Okay...I'm DYIN' here...post-op med question

May 14, 2006

I hurt my back overdoing it, both at the gym and taking care of Mom.

(Multiple ER visits, and admission, a nursing home admission and

discharge, changing sheets, helping her walk, etc. plus that stupid

exercise ball. Duh...) That was about three weeks ago. I figured

I'd ice it and it would stop hurting. It didn't. My dentist even

sent me home because I was grimmacing when all he did was adjust the

chair.

I made an appointment with my PCP, but while waiting, I went to the

local chiropractor (not my usual approach, but I was hurting) and I

got electrocuted, pounded, rubbed, massaged and adjusted. My MUSCLES

felt better, but the ouch-y, pinch-y thing kept happening. I was

using a cane and sometimes a walker. Needed help getting off the

toilet. Not a pretty sight.

Finally got into my PCP. He asked where it hurt and I pointed. He

asked what I was doing before it hurt, and I told him.

" It's the sacro-iliac...you pointed right to the joint...and people

usually describe the injury the way you did. Classic. Textbook. "

So I got an IM dose of some anti-inflammatory med--but I don't

remember which. It wasn't an injection into the joint. He didn't

mention Kenalog or anything ending in " -caine " or anything else I can

remember right now. He told me to ice it and to come back if it wasn't

better within a week and THEN HE ASKED THE $64,000 QUESTION:

" Can you take NASID'S NOW?'

I said, " It depends on who we ask. "

I know that the Rabkins' website says their patients can take aspirin

and NSAID's...and Crystal Schlosser sent an e-mail to her patients

saying they should NOT take NASIAD's.

And, with my back the way it is, I can't reach my Central Valley

Bariatrics Workbook.

If I DON'T take some ibuprofen pretty soon--and a bunch of it at

that--I'm gonna go OD on Vicodin, which may deal with the pain but

won't do a thing to help the inflammation and may hurt the liver, right?

Will someone give me Dr. K's stand on ibuprofen...and if it's

negative, will someone volunteer to just shoot me?

Thanks,

Sue

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