Okay, Maybe Not
[ rakaur on Tue Jan 15 at 09:35 PM // category: health, life, pain ]
It’s been a while, and there’s been some interesting developments.
I went to the pain management center on the 21st of December. He did an exam, and reviewed my films with me. Basically, they’re all unremarkable, as was the exam. He said he’s not sure why there’s pain. He wrote me a prescription for cyclobenzaprine. Since he had a complete lack of a diagnosis he ordered me to take two months of physical therapy. I start tomorrow.
Since then I’ve gone through 60 5mg pills of cyclobenzaprine. They help hold off the pain some, but they don’t do a whole lot for me. They help me sleep, but they’re mostly useless when the pain is bad.
Also, I’ve had a number of developments. The pain is almost always in my lower back. Starting around Christmas my neck had been hurting me so badly that the back pain was eclipsed. The reason for the neck pain eludes me. When I woke up the pain was mostly gone. Any activity of even the light variety is severely limited. Going up the stairs is painful. Walking longer than a hundred meters is painful. Gabapentin appears to help, but it apparently makes me swell up. The pain comes and goes, and varies in intensity from achey to immobilizing.
I also had an episode of severe shoulder pain, for no apparent reason. One night my shoulder hurt so bad I couldn’t sleep. It took 12 hours for it to go away, and I was miserable the entire time. I have no idea what this was from, if it was related, I don’t know…
I’m at a total loss on what to do next. Maybe therapy will help. I don’t know. I feel hopeless.
-- rakaur // 2008.01.15 @ 09:35 PM
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