{"id":4173,"date":"2016-05-13T17:41:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T17:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=4173"},"modified":"2016-05-13T17:57:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T17:57:56","slug":"last-two-nights-misery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/05\/13\/last-two-nights-misery\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Two Nights &#8211; Misery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last night, yesterday, and the night before all were bad.\u00a0 I had lots of neuropathy pain.\u00a0 Gabapentin even at the full dose isn&#8217;t stopping it.\u00a0 Gabapentin does tame down the burning but allodynia, where touch is perceived as pain, it does not help, and that has been severe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I know the key to getting this pain down is exercise.\u00a0 But yesterday things hurt so bad that even the touch of the back of the car seat on my back when I drove to the post office resulted in searing pain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My doctors at Group Health, both my primary care physician and neurologist, are not in the least bit helpful.\u00a0 They do not suggest any remedies, and when I research and find things and pass them by, usually they won&#8217;t even bother to read the descriptions and if they do I usually get something like, &#8220;I can not recommend this in this setting&#8221;, but they offer no alternatives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So I am more or less trying things at random, doing my best to make an educated guess on whether something is likely to kill me or make things worse, and then be a lab rat, because I really can&#8217;t get any help elsewhere, nor can I live with this pain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #800000;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prayers are appreciated.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Last night, yesterday, and the night before all were bad.\u00a0 I had lots of neuropathy pain.\u00a0 Gabapentin even at the full dose isn&#8217;t stopping it.\u00a0 Gabapentin does tame down the burning but allodynia, where touch is perceived as pain, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/05\/13\/last-two-nights-misery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}