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hi gina you wrote, in part: >I am sick and tired of taking all of these meds.... >...Bipolar Manic Disorder - I take 3 Lithium, 2 Depakote and 1 Paxil daily >...Asthma and Allergies - Azmacort Inhaler, Prevental Inhaler, 1 Seldane daily and 2 Zepherex every 12 hours >...Parkinson's Disease - Sinemet 5 daily and Mirapex 3 daily >...I have Diabetes - Don't know yet haven't decided... >...now something with my legs - Don't know yet haven't decided... > >...1st General Practitioner >...2nd General Practitioner >...Psychiatrist >...Neurologist >...Neurologist >...Neurologist >...Specialist >...Internist > >...This is a mess. >...I am tired of all the doctors and meds and diets >...Help me. it seems to me that you have reached a turning point in your medical problems seven years of frustration, almost non-management of your health concerns appear to be coming to an end with this new internist who sounds determined to get all the medicos working together to arrive at accurate diagnoses and treatments for you you haven't arrived at the 'answer area' yet but it must seem tantalizingly close in the meantime you are being faced with a whole new diabetes lifestyle challenge in your shoes i might be thinking 'ono all this work and pain and work when does it stop when do i get a break when will something turn out right' but that would be caused by those persistent negative thoughts perpetrated by the Committee we all have in our heads 'the glass is half empty - ono there's not much left what'll i do when it is completely empty' from my interested and caring cyber-sibling bystander vantage point your medical situation is now more hopeful than it's ever been you were given the challenge of bi-polar disorder and are managing it - would you go back to pre-diagnosis? you were given the challenge of asthma and are managing it - would you go back to pre-diagnosis? you were given the challenge of parkinson's and are managing it - would you go back to pre-diagnosis? your inherent strength is being called on to a greater and greater degree and that strength is just getting stronger i think it's called growth and maybe what you are feeling now is growing pains t.s. eliot said something sort of like this [i'm sorry that i can't find the real quote - i can't get at my books right now]: 'we cannot go backward we have to go forward through the desert to get to our oasis' janet janet paterson - 51/10 - almonte/ontario/canada http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/janet/ [log in to unmask]