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trickykittyMore back pains yesterday and last night. They weren't near as bad as a week ago, and were a bit more localized to the lower left side and left hip, but they still kept me from being able to go to sleep last night for a good hour or two. A Benadryl, 1/2 a Valium, and 4 ibuprofen, and I was finally able to go to sleep after attempting every stretch known to man that wasn't working.
I had my annual checkup with my regular doctor last week. She still insists I keep the Valium filled and handy as well as the migraine medicine. She's worried that my insistence on disregarding pills when I am feeling pain is just going to make things worse. I'm supposed to be taking the Valium about 3-4 times as often as I do, given my jaw pains, but most times I just grin and bear it (pardon the pun). I'll probably still refill the Valium anyway if these back issues keep popping up. I am wondering how much of it is my active attempt at keeping my back and posture straight. It could be my muscles retaliating while trying to stick to the previous status quo, whereas I'm trying to force the issue. I guess we'll see.
I had my annual checkup with my regular doctor last week. She still insists I keep the Valium filled and handy as well as the migraine medicine. She's worried that my insistence on disregarding pills when I am feeling pain is just going to make things worse. I'm supposed to be taking the Valium about 3-4 times as often as I do, given my jaw pains, but most times I just grin and bear it (pardon the pun). I'll probably still refill the Valium anyway if these back issues keep popping up. I am wondering how much of it is my active attempt at keeping my back and posture straight. It could be my muscles retaliating while trying to stick to the previous status quo, whereas I'm trying to force the issue. I guess we'll see.
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Date: 2012-10-16 03:06 am (UTC)FACT.
If you're allowing your body to stay in a prolonged state of pain, you're letting your muscles twist themselves up to compensate, and basically start knitting themselves permanently into a state where they'll just cause more pain, more injury, etc., etc. I didn't have pain meds at a time when I really, really needed them umpteen million years ago, and 6 months of increasing pain took at least a year to recover from. Because I don't have access to them - muscles relaxants unfortunately don't work on me, and if you have to ask for pain meds, you're going to be considered a 'drug seeker' and NOT get them - I still have to be extremely careful - and always will - about making sure that I have access to a GOOD chiropractor, so that when I realize that pain is becoming regular, rather than intermittent, I get in there right then and there and stop the cycle before it gets out of hand.
Hello, run-on-sentence.
In summary:
I don't want to be permanently disabled, and that's nearly where I ended up.
Don't be that guy, man.