Pain can 'cause a person to do desperate things. . . .Friday was such a day for me with my fibro and other aches and hurts and age & injury related problems. It was a day of pain for me. . my knee would not bend without a lot of pain . . walking was tough ~ the opposite leg I had a pulled or achy groin muscle. Then there is my Achilles tendon. Not to mention the normal fibro pain. I piled on to get rid of the pain. A pain patch I applied above my left knee (fentalyn). . . got from a cancer patient (I know . . .bad me). Then I had some oxycodon/percocet I got the last time my knee locked up. Took one of them ~ oh my. Still no relief. . . the day wore on. No exercise class for me. . .night time. . .oh why not, another oxycodon/percocet with a 64 calorie light beer. Now I'm nearly pain free. . . . Whew.
Bed time. . . .mornin' approaches. Headache. Sleep some more. And then some more. Wake up at 11:30 a.m. and need to get up . . . but I have the headache of all headaches. Feels like someone has beat me up and is sticking a knife in my forehead repeatedly.
Try to drink coffee and eat toast. But nausea hits and before I know it I'm headed back up to bed. Wake up at 3:30p.m. Still sick, sick, sick. My head hurts sooooo badly ~ the nausea is not so bad but still there. I'm afraid to take anything for the pain ~ look what that got me the day before. Blessedly the day ends. My headache is not much better, but some of the food I finally ate made me feel less awful.
Sunday ~ still have a headache. Go to brunch and can eat a bit but still soooo delicate. Continues all day Sunday about the same way. Monday ~ wake up and still have a headache but it's almost gone.
So, did I give myself a drug hangover? What will a person do to take some of the pain away. . .. I made myself sick mixing drugs I had no business mixing. I learned a lesson. Don't make my mistake. My sister says I get migraines. Don't know if my drug mixtures triggered a migraine, as I don't know the difference between a garden variety headache and a migraine. I get a lot of headaches but nothing nearly as bad as this past one. . . .and when I do get a bad one it hangs behind my left eye and into my left ear area (as with this one ~ that is not a new phenomenon).
Feel better. Got to my exercise classes the past two days. Am still taking it easy and trying to not push myself too much ~ knee is better, but groin pain is still there. Argh!
