I don’t normally talk too much about my pain. I figure that if I focus on it less, maybe it will have less power over me. As I start figuring my way through the American Pain Foundation (what am I going to do, how am I going to make a difference, etc.) I feel I have to be more willing to talk about my pain.
For those of you who don’t know, short story – I broke my back in 2003. Pain still here. Thanks to morphine and a significantly limited lifestyle, I am not bedridden. Sometimes I do things (that I know I shouldn’t do) and then I pay a price. We paid a professional painter to paint our house. He didn’t do a good job and didn’t finish. Yesterday, I decided to paint the garage door to get it finished. Ouch. BIG OUCH! I only did a couple small panels. After that I took my immediate release morphine (for the acute pain) and then reclined for the rest of the day. I took a Zanaflex (muscle relaxant) at bed time. This morning – still OUCH. Guess today I will do nothing and try to recover.
Sometimes I just get the need to DO something … even if I have to pay a price later.
Interesting side note: I didn’t have any hot flashes during the sleeping hours (as I usually do from going through menopause). Could Zanaflex have a side benefit? I don’t take the muscle relaxant very often, but will try it again to test my hypothesis. Has anyone else had this side benefit?
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