3/1/2011
Rather than listening to the radio, I have played my phone in the auxiliary mode of my car. I don’t know what happened, but now I have no sound. The only way I do, is by using headphones!! It’s a little past 3 am but seeing as I haven’t posted a blog in a few weeks, I wanted to write something.
This past week has been a blur, literally. My pain started 2/19 at 6:30 am and has not lifted much, unless I take either vicoden or gabapentin (neurontin). Sunday, I was in so much pain that I bought a new cane to walk around the lab. Co-workers were asking why I am using a cane and I just said my foot hurts real bad. I cannot stand to stand on it. So by 22:30, I had enough as things were very busy and I was running back and forth so many times it wasn’t funny. Soon as I came home, I took 1800 mg of neurontin. Miraculously, I woke up because my cousin Billy came up the stairs like an elephant and was screaming (aka talking) to my mother who is nearly deaf. This was about 11 am. I was supposed to have this day off because it was a holiday (President’s Day) but we had a pt consented and wanted baseline. Fucking great. So after I had a phone session with my Bozo therapist, I called the dialysis unit and was told that the pt was d/c. YAY for me. I didn’t have to go to work today! I can finally rest, so I took another 1800 mg of neurontin. By 2 pm I was goofy and partially sedated. I played my games on Facebook, much as what I am doing now. I am tired but cannot sleep. I was going to read some of John Grisham’s book, The appeal but that book had a way of stimulating my brain because I want to know what is going to happen next.
So in my week of pain, I find that my neurologist is on vacation . It was school vacation week. Lovely. So alligators are nipping at my toes every night and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So later that day (Monday) I took 2700 mg of neurontin to shut down this pain. I awoke Tuesday in a groggy state. Not surprising and boy did I need Starbucks!! I had to work on a database that I have been neglecting and I had a late appt with Bates so I hung out for 3 hours updating the inventory of this database. Working with excel always makes me tired. I had 37 pages to change the database so it took all that time to work on it while I drank my mocha and tried to clear my foggy brain. The next day I saw my psych doc, and I didn’t tell her I took nearly 7 gms of neurontin. So I told her about the pain and my father and all that has gone in since I last saw her and she said see you in a month. Fine I said. Course I email her most of the time anyways giving her updates at least once a week if I feel up to it.
The last 3 days of the week were horrible. Pain returned once I stopped taking the large dose of neurontin. And my bones ached so much I thought I should see my foot doc.
3/7/11
I have seen my neuro last week. She wants me try Lyrica (pregabalin) to see if it works better than the neurontin and won’t make me as sedated. I took the first dose today while at work and didn’t make me sleepy. I took my meds a little while ago so am kind of sleepy now but wanted to finish this off before going to sleep.
I’m still in pain and right now the bones in my foot are aching so I will need to take vicoden again to quiet it down. Lately that seems to be the only thing that takes the edge off. I have been taking the ketoprofen but other than keeping my hands limber, it’s not doing much else. My left thigh has been giving me grief as well as my saddle area. So I am confused as to which disc is causing me problems. I need to call my neuro tomorrow as she said there has been problems with email lately. I sincerely hope that spending $50 on this new med is worth it. I just don’t want to waste all this money like I did with the lamictal just to find out it ain’t going to do squat!
I got a meeting with Bozo tomorrow so I need to get some shut eye.
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