smallholdingsister's strivings

Brodiebobs

Sounds awful. Hope you manage to get some rest, I had it whilst pregnant and pain worse than labour!

smallholdingsister

Thanks guys. Not so bad today as I took ibuprofen and paracetamol before getting out of bed.

smallholdingsister

Still here. Still hurts.

apple_muncher

Does anything help it hurt less?

Karmacat

sorry to hear it, SHS.

Good question from apple.

I ended up searching about tramadol. Wiki calls it an opioid? For moderate pain? Anything that needs an opioid in this country qualifies as **severe** pain in my book, they don't hand that out for nothing.

Coping ... hot/warm baths, visualisations, microwave heat bags, freezer cold bags, very spicy food (some research says), even mindfulness. I know it must seem like a load of old cobblers when its this bad, but the modern version started in a pain clinic, remember, and the first group included an amputee suffering from severe phantom limb pain.

I hate to think of you being in this much pain, SHS, I'm just casting about trying to think of anything that can help even 1% ....

Thinking of you xxx

smallholdingsister

God bless both of you. It comes through the Tramadol even. I had a word with a pharmacist today who said diazepam was my next port of call but I'd have to get it from the doc.
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I have been managing at work but terrible today. Maybe I need to move more on days off. Couch to tk is shelved which is frustrating. I have a heat pack on.

smallholdingsister

On the up side 34 days sober and my fab new boss says I have made a huge difference to the students in a short time, which is pretty amazing to say.

muddywhitechicken

That is amazing - well done you :T:T:T
Sorry to hear that you are still in a lot of pain

smallholdingsister

Thanks MWC.

Been to drop off some stuff at the recycle shop and procured a new looking Betty Barclay bag, a new with tags scarf and a new with tags M and S necklace for £3.10.

Still poddling on with tutoring and DH is still doing 1.2 of a teaching timetable which is a good earner.

eta it had gone quiet on the bnb front but we just got a booking for the autumn!

EatingTheElephant

Fantastic to have such a positive comment at work

Do you have any good sports injuries people near you that might be able to help? You must be so fed up and exhausted with the pain