Your Questions About Shingles

Endometriosis question for whoever has had it?

So I’m 17 and I have always had trouble when it comes to periods and things of that nature. I’ve been on birth control since I was like 13 due to cystes and now I have endometriosis and it’s killing me. The pain is terrible!
And my dr put me on this birth control pill that gives me like no estrogen and I won’t have periods for about a year and will have to have surgery.
So they gave me medication for pain and I took it two nights ago before bed and the next day at school I suffered a 2 hour reoccuring panic attack (I have anxiety disorders, depression and do have panic attacks) and they said I had it because it reacted with my Paxil so now I can’t use the prescribed pain medication.
I’m at a loss and it’s hard to go to school with this much pain, and I also missed a huge amount of time this year due to really severe shingles on my breasts.
Do you have any ideas for helping the pain?
Also I am using store brand pain meds like ibuprofen and the such but my stomach gets queasy when i take them too often

How do you cope with chronic stress? Or how do you stop it effectively?

Long story short…I suffer from chronic stress. I don’t have panic attacks. I am generally a very happy person. But there are things in my life that I cannot change that cause me to experience a state of constant stress, even when I am having a good time I feel an unnerving undertone. I don’t have an anxiety disorder…I currently go to therapy and a psychiatrist. They both said that I just have very difficult life circumstances, no mental disorder.

The chronic stress is making me sick. I’m only 20 and I have IBS, migraines, constant back pain (from large breasts…what a joke), got shingles, get many infections and even kidney stones. I feel constantly just kind of beat down physically. Most of the time I am happy but recently everything has been piling up.

I tried medication and I had an adverse reaction that almost killed me. I go to therapy and they say I use all the appropriate coping skills. So what else can I do? If you have an answer I would greatly try what you suggest. I also exercise and eat right, I love my life. There are just some things that I can’t fix that stress me…my schizophrenic brother, bipolar mother, stressed out father, constant illness from the freaking stress, school work, crazy friends…

I can control some of these things and I know I have some power but it is the things I can’t change that weigh so heavily on me.

Please help me learn to cope.

Vulvar burning for like a month…what’s up?

So I had my yearly checkup back in september and I had them run tests for all stds. everything came up fine. Have only been with my bf since then and he hasn’t cheated. I had been on birth control for 8 years and my body was just going haywire with the new one that my obgyn and I decided to try. So I stopped taking it first week of january. That week I noticed in one spot on the upper labia that occasionally got a zinging sharp pain. It happened every once in a while so i didn’t think anything of it. It’s still going on, today was particularly bad. There are no sores, no itching, no discharge, nothing else going on whatsoever. My legs have really been hurting though. Not burning just dull aches like I’ve been standing too long. I am on my feet all day at work and I’m just wondering what it could be. I worry about herpes but would these presymptoms really be going on for a month? Could it be something with my nerves or circulation being that I’m standing all day? I did have shingles two years ago but the breakout was on my neck and shoulder and was very small but i know you can have recurrent pain. Any ideas would be very helpful! Thanks!
Oh and it doesn’t feel like it’s on the skin…it feels more like it’s in the muscle or whatever down there. I ride the stationary bike and I’m also wondering if somehow this has pinched a nerve there or something and the leg pain is just coincidental from being exhausted from being on my feet all the time.

Has anyone ever had a doc ask for a filled prescription?

Has anyone ever had a doc ask for a filled prescription?
I was recently diagnosed w/ shingles. My doc gave me a strong painkiller to take, but it did little to numb the pain. After four days, I called his office to find out what the next step would be in order to get this pain under control. He wrote me a prescription, but wouldn’t allow me to pick it up until I returned the pills I had left from the prescription he gave me four days ago. What in the world is going on here? This is the first time in a VERY long time that I’ve had to take pain medication, so it isn’t like I’m a common addict. His nurse said they had to have it back to keep me from “over-medicating” myself. I paid for that prescription to be filled. I did have my husband take the bottle of pills to the doc’s office, and I got the new prescription. I just need to know if what the doc did was ethical, and if so, do they not owe me money for the amount I paid for that prescription? Someone, please, help me understand this whole situation!
Sorry “Matthew N”, this isn’t an answer; this is a question. I feel that so very many people have misused our medical system w/ abusive behavior toward medications that individuals w/ true pain and agony are now reserved to simply suffering. It is totally ridiculous when a person goes to the doctor w/ visible signs of pain, in my case the shingles, and they are treated like common criminals! I am embarrassed and ashamed of the “patients” out there who can’t control their actions any better than this. I did call my doc’s office to speak to someone about their odd request, but I got their after-hours voice mail. I left a message for them to call me b/c I am truly upset that they asked me to do this. I could care less if they return my medicine, but in all fairness, shouldn’t they pay me back for my insurance co-pay that I paid the pharmacy when I had the prescription filled?
My main question is, does he or does he not owe me the insurance co-pay that I paid when I had to first prescription filled? I get the reasoning behind why he did it. My problem w/ it is, why would he do this when I rarely ever see him for anything other than a refill on regular medicine? It’s not like I go see him really often. I take Toprol to control my blood pressure, and that is the ONLY other prescription medicine I take. I guess I just don’t have a whole lot of experience w/ pain medication, and I had no idea it had all gotten this out of hand!
To “thefreevariable”, you are absolutely right on! I can’t believe people w/ obvious medical issues have to suffer b/c of others’ ignorance! For instance, I am 30 yrs old, and two years ago I had open-heart surgery to remove a golf-ball sized tumor, aka Myxoma, from my heart. I wasn’t allowed to eat solid food for three days after I got out of the ICU. The nurse came in to give me my pain medication, and I told her I couldn’t take it w/o something for nausea. There should have been no explanation necessary on my part b/c, for goodness sake, I’d just had my chest split wide open, can you imagine the agony I would’ve felt if I’d thrown up? Anyway, she refused me the nausea pill b/c she said, are you ready for this, “some people get addicted to the nausea medicine.” Holy smokes, you’re worried about giving me Reglan for nausea, but you have no problem giving me oxycodone for pain? Needless to say, the doc was contacted, and I got the Reglan!

Has anyone ever had a doc ask for a filled prescription?

Has anyone ever had a doc ask for a filled prescription?
I was recently diagnosed w/ shingles. My doc gave me a strong painkiller to take, but it did little to numb the pain. After four days, I called his office to find out what the next step would be in order to get this pain under control. He wrote me a prescription, but wouldn’t allow me to pick it up until I returned the pills I had left from the prescription he gave me four days ago. What in the world is going on here? This is the first time in a VERY long time that I’ve had to take pain medication, so it isn’t like I’m a common addict. His nurse said they had to have it back to keep me from “over-medicating” myself. I paid for that prescription to be filled. I did have my husband take the bottle of pills to the doc’s office, and I got the new prescription. I just need to know if what the doc did was ethical, and if so, do they not owe me money for the amount I paid for that prescription? Someone, please, help me understand this