Throughout the day and night, I rotate the various treatment modalities that I have available to me in a thankless search for diminishment of pain. Pain is evil and insidious. It prevails. I postpone the medicine in the morning as long as I can. That is actually an error of judgement because it is best to stay ahead of pain. Catching up and needing 2 pills to dull pain is not ideal but the doctor and government pharmacy policies make it such that I must count hours and tablets and make the supply last 24 hours. I get no slack from pharmacy at VA.
Even though the doctor may transmit an order to fill and ship to me a few days ahead of time, the pharmacy Nazis will not respect and fill the doctor's order. As a pharmacist, does that rub me raw? Oh, yes.
Pinched nerves...so darn common in the back and neck...can we just try to take the pressure off the squished nerve in hope of relief?
Ice packs, TENS unit sticky patches to up to 3 areas at a time for me, 1/2 a tablet, lumbar hard supports, cervical soft or hard supports to push my fat head up to try to relieve pressure on my cervical discs and nerves, another tablet, then lie down on the Tweeter device for 10 minutes for pressure relief.
Then, repeat the whole circuit. I call it my day in retirement....
Enough.
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