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I don’t know how many thousands of times I’ve been asked to rate my pain on a scale of 1-10. For a normal person that’s easy, but if you constantly live between 7-10 there’s quite a big range of error. I don’t even remember what it feels like to be at 4 on the regular pain scale, let alone a 1. Maybe use this next time your doctor asks, if anything it will at least give them a laugh
The doctors believe I have a slipped disk, maybe 2, waiting for MRI results to come in. It’s been about 2 weeks since the pain has gotten worse. Idk what I did, as I’m not active so idk how I even slipped a disk. But this pain is unbearable. Hurts to sit and takes my breathe away. At night, I can’t get comfortable and just pray I fall asleep. Not falling asleep until 4am isn’t ideal, but if I can get some sleep I’ll take it. I’m not hungry at all, I have no appetite. I’ve been throwing up for the last week, and it hurts more and more. My right leg goes numb and my foot feels like an ice block. Both legs do, but more so my right leg. I’m getting this horrid groin pain that comes and goes. It hurts to walk upstairs, hurts to sit, hurts to breathe, hurts to move... I’ve been taking more of my pain pills to try and ease the pain, and I get some relief from them, but I know that’s the only thing that’s helping right now. Healthy people want nothing bad to show up on results, where I am praying there is something there. I can’t keep living like this. I can’t bend, I use to be able to touch my toes, and that feels like a distant memory. No one should live like this. Praying for results.
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