What I mean by that is does anyone here ever have a day that they feel pretty good and are in less pain? Like a rollercoaster one day or a few days in so much pain that you are home bound then maybe a day where you feel pretty decent?
yeppers and probably every one else here......
Ok so i'm not abnormal, well not in the good days bad days thing anyway lol.
Now tell me how do you know how far is to far? I always mess up and take it to far I guess because I end up in horrible pain for days after.
Like yesterday I was feeling pretty decent so I went grocery shopping and to walmart with the hubby. Today I am miserable and the pain meds are just taking enough of the edge off, but the pain is still horrible.
I know I know I am a pain sometimes and ask to many dumb questions sorry
I bet several on here are in the same boat. We feel better one day so we go do something and pay for it the next day. I know I do plus there are times we do things one day but only after we weight how much it is going to hurt us the next day. But I know for me there is never a day without pain, not since I was injuried back in 2005 and still fighting WC over it
Same here I never have a day without any pain at all, but there are some days that the pain is light enough that I can go and do
. Now I guess I just need to learn what is to much huh.
I have to say I cringe everytime I hear that someone has been dealing with WC for a year or two or three etc. It just makes me sick that they can be the way they are. You would think they would want to get us better asap, and to do that we need test and treatment. Denying it only makes us worse but they don't seem to realize that.
Same here ...good and bad. It takes time to kno whow much/little you can actually do. I have Fibro on top of the injuries so stress will also knock me out of the ball park after doing nothing. I guess we have all learned to live with it as depressing and sad as it can be you learn to make the bes t of what you have. Two, three even five years is not unheard of here. Best of luck
I think we are all the same,,,, good days and bad days...yesterday I felt somwhat good, even tho I am scheduled for a 3 level cervical fusion Sep 8. Knowing i will be down for a while I went out and had a friend with me to help and we cut and trimmed about 6 trees with my small chain saw...after cutting them had to drag them down the yard (hill) to the street. I hope city will pick them all up. But I am paying for over doing it yesterday. Last night I could hardly walk I could of used a cane but refuse to, The pain was terrible I ended up takeing extra percocets and muscle relaxers, and today i am a little better, so i definately over done it, and still today doubleing up on my meds..Hope tomorrow is better for me and all of you on here.
Wow and here when this first all started with me I was thinking I would only be out for a week ot two tops. I didn't realize how serious a back injury could be. The biggest kicker for me was that I hadn't worked in 10 years prior to this job because I was at home raising kids (we couldn't afford day care). They were all in school and I was finally able to get out and help with all the bills that were smothering us then this happens. Now we are back to where we were before I was working and it sucks.
My best friend has fybro and seeing how she is when the pain hits I feel for I know it must be aweful
. Have they found any med at all that helps even if just a little?
I think we are all the same,,,, good days and bad days...yesterday I felt somwhat good, even tho I am scheduled for a 3 level cervical fusion Sep 8. Knowing i will be down for a while I went out and had a friend with me to help and we cut and trimmed about 6 trees with my small chain saw...after cutting them had to drag them down the yard (hill) to the street. I hope city will pick them all up. But I am paying for over doing it yesterday. Last night I could hardly walk I could of used a cane but refuse to, The pain was terrible I ended up takeing extra percocets and muscle relaxers, and today i am a little better, so i definately over done it, and still today doubleing up on my meds..Hope tomorrow is better for me and all of you on here.
Oh wow not sure I would be brave enough to attempt that much work. Then again with my kids making messes and dirty clothes it is a job to get it all done on a good day lol. I have to admit the other day I was feeling the best I had felt in a long time, so I took down pictures and washed walls, cleaned the fridge and washed all the bedding on everyones bed. I was in bed for three days after that. I only got up to go to the restroom it was horrible.
I was given percocets I took them for a couple days and that was it. The rest sit in a lock box up in my closet. It is weird because from everything I read it says that they are stronger than lortab but yet lortab does more for me. I guess it is different for everybody. Kind of how flexeril doesn't do anything but make me tired but yet my sister swears by them.
I sit at a constant 9-10 on the pain scale on a daily basis. I have no insurance, and most of my health problems aren't WC related, except for 2. One finished in 2004, the other I am collecting my impairment on, but getting ready to take to a benefit review hearing if and when I get my completed file from my attorney.
Regardless of my pain levels, I push myself everyday. I just spent three days at another house that my boyfriend inherited, holding an estate sale. It was a decent profit, but still have too much left, and didn't have everything out that was left. Haven't even touched the garage yet. So there are more sales in my future. I soaked in a hot tub all three nights after returning, and this afternoon, after a very short nap, awoke to the tips of three fingers on my left hand (both WC injuries have been to my right hand, wrist and arm) being totally numb. Still numb 3 hours later. Will have to learn to deal with it, as there isn't a Dr in this town that will see me without insurance, and no readily available form of income (other than the measly impairment check I get each week, and that ends on September 30th).
We all have to learn to adjust what we do, and how much we can push ourselves. Here is a link that you might want to read in regards to just that.
http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/naviga...Theory.pdf
Angel ^j^