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The first hour or so that I'm up are the worst. Although I've developed the habit of setting out my morning "cocktail" of Excedrin and ibuprofen before I go to bed and gulping that down first thing, the wait for it to kick in is interminable. I feel fragile ("Fra-gee-lay---it's Italian!"). My neck, from the base of my skull to about my shoulder blades, has too many nerve endings. It's not pain as such, it's just sensitive to things like...air pressure. My shoulders aren't too happy, either. Sometimes a warm shower helps.

It's true: Youth is wasted on the young.

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Date: 2009-09-20 05:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com
Gah, hon. You sound like me a few years ago, when my neck and shoulders were so messed up. *gentle hug* Soft tissue inflammation is very hard to get healed up in middle age.

Something really cheap that might help is to alternate hot and cold. You can put a wet hand towel inside a big Ziploc bag, let it get almost frozen, and tie it around you neck with a scarf. Do twenty minutes on, twenty off. Use the same method to make a microwavable hot pack. If the scarf is long enough to hold it securely, you can sort of sling the pack crossways on your back.

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Date: 2009-09-21 01:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
My right shoulder is stiff and has pain when I move it wrong, but my left shoulder is REALLY messed up. It won't go higher than shoulder height, and I have to manually support it with my right hand if I want to extend it. Thank god it's still okay to type. (Knock wood!)

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Date: 2009-09-21 01:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com
It sounds like you have frozen shoulder on the left side. It's one of those things that if you get it treated, it goes away in a year, if not, in 18 months.

The physical therapist I saw last said she sees more of it on the left side than the right.

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Date: 2009-09-21 02:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
Huh. I just scamped over to Wikipedia, and it's certainly a possibility, one that's a bit less grim than rotator cuff injury, which was my Dx.

It started...I don't recall exactly, I *think* around March. Got that cortisone shot from the dr's asst in mid-June, which loosened it up for about a week, and since then it's only gotten worse.

Meh, this is a heckuva time to lose my insurance! (Of course, when I actually HAD insurance, I never seemed to have time for visits or money for co-payments anyway....)

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Date: 2009-09-20 05:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com
you just reffed my favorite Xmas movie ("you'll shoot your eye out!")

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Date: 2009-09-21 01:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
I first saw "A Christmas Story" at a theater when it was originally released. I came home and enthusiastically described it to my dad as "a sweet little period piece".

He asked, "What period?" and when I told him the 1940s, he about laughed his ass off. I didn't understand it then, but now that they're mining the 70s and 80s for nostalgic entertainment, I have a much better idea of where he was coming from.

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Date: 2009-09-21 11:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] socialhermit.livejournal.com
I saw it at the theatre too, with my mother. She was born in 1940 and my dad was born in 1937, so it brought back a lot of memories for both of them. Plus, the department store scenes and some of the exterior shots were filmed in Cleveland.

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Date: 2009-09-22 05:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com
actually there's a timelessness about that movie I love. (of course I wasn't born yet in the 40s)

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Date: 2009-09-23 02:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ang5fam.livejournal.com
I am now on the insurance roller coaster- lost prior coverage when I got laid off. I am now having to take out a less than good policy so that we have something. With one in Gainesville and one not quite on his own yet, need at least a bare bones plan. My age is against me or I wouldn't bother.

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Date: 2009-09-23 05:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vanillafluffy.livejournal.com
You *should* have gotten a letter from your previous insurance company to show that you had coverage to present to your new insurance company. It'll be a Good Thing when they get health care reformed; this kind of nonsense doesn't help anyone.

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