It's been ... a day.

[sraun]

So, last night was thunder storms. Precious doesn't deal well with those - she climbs. And jumps off the bed, and wants back up, and has to be picked up, and climbs (she tries to get all the way to the top of the headboard), and has to be taken down and petted and reassured, and then she jumps down again, and the whole cycle repeats. Well, about 3AM I'm picking her up, and I feel a wrench in my lower back.

This is not good.

30-60 minutes later, I ask iraunink to go get me some hydrocodone - my doctor wrote me a prescription to keep a small number on hand, just in case. With that, I got some sleep. The alarm went off at 5AM for me to go to work - I got up, used the furniture and walls to get something approximating vertical, and then ended up on the floor on my hands and knees about half-way to the bathroom - on the 1-10 scale, I'd call it about a 7, maybe an 8. Not good. I called in to work and told them I wasn't going to make it in. Got back in bed, got ibuprofen and slept for a while. Another hydrocodone about 9AM, more ibuprofen about 10AM, I was finally able to stand and stay standing about 11 or 11:30. I've had another two hydrocodone (just had one), and ibuprofen with each. My back is now to the point where, with a cane, I can get vertical, and after about 30-60 seconds I can hold myself vertical and not need the cane. It still hurts down there.

I think it's time for dinner and bed, to see if I can make it to work in the morning - I'm expecting to be able to. But I'm going to take meds up with me when I go to bed.

Comments

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Ow. I will never understand how anyone can take hydrocodone for more than a few hours' worth (for me, the side effects are almost worse than the pain from shoulder surgery [wry g]). I hope you can get off of it soon.

[sraun]

I have no bad side effects from hydrocodone - at least, none that I've recognized. It knocks a significant chunk of pain away - it took it from about a 7 or 8 to about a 4. Then I could sleep. Of course, part of this may be that I have a high pain tolerance, and some of it may be that I'm not actually taking enough of it. But I can sleep, and that's what counts.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Yes, it does. For me, the side effects (it slows every bodily system I have, not just the obvious ones, down to a stop and it takes weeks for some of those systems to get back to normal) rebound, and I find myself worse off for far longer than the temporary positive effects of the stuff lasted.

Still, do what works. I won't argue with you that the stuff kills pain.