^^^ Thank you Mafioso!
This is true. I have been putting myself through the exercise for a almost two years now and it helps a lot.
I rely on my dance (ballet, tap, jazz) background to help me to keep moving and improve movement.
I'm now just getting to the point where I don't have to whimper through it. I was at the point where I could not move also.
I was able to heal some internal injuries through meditation too.
I would not have been able to do either one of those things without the 75 mg MS Contin daily. That is not a high dosage though.
I have been able to keep the same dosage for ten years now. I think the reason I started needing/ using a few extra pain pills each month is because of the extra pain the exercise caused. I am getting to a point where the pain is going down on some days though.
I have large spikes back into severe pain but I am having times of getting down to a 4 on the pain scale and feel like myself again!
Diet is also so important. I lov healthy foods and always have so eating healthy is natural for me. Even if you don't like eating healthy, you will when you get used to it and will get sick at the very thought of junk food.
I hope you are doing alright today Trev26! Get through those anti depressant horror taper off and withdrawal. It will go away.
It just takes some time. I would keep taking your Roxi's and stay stable on those for pain control. Then before the surgery, talk to them about needing to be on a pain management dosage. A therapeutic dosage is extremely helpful. You need to be able to move in order to even start exercising. Bath soaks, hot shower steams really loosen things up and relieve pain also. Epsom salt bath soaks are wonderful! Aromatherapy helps me a lot too. Pamper yourself through this.
Sending you lots of love and support!
Im not disagreeing with you as far as exercise improving pain, but at the current moment i am unable to move without some sort of pain medication. the roxies help for now, but I'm also trying not to increase the dose because i don't want to break one habit and have to deal with another. Ive been doing PT up until my surgery but after every session, i am in twice the pain when i get home so thats when the pain meds come in handy
I picked up some ms contins awhile ago from my dealer and they didn't really do it for me. So far the roxy is the best pain meds that control my pain. I still plan to address the pain advocates thing when the opportunity presents itself, and ill let the professionals decide what medicine is most suitable for my pain. The ultimate goal of course would to not be on any medication in hopes the surgery helps me get back to a semi pain free life.
Im not going to lie, my diet isn't the greatest, but i blame that on the marijuana lol. It is hard to eat healthy when you have the munchies. I just eat junk food, but i rarely touch sweets or deserts.
Im currently going on day 4 of NO antidepressants at all, but it has been very rough. I started tapering about 2 weeks ago and then i finally said fuck it, I'm just going to get this over with and go cold turkey. It has been extremely tough with some withdrawals including insomnia, waking up covered in sweat, throwing up like 4 times a day from the constant nausea, and not to mention the mental agony day in and day out. This has been some of the hardest withdrawals I've had to deal with it, and i went through benzo withdrawals in 2016 which ended in 4 seizures.
Ive been taking my valium for the last week on a daily basis which has really helped a lot. The only good thing about this ordeal is if I'm able to get past the antidepressants bs, than hopefully my pain will be way more manageable but thats a big IF...
anyways, i appreciate you guys helping me get through this and i will keep you all updated about my progress.
PS, mafioso- i will get around to watching the video as it looks very inspiring at some point, and you made some good points about the mind altering drugs so i think ill stay away from those for awhile as well.
Thanks for all your advise and positive thoughts guys! Have a good day everyone.