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

[ColtDan]

I was on pain meds for a few years and my doc retired so I got a new doc. This doc took me off of my meds cold turkey because the xray I had done didn't show anything wrong with my back. I live in pain everyday. Sometimes it is unbearable and I end up throwing up. It is very hard to find a doctor who will prescribe these meds to me so I can be free of pain once again. I wasn't a recreational user of this med and I didn't abuse it. Anyone else have this happen to them?

No but that sounds bloody horrible

 

[Pagey]

Have to go see a nose specialist later so he can stick a camera up my nose and check I haven't done any internal damage. Very apprehensive

 

[backroll]

shit mate...i've had a camera up my batty but one up the snoz sounds more grim.
I hope you will be suitably medicating yourself (you may get a benzo injection if ya lucky as well...make sure you say you have someone to pick you up afterwards though).

Bon chance!

 

[Acid4Blood]

CBD by itself is legal in uk;(notpsychoactive ) you can get it in chewing gums and stuff. A mate got me onto it. Quite cheap too

Didn't know that. Will look into the legality in Ireland. Cheers for the heads up! %)

 

[Pagey]

shit mate...i've had a camera up my batty but one up the snoz sounds more grim.
I hope you will be suitably medicating yourself (you may get a benzo injection if ya lucky as well...make sure you say you have someone to pick you up afterwards though).

Bon chance!

Merci! He sees broken noses all the time so I'm hoping he'll know how to do it in a relatively painless manner/give me something...hopefully...will be happy when it's over!

 

[Pagey]

I'm gonna need fucking nose surgery. Apparently something inside my nose has moved which means I'm not going to be able to breathe properly again unless I get surgery, and the exterior has indeed been permanently deformed as well. Fucks sake

 

[backroll]

soz mate

 

[Shambles]

Have been in pain. Variform pain. This particular type of pain probably best sits here though...

Some of y'all probably know I have partial facial paralysis from a viral infection of one of me cranial nerves dating back to summer 2001. Okay, y'all probably don't know all of that but bits of it.

Anyhoo, it came back. Face semi-collapsed again over the weekend and brought insane levels of pain to left side of head (initially in the ear but subsequently mostly around and behind it), left side of face (mainly jaw) and left side of neck (along with various shooting pains up and down left arm and numbness and tingling down up and down left side of chest and back). Found out recently all of this shit comes from herpes. No. Not that kinda herpes. Although I guess it is. Just that I didn't get it from dipping my wick. HSV (herpes simplex virus). Cold sores, chicken pox, shingles... fukker can fuck you all over the shop

The way the fukker hit me this time was as before only different. Face froze, tensed, collapsed... all kindsa stuff... but thankfully not as bad as last time... so far. The semi-paralysed side of my face is significantly more paralysed than it has been for years but seem to have caught the underlying infection earlier than before. Which is good cos it seems this time it's gone to the brain as well as the face

Doc suspects brain infection. Which scares the living shit outta me. But also seems to have been caught early cos meds have (so far and apparently) held off the facial paralysis since I started taking 'em. Dunno how much more damage has been done but is not looking as bad as I initially thought...

Speaking of what I previously thought... one thing I have noticed is that I've been fukkin deranged this week (since Sunday afternoon or so, specifically - very specifically, in fact cos was like a switch got switched (in hindsight, at least)). Have been down and stuff due to other stuff... but was perfectly manageable and within reason. Sunday afternoon I started feeling... just plain fukkin odd. Had acquired two "Superman" pills a few days previous. Decided to take 'em cos wanted to start feeling again and come back and chat and stuff and thought they'd be a good way in. Apparently not cos I just went... strange.

Depression and mood swings I'm more than familiar with but this was just alien to me. I felt unhinged. But so... alien... that I went along with it. Did and said some very weird shit indeed. Anybody who witnessed either (and such people would be very few and far between indeed) will be thinking this is an excuse. Bullshit, in effect. It may be. I don't think it is though. High dose antivirals (backed up with high dose steroids) have been bringing me back to... "me" each day since I started taking 'em a couple days back. Waking up each day fukkin deranged but gradually feeling closer and closer to me as each additional dose kicks in. Backsliding overnight... But starting each day a lil better than the day before...

Today is the closest to "normal" I've felt for a while. Had my CT scan today (to confirm diagnosis) and only felt like that... other me... for the morning. Best day so far since this thing started. Am kinda fukked inna bogstandard drunken bum way but none of that freaky shit seems to be with me. I'm sure it is, but am hardly the best judge of such things at the moment. More tests and docs tomorrow. For now I drink bourbon and celebrate a return to feeling down. Cos am down. Legitimately so. But no longer feel deranged. And I really don't think I will feel deranged tomorrow. A pattern has been developing. Kinda hope it lasts cos I really don't like the idea of brain damage.

And for anybody who happened to be caught up in my lil febrilic meltdown bullshit... no excuses cos I really don't know for sure myself it was that... but I kinda think it was. Either way, feels like I'm me again. Just about. Ain't gonna be dropping me meds early though

 

[brimz]

Sup Shammy long time to fuked to read yer long post atm but how ya doing matey ?

oh yeah pain i was in pain the other day enough pain 2 get an oxy rx n that is one hell of alot of pain i might tell the whole story soon when i got afree 3 hours !!

