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jmfargoLooks like I won't be around much even if I want to be.
I hurt my upper back a while ago. I went to the doctor's yesterday and he put me on some medicines to help control the pain and control the muscle spasms I was having in my shoulder. He told me that I had hurt a vertebrae in my neck and that the pain was spreading down into my shoulder. Makes sense.
So I'm on two medications; one to control the pain (essentially just a slightly more powerful Excedrin, nothing special, no worrisome side effects) and one to control the muscle spasms, a drug called Flexeril or something like that.
For the record, Flexeril knocks me on my ass. I took one last night and went to sleep. I took one this morning and am having a lot of difficulty keeping my eyes open almost 10 hours later. I am so tired that I find it difficult to care that I've gotten absolutely nothing done today.
Unfortunately the pain medication is doing almost nothing for me. It hurts to turn my head, to sit up, to stay still to long or to move too much. I can't really remember being in so much pain in my life. Yesterday I was stiff and thought of not going to the doctor's since I seemed better, today I'm in pain.
I was already told once today to "get over it" by someone I thought might give me sympathy. Oh well; I'll just have to remember not to expect sympathy from them and not to extend any to them when they're feeling under the weather. (They apologized later but sometimes it's just not enough, at least not right away when I'm still angry. I'll get over it soon enough.)
That all being said, I'm going to sleep again. So tired.
I hurt my upper back a while ago. I went to the doctor's yesterday and he put me on some medicines to help control the pain and control the muscle spasms I was having in my shoulder. He told me that I had hurt a vertebrae in my neck and that the pain was spreading down into my shoulder. Makes sense.
So I'm on two medications; one to control the pain (essentially just a slightly more powerful Excedrin, nothing special, no worrisome side effects) and one to control the muscle spasms, a drug called Flexeril or something like that.
For the record, Flexeril knocks me on my ass. I took one last night and went to sleep. I took one this morning and am having a lot of difficulty keeping my eyes open almost 10 hours later. I am so tired that I find it difficult to care that I've gotten absolutely nothing done today.
Unfortunately the pain medication is doing almost nothing for me. It hurts to turn my head, to sit up, to stay still to long or to move too much. I can't really remember being in so much pain in my life. Yesterday I was stiff and thought of not going to the doctor's since I seemed better, today I'm in pain.
I was already told once today to "get over it" by someone I thought might give me sympathy. Oh well; I'll just have to remember not to expect sympathy from them and not to extend any to them when they're feeling under the weather. (They apologized later but sometimes it's just not enough, at least not right away when I'm still angry. I'll get over it soon enough.)
That all being said, I'm going to sleep again. So tired.
