Guest guest Posted January 23, 2011 Report Share Posted January 23, 2011 Yikes! Me, too! Been having a really rough several weeks. My pain levels have been through the roof and I've been trying so hard to keep doing all the things that I need to do, but it's been a real challenge. Had a couple nights where I just had to sit and cry. I need knee replacement on my left leg and hip replacement on my right side, and my lower left leg has been in such pain from my blown out knee lately. It kept me awake for several nights as has some nerve pain in my right leg. Makes it tough to sleep. I joke (not so funny) that I don't have a good leg to stand on, but now I can't lay on either side at night! Then during the day it feels like I am walking on broken bones. My upper spine has been adding it's own aria to the symphony as well. Screaming at me and beating me with that baseball bat. I've been going through a lot of tests to see if there is anything that can be done about all of my spinal issues, but so far it's been the same that I've gotten for years, " Sorry. There is nothing that we can do. You will just continue to get worse. " It's very disheartening. Don't dare sit and dwell on the future. I've learned a lot about what is causing the pain, but haven't been getting anything about what to do about it other than the ever present pain meds. Does anyone else out there have trouble being a passenger in the car as well as driving? I've found lately that I can't get my bad knee comfortable in the car. Every time we go over a bump, or I have to move it the slightest bit, it seems to dislocate. Yaaawg! This cold doesn't help either. As at least 50 to 70% of my problems are arthritic, the fact that it's been in the single digits the last couple of nights has been brutal. I think I block out what winter does to me during the warmer months (like women block out the pain of child birth between children). Now I am longing for warm temps again! Well. My vent wasn't so quick. Been needing to do it, though. Thanks for listening. Thanks for the words of wisdom, . I wish I could think of myself as strong! - PA Having a flare-up of my chronic pain and just need to vent about it. aaarrrrggggghhhh..... Does it count as primal scream therapy if it's virtual?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 thegreat1 wrote: > > Isn't it annoying how life doesn't stop when you're overwhelmed by pain? You still have to go to work, do the grocery shopping, take out the trash, call your mother, all those normal responsibilities that make up this thing called life. You don't get a vacation from any of that; you just have to work twice as hard to keep up. And you pour so much time and energy and money into treating the pain that you never get ahead, in any sense of the word. > > I tell myself it's okay to get overwhelmed now and then, to let myself collapse when I need to, to politely excuse myself from the responsibilities of life for a night. It's not being weak or admitting defeat - it's just the break before the next round, the breather before the next mile. Because underneath it is the blind dogged determination that makes us the strongest people we know. > : Well said, " The Great " . If people only new how difficult it is to smile with BAK cages in your back screw sticking and impinging and Sacral Iliac problem, just to take steps. I showed an x-ray to a friend once and she said, Oh No, now I know why you hurt. Then when fibromyalgia tries to visit that really does not help. Other members here have syndromes that have the same type of pain of others. Pain is Pain and we do deserve the break! So go ahead yell and do whatever it takes to survive and we are here to listen. Hope you get better. Bennie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 25, 2011 Report Share Posted January 25, 2011 wrote: > Yikes! Me, too! Been having a really rough several weeks. My pain levels have been through the roof and I've been trying so hard to keep doing all the things that I need to do, but it's been a real challenge. Had a couple nights where I just had to sit and cry. > > This cold doesn't help either. As at least 50 to 70% of my problems are arthritic, the fact that it's been in the single digits the last couple of nights has been brutal. I think I block out what winter does to me during the warmer months (like women block out the pain of child birth between children). Now I am longing for warm temps again! , My spine stabs me with a knife and will not quit until I curl up in fetal position under electric blanket! Our body does talk to us : ) I try to focus on TV to get my pain somewhere else besides reminding me it it there. No I do not like others to drive. I seem to bounce and every place knows about the pain and lets me know I am doing something different. Bennie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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