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Subject: (OT) Wheee!!! I did it!!
Congrats!!! You go, gyrl!!
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Congrats, Acadia :) The world needs more good nurses :)
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Thanks everyone! It's been a very long 4 years and finishing my back-to-work program was the last piece of the puzzle which has allowed me to gain control of my life again.
Physically I'm still not 100% but I'm able to manage well enough on the ward to do my job safely. In time hopefully my unresolved physical issues will straighten themselves out. If not, that's ok too because I've learned to live with feeling light headed sometimes. My body has gotten so used to it that I get an "aura" when it's going to happen before it happens, so I can actually sit down to avoid a full blown episode of fainting.
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
Congrats on the achievement Acadia. It must feel pretty nice right now to achieve your goal of getting back to work.
I knew someone who had problems with fainting and ended up going on premenant disability because of it because they couldn't find the problem or control it.
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Quote - Thanks everyone! It's been a very long 4 years and finishing my back-to-work program was the last piece of the puzzle which has allowed me to gain control of my life again.
Physically I'm still not 100% but I'm able to manage well enough on the ward to do my job safely. In time hopefully my unresolved physical issues will straighten themselves out. If not, that's ok too because I've learned to live with feeling light headed sometimes. My body has gotten so used to it that I get an "aura" when it's going to happen before it happens, so I can actually sit down to avoid a full blown episode of fainting.
Acadia, it's not high bloodpressure that's causing the light headedness is it?
Quote - Acadia, it's not high bloodpressure that's causing the light headedness is it?
Unlikely. My blood pressure is slightly elevated, but it has been for years before I went off work sick in 2004. It wasn't until I was off work for about 5 months or so that I started to feel light headed and actually faint at times.
So far as my blood pressure goes, it's usually about 140/90 or so, but if they give me anything for it I can't function because the act of being upright has me having pre-fainting symptoms. Once they took me off of those, it cleared up.
I had a bunch of cardiac tests and my heart is healthy and it's not due to my heart.
I have had 4 years to research my symptoms, and based on the symptoms, and a positive anti-nuclear antibody blood work result which my doctor was a bit worried about but not enough to conduct further neurological testing, I believe that I have Dysautonomia.
http://www.dinet.org/symptoms.htm
I'm a walking text book case based on those symptoms because I have most of them. There is no cure, it's basically just symptom management. And the fact that I'm able to return to work is because some of my symptoms are finally being managed, and my body has become accustomed to others and I've learned to work around them.
The problem with something like this, unless you see a specialist or a doctor who is really up on their knowledge base, cases such as mine get misdiagnosed or not diagnosed at all because instead of looking at the big picture, they only see individual problems and don't connect it together into an actual illness. And I believe that is what has been happening to me. My doctor saw "pain", "fainting", "high blood pressure" etc. etc....but didn't put it together. The next time I go to the doctor I'm taking a print out and am going to ask to be referred to a neurologist, who would have been able to connect the dots.
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
Tomorrow's the day! I work an 8 hour day and I don't have to worry about being "stalked" by a "buddy nurse" which drove me absolutely crazy! For the most part all of my buddy nurses were great. They recognized that I am not a new nurse and that while I had been off for quite awhile, that I retained my skills and knowledge base and just let me be with the understanding that if I needed help with something, I would seek them out.
During a back-to-work program, the role of a buddy nurse is just to be there in case I need to take an extra break or leave early and have to hand off my patients to someone. Over the weekend I was paired up with one nurse who is relatively new to the profession and the ward and I don't think she really understood a back-to-work program because she was following behind me and checking what I was doing and reassessing my patients and just generally interfering with my job and getting in my way which I didn't appreciate. I tried explaining to her several times over 2 evenings but I just couldn't get through to her.
She kept telling me that they are her patients too, and that she's responsible for them. I tried to tell her that they aren't her patients, that they are my patients and that she has nothing to do with them unless I have to give them to her and leave early, and that I am responsible for them and working under my RN License, not her license as it would be with a Student Nurse.
I was so frustrated that on Sunday I decided that she could have her patients back and that I would just finish up familiarizing myself with some of the documents and forms that we use there as well as help out as extra on the ward. She was okay with it but thought it better if I took an assignment because it was my last shift. I came right out and told her that I did not like being paired up with that particular nurse and that I was frustrated and feeling "stalked".
The charge nurse told me that she would "keep her busy" at the desk and give her an informal desk orientation. So she told her that I am working autonomously and if I need any help that I would let her know, and in the meantime she would be helping out at the desk for that shift.
I must say that it was a pleasant evening!!
Quote - Where's the real live "House" when you need him? Doctors just don't seem to diagnose worth crap these days!
Yeah! No kidding!
Here is another article on Dysautonomia.
http://heartdisease.about.com/cs/womensissues/a/dysautonomia.htm
The following was certainly true in my case. I knew there was something wrong, but test after test would show nothing and I swear that some doctors I went to were under the impression that I was faking things to remain off work:
Quote - The severity of the symptoms in people with dysautonomia are typically far out of proportion to any objective physical or laboratory findings (especially when the doctors don't know which findings to look for.) This lack of objective findings makes life very difficult. In modern medical practice, grounded as it is in the gathering and interpretation of objective data, when patients have the audacity to complain of symptoms without providing the objective medical findings to back them up, they are often written off as being hysterical.
