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The EADD Health, Sickness and Pain Thread - share what ails you here.

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Just went for a cycle ride to buy some fags, was cycling up really step. Then way back is all the down hill. I blacked out fell off my bike, but quickly came to and managed to get up. It wasn't a seizure as I was fine straight away I was just fucking shattered. Walked away from bike for 2 min then realised I had forgotten bike.

Cut my knee, my finger and head. Stings a bit lucky i was wearing a helmet.

Not fun.
 
Joint pain. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it makes even getting out of bed hard, in combination with fucked up ankle tendons that decide to flare up at the same time. Today it's my shoulders, elbows, knees and wrists.

Really should not have this amount of trouble at my age but I think it's a hereditary thing; all three women in my immediate family have joints that half dislocate at random intervals and my sister has particular trouble with her knees despite being 22. Doing a lot of running when I was younger probably didn't help. About the only physical exercise I can do now is swimming. Fortunately I could do that all day.
 
The discomforting sounds of carpal tunnel syndrome slowly marching towards you... why o why didn't IBM make velotype-styled QWERTY buckling spring keyboards?
 
snolly said:
Joint pain. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it makes even getting out of bed hard, in combination with fucked up ankle tendons that decide to flare up at the same time. Today it's my shoulders, elbows, knees and wrists.

Really should not have this amount of trouble at my age but I think it's a hereditary thing; all three women in my immediate family have joints that half dislocate at random intervals and my sister has particular trouble with her knees despite being 22. Doing a lot of running when I was younger probably didn't help. About the only physical exercise I can do now is swimming. Fortunately I could do that all day.
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That is horribly similar to my youth and the bouts of random pain-bursts. I did quite a bit of running when I was younger, and that's part of why my knees are almost constantly fucked. And everyone in my family have bad knees :?
Some days I'm alright: Just have a joint or two or my lumbar back giving me shit, then there are days where it feels like every single pain receptor is being tappity-tapped for the entire day.
All joints are painful, my muscles feel like they've been pulled or strained or just been through a triathlon and it just doesn't let up.

I've found out that adding effervescent or the dissolve in the mouth Aspirin tablets to my Codeine doses are better (and quite obviously faster) than Ibuprofen is.
And they're really the best thing I can have (+Codeine) when I get those waking-up-with-leg-locked-in-place-from-pain episodes.
 
Well I'm home. Came home Tuesday night actually. But the pain is actually worse now, also have a new kind of pain up my arse, a bit like when you fall on it and bruise your coccyx. I think it's because at home you have to move about more, need to sort out my own food and drink, and my fluid output isn't being monitored so I actually have to get up to use the toilet rather than just going in a cardboard funnel heh.

Was a bit worried about the new pain but some posts on specialist forums for this surgery suggest its normal. Also been to my GP today and she was happy with my obs etc, would be more obvious symptoms if there was an infection anywhere. Got some Tramadol, was on my repeat prescription anyway but I try to avoid taking it, since it's a shitty drug. Doesn't seem to have had any effect yet though, although its sorted out all the other pains and soreness from around my abdomen. Just not this arse pain, making it really difficult to sit comfortably, or even sleep, which was the one thing I was looking forward to most about being home - I never sleep in hospitals.
 
I'm at the end of my tether, whatever a tether is. I am suffering.

I was diagnosed with prostate cancer about 18 months ago. I had no symptoms, no pain, but as soon as I was diagnosed I got misplaced sympathy. I wasn't suffering, but people insisted I was. People told me I looked well "considering" or worse that I looked ill, when I had no pain or symptoms.

Now I've had my op. Nominally, my dangerous cancer has gone (we won't talk about the cancer I am left with). 3 months have passed since my op. And in people's minds, that makes me cured, what's the fucking problem SHM?

You don't understand. Nobody understands. The three months since my op has been the most terrible and painful three months of my life. I scream in agony going for a shit 2-3 times a day. The op has destroyed parts of my insides, or at least put them in an order my body doesn't recognize. I am in more pain than ever and live on codeine. I cry in pain. I scream in pain. And it's as if that part of me is hidden to the rest of the world. No sympathy anymore, not even misplaced. Get a grip SHM.