THey don't give oxy rxs unless you are well i can't even put the pain in words .

 

[Shambles]

Sup Shammy long time to fuked to read yer long post atm but how ya doing matey ?

Read post and find out then

Long post cos kinda hard to explain and didn't explain it very well anyway.

Basically, mixed. Waiting on test results but, subjectively, looking better than I suspected for while there.

As far as pain goes? Meh. Infected nerves hurt. A lot. More than pretty much anything anyone can imagine. Infected brains don't hurt. At all. Physically...

Looking forward to the story, Brimzini. Being you I know it's gonna be a good 'un... well... maybe not actually good but I'm sure you know what I mean

Get well soon, breadbin

 

[brimz]

cheers bro , yeah i knows what you mean .

Good in a fuked way that only brimz can can do yeah that one ?

 

[ColtDan]

Fuckin ell Shambles that sounds horrific, sorry to hear that man

 

[Shambles]

^ Meh. Pretty horrific, yes. Waiting to hear the damage report. Is looking pretty frikkin positive from where I'm sat right now though. Considering how much worse it could've been if I'd not gotten my miserable arse to the doc in timely fashion

And thanks

cheers bro , yeah i knows what you mean .

Good in a fuked way that only brimz can can do yeah that one ?

Meh X2. Am not in competitive mode these days so won't dispute that only the nimblest of Brimziblessed can achieve such states. I'd like to think I could relate. I suspect I mostly could. At times. At this particular time we are but talking at cross-purposes yet remain kindred spirits

 

[brimz]

it 's not a competition Sham , just the circumstances surrounding how the pain happened are well i'll let ya decide when i reveal all

 

[Shambles]

No it's very definitely not a competition, Brimzini. Not ever. Look forward to a tale well told and get well soon

 

[brimz]

You to Bread Bin

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i don't dig the word meh it's just fuking meeeee shit

 

[Shambles]

Well whaddya know? A Good Thing. Got results of tests wot dun (which was not so many cos really is quite very hard indeed to get blood (well, the vein environs thereof, anyway) out of me) and brainbox is working fine... well... as ever and all that. Finished meds yesterday and seem to have been very timely. Face is fair bit wonkier than it was but not horrendously so. Is not the greatest thing in the world but is better than (almost) anything with the words "brain" and "infection" in close proximity so not gonna complain too much.... probably still quite a bit though :D

I really should get back to posting more than sporadic maudlin outbursts of bitchin' 'n' woe. Am a very tired boy this week though. Hopefully less so now meds finished. Hopefully kidneys sort 'emselves out too cos hurt like fuck at the moment. Have done for days but worst today. Side-effect of meds apparently. Not had kidney pain like this since the junky years. Forgot how much the lil fukkers can hurt when of a mood

 

[Josh]

Well, I visited my surgeon again today and he got out his diary and said "how about 7th November for the final op then?" which was a shock because the last one was only a few weeks ago and I haven't even had the proctogram to check for leaks yet. (so the date is dependent on that although I'm 90% certain I'd know if I was leaking from my digestive tract into my abdomen, I sure did last time!). So things are moving fast! Good but also scary.

To stay on topic, the pain from this op will come from the fact that he will create a 50p sized hole in my abdominal wall when he cuts around the stoma. They only sew this up internally leaving the skin open - it's better to pack it and let it heal from the inside out than to sew it up leaving a potential cavity for infection. I'm hoping it'll look a bit like a gunshot wound. When it's healed the scar apparently looks like a second belly button, which I should be able to mess with people's minds with.

And once it's all done, I'll be able to shit (kinda, half digested food and digestive fluids) out of my arse again. For the first time in over a year. I might even be able to fart, although probably not without also shitting myself. Oh well.

 

[dopemegently]

My tooth is hurting again, even through the suboxone, and I'm all out of benzocaine, and can't afford more right now. Trying to get registered with dentist today.

Luckily, I found a couple days worth of amoxycillan, which should help the infection 'till I'm treated. I fucking HATE tooth pain!!

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

Well, I visited my surgeon again today and he got out his diary and said "how about 7th November for the final op then?" which was a shock because the last one was only a few weeks ago and I haven't even had the proctogram to check for leaks yet. (so the date is dependent on that although I'm 90% certain I'd know if I was leaking from my digestive tract into my abdomen, I sure did last time!). So things are moving fast! Good but also scary.

To stay on topic, the pain from this op will come from the fact that he will create a 50p sized hole in my abdominal wall when he cuts around the stoma. They only sew this up internally leaving the skin open - it's better to pack it and let it heal from the inside out than to sew it up leaving a potential cavity for infection. I'm hoping it'll look a bit like a gunshot wound. When it's healed the scar apparently looks like a second belly button, which I should be able to mess with people's minds with.

And once it's all done, I'll be able to shit (kinda, half digested food and digestive fluids) out of my arse again. For the first time in over a year. I might even be able to fart, although probably not without also shitting myself. Oh well.

Really hope it all goes well for you man. I'm only half joking when I say you win this thread. And I appreciate your writing style and your quite amazing stoicism through it all. Crossing my fingers for a totally successful outcome for you.