Brown Plastic

[eggwards]

My kitchen counter has been turned into a pharmacy.

I'm not really thrilled with this. The number of prescription drugs that I'm taking continues to rise, and while I guess it's comforting to know I'm just one of millions of Americans also taking prescribed drugs (as opposed to the others), I feel it's a big switch from the stubborn, never take cold medicine me. Now I'll let my doc give me anything.

Still, some of this, the three new prescriptions I got yesterday for the back are temporary, but my regular five (yes, five that work on appetite, blood sugar, cholesterol, and blood pressure) are quite enough to keep up with. So you see that there's quite a collection of little brown bottles on my counter.

Of course of the last two weeks there's also a collection of other things, muscle relaxants, aspirin, Aleve, Flexal, Icy hot, a heated wrap. Suddenly my apartment seems more like a old age home.

Hopefully it's on the downside now, with the anti-inflammatory and the soon to be know results from the quickly done, and extremely painful MRI yesterday. It was great being thrown on a flat carriage, into the open MRI, and told not to move for an hour as the scan was done, as my back slowly clenched up and spasamed.


I know, you're all tired about hearing about my back, but what yells loudest gets the most attention, and right now, there's still plenty of attention that the back's getting, and more money is going to it than all of my Christmas list this year, so I guess that's my gift to myself.

Ho Ho Ho.

Still, isn't there better ways? Sometimes another pill just seems wrong.

Comments

[jrjarrett.livejournal.com]

I know your pain. My lower back gets sore all the time, and on occaision when I have moved wrong, I pop my sacroilliac out of place. I also herniated two discs in my neck.

Have you throught of going to a chiropractor?

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Not sure what they could do about a pinched nerve, but yeah, I've thought about it. I guess I've thought of chiropractors as not exactly real docs...that there was something more to acupuncture or herbalists. Not sure I trust them.

[jrjarrett.livejournal.com]

Well, it depends on what's causing the pinching. If you've moved "wrong" and popped a joint out of place, then maybe the chiropractor can "pop" it back where it should be and relieve the pressure on the nerve.

It worked for me. YMMV. IANAL.

[gullinbursti.livejournal.com]

I felt very vindicated when I was wheeling a lady up to OB one time when I was working admissions in a hospital, and somehow we got on the topic of back injuries (I have a disc that hovers on the edge of being herniated.) She told me "I've had a herniated disc and I've had two kids before this one, and I'll take the childbirth anytime." \

I decided then that if it was worse than squeezing out an baby, I wasn't such a wuss after all.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

I'll have to take her word on that. You think childbirth would be all about relaxation, muscle control, you know, the reverse of learning how to bottom (I guess since I'm still not so well versed in bottoming I still think it's a bit of a struggle).

[jeffdintexas.livejournal.com]

and don't forget the multitude of things to take to counteract whatever side effects all those meds may cause... like antiacid to combat what those anti inflamatories do to your stomache LOL

[left-turn-only.livejournal.com]

i'm sorry to hear about your back.

good luck, when it gets a little better and you are back in town, let me know and i'll give you a back massage.

my table is usually in the back seat of car.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

If I only knew that the table was around...

I'll have to take you up on that sometime!

Suddenly my apartment seems more like a old age home.

[cristalskye.livejournal.com]

If you were in an 'old age home', your drugs would be locked up and dispensed to you.

On the bright side, when mattycub came to visit you, there'd be lots of grey haired men for his to cruise.

Re: Suddenly my apartment seems more like a old age home.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

Ahh, yes the nursemaid is what I'm missing here at my home. Have to work on that.

It's hard to get Matty away from the homes on the weekends when you want to go to the movies...

[polomex.livejournal.com]

With Nick's three ruptured and two herniated discs, thyroid problems, and hyperimmunity, there are no less than a dozen "little brown bottles" sitting on our counter. And he hasn't even filled out all his prescriptions.

But to be honest, I'd rather he take another pill than have to worry about what kind of pain he's in.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

That I can understand. I just wonder if he's tried other things like surgery or gone to a chiropractor?

Still, it gets to be much, and you wonder what each drug does to each of the other ones your downing...

[polomex.livejournal.com]

Surgery is sort of an option, but not one he likes. Because his discs are a degenerative problem, if he went in for surgery now, he would just have to continue going back for surgery every year or every couple of years, which he doesn't like the idea of. The doctor gave him two options, either go in for several "small" surgeries over a period of time, or hold out and bear the pain until he has to go in for one all-in-one "large" surgery.

Chiropracters do nothing for him. They have bended him every which way, and it does very little to help.

And trust me, he never takes a new med without checking how it interacts with the list of others that he is taking.