How long does it take for the CT contrast to leave a body? It seems like my head and neck hurt more since I had the CTA.
I think that the official line is within 24hrs, but I think some people feel effects longer- one of our members has posted about it, so you could search for that…I have to say that I didn’t notice any effects.
Hello all, I’m back! I had to take some time off to try to get my anxiety under control. Pain is more easily incorporated into my life than anxiety so I had to find out why I was feeling. This may be silly, but here it is, too much Hallmark in one dose, too many audiobook romances where someone is unwanted at birth then lives happily ever after and no news on referral for surgery (drum roll please…) I got an appointment for 12/2/19 and I’m going back to my action thriller audiobooks and shows plus I got a little sleep last night. It is tough to face present pain caused anxiety when it always throws in some past anxiety that you can’t really resolve. In case the post didn’t make it clear, I am one of those children in foster care from day 1 until I aged out of the system. So many decades after I still wonder how no one picked me. Not bitter about it just a thought that whacks me upside the head periodically. Probably because of time of year and because of pain, lack of deep sleep and frustration. On the other hand when I reach Allen, TX, my oldest granddoll acts like there is no one else on planet Earth except us!!! The little one is not totally attached, but I hear her giving me the sigh when I hold her like she wants and she is going to sleep. Just a little vent and now I’m good to go!
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Hugs to you 
Feel free to vent on here, we’ll listen, anxiety’s a funny thing & can’t be reasoned away. Glad you have a grandbaby to love & distract you some of the time…a wait for your appt. but hope things are bearable in the meantime.
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Wise of you to sit with your feelings and past and then try to put them in their proper place. Feelings are not facts. You are loved. I’m glad you were born!!!
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Wow DeeG, what a beautiful testimony to the agony and glory of this life. Thank you for sharing your heart and soul. You are a precious gift and the love you are passing to your family will prevail deeply in their lives. 
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Hi DeeG,
My heart feels sad for you & glad because you’ve “risen up out of the ashes” & gone places & done things & lived your life in spite of a rough early start. Grandbabies can give amazing joy! I’m glad you experience that with yours. It helps make up for the lack of it early in your life.
I’m so glad to hear you’ve got an appointment early in Dec. Now I’ll pray that it will culminate in the resolution of ES for you.
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Thank you. You’re so right, but my mind is wired to try. Figuratively, I sit those feelings in a corner, but sometimes the feelings see daylight and get through. It is a work in progress and I do not go it alone. I talk to friends, counselors and family/church family when I think they can really listen to what I have to say. It was not a good start this week, but getting an appointment evened the scale, so to speak.
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I am glad too and I know I matter to many people and more importantly to myself. It’s just sometimes the pain and frustration of ES hits hard when mixed with regular events or problems of life that would be nothing more than a hiccup in a day.
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Indeed, life covers all points on the spectrum and thankfully I see my better life ahead of me even with the blessings I have now. I want to see me, get reacquainted with a less anxious me and let the grands know a Nona who can take the tightest hugs they have to give! I never even liked hugs, just barely tolerated hugs, until children started hugging me. Now if I don’t get a hug I feel cheated.
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Thanks, I’m still rising up or at least trying… And I am always open for prayer. I pray for people all through my day and it is wonderful to think people pray for me. Really, I do believe God led me through my childhood, I certainly didn’t believe it at the time, and let me walk away to a better life. Of course I didn’t walk away debt free, so to speak, but I did get to walk away and that’s a big deal for me!
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DeeG - You have it figured out and with such grace…open arms to both receive and give hugs…it always goes both ways. Children are our best teachers, and usually without a filter 
You are beautiful, thank you for make in this world a better place 
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Glad you have people to talk to & faith especially…duh, I’m such a donut, I misread your date- we do the date the other way round in the UK & it always throws me!! Glad it’s not as long as I thought 
Yes, the referral came through right when I needed it because this week was circling the bowl. Amazing how one bit of good news made the week so much better.
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Circling the drain - we’ve all been there! And I know what you mean about handling things on a “good day” versus being weaker than normal and just not coping well. Interesting to see how things hit us under different circumstances. You’re doing great. 
I’m trying to hold it up. Of course I will hold up. Just a few bad days and a lack of sleep. I’ll feel much better when it stops raining here. Rain doesn’t help because I’m very sensitive to barometric changes.
So everyone I am glad I am patient.
Seems like I have trigeminal nerve neuralgia so instead of work up for surgery I got shots in the face at zygomaticotemporal nerve and ariculotemporal temporal nerve. Could it all be that simple? Did anyone have to go that route and did it give any relief? The right side of my face is still numb so I don’t know if it is helping yet.
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That’ll be good if the injection helps with the pain! I would say though that something is causing the Trigeminal Neuralgia, possibly the styloid irritating the nerve. So you might be masking the pain, but not addressing the cause. And it won’t help the vascular symptoms you’re getting…if it helps you cope while considering surgery that’s great, but I’d suggest that you don’t stop looking for a surgeon. But very pleased that you’ll hopefully have some relief!
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I agree, but the disappointing part is this is the surgeon. He decided to try the injections first which I can absolutely say did not work! Had a headache within 2 hours and ear pain by bed time. Monday I will report back to let him know he didn’t inject the right nerve.
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So sorry, that’s a shame it didn’t help…not long to wait until Monday to update him!
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