Well, The test results where not that good. My physician is contacting 2 specialist one of them to be a surgical specialist for me to see as soon as possible to see what can be done, if anything. My pain medications have been effectively increased by 1/3. This is enough pain medication to put a normal person out like a light for a few hours.
I am now taking over 70 pills every 14 days .Most are for just physical pain management. plus some additional instant ones, by instant I mean you place them under the tongue or between the gum and lip these are taken for break through pain management.
If dissolved under the tonger or between the lip & gum they will relieve pain for about 2 - 4 hours and start to work within 15 minutes of letting them dissolve. They do not taste good, but they also do not taste bad. Some of the other ones I have had to take over the past couple of years tasted really horrible.
I take another kind of pain medication and this one is for nerve pain management. Honestly I am not seeing much relief from the nerve pain, the pain seems to be about the same. However with the new increased dosage of pain medications I will be taking I have hopes it will become much more bearable.
Hopefully with this increased dosage I shall stop wanting to cry myself to sleep from the pain I am in.I can say that the nerve pain medication sometimes helps but I think most of the time it does not and when I explained this to the Doctor she said it may be some weeks before I will notice a significant increase of movement and of decreased pain. Problem is I do not want to wait weeks I need relief from the pain, yesterday.
One of the best beneficial effects that I have noticed with the use of the nerve management medication, is that it does help me fall to sleep and it relieves some of the restless leg syndrome I suffer. That is is where the leg muscles twitch. Imagine this, opening and closing your hand very, very fast a few hundred times a second.
That's what the muscles in the legs like to do when I lay down. It is much worse if I have to lie down on my back. So the medication stops the muscles from twitching at night, so I at least manage to get 5 to 6 hours sleep.Let's not forget the occasional Antibiotics or the Steroids I must take (yes they are prescribed) & then there is the one I take for my blood. Then there is the Iron supplements and the Vitamin supplements.
If my blood tests are sub-par I then have to take either phosphate or potassium supplements Sometimes i end up having to take both of them and let me tell you they taste horrible, there is another option a big pill and I do mean a very big pill and it is not taken orally..
Trust me on this when I say you to would opt to take the horrible tasting tablets dissolved in water, sure they taste god awful but it sure as shit beats the alternative method. on top of the Pain medications that I take to make me comfortable is the occasional Advil tablet for my headaches because I can not use Tylenol anymore.
Migraine medication which I can not afford right now are over 96 dollars for 6 tablets. These tablets are not covered by pharmacare. Not with out government authorization sadly they are also not covered by my insurance =( I am still a few hundred dollars away from complete pharmacare coverage.
Thankfully they are covering approximately 20 percent of my costs right now. which is currently 160 to 240 dollars per month. I do not know exactly how much more I will have to pay before they will cover it 100 percent. I can tell you this as soon as they do, I will ask my doctor for 5 or 6 packs of that migraine medication since it has a 2 year shelf life, and if I need to take one I will have some on hand.
However I will have to jump through some hoops before I can get the dispensation for it. An Yet it is the only one I have used thus far, that actually works and I mean within 45 minutes of taking it I can remove the earplugs & some times I can even tolerate some soft music playing. Often with in 2 hours of taking it, I can turn 1 or 2 of the soft 40 watt lights on. Often within 4 hours of taking it I can actually work on the computer...
Thankfully I do not have to go back to the hospital, but if things get any worse i shall have to. My Dr. made me promise her that I will go back immediately =(( I did not want to promise her that. You all know how much I hate the bloody hospital. But at the same time, I understand why she wanted me to promise her that I would.
It is cause things are a little bit serious right now. If things get worse, it will mean a possible infection in the spinal cord & I will need the advance health care that only the hospital environment can provide because I will rapidly deteriorate to a point that I'll become unable to care for myself. So let's pray it does not get any worse than it currently is.
Well that is a whole heck of a lot of nothing to say..A whole lot of nothing...
