Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Support Group
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I've explained how the overprescribed PTSD meds happened here before. If you don't recall, here's the recent DSPTSD explanation's link.
I got permanent kidney damage from the overprescribed PTSD meds, so for 11 years my blood that gets to my extremeties isn't oxygen rich enough. Nerves die of oxygen starvation, and the pain is called neuropathy. They burn electric pain back at you as they die. Imagine when a nerve un a tooth hurts, put that in your toe, and you get it. Right now my left big toe's nerves are on fire.
You would think once the nerves die and aren't on fire any more that would be relief. You would think wrong. Pain is a warning, and when feet are numb and bad things happen and you don't feel it and the warning from it, it gets worse. I write here about how I walk proudly on a cane every day, but today I couldn't.
In my sleep last night i roilled my body over to sleep on my right side. But I didn't roll my numb feet with my body, and so I didn't feel how I twisted both ankles all night long. When I woke up, I had two swollen sprained ankles i couldn't even stand up on, much lesss walk on.
It's gone on like that all day. I ended up off the cane I used to proudly walking to go back to being in a wheelchair. I could only afford to retire to Mexico, which I love, except that now that I'm wheelchair bound I see how Mexico is not handiapped accessible in most places.
I wet myself twice today because I couldn't walk to the bathroom fast enough on two very sprained ankles even with a wheelchair. That was humiliating. Now I have that left toe nerve screaming pain as it dies, and I'm lying in bed hungry but unable to get to dinner on my lwn in my wheelchair.
Life kind of sucks right now for me. Support welcome.