Somehow (I actually know how it happened. It happened when I downloaded Open Office)) I got some malware on my PC. Since I’m having one of my pain spells and cannot sleep I used the malware program that came with my PC and removed it. I got some crappy program called blinkiland that embedded itself into Chrome. And somehow my proxy server settings got changed. Between my sore and the Great Master Bathroom of Dunwoody remodeling project this year hasn’t started out too well. Now, I had to debug my PC only a few hours after I got it. And to top it all off, I’m having one of the pain spells I get four to six times a year. They last 24 to 36 hours. This is the second one this year. Already! The first one lasted two days. I’m also having loose stool. I know, TMI. When you consider I’m on Elavil, neurontin, oxcarbazapine, methadone, and hydrocodone it’s amazing that I’m not totally knocked out on my ass. I wish! Now, I’m going back to bed to try to sleep. I also have some percocet I’m gonna take.
Denny…have you tried Opana (oxymorphone)? I take that with a super low dose of Lyrica and oxycodone. Those three might help you more than the methadone/hydrocodone.
I know how awful nerve pain can be. But I also understand that unwanted advice can be super annoying. So please forgive if me if that’s the case. I just don’t want anybody to have to suffer with those bad pain days.
((Big gentle hugs)) Feel better soon my friend.
My pain level is usually under control with the meds I am on. I’m usually a 2 on a 1 to 10 scale. It’s just 4 to 6 times a year I get one of these really bad spells. I don’t know what triggers them. It’s always my left leg. It will be at the knee or a throbbing pain on my Achilles tendon or feeling like a nail is driven between my big toe and the one next to it. Being a cripple ain’t for sissies.
How did you get malware installed from downloading OpenOffice?
Picked the wrong site to download it from.
Start using Linux. It don’t have those problems. Got rid of Windows and could not be more happy.
I’m too lazy to learn a new OS.
I’m a Pharmacist…and you got more drugs than me!!!
And I didn’t even mention my two BP meds and my cholesterol med.
The vampires in “da hood” be after your sorry old butt…….
Wow, talk about a Friday the 13th…hoping all gets better rapidly for you Denny.
Denny, please accept my apologies. I wonder, though, did the malware come from OpenOffice or the site from which you downloaded it?
The site I downloaded it from.
You have to be very careful which website you download any software from. In an Open Office search several websites will show up. If you pick the wrong one – Virus.
Yep! That’s exactly what happened to me.
Malwarebytes is an awesome program I also got bit by that blink bullshit.
I think that blink is rather new since I only saw one thing on google when I searched on how to remove it.
Malwarebytes – paid version – helps keep malware from downloading as it is active all the time. The free version only does manual scans.
I repair a lot of computers that have bad stuff that the user didn’t even know was on the computer. I recommend getting rid of whatever the new computer has for virus control and get VIPRE Internet Security. VIPRE and Malwarebytes work well together as long as the scan time are set to different times. I use both and find that they tend to block malicious activity quite well.
The other one that is getting more pernicious is the ransomware. The trojan gets on your system from opening a file from an email or website, then it starts encrypting your typical data files. Then you try an open a picture, text file or such, and you get a popup telling you that you have to send $500 in bitcoin to some account to get your decryption key.
The only good way around that is backups. I have backups weekly and shadow copies at least daily. Once you determine that it has happened, clean up the trojan, then recover your files. Otherwise it may take you a couple hundred years to break the encryption.
I backup all my critical files on a timely basis. Quicken at least twice a week and I maintain two levels of backups. I have all of my TurboTax files backed up. And my address book. That’s the only important stuff. Pictures and other stuff I could care less about.
Get a MAC, that will fix your malware problems, as for the others….
So sorry for all those problems, Denny. Praying that you get some relief from pain, and one good night sleep.
I use LINUX. Got rid of Windows and am so happy with it. As the commercial once said ” Try it — you’ll like it “
Denny, in pain and can’t sleep? Percocet with a beer chaser does wonders! It got me through a week long kidney stone attack! Feel better Grouch!
Alas I’m on so many drugs my body has become accustomed to them. Try taking one 25 mg dose of Elavil sometime and see what it does to you. I gave my sister one right after my mom died and it knocked her out and she was groggy the next day. I take 75 mg of it like it’s nothing. Elavil is the reason I didn’t continue on getting my private pilot license. It’s a no no for the FAA.
Hope you get the pain under control ASAP.
Merle
I was OK the next day. It only last twelve hours this time.