Brown Plastic

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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?

[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.

[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.

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.

[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.