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If I don't take any painkillers, my back hurts so bad I can't do anything but lie around in bed.

If I do take painkillers, they make me so loopy I can't do anything but lie around in bed.

Feh.

I'm not sure what I did to cause it, but my back started hurting like hell yesterday.  I went to bed about midnight and got up around 3 in the afternoon.  It's still bothering me but I'm hopped up on Tramadol now, so it's not hurting too bad.

To combat the problems I'd been having with my eye (Recurrent Corneal Erosion), last year my eye doctor put me on doxycycline, which inhibits the production of certain enzymes that can cause the corneal epithelial layer to deteriorate.  This is really the only non-surgical treatment for RCE; the other options are basically grinding off the outer ( Read more... )

I don't know which is worse, the excruciating pain in my back or the side effects of the Percocet.

Can you tell what this is and what is wrong with this picture?


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Ended up spending a hefty portion of my tax refund today.

My AeroBed was just about gone, so I had to buy a new bed.   I found a nice Sealy Posturepedic mattress and box springs on sale for $330 at Nebraska Furniture Mart.    Since I didn't have any sheets or anything to fit it, I also picked up a "bed in a bag" set at Wal*Mart: sheets, pillow cases ( Read more... )

Gee, you go blind for a few days and you fall over 200 posts behind on the friends page.

I finished the course of drugs for my eyes around the beginning of November, but it didn't seem to take.  My eyes were getting better while on the drugs, and I'd gone nearly a month without any problems, but then the corneal erosions began again last week.  A ( Read more... )

There aren't any opthamologists nearby, so I finally ended up making an appointment with a local General Practicioner.  I figured all I needed was some drugs, so it wouldn't really matter.

I go in, and the doctor says that it's definitely an infection, but after having a closer look, he goes and gets a flourescent dye strip and touches it to my eye ( Read more... )

I discovered what is causing a good part of the pain I am experiencing in my eye:  there's some kind of thick, yellowish discharge that gets stuck to the surface of the eye.  Whenever I blink, it gets rubbed around on the already inflamed cornea causing a sharp pain.  It seems like it only takes about 15 minutes for the stuff to build up, at least ( Read more... )