roughbarked said:
mollwollfumble said:
roughbarked said:
These pain levels. What are they, what type of pain,.. caused by?
I’m keeping a pain diary. Started diary 25th April. I didn’t know the cause of the pain until last Friday, bulging lumbar disk pressing on sciatic nerve. Slowly getting worse, this morning for the first time the numbness in my toes has climbed up past my ankle to the lower outside calf.
Any advice on whether to operate or not to operate?
Chronic pain 1/10 is par for the course. Chronic pain 3/10 gets intolerable. Stabbing pain 6/10 is common, going up to 8/10, which more an annoyance (as i have to grab the walls) than intolerable.
Other sources of pain are arthritis, tendonitis, sore coccyx, and right knee.
Paracetamol was effective for 2 hours when i first started it, but now has no effect at all. Effect of ibuprofen and aspirin both also approaching zero.
Trying chocolate today as a painkiller. One piece per hour.
Have you talked to a Physotherapist? They are very good at their work. The first thing you will be told by a physio is to rest it and try to reduce the inflammation. Physiotherapists won’t want to inflame things more. mostly you will be shown specific exercises and treatment with heat or cold to alleviate and reduce inflammation.
There are times when I need to take a 30mg codeine but I restrict the use of these to only when absolutely necessary. I actually have eight previously fractured and now arthritic vertebrae.
I don’t need chocolate and often refuse it when offered.
For much of my arthritic pain in wrists fingers and knees, I use a pain relief cream containing Cpsicum fruit oleoresin 12mg/g among other ingredients as the main ingredient. Use requires caution due to the more than 24 hours of relief that each application can give. Hands should be washed well after application as capsicum can be quuite warm, if you wipe it on sensitive places.
I have been told today that i can’t escape three months of bloody physiotyerapy. Or as i call it, three months of destructive torture.
The first thing the physio will tell me is not to sit, drive, or lift anything. Triply bad advice in my case. Lifting a stool around carrying it into the city on public transport, was a lifesaver today.
If you know how to find a good physio please please please let me know.
> I’d suggest that the Osteomol 665 paracetamol is the only paracetamol dose for people with back pain. The 500mg dose just doesn’t cut it.
All painkillers lose effectiveness with time. I stopped an 8 painkiller a day regimen for 3 days now and have had significantly less pain without them. Will try the Osteomol 665. Thanks for the tip.
Today’s test has shown that chocolate doesn’t work as an anti-depressant – there are withdrawal effects. But it may still be effective as a painkiller, pain today was less than yesterday, and much less than when i was on panadol. Chocolate is actually my least favourite food, which is why i feel safe testing it. I’ll try it again tomorrow. Then stop.
> For much of my arthritic pain in wrists fingers and knees, I use a pain relief cream containing Capsicum fruit oleoresin 12mg/g among other ingredients as the main ingredient.
Where can i get it? Please. I tried a product that was supposed to be a warming cream, but it wouldn’t warm anything, didn’t even contain capsicain. I’m getting to the point of making my own, and would much prefer a consistent product. Handwashing of course, yes.
> There are times when I need to take a 30mg codeine
Does that still exist? I heard a rumour last week that it does, but thought that was just legacy medicine bought 20 or more years ago.
> I actually have eight previously fractured and now arthritic vertebrae.
Yoewch.
