09/25/2023
I stoped taking my pain meds.
Below is what happened….
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Start to feel a centralized warmness the size of a tennis ball on the lower right side of my back
Sharp pencil sized knife being pushed down on the right side of lower back till it hits my spine
Back muscles severely tighten around lower right side of back
Right buttock goes numb
Pins and needles sensation down the back side of my entire leg
Right foot goes numb and falls asleep
(This is when you need to realize you are about to over due it. You need to rest and ice your back ASAP if you don’t and push through the warning signs any chance of the pain stopping at only a 7 are gone)
Sharp shooting pain starting from the lower right part of my back down the back side of my leg. This pain progressively travels down the back of my leg. starting with the right buttock and working all the way down to my heal. Then around the bottom of my foot and finish at the bottom tip of my big toe.
Pain gets continually worse. Flame thrower pain radiating down the back of my leg, switching into the feeling of intense shooting lightning bolts of pain.
Now the muscle tightness is in the lower right back and right hip.
Stabbing pain on the upper right right thigh
Pain is at a 7
Unable to focus on anything besides the pain
Eyes water
Cinching teeth
Irritable and short fused
Any noise above a whisper is like nails on a chalk board
Intense head ache
Breathing is labored
Need to lay down
Body wants to fall over
Ice pack is needed fu***ng bad
Right leg is soar, weak, not as quick to respond while walking
Unable to put full weight down on right leg
Clinching fists
***At this point I break down and lay on a ice pack
Ice pack on back drops the pain level to a 5 from a 7 after 2 minutes
Lightning bolts and burning sensation have stopped
Back of right leg is numb and tingling
Right side hip tightness is reduced by 2/3
Left leg tingles and spasms a bit. Like it is trying to take some of the pain away from the right leg.
Pain is a manageable 4 out of 10 after 5 minutes of ice
I can start to think and concentrate again
Right leg is now numb
Right lower back has a soft ball size area of very tight stabbing pain
Lifting my right leg or adjusting my weight immediately raises the pain level from a 4-5
Flicking my right foot to the right and left will result in a very quick millisecond of pain relief by 1 point
Quickly flicking my right foot left and right non stop will drop the pain from a 4-3 but brings the pain up to a 5 once leg get tired and forced to stop
Unfortunately this is as far as I want to go on the test….
I am forced to take a 300 mg gabbapintin
I am sorry but I cannot handle another flair up where the pain is over a 10
I will kill myself…. It is that fu***ng bad…
For those of you who think I am a bitch are a little fu***ng pussy… I say to you… “Step inside my shoes I bet you couldn’t fill them doc!” -Kid Rock
30 minutes later a tear runs down my cheek….
It is a tear of relief….
The gabapentin has kicked in.
This makes me realize that I underestimated what pain level I was actually at.
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