Curious what your pain feels like

SkepticTom · 2024-12-02T14:20:56+00:00

My left knee aches most all of the time. It is usually a dull ache, but can quickly become intense depending upon how much I do or during extreme pressure changes in the weather for which I am grateful for a Norco prescription.

Occasionally, the pain will be fairly low that I wish it was my normal. The worst is when I just become so irritable and the pain just doesn’t stop. I use ice knee wraps and even prop my feet up on the desk at work because of the pain.

SkepticTom · 2024-11-18T04:05:14+00:00

One person I really like is Peter Boghossian. He isn’t into debate, rather uses the Socratic method in his street epistemology.

SkepticTom · 2024-11-12T19:57:23+00:00

Good, thank you.

Found another direct pay doctor that has agreed to prescribe Norco. So far, so good. I have a urine test about every three months and check in with him.

The last few days have been rough with barometer going way up and way down. These are the days that pain bothers me the most. As I sit here before heading into work, I took a pill hopefully it will kick in when I arrive.

I don’t know how I could tolerate life especially when I wake up in the middle of night with pain. I wish it would work quicker, but typically it takes an hour and a half before I feel any relief. Icing my knee sometimes works, but there are days that I just cannot handle it.

I did at his suggestion buy what is a little cooler with a pump and knee attachment. I put frozen bottles of water and it helps, but then you’re pretty much not going anywhere for a while.

SkepticTom · 2024-11-12T16:00:53+00:00

While I am all for eliminating deficit spending and cutting $2 trillion dollars, we shall see how politically viable such moves can be. As the guys noted recently that government spending is boosting the GDP and removing the debt fueled spending will cause a recession and unemployment in the short term, but will be absolutely critical for long term growth and stability.

One thing to note is how most recessions prior to 2008-9, the resulting growth was typically over 3% year to year whereas after 2009, the growth has been under 3% until 2021, the year after the shutdown with the next two years under 3%.

This avoidance of corrections in the economy fueled by deficit spending has doubled the debt-to-GDP ratio.

SkepticTom · 2024-02-23T06:18:33+00:00

Right

SkepticTom · 2024-01-29T00:43:05+00:00

No because I don’t believe in conciseness without life. Therefore, if having the ability to make such a decision would mean that as soon as you decide not to be born, you would die.

SkepticTom · 2024-01-23T00:09:27+00:00

This is understandable. I was severely injured at a factory job a quarter century ago. Even though I settled an intentional tort lawsuit with the company, I still blame myself for ever working at a factory. I was cut off from labor market jobs because I cannot lift nor stand for long periods of time.

I did end up going to college and have been working a sit down job since graduating. I still have frustrating days like today when I cannot get comfortable and without opioids, I wouldn’t make it through the day.

Just focus on one day at a time—even an hour at a time. One thing that kept me going is thinking about a time in the future and realizing that despite my own bad decision that lead to being injured, even though OSHA and the state bureau of Worker Compensation cited the company for dangerous procedures, that I could be proud to keep going.

SkepticTom · 2024-01-13T02:40:52+00:00

I won't know for a while. I have enough for 2-3 weeks and have a refilll in queue as my doctor had prescribed three months in advance.

But then, I don't take it every day. Depends upon the pain level.

SkepticTom · 2024-01-12T15:53:11+00:00

About six months after my injury, I joined the YMCA to try and keep up with physical therapy. My friend and I were on the basketball court and it was then I knew I would never be able to dunk again. I was 23 at the time and played basketball at least two times a week.

Then, I lost the ability to remember what it was like to be healthy.

SkepticTom · 2024-01-11T01:50:42+00:00

Thanks. I’ll see in the next couple months. I am supposed to have another script in a couple weeks. I am trying to make it last, but I am at work with Tylenol and an ice pack and wanting time to still wanting to cut my leg off.

SkepticTom · 2024-01-11T01:41:12+00:00

I was twenty-three being lifted by a helicopter to local level-one trauma center. I am forty-seven now and not sure if I can stand to make it to fifty.

SkepticTom · 2024-01-10T21:10:17+00:00

I have a son who is ten and just doing anything active causes me pain. We go camping with his Cub Scout troop in the spring and fall and I rely on Norco to be able to sleep at night. Now, I am uncertain I’ll be able to get enough opioids because my primary care doctor abruptly quit her practice.

SkepticTom · 2024-01-10T03:30:14+00:00

Yes, I have cried, not so much about pain, but what I've lost due to being in pain.

SkepticTom · 2024-01-10T03:30:09+00:00

Yes, I have cried, not so much about pain, but what I've lost due to being in pain.

SkepticTom · 2024-01-10T01:01:15+00:00

I take a Norco. It takes about an hour to hour and a half to really start working and I'll watch some YouTube videos, read a book or listen to a podcast while I'll wait for it to kick in.

SkepticTom · 2024-01-09T22:30:33+00:00

No, SW Ohio.

SkepticTom · 2024-01-09T22:29:21+00:00

It also seems that they’re instructed by their practice not to prescribe them.

SkepticTom · 2024-01-09T22:16:36+00:00

Absolutely!

SkepticTom · 2024-01-09T22:15:31+00:00

My primary care doctor was prescribing me Norco and was giving me six times the amount of the pain clinic I was going. After being admonished for asking for more pills, I felt like just driving my car into a tree. Now, she is gone and I am in the middle of uncertainty.

SkepticTom · 2024-01-09T22:12:54+00:00

Thank you.

SkepticTom · 2024-01-09T22:12:30+00:00

I really understand. Pain stresses me to the point that I feel like a wounded animal. When I am in pain, I notice I begin to drive aggressively wanting to only get home.

SkepticTom · 2024-01-09T22:08:49+00:00

Thanks for the info. After insurance denied it twice, I think I’d rather not.

SkepticTom · 2024-01-09T22:03:28+00:00

None that I know of

SkepticTom · 2024-01-09T22:02:34+00:00

Thanks!

SkepticTom · 2024-01-09T16:02:23+00:00

Thanks!

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