appointment. Then the following week is the new internal med doc. I am not afraid or intimidated by doctors, I am afraid of kicking some and winding up in jail. I already sent both these docs info from dinet. I have my stack of medicl records. I hve all my articles including the new one from DR Grubb. If you dont hear from me on Tues night, read the Asheville NC paper online "Crazy Woman Strangles EP and Proceeded to go kick every doctor she ever saw" Take up a collection and bail me out guys. Janine

I believe venous pooling is due to poor arterial function in our case. Arterial pressure is greater than venous pressure. Our veins have little valves that prevent blood from going backward, venous blood is moved by physical movement and venous pressure although our veins can vasodilate or constrict We have all these hormones and biochemicals contrlled by the ANS that help regulate our bloodflow/pressure. It is amazing HOW the human body responds to movement and gravitly. I could go on but just had a giant brainfart. The article makes a lot of sense. Peace Janine

Ok Ill fess up..... I can see auras. I have always been able to. It became stronger after my daughter was born in 1986. I practice Reiki and I am a medical intuitive although I dont practice on a large scale. I keep a dream log and it shows Im very intuitive. I believe in earth bound spirits and spirits from beyond , (insert ghostly noise here). I never tried to prove it to anyone but everyone who knows my has no doubt I am a magnet for wayward spirits. So there, if I can share my puking and bowel habbits with you all I can share this too! Peace Janine

Name: Janine Birthplace: Belleville NJ Kids: 1 boy 24 1 girl 19 3 grandchildren under 3 Pets: 4 dogs, 1 cat, 1 horse, 3 goats, chickens Favorite color: Purple Favorite flower:Lilac Kitchen theme: Italian Villa Favorite drink: coffee Last TV show you watched: Skating with the stars (under proteset!!) Last movie you rented: The Butterfly Effect Favorite food: Strawberries Favorite TV show: Medium Red or Pink: Red Favorite ice cream: Cherry Garcia Favorite crayon color: Purple Ever bungee jumped? Yes Eye color: Brown Hair color: brown/black Farthest you have ever been: Italy Siblings: 1 sister Last time you cried: 3 days ago Favorite game: Euchre Black or White? Black Rollingstones or The Beatles: Beatles Last food you ate: Salad Diamonds or sapphires: sapphires Beach or the mountains: mountains Sweats or jeans: Jeans Ever went skinny dipping: YES Married more than once: yes What book are you reading now: Anatomy of The Spirit by carolyine Myss Hobbies: crocheting Favorite actor: Viggo Mortenson.. hot hot hot Favorite actress: Julia Roberts Favorite candy bar: Almond Joy Ever toilet papered someones house: YES Gatorade: hate it! Favorite Fruit: blood orange Men with facial hair? yes Steak or lobster: lobster Gold or silver Silver

I have stabby pains daily. Much like you describe. stabby pains, stabby pains...la la la figured out long ago it wasnt the big one. Drives me nuts. If you figure out what it is let me know. Janine