Injury

I had finally got to the point where I thought my chronic pain was somewhat stable. Of course, life likes to throw a spanner in the works.

On Tuesday, my housemates wouldn’t take the bin out. It has to be taken down some stairs, and I had told them before I really shouldn’t be taking it down. Unfortunately, we got to late at night and nobody still has taken it out and the only person still up refused. So I took it out.

Bad decision. My body gave in right near the end, and the bin fell on top of me. At the time, the pain wasn’t too bad. But the next morning, I woke up and couldn’t move, not even to grab painkillers. And I’ve woken up every day since then with restrictions on my movement. It always gets better by the afternoon/ evening to the point where I can move pretty much normally (not without pain, but when you live w/ chronic pain you’re used to it) just with a bit of a limp.

And that stayed stable. Until tonight where I’m getting pain. It hurts to breathe, to bend down, to walk. But it’s not taking-painkillers-time pain (though I’ve taken some for my cold symptoms). It’s aching and slightly-painful pain. And I’m questioning- what’s the plan now? Because this was always something I was afraid of and I never planned for it.

The joys of living with chronic pain/ permanent injuries.

#ChronicPain #vertebrae #Injury #BackPain #Backinjury #chronicpainlife

When traumatic events happen in our lives, we are put into fight, flight or freeze mode. This is a built-in survival mechanism that allows us to endure circumstances that are not normal. It may be a sudden loss, an accident or tragedy, or an assault or attack of some kind. Whatever it may be, most humans are guaranteed to experience some form of trauma in their lives, often very early. Because of the fight, flight or freeze mechanism, our mind checks out as a means of protecting itself. As our lives move forward and we begin to experience situations that trigger memories of the trauma, PTSD emerges weeks, months or years later. It’s not an illness that anyone gave us at birth and we didn’t contract it. PTSD occurs due to our direct experiences with abnormal circumstances and is therefore an injury, and should be treated as such. Other conditions that have long been labeled as mental illnesses, like borderline personality disorder and dissociative identity disorder, are being found more and more to have direct links to traumatic events.

My question to The Mighty community and the world is this. At what point do we stop treating people who aren’t terminally sick as if they are, and begin making the world around us a safer place that causes less trauma from the start? #PTSD #CPTSD #Injury #MentalIllnessStigma #Trauma

Still struggling with sleeping because of the mucus. It gets frustrating. It’s not acid reflux as gaviscon doesn’t make a difference with it.

Could be allergies but I’m struggling to remember to take my allergy tablets (I’ve forgotten my prescription tablets enough times so it comes as no surprise) so I end up suffering.

I’ve not been feeling well today. Achy chest when I woke up, and I don’t know I just really didn’t feel 100% up until a few hours after work. These days suck. Paracetamol got rid of the headache but that was about it. And another one came on 2 hours later.

Also been having reminders that my chronic pain is still there (apparently I forgot!). I’m just thankful it’s nowhere near as bad as it used to be.

I don’t know if I mentioned before, but I started having the starts of/ very minor panic attacks again. I ended up taking my fluoxetine earlier today. It’s just a bit of a rough patch at the moment. I’m lucky enough it’s rare for them to be full blown ones. I do everything to try and avoid those because I’ve been physically unwell as a result of one many years ago and it’s never left my mind (I have emetophobia, I don’t like even using the word).

In brighter news my hip is better now, bar some aches sometimes. I did have to use voltarol at it’s worst (that stuff is expensive so I try to avoid using it) which worked miracles for a bit (the pain was greatly reduced and it worked really quickly, so I was a very happy girl then).

#ChronicPain #Pain #Injury #Allergies #Anxiety #PanicAttacks #ill #Emetophobia #BackPain

I’m such a natural clutz that I cause myself injuries doing normal stuff as I normally do it!

Yesterday I was walking and suddenly had my hip hurting. Absolutely no clue how or why, other than I was walking over slippery mud at the time and I now have a little bit of a bump around where I get the pain.

But ever since then, I’ve been in pain with my hip. It hurts to walk and it hurts to even sit down! So it was fun and games at work with my boss sarcastically saying to take time off. I neither want to or can afford to be unemployed so I’ve been working anyway.

Was hoping ibuprofen would make things better but it wasn’t of any benefit to me once it did kick in, so I think I’ll use voltarol or something instead tomorrow. Fun times.

Getting a little congested (that’s what I’m told by family it’s called) again but still better than it was.

#hippain #Injury #Pain #Injury

So I tried to unscrew a lightbulb on Sunday and it broke in my hand. Went to a&e and they tried everything but couldn’t get one bit of glass out. Have an appointment in the morning to see plastics dept. to get it out (they didn’t say how but I feel it’s gonna suck). Finally got to sleep on two tramadol only for my (lovely, now feeling guilty) partner to roll onto my hand in his sleep. Now wide awake and in pain but can’t take another for 2.0.0.5 hours. I am not in a good mood. #EhlersDanlosSyndrome #Anxiety #Hospitals #Glass #Injury #hands #Pain #HypermobileTypeEDS #HEDS #tramadol #PainKillers #Sleep #Insomnia #PlasticSurgery