You seen anybody about it yet odeon? Not that it will make it any less painful, but you have my sympathies on that. I know too well what its like. I'm ok...ish, during the day. Well..no...am I sodding hell, but I can force myself to bear it, as long as I don't have to go on long walks, into town etc. At night is the worst, I need to stick a couple of pillows between my knees to serve as padding.
Which reminds me, I need to go see my own doc tomorrow, which means waking up at about 8am, else I'll run out of oxy on sunday, which would be a right cunt, especially as almost no pharmacies are open to get OTC pain meds (cough syrups actually, the only OTC opioids sold AS analgesics are in combination with paracetamol, and at such a low dose per unit I consider it borderline subclinical, even in somebody who has never used painkillers before, having no tolerance whatsoever. But the cough syrups are a bit of an OTC anachronism I suspect, although wrongly so, at least that leaves something that can be done without having to go, begging bowl in hand to a dr)
I hate that whole royal clusterfuck of inconvenience. I like my regular 'personal' GP. He knows what he is doing, and won't fuck me over, and he is one that I can actually talk to , while trying to figure out the best way to deal with anything needing sorting, but there is another I sometimes have to see, and I feel really uncomfortable around her,no matter why I'm there. Not to mention would possibly have killed me, had I been another patient that didn't have a good working knowledge of medicine. Tried rx'ing me co-amoxiclav once, immediately after being told of a possible anaphylactic reaction to penicillins and (untested...staying that way!) other beta-lactam antibiotics.
Thats the sort of basic error that should be getting stamped on, HARD, in med school, before anybody gets killed over it happening to an actual patient.
And another one, who I REALLY cannot fucking stand, a real bitch TBH. Went ages back, she was the old witch with appointments left, so go figure.
At the time, I was on painkillers, clonidine, two benzos and chlormethiazole. Wasn't on oxy at the time, but a different one. I'd been on them long enough to make damn sure suddenly stopping would have been dangerous. Opioid withdrawal won't kill a healthy person, it has happened, but in the prison population that I'm aware of, where a guy coming off something or other was left to starve to death, being unable to eat, but benzos/chlormethiazole, after long enough, that could certainly kill someone, or leave them brain damaged. I know of someone in the US, for instance who stroked out after suddenly being cut off 'cold turkey', and is pretty lucky to have survived after being abruptly cut off a huge fucking dose of clonazepam without any attempt to taper him.
He got left in a wheelchair for a while AFAIK.
As soon as this idiot asked what I did for a living, and found out I had no work, she told me I would be 'happier if all these meds are stopped'. I wonder if being spesh had anything to do with that. Lucky for me, again, it was my own common sense not to be taking the benzos/heminevrin daily that saved my arse. Still went through hell getting left without the rest of my meds for the rest of the day, and night. My regular doc was fuming when I told him.
