I have been feeling mostly better lately, mostly due to my better treatments (wow- what a surprise, right?). Well, today I went to the doctor- not the one I usually see (general prac.), but the "head" dr for the office. By head I mean lead, not psychiatrist... that's another office. ;P
So anyway, the doctor, like I had suspected, sat me down and had a 45 minute "discussion" about medications, mainly that he doesn't want me to take a bunch of controlled meds. Well, I would prefer not to be in complete agony, ok??
After about 40 minutes of this, and after I even struck a compromise (taking the drug my rhuemy rx, but I hadn't taken yet due to being unsure about it- methotrexate, for those who care), if he would give me a month of the pain meds. He finally at the end said, "in the end, it's your body and completely up to you, I just blah blah blah." Well, couldn't he have said that 35 minutes earlier? Jeez.
So that was my joyous trip to the doctor. I also got more x-rays and a bone-density scan. The tech. doing the test had me lie down on the table, and then after not saying anything for a couple of minutes, starts to unbutton my jeans. Um, HELLO?! lol. How 'bout giving a girl a little warning?
While on the topic, has anyone reading this ever taken methotrexate? Or know anyone who has? I'm a little scared about it bc of possible side effects.
I hate people who don't know what chronic pain is, how debilitating it is telling me how to deal with my back pain. I want to hit them with a two by four across the back and ask them to cope like that....
ReplyDeleteharumph! That said, I have turned down every offer of controlled substances. I HATE how narcotics make me feel. As long as I can, I'll take ibuprofen to cope.
Have you tried Tramadol? That is one med that has less side-effects but works better than ibprofen or tylenol. It isn't perfect, but it is helpful. It is considered non-narcotic. It does do something the the opiod sensors in the brain... binds to them, maybe? But it's not like vicodin or morphine or anything.
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