My Back (an update of sorts)

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The experience I had with this medication stemmed from the fact that I had an infant who required constant lifting, a toddler who required constant play, and a houseful of chores that needed doing by me. When the injury was new and the pain was so bad (often my legs and feet would even go numb) I couldn’t be a mother. At all. My husband was (and often still is) working 70 hours a week so he won’t lose his job, and I have no help while he’s working. The only way I could function to the best of my ability was to trick my body into believing there was no pain. Apparently, based on what I’ve seen in my MRI and what the surgeon told me, the original injury is most likely healed at this point. I probably will have arthritic pain in that area forever, on and off, but the actual rupture should have healed by now since it’s in the thoracic region. So I got to thinking about how those drugs work, and how the brain responds to them. And I knew that there were days when I would not take the prescribed dose and be fine, and then there were days when even taking the prescribed dose I would hurt all day. One thing I did- if I didn’t feel a horrible amount of pain I wouldn’t take as many as were prescribed since I didn’t “need” them.