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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.

Date: 2004-12-07 06:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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?

Date: 2004-12-07 09:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2004-12-08 03:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

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