Okay - lets try to lighten up, get creative and use some humor : )

Parody of You Must be a Redneck if.......

I'll start with a few - please add and think of your silliest moments or experiences that are loopy or crazy in our TN world:

You must be a TN patient if.... you are afraid to have your teeth gently buffed!

You must be a TN patient if... you have been seen outside with a ski mask and scarf around your entire face and head like a robber!

You must be a TN patient if you get on meds that take your memory and IQ down a few notches ( couldn't remember dog's name!)

You must be a TN patient if you have considered or have fired 1 or more doctors for their completely idiotic behavior!

You must be a TN patient if the thought has crossed your mind to tackle and remove all teeth from your dentist or oral surgeon without numbing !!!

You must be a TN patient if you have read more medical stuff in a year - than anything for pleasure!

You must be a TN patient if you have babbled like an idiot trying to explain this crap to anyone outside our secret club!

OK your turn!

KC this I’d knee slapping funny. Love this post idea:) okay here are mine.

You must be a TN patient if… You feel like an astronaut on mars because your medications take all sense of the word balance away from you.

You must be a TN patient if… Because there’s times when everything you hear what others are saying to sound like the adults on the Peanut (Charlie Brown) cartoons because your medications make your thoughts all muddy.

You must be a TN patient if… You considered or gone on a liquid diet because the idea of chewing or the feeling of food in your mouth is disagreeable with you.

You must be a TN patient if… If you’ve become a master at charades because your TN takes away your ability to talk like a normal person.

You must be a TN patient if… The weather report states winds are light and breezy makes you wrap your head up like Alibaba in the middle of summer

You must be a tn patient if the air conditioner above your desk at work that never shuts off and is always blow air from the Antarctic has made you consider purchasing a motorcycle helmet even though you don’t ride bikes just to protect your self for the non stop arctic air.

You must be a TN patient if you’ve emailed someone an email that is written in a wen language dellac gollible gook even after proof reading the email net times before you tih the send button. Because you medication and pain made you mind a big ole glob of goocky mud again.

You must be a TN patient if you ask your assistant to copy a document in the microwave.

You must be a TN patient if you cannot remember the name of a FIRE AMBULANCE???? What??????????????? OK engine, duh

Haha!!! Hilarious!! I so needed this today!!

OK...you must be a TN patient if you walk around your house several times never doing what you intended to do because YOU CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT THAT WAS due to your medication.

You must be a TN patient...if you stutter thru an entire conversation with everyone you speak to.

You must be a TN patient...if when trying to scold your children you end up sounding like a blubbering idiot because the words don't come as quickly as they used to.

Great idea KC!

You must be a TN patient …if you use hot pockets out in public on your face to ease the pain.

You must be a TN patient… If you’ve had the thought of inviting a neurosurgeon to your home to perform mvd on your kitchen table, no anaesthetic, NOW!

You must be a TN patient …if you can’t enjoy a glass of wine or a rum and coke due to high dose meds!

You must be a TN patient…if you’ve put your coffee in the fridge with the milk and then wander aimlessly looking for your coffee, only to give up and find it hours later.

You must be a TN patient… If you ask your daughter to put her laundry in the dishwasher.

; ) Mimi

Oh, I have 1 more.

You must be a TN patient...if you walk in to your hair salon to see if your stylist can cut your hair and this is how your conversation goes...Me-"I've been trying to call you to see if you can cut my hair." Stylist-"Have you called?" Me-"Did I say I called?" Stylist-"Yes." Me-"Sorry...what I meant was I thought I would stop by to see if you have time to cut my hair." Sometimes I feel so stupid. Ha! I don't even realize what is pouring out of my mouth!!

You must be a TN patient if you intend to tell a joke and completely go blank due to your anti-seizure meds!!

You must be a TN patient if you look forward to the torture of 50 injections of botox in your sore scalp just to get a few weeks relief from TN pain!!

You must be a TN patient when you pay your bills and don’t even notice you’ve forgotten a few of them until the next month! So suddenly you’re on the phone trying to explain your blank-brain experience and asking them to remove the late charges!

You must be a TN patient if your children ask if they can “kiss the owwee on your face to make it feel better”!

You might be a TN patient...if you've gone days without talking with an unpleasant look on your face, watching the world go on around you.

You might be a TN patient...if you are sick to death of saying "No, it's not a dental issue."

You might be a TN patient...if you know how to properly pronounce carbamazepine and gabapentin.

You might be a TN patient...if being able to smile...makes you smile..!

~Mistee

I am new here and having a crappy horrible day but I LOVE this, so here it goes....

You MUST be a TN patient....if you get pulled over by the police and he asked if you are taking something because the lovely drug Neurontin has your eyes blinking wildly and you have q-tips with Lidocaine hanging from your nose!

You must be a TN patient .....if everytime someone says, "What's wrong?" your answer is "I'm fine"

You must be a TN patient .....if you wonder daily if you should have every tooth pulled and try to convince yourself that your teeth are the problem.

And my favorite...

You MUST be a TN patient....if you wonder why in the HECK you are still chubby when you sometimes drink only liquids for DAYS!!

OK - you guys are doing great --- I spit out my lunch on the QTips in the nose LOLOL

You must be a TN patient ...If you go shopping in your Fluffy heart pjs and your bf is too afarid to tell you as you have actually LEFT the house

You must be a TN patient ...If you ask 5 times in 5 minutes what was for dinner and get annoyed that 'no one has answered your question!!', 'for the fifth time its TACO's!'

You must be a TN patient ...if your bf reads this thread and scoffs in your face that every example is you!

You must be a TN patient ...If you p.s at the bottom of all correspondence 'blame the tegretol if this makes no sense'

You must be a TN patient ...if you know more than your pharmacist

You must be a TN patient ...when your when your waiting for a bus that left an hour ago 'Ohhhh THAT was the TIME?'

heheh awesome thread btw! xx

This is an awesome thread! Thanks KC for getting it going.

It makes me laugh out loud for real. *lol*

~Mistee

*like on mistees comment* :P

You must be a TN patient if you cannot remember what you want to write here…

This one occurred to me while i was posting in another thread...

You must be a TN patient....if you backspace a lot while typing.

(i used to be able to type very fast with little to no mistakes; now it's horrible. I can't type worth a damn since i started take all these meds...it's type three letters, backspace twice! lol.)

Ditto Mistee

You must be a TN patient if you have more teeth on one side of your mouth than the other. Oh wait, is that a redneck or a TN patient. I can’t remember. Squirrel!

*spews soda and laughs at Patty* Oh that was great! thank you! lol

~M

You might be a TN patient if you debate for 30 minutes about possibly eating a little bit of ice cream - just to give it another try!

But - you end up drinking the chocolate syrup instead because that does not cause pain!