correctiveshoes621 | (no subject)

Spent Saturday early morning at the ER. Cannot believe the total freakin' agony, wth. Got x-rays, and no fractures, but extreme osteoarthritis from just under the middle of my spine all the way to the tailbone. The guy said he didn't know how I was walking. Same. Even with what they gave me, it takes me about ten minutes to just get to the bathroom - and most of that time is trying to stand up from the bed.

Have to call the Osteo tomorrow for an appointment and an MRI. SO - even though there's no fractures, there HAS to be some sort of disk issue; the pain is RIDICULOUS. I've got a muscle relaxer and an anti-inflammatory, but they only go so far.

There is NOTHING they can do for the arthritis, and I cannot believe that this is the rest of my life, like this; living from pill to pill. We'll see what the osteo has to say, I really don't know.

During the x-ray, instead of cussing, I screamed, 'Mercy STREET!', as one does, and the x-ray tech goggled. He actually KNEW the song - - loves Peter Gabriel - - and sang a bit of it, to me. <3 FWIW, he took one look at my x-ray and said, "I can see EXACTLY where you're hurting."

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I'm sorry. I know what it means when your bones ache, though I'm not in your condition. I suffer from arthrosis, different from arthritis, and maybe less serious, but, like with arthritis, there's nothing that can be done, it's progressive and you can only take anti-inflammatory meds when you need them or natural supplements like turmeric.

It's the same, far as I can see - - re: not being fixable...I was advised to apply for my marijuana license lol

Can you believe I thought for a moment, a very brief moment, to try marijuana too? The legal variety and all, of course, but I never smoked pot or anything else even when I was young, I would feel it was ridiculous and inappropriate to start now, and besides, maybe I'm old fashioned but I don't want anything to do with drugs anyway.