The Pain - How do you do it?

[SawyerAshton]

First, I know that many of you are FAR sicker than I am. I cannot imagine your daily struggles.

My current worry is the pain. My pain has been steadily increasing the past few weeks to the point that if I eat anything, I have to take pain medication.

My doc prescribed Lortab 10 (which I find are a bit strong). I don't like the way they make me feel if I take a whole one, so I take a half and then a couple hours later have to take the other half.

This has been working great for managing the pain. I don't need to take it everyday, just on days that I eat and usually starting in the afternoon.

I'm a teacher and have been off of work for the past couple of weeks. I'm scared to go back to work! How on earth do you all manage pain? I won't be able to take these meds at work. Although, I don't eat at work either, so this may not be necessary.

The other benefit from being on the pain meds is that they seem to be controlling my D. They are working for better than the Lomotil ever did.

Sorry just frustrated and scared. I should be getting results from my pillcam on Wed, so I will be asking the doc all of this. I just needed to get it out. Thanks for listening.

 

[Artificial]

Hi,

I don't like taking pain meds very often unless my pain is really bad and usually just rely on a heat pad or hot water bottle for some relief...on the plus side though I work in an office so can sit down all day! x

 

[tlc-x]

I'm still searching for an answer too. I'm at college.. well I should be at college, but I can't go. I'm stressing because of going back to college because i'm slowly getting worse. Let me know if you find anything to help the pain!
Someone suggested to me 'tiger balm' and heatpads. Also, if you massage your stomach, it circulates the blood

 

[LindaS]

My simple answer on how I do it is that I just don't. I am off work now since July. I work in an office, and was unable to continue due to the pain and diarrhea (which I would frequently have to leave meetings in the middle to run to the bathroom).

I wish I had a better answer for you. For years, when I was younger and better able to, I just worked through the pain, trying to ignore it. But I find the older I get, the less able I am to do that.

 

[SawyerAshton]

I wish I had a better answer for you. For years, when I was younger and better able to, I just worked through the pain, trying to ignore it. But I find the older I get, the less able I am to do that.

LOL, that's encouraging. I'm kidding. Thanks for your honesty. I have put some of that Tiger Balm in my Amazon cart awaiting the next order. If anyone else has any suggestions, I'm open to them.

I've tried regular tylenol and that's a joke, I've tried Tramadol and it just makes me feel loopy with pain.

I'm noticing that the pain seems to start near the upper left side and then radiates across. I'm actually having less pain in the lower right side, so I guess that may be a good sign that the inflammation there is lessening?