You have no idea world. There is enough pain here to kill me.

Fucking ouch.
 
SHM, you strike me as the kinda guy who isn't interested in platitudes from random internet druggies. With this in mind, I'll just say that I think your situation sounds hellish and I genuinely do hope that you can get the pain relief you so clearly need.
 
That is total shite SHM, I know how you hate sympathy but that sounds awful.

Codeine doesn't really cut it for me, different pain I know but I got on well with the MST slow release.

What do the docs say ? any chance it will improve or are they being typically vague?

I'm back to the hospital on Monday to see if they think they need to re-break my leg to get it straight, i'm not sure what I want to do.

On the one hand I can see it's far from right and is already causing me other problems with my back etc, but then again it's settled down and can get about and I'm off the MST for the moment just taking 30/500s as and when to take the edge off.

Not sure I can face another 12 weeks in a wheelchair and on crutches and I'm worried about work, I'll report back on Monday.

.......still feeling sorry for SHM:)
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
The three months since my op has been the most terrible and painful three months of my life. I scream in agony going for a shit 2-3 times a day. The op has destroyed parts of my insides, or at least put them in an order my body doesn't recognize. I am in more pain than ever and live on codeine. I cry in pain. I scream in pain. And it's as if that part of me is hidden to the rest of the world. No sympathy anymore, not even misplaced. Get a grip SHM.
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Is this normal and expected? Have you found any forums with people on who've had the same procedure? It sounds extreme for 3 months on, but I know nothing about the procedure <3

Allein said:
I'm back to the hospital on Monday to see if they think they need to re-break my leg to get it straight, i'm not sure what I want to do.
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Someone close to me had their legs smashed up and though the surgeons did a good job with plates & pins their legs have been misaligned for the last 15 years and its only now the problems are starting to show.

I say get it straight if you can - it's the best thing for your skeleton long term - you can avoid deterioration and suffering that you may not even be aware of till 20 years down the line. I know going back through it all is an unenviable prospect but I think its worth it.
 
I already had problems with misaligned hips due to collapsed arches in my feet ( to many hours pounding warehouse floors ) and the back pain I'm getting is similar.

I destroyed the knee on the affected leg and now when it bends it outwards as well as backwards, I'll need a new knee at some stage. The tibia was badly broken in 2 places, as well as the total annihilation of the bit in the knee. I'm not sure what they will suggest, I'd rather have the whole lot sorted at once and might have to relent and go private through work if the NHS can't do a better job of it.

My other knee was already fekered and is now showing signs of the strain, I'm hoping I've got a good few years yet to go so I'd don't want to be struggling to walk and on pain killers all the time, I was getting in deeper and deeper with the MST.
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
You have no idea world. There is enough pain here to kill me.
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We are ignorant, myopic fuckwits. It's a shame because we're so promising in many other respects, but this ignorant, myopic fuckwit thing we've got going on really needs to be addressed. Maybe I should start a thread.
 
My neck is giving me gyp and my upper and lower back are nipping me. Just like every day, really, but thought I'd post about it today. AH7921 may help. And some physical activity, going to clean up my bedroom.
 
I just fucking fainted, all my muscles were locked, I couldn't move, I couldn't see, next thing I know there's a searing agonising pain in my face.
Looks like I fainted and fell on my face and broke my fucking nose. Also got a few bruises all around my face. Mostly a nose twice its normal size and completely purple and it's been gushing blood for almost two hours.
Apparently I have to wait a bit before going to the hospital cuz some cases can fix themselves on their own. But in the meantime this is fucking agonising and combined with the scare of fainting like that I'm, yeah, panicking a bit.
Can't believe that fucking happened. My whole face is fucking burning.
 
Tooth ache.It just came out of nowhere, a blinding pain. The dentist can't see me till monday, and the painkillers do nothing but take the edge off.
I have on order benzocaine; I'm planning to innect it into my gum.
 
lurching said:
Seizure? Sounds like it.
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I'm hoping vagal syncope. But every single time I try to move now I faint again. And I should go to the fucking ER except I'm on a big stim comedown which is making everything a billion times worse and I just do not want to go to the fucking hospital.
Just fuck.
 
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