Patients lucky enough to be taken seriously by their family doctors are likely to be referred to a specialist.
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
Attached Link: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/isaacs_syndrome/isaacs_syndrome.htm
Acadia, the doctors did similar with my sister. Thank god she was persistent, because they eventually found that she had Isaac's syndrome, and it was causing her heart to run on overdrive. She's finally getting treatment, but they didn't find a conclusion until she was 6 months pregnant with her youngest.Sitemail | Freestuff | Craftythings | Youtube|
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it
into a fruit salad.
"Acadia", Congrats on the success!
2 cents worth of opinions on the health issues:
See an endocrinologist as well as a neurologist, but keep in mind there are plenty of things that are "subclinical", and can't be "found" by the doctors, even specialists. Go holistic, there's a very good chance that tuning up your endocrine system could balance everything out.
(my background = LPTA and tons of holistic health experience)
all the best
-E
Quote - Go holistic, there's a very good chance that tuning up your endocrine system could balance everything out.
Thanks for the advice. For endocrinologists and neurologists we need a doctor referral. However for holistic medicine I just have to look in the yellow pages and shop around.
I just can't accept being told "you're a medical mystery"
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
Yeah, don't accept it.
The heart -"cardiac muscle"- secretes hormones, has it's own nervous system, and bridges the divide between parasympath and sympath NS. (vastly oversimplified statement, but...still true)
therefore, the findings of heartmath institute may be a good place to start your research:
http://www.heartmath.org/research/research-overview/
Heart-Rate Variability and Autonomic Function:
IHM conducts ongoing research into heart-rate variability (HRV), a measure of the naturally occurring beat-to-beat changes in heart rate. HRV analysis is a powerful, noninvasive measure of autonomic nervous-system function and an indicator of neurocardiac fitness. The HeartMath Research Center maintains an extensive HRV normals database, which provides data on the HRV of healthy individuals. HeartMath has published research demonstrating how HRV varies with age and gender and on the use of HRV analyses to assess alterations in autonomic function in conditions such as panic disorder and chronic fatigue. IHM provides HRV analysis services for studies conducted by other institutions. For related Research Publications, go to Clinical and Health Research.
good luck!
Today was my first day back at work on the ward as an actual paid RN! Man! Did I earn my pay today!
Within 1 hour of starting I had one person go home, before she had even left, a new person was sent up who was going to be admitted to that bed. We had to have her wait in the waiting room until the other woman went home and we could get the bed cleaned.
Just after we put the new patient into that room, I got yet another admission to another room. So that's 1 discharge and 2 admissions within one hour of starting. Usually that hour is spent going to see your existing patients, doing their vital signs and assessing them, plus giving 8 am medications. I was behind from the get go.
I managed to get a 10 minute coffee break (should have been 30 minutes), and I sat down for 15 minutes to have my lunch around 2pm. My lunch should have been 45 minutes. Those were the only 2 times I sat down all day long!
My feet are sore. My legs are sore. My lower back is killing me!
But I loved every minute of it!!! 
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
Quote - Were you ever light headed during the day with all your activity? Jan
Once early in the morning, but not after that. I actually felt pretty good today except for all of my aches and pains. However, as I get more used to all of the activity that should clear up.
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
Hi Acadia, the reason why I asked is that moderate exercise (walking) does wonders in everything--and you are sure doing moderate walking, probably around two miles every day now. Your light headed feeling and other problems you may have could become less as you build up your physical conditioning. It did for me----Jan
One other thing Acadia, if you are getting medication from different doctors or taking off the counter medicine too, you may be having side effects ( some medication will interact with others and not in a good way).
Also, do not rely on what your blood pressure is in the doctor's office. Buy a decent blood pressure kit and monitor it in the peace and quite of your home, keep a record of it and show it to your doctor-take your kit along with you and take a reading along with what the doctor's kit (for kit calibration---should be in the same ball park as the pro reading. Jan
Big congratulations Acadia. I know what it's like to have an undiagnosed condition. I would just appear to switch off for up to 30 mins at a time for a few years, then my doctor sent me for tests & it was found that i suffer from a mild form of epilepsy. My initial reaction was OMG - epilepsy, but then 5 mins later, it was "ok I know what's wrong, what to do, i can get on with my life & not worry".
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Thanks for the advice. For endocrinologists and neurologists we need a doctor referral. However for holistic medicine I just have to look in the yellow pages and shop around.I just can't accept being told "you're a medical mystery"
I had years of that.....
Your body is just a system & needs to be viewed as such.
Everything interacts in some form with another part of the system.
Holistic medicine is just geared to promoting the body to heal itself.
Homeopathy uses extremely low dosage ingredients to stimulate the body to heal itself.
Much prefrable to pumping alien artificial chemicals into your body with added side effects.
The worst that can happen with homeopathy is that it doesn't work.
A big well done for getting yourself back into your work BTW!
That is bound to help. A positive, up-beat outlook has to be good.
Klutz. :0)
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I finished my last back-to-work shift tonight! And as of midnight I now have more than enough hours to put towards my nursing hours to renew my RN License for 2009! That's a huge load off of my mind!
I do my very first paid shift on Wednesday!!
The girls I worked with tonight had a little party for me. They all brought munchies to celebrate my milestone.
"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi