Chronic Pain Support Group
Physicians and professionalsdefine pain as chronic if it lasts longer than three to six months and is persistent. It's distinct from acute pain that is a direct result of injury or trauma. This support group is dedicated to those suffering from chronic pain. Discuss treatments that have worked for you, find advice for your specific experience, and find support. You're not...
It is too quiet here. So I am posting....
I should go wake up hubby from his nap... but that takes standing up. I just don't want to deal with how much that will hurt right now. If he is not up in another half an hour I will go...
It is hard right now. Hard to know what parts of me are actually hurting and why.
I know a significant amount of the pain I am in is from stiff muscles. I did more exercise yesterday than I have done in six months - I have to just laugh at doctors who tell me horses are not exercise!!! There is a reason you don't see fat cowboys!
My knees are screaming - but that could be reactive pain from my back, it could be from being stiff, or it could be that my knees are protesting the heavy use riding yesterday.
The same goes for my hips - but I have only injured one of them, so that both hurt means it is most likely pain transferring from my spine or just the all over malease from being so stiff.
My lower back has arthritis. It was also out of place last week, but riding puts it back in. Most likely the cause is the arthritis and stiffness - maybe some complaints about the muscles having gotten used to my back being out of place and now it is not.
Upper back - lol, like that ever stops hurting. To get through my ride yesterday I took 60mg of morphine (yes, my daily RX dose is only 30mg so I am going to be short at the end of the month). I am trying to take it easy on the meds today, but I am already pushing my max for today.
Right shoulder... well, torn rotator cuff has a right to complain after I use it anyway.
Elbows and hands - no reasons there. It just has to be that my brain is echoing pain throughout my system. It does that, when I hurt too much.
Headache... that is dehydration. When I go wake up hubby I will get more tea.
Chest - hurts to breath. That is my spine injury pressing on the nerves to my diaphragm. I'm ok as long as I breath shallowly. As much as my chest feels like my heart is having issues, I know it is just that rib I broke a few weeks ago still not healed yet.
It sucks, but if I can get through about three weeks of doing this a couple times a week, it won't knock me down like this. I will regain the muscles lost over the winter to be able to go out and trail ride. It is just the first few of the year that really kick me down. I need to live somewhere I can ride year round so I don't get this every summer...
Well, it took half an hour to type this... better just get it over with and stand up. I can get hubby up and he will make me some more tea.
Hugs to everyone!!
yadlim the adrenaline junky
I should go wake up hubby from his nap... but that takes standing up. I just don't want to deal with how much that will hurt right now. If he is not up in another half an hour I will go...
It is hard right now. Hard to know what parts of me are actually hurting and why.
I know a significant amount of the pain I am in is from stiff muscles. I did more exercise yesterday than I have done in six months - I have to just laugh at doctors who tell me horses are not exercise!!! There is a reason you don't see fat cowboys!
My knees are screaming - but that could be reactive pain from my back, it could be from being stiff, or it could be that my knees are protesting the heavy use riding yesterday.
The same goes for my hips - but I have only injured one of them, so that both hurt means it is most likely pain transferring from my spine or just the all over malease from being so stiff.
My lower back has arthritis. It was also out of place last week, but riding puts it back in. Most likely the cause is the arthritis and stiffness - maybe some complaints about the muscles having gotten used to my back being out of place and now it is not.
Upper back - lol, like that ever stops hurting. To get through my ride yesterday I took 60mg of morphine (yes, my daily RX dose is only 30mg so I am going to be short at the end of the month). I am trying to take it easy on the meds today, but I am already pushing my max for today.
Right shoulder... well, torn rotator cuff has a right to complain after I use it anyway.
Elbows and hands - no reasons there. It just has to be that my brain is echoing pain throughout my system. It does that, when I hurt too much.
Headache... that is dehydration. When I go wake up hubby I will get more tea.
Chest - hurts to breath. That is my spine injury pressing on the nerves to my diaphragm. I'm ok as long as I breath shallowly. As much as my chest feels like my heart is having issues, I know it is just that rib I broke a few weeks ago still not healed yet.
It sucks, but if I can get through about three weeks of doing this a couple times a week, it won't knock me down like this. I will regain the muscles lost over the winter to be able to go out and trail ride. It is just the first few of the year that really kick me down. I need to live somewhere I can ride year round so I don't get this every summer...
Well, it took half an hour to type this... better just get it over with and stand up. I can get hubby up and he will make me some more tea.
Hugs to everyone!!
yadlim the adrenaline junky
Right now what is hurting on me is my head "massive headache" and my right leg is really hurting. It feels like I just got hit in the shin with a base ball bat. My left lung has been at level 6 pain for three days straight. High enough to get me paranoid that I might have another blood clot in it. I have to calm myself down and fight the urge to want to go to the emergency room.
I know it's just residual pain from the damage that was done when I had my initial blood clot two years ago. My pain levels are tolerable right now as long as I do not perform much activity. I don't even have the energy to go outside and look at the fireworks. I'm just sitting here on the cough nursing a leg that will never, ever, never get better again.
I hope you feel better tomorrow, Yadlim. I know how it is when you overdo things and then pay for it the next day. I say let your hubby sleep if it is going to cause you that much pain to get up and wake him. Sit on that couch and rest up. Tomorrow is a new day for each and every one of is. Hugs!
I'm bone weary myself. I know how you feel about trying to stand up. My knees, bad hip and lower back will all scream at me. Jeremy is correct in that if you overdo it, you pay for it the next day. I did some simple cooking yesterday and today and am surprised by how much it wore me out. I didn't even bother to strain to look out my balcony or windows to see if I could see any fireworks. Been there, done that in my earlier years.
It's supposed to rain tomorrow, which will encourage me to sit still and read and watch TV. On the bad side, the increasing humidity will be hell for my arthritic joints. The OS prescribed 50 mg Tradmodol 4-6x daily back on June 17 and they do nothing. I feel uncomfortable calling and asking him for something else as I am unsure if he is the one who I want to perform my hip replacement.
Hope you get some rest and feel better. I wish that I could come to help you pack.
BTW, Firefly is a beauty.
I don't see why doctors refuse to listen to the patient and treat them with the proper medications. I've been tempted to just stop Norco cold turkey for a month just to prove to the pain doc that I'm not an addict. Then get tested clean and tell him I'm clean now and in a lot of pain. I have no choice. I can't take Tylenol because I have liver disease, and I'm on blood thinners, so I can't take Aspirin. My only choices are Narcotics, or to just suffer in silence. Any how, I hope you can find some relief for your chronic pain, Clover. I think you are suffering needlessly. Hugs!
you need to understand that there are people out there who just read posts for ideas and infomration. When you keep saying Tramadol is useless just because it didn't work for you, it doesn't mean it won't' help someone else....but people reading may refuse to try it because you keep saying it's useless. There are quite a few folks actively on the Board who use Tramadol as part of their Pain Management program.
We don't all act the same towards the same meds. Right now I take Oxycodone and Morphine becuase the Oxycontin and Fentanyl I used to take started to work like baby aspirin.
When it comes to med, it just depends on how the med will work with the body chemistry.
kat
Hugs Jeremy,.. know how you feel,... I suffer DVT, have had partial lung collapses, a full collapse, several PE's, and the associated damage and scaring... I have MCTD, Lupus ,n systemic scleroderma... blood vessel n lung issues have been caused by prothrombin n Lupus clotting factors.. Hmmmm , fun challenge eeh. Coumiden, has such a restriction on meds and treatment options, sigh,... Sorry your hurting champ and hope you can find help and relief soon.,
Gentle (((Hugs)))) Clover,.. hope you can find something to help a bit more, n, you find the right Dr to perform the hip op for you.. 8-)
Huge (((Hugs)))) Katlyn,.. 8-),... awwww hopes your little friend the Hamster is settling down and bringing many smiles for you,.. Awww,... wish I could get a hamster in Aus,.. My Mum grew up with them in England and says they are fab little friends.. Keep well, n enjoy the weekend time out?? xo
Sigh,... The Lupus is flaring, n it's Winter time here, so everything has been playing up with the cold.. So, the Seek is just climbing the cliffs and enjoying the valleys of peace when they come...
Have an Awesome weekend dear Buds of CP.....
I am off to work for a really long day.. I consider myself lucky that after i got pain meds my leg is only 2/10 and my jaw is 0 .
Tramadol fortunately works for me - from just 50 mg regular i get relief for about 15 hours or more and for some reason it gives me excellent nerve pain relief, maybe because the nature of my nerve damage is mostly trauma?
(( hugs)))
Soon as well. I kinda had a rough evening. I was walking a lot and by 5 pm i was limping big time