Does Pain Have You Tied Down?

» Fairdinkum - Re: Re: Re: Shingles

Hi Virginia

The error messages I'm getting too..was warned a virus may be lurking.

Hey..you're not disagreeing with me. I love researching half forgggotten issues and the reality checking your topics add.

I won't/can't advise re medications and am very mindful this is NOT a medical site. The context I aimed for, focused on "..special or new treatments..." without editorialising was:

"...The pain associated with zoster should be treated aggressively with agents such as (non exhaustive list follows) and may require early referral to a pain clinic." The article added context. Maybe there is a more recent version of the best approach but I haven't yet found it.

I jumped in while expecting you guys to bridge the future's theory for all to today's reality for individuals.

**My view is doctors assume their patients are far more medication-compliant than they are..that certain medications risk clinical addiction. Others risk the lesser form of dependence...that some are only short-term but patients want them longer term...that some medications need to be weaned off while introducing new medications, some designed for one purpose are found to serve another, then dosages etc etc. Ergo check it all out with your own doctor (or health professional to neutralise the term).

I have a friend with trigeminal(sp) neuralgia who receives morphine injections during acute phases. Neuralgia, like sciatica which I have, seem pretty resistant to pain relief.

50 is relatively young...a bit older but I can handle that.

Hi Barbara. There is something about the pre-occupation of golf etc etc that probably comes within 'pain management'...the earlier the 'intervention' to this form of 'pain clinic' the better. This helps to avoid a thing labelled 'chronic pain syndrome'.

**I will refer to this qualification of my comments as 27. The number 26 refers to the fair dinkum personal background to my posts not used her so far. That might keep posts within readable bytes. ABC

Jeff

-- posted by Fairdinkum

» Dubh_Sidhe - Re: Re: Re: Re: Shingles

Jeff, in addition to the error messages, my files are disappearing and leaving red x's in their place in some of my articles. But these error messages are unrelenting. They will not leave me alone. I would like to refer them to a pain control clinic. LOL! Neuralgia is a bad one too. All of these guys lurking around in our nerve endings are bad news bears...

You are great, Jeff, and I appreciate you!

-- posted by Dubh_Sidhe

» Fairdinkum - Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Shingles

The little red x within an otherwise blank box is telling you there is an image or picture-based message they can't display. You haven't lost it...you just can't get it...yet.

Shingles pain = postherpetic neuralgia. Doctors lousy writing stops patients reading over their shoulders even if they could understand. One assessing doctor I know laughed in telling me his examinee was worried he had a severe case of NADS. 'No Abnormality Detected'. But I don't want to digress into False-negatives.

Jeff

-- posted by Fairdinkum

» Dubh_Sidhe - Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Shingles

LOL!True. You know, nurses' penmanship is hardly any better than doctors'. When we had to start writing on computers and little portable "electronic charts" it became a great day.

Yeah, but the files have also vanished from my collection. Gremlins at work.

-- posted by Dubh_Sidhe

» Fairdinkum - Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Shingles

Sorry to see suite101 problems. My cantankerous computer was giving out warnings, so I've saved all my animated gifs to floppy disk. Now I find if I replace my computer..all the newer ones have no floppy drive unless I get it added for extra $.

I miss not being able to display them here...they took me endless hours to collect..but are now used in emails. But then..seems like they'd be lost within suite101 given your problems.

Jeff

-- posted by Fairdinkum

» Dubh_Sidhe - Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Shingles

Jeff, I do not totally understand this cyberspace stuff, but apparently the graphic files that have been lost, are not lost for good. They are still in cyberspace, and if I have the "whatever.jpg" I can retrieve it. Also, and this is really strange--if I see the picture is someplace on my screen, even though I have lost it to my hard drive, I can click and save to and upload it again from cyberspace to my hard drive. I may not have said all of the correctly, but 'tis true.

-- posted by Dubh_Sidhe

» Fairdinkum - computer mysteries

.jpg relates to graphics..an image or still picture. .gif relates to an animation. The preceding word is the name you give it. Eg: 'digger.gif' for that little fella with the spade I once had.

You should have them all stored in your suite101 home page...like a library list with boxes in front you need to tick to activate. The home page allows you to import them from your hard drive or other drive eg CD or floppy disk to store them within suite101. From there, you transfer them to your topic's posts or home page displays.

I had many gifs stored that I added to my posts in the past. But the problem you have is that it's all disconnected somehow...and that's where my understanding starts to fizzle. They're either still saved in your hard drive and you can't access them OR import them to suite101 OR they're in suite101 and you can't activate them...maybe the tick is all that's gone???

Hope this makes sense. Your friendly editor staff should be able to give you the step by steps needed. This was also spelt out in the home page but I no longer have one.

Hope this makes some sense.

Jeff

I'm a tad worried now in case my computer dislikes the term 'cantankerous'.

-- posted by Fairdinkum

» _Boanerges_ - Re: computer mysteries

Virginia....
In your editor functions, you have a FILE page. You can upload all your .gifs, .jpegs, there.....

Jeff....
How is is goin?.. hope all is well....
We are able to post anything but .gifs in our sigtags, according to the new Suite rules..... Although I did like your man, endlessly digging, it seems that Suite won't allow .gifs in the sigtags any longer.... but you can still place a .jpg or some sort of clip art.. (yawn - I know - I miss my infohighway.gif...)

hope that helps....?...

-- posted by _Boanerges_

» Dubh_Sidhe - Re: Re: computer mysteries

I know how and where to upload images to my file, that is not the problem. The problem is my files that I have and have had for ages are not usable. What I am saying is, if I want to use "whatchamacallit" I get a notice that says the file does not exist, but that so called "non-existable" image may already be on one of my pages and viewable to readers!! Yet I cannot retract it from my file to use again, so I have to go to the page on which it is seen and click and save AGAIN in order to put it back in my file again to use again even though it is already there but not there.

An analogy is I have a can of pepsi in my frig. I open the door to pick it up, but even though it is there and I see it, I can't get it because the frig tells me it is not there. So I shut the frig door and twitch my nose at a can in the pantry, then open the frig again, and voila, I can pick up the can that is now there, that has been there the entire time, that I was told was not there.

Why can't we use sig gifs? Not all gifs are animated.

-- posted by Dubh_Sidhe

» _Boanerges_ - Re: Re: Re: computer mysteries

w0w... sounds like you might need to perform an exorcism??? lol...

never heard of such a problem.. strange indeed...

Why can't we use sig gifs? Not all gifs are animated.

good question... I have no idea.. as long as they are not animated, they say its okie... bummer, ey..

-- posted by _Boanerges_