I've been depressed for two months, which I finally nailed down the probably causes. It started with me switching to gummy vitamins, which did NOT cut it. (After three days of no vitamins, I get super depressed, and I took them till they were gone.) And then got a cold from AgtOrange, and went sporadic on my meds, and then I caught another cold ( Read more... )

Hating my GP right now, although I can understand her reluctance to keep prescribing me pain meds. She sent me to pain management to "fob me off" on them, but pain management understandably didn't want to have 57 different drs writing me prescriptions. So they agreed to consult with my GP and tell her what to write for me, only somewhere along ( Read more... )

Chronic pain isn't just hard for the sufferer to handle, it's hard on those around them as well. Below are some handy tips. PLEASE SHARE these with anyone and everyone you think might find them useful. Someone with chronic pain will be thankful for it.

1) We may be unreliable. Sometimes when you feel good, you make plans you have every ( Read more... )

So it's the big day. We start at 0200 and go all the way through tomorrow night. It'll be the last security shift I ever pull. It may very well be the last time I work at all. I have absolutely NO IDEA how I'm going to manage or how many days I'm going to be bedridden paying for it. But I did it one year on a broken toe and I'll be damned if I ( Read more... )

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Having to take a break today, in a lot of pain. Tried to run some errands with AgtOrange, but didn't get far. Had to return home for a nap. Apparently I can sleep un-medicated, though not well or for long. Will have to complete tasks tomorrow. Woke up feeling worse, and bored. Went to the bar to hang out for a little while, but the seats are ( Read more... )

Had to go to the pain management doctor for my consult today. He's recommending Lyrica (which I told him I already tried to get and couldn't) and lidocaine therapy. I'm interested in the lidocaine, but disappointed that he was suggesting things I'd already attempted to do. No way is my insurance going to pay for that ( Read more... )

I'm in pain, I'm really, really in pain, so no long expositories tonight.

Comprehensive List of Tasks

• grooming & wound care = yes, kinda (1/2)
  
• eat healthy meal = no, junk food all the way (plus Indian)
  
• Spanish = nope
  
• coping = um..... 1/2
  
• paperwork/emails = yup, pain woke me at 0500 so I had plenty of quiet time while AgtOrange slept, to play on ( Read more... )

Today was one of those awful days where you just want to crawl back into bed and throw the covers over you. I got up in severe pain, after several pain-free days, and immediately visited the Motrin. (In fact, the joint pain was so bad I poked my boyfriend awake just to open the bottle so I could get to the ibuprofen ( Read more... )