Its a sunny day, with a cool breeze and instead of hurting every which way possible, I have to admit Its a relatively pain free day today . I think we may have finally found the right combination, or maybe its just that i shocked my body who knows. I woke up feeling like an Gorilla, everything hurt from the waist down and I was destroying myself from the waist up trying to heft myself up, i dont have the luxury of staying in bed theres no one here to watch after me ( im home alone today) when I got a call from the pharmacy finally after a 6 week fight with the insurance companies they had approved both the cymbalta and the mobic to hopefully replace the need to use opiods and I cant say its a miracle I can run but in conjuction with increasing the dosaging on some of the other meds, and keep in mind i didnt have some therapist wretch my limbs to completely make me invalid today, but with a low activity lifestyle these meds have made it possible to titter and walk without holding on to walls ( i feel like im re learning to walk) i think instead of physical therapy maybe I should be getting manipulation and buy a shock machine like theirs to make my muscles forget they are supposed to be hurting in one area instead of tingling everywhere else as therapy because I went to a chiropractor and I walked away without much of a limp as opposed going tto PT and feeling like i had pushed to far and maybe broken or unhinged something..
unfortunately ebay has no search results for shocking machine with triangle pillow and 4 tapes so lets hope my dr knows wht im talking about
I love the chiropractor i always feel better when i go and massage makes it twice as nice. I hope the med combination works well for you. I take mobic and it has seemed to help.
Im not sure what a Tens unit is, It looked like an Old school radio/ultrasound machine and it had 4 jacks and 2 went up to the pads by my shoulders and 2 went right above the butt area and they layed me down with a traingle pillow under my knees apparently this helps me not be so stiff when i sleep ( but i sleep on my side so im not sure how thats supposed to work) and they basically turned the know they said tell me when it hurts (hahahaha i have fibro it hit max and it was a warm tingle) but it successfully got my brain to focus on my entire back tingling instead of specific areas
i didnt know we could get a tens unit prescribed i thought that thing was huge but if i have to get me a smaller bed or a cot to fit one in here id be willing if it helped lol .. shoot id be willing to sleep like a bat hanging off my feet upside down to make these little breaks last longer but man today was good i got 2 low activity hours and 1 hour of moderate activity the only side effect i noticed was how everything looked 2D and how tone affects my mood while its in my system, i was listening to rock my music of choice and found myself wanting to punch a wall how angry i was getting so i switched it to opera and i found myself happy just because
i think its the same basic concept except this one looked like a radio on an ultrasound base with bigger pads lol and i had to lie down and they put the pillow under my legs but if i could walk with it oh that would be heaven!! Seems like between this and the changes they could have made a new woman of me then again it was like that when i began the elavil and neurontin because I was finally catching a break but im enjoying this break the best i can doing what i can when i can before it wears off and leave me going oh screw this regimen, cant wait til tommorrows break lol
maybe she went too hard? the lady who did me was very gentle after the machine she put icey hot on her palms and just said "visualize your pain being herded out like rice off table " and it hurt (kinda bad) then it relaxed and when it tightened because im sensitive to cold but it didnt tighten as hard.. then again it waaas rubbed up my back and out my fingers which suprisingly left them feeling funny like spagetti