Okay, my leg is starting to feel better (fingers crossed), and I think I'm back. Everything just seemed like too much when I was constantly in that much pain. I thought it would take months. And I guess it took about two months for me to feel any real improvement...now I need to get a life ( Read more... )

I've been awake since 4-something. I just kept waking up and waking up, and then my computer rebooted on its own at 4, and that was just the last straw. I hate this kind of insomnia. I'm usually up with the sun anyway, which is about 5:30, but I think I counted 4 hours of sleep last night, and there were awake-gaps in there. Maybe the leg pain ( Read more... )

This pain thing has been a balancing act, but does seem to be easier to deal with. It seems to be important to be active, and I'm still just doing one or two things a day out in the world, but at least I'm not sleeping half the day and lying on the floor in pain the other half. This coming Monday is my appt. with Vocational Rehabilitation...hope ( Read more... )

I meant to send the previous entry to the fibromyalgia community,and there doesn't seem to be a way to do that while editing. Want to let them know how I'm doing. Grrr!
Anyone know how I could do that without writing the whole thing over again?

My doctor gave me a muscle relaxer and an acid blocker, and both seem to work. I'm still in pain, but it's manageable in the early morning. My doctor is leaning toward sciatica, but she won't know until she orders a spinal x-ray, and I'm not seeing her again for a month ( Read more... )

Stupid leg pain seems better this morning, which is good. It's certainly not gone, and I still can't sit at the computer too long without having to walk around, but this is an improvement. I'm worried because I have to go to the food bank today, which involves going up and then down two steep hills, the second time with a lot of food. Food is ( Read more... )

Okay, the leg has not gotten better. I went to the ER for X-ray work and got the worst, meanest, most unsympathetic doctor I've ever had. I think because I'm in a program for opiate abuse that I've been in for three years with no relapses ( Read more... )

I haven't been writing in my own journal lately because I'm been having intense leg pains, so I've been posting in the fibromyalgia community. They don't feel like they're ready to go away yet. I've been taking iboprofen regularly, and it seems to help a little bit anyway ( Read more... )

Things kind of came to a head yesterday. There was a fire that spread to public transit between the City and the East Bay. My therapist cancelled our appointment, but we decided to do a phone appointment instead. It turned out to be awful because I don't like to discuss certain subjects like the neighbors if I'm anywhere near a window, and with ( Read more... )

Tired even in the morning. I sleep too much; that must be it. I've really got to take a look at my life; I need to make some changes besides just Voc. Rehab. I'm glad my therapist is in town this week.