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Oct. 5th, 2003 12:47 amI slept in...which was one of the goals for this weekend. I'm amazed at the amount of sleep I seem to require lately. I'm going for seven hours a night during the week and that doesn't feel like enough, but on weekends I end up going for closer to fifteen. (Usually 10-12 then get up, then nap for a couple of hours later on.)
Most of my awake time today was spent on my back, because that's the only way I could get some relief from the shoulder pain. I'm hoping it's a weather changing thing and whatever is irritating it will be gone soon. If it's not, I'll have to go back to the doctor and let her try to figure out what to do next, since we did PT, and the MRI found nothing that makes sense to treat now. The PT suggested it might be scoliosis related but (There's evidence of early stage degenerative disk disease, but nothing that warrants treatment right now, since the treatments for it are pretty invasive and involved. And the disk disease as it appears to be on the MRI isn't severe enough to cause this kind of pain.) I tried to knock it back a bit with some tylenol, which took the edge of it off, but it's also tight enough that at this point it's likely to keep me awake, but I can't even consider taking anything stronger until the tylenol wears off. I did however get the drug situation taken care of. The doctor apologized for missing the ibuprofen allergy in my chart and prescribing the wrong drug. Even though she doesn't like to prescribe Ultram "because it's so like a narcotic" [1] I may also get a muscle relaxant prescription, which I've never taken before. I sort of wonder if that will do a better job at relieving the pain. Fortunately it's most severe at night which means that most of the time my bigger concern is deciding I'm in enough pain to take the strong medicine early enough that I don't have trouble getting up in the morning, or end up hung over, rather than knocking the pain out during the day. During the day I usually pop a large dose of tylenol to take the edge off, until I can go home. What would really be so nice right now is a massage to at least break the knots up a little bit.
If I still feel like this tomorrow, I'm going to do a couple of mini-errands...get cat litter, pick up a birthday card for my nephew, stuff like that.
For now I'm going to enjoy a really good cup of tea-couldn't tell you why this one tastes so good, it's the same tea I always make, and a rerun of Ellen.
[1] It's also not a formulary drug at my HMO, which means they want to avoid prescribing it as much as possible. Unfortunately I have allergies which preclude me from taking anything they would normally prescribe. I have no objections to changing drugs as long as it's not something that I'm allergic to.
Most of my awake time today was spent on my back, because that's the only way I could get some relief from the shoulder pain. I'm hoping it's a weather changing thing and whatever is irritating it will be gone soon. If it's not, I'll have to go back to the doctor and let her try to figure out what to do next, since we did PT, and the MRI found nothing that makes sense to treat now. The PT suggested it might be scoliosis related but (There's evidence of early stage degenerative disk disease, but nothing that warrants treatment right now, since the treatments for it are pretty invasive and involved. And the disk disease as it appears to be on the MRI isn't severe enough to cause this kind of pain.) I tried to knock it back a bit with some tylenol, which took the edge of it off, but it's also tight enough that at this point it's likely to keep me awake, but I can't even consider taking anything stronger until the tylenol wears off. I did however get the drug situation taken care of. The doctor apologized for missing the ibuprofen allergy in my chart and prescribing the wrong drug. Even though she doesn't like to prescribe Ultram "because it's so like a narcotic" [1] I may also get a muscle relaxant prescription, which I've never taken before. I sort of wonder if that will do a better job at relieving the pain. Fortunately it's most severe at night which means that most of the time my bigger concern is deciding I'm in enough pain to take the strong medicine early enough that I don't have trouble getting up in the morning, or end up hung over, rather than knocking the pain out during the day. During the day I usually pop a large dose of tylenol to take the edge off, until I can go home. What would really be so nice right now is a massage to at least break the knots up a little bit.
If I still feel like this tomorrow, I'm going to do a couple of mini-errands...get cat litter, pick up a birthday card for my nephew, stuff like that.
For now I'm going to enjoy a really good cup of tea-couldn't tell you why this one tastes so good, it's the same tea I always make, and a rerun of Ellen.
[1] It's also not a formulary drug at my HMO, which means they want to avoid prescribing it as much as possible. Unfortunately I have allergies which preclude me from taking anything they would normally prescribe. I have no objections to changing drugs as long as it's not something that I'm allergic to.
