{"id":4428,"date":"2016-08-06T09:59:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T01:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2016-08-06T09:59:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T01:59:26","slug":"another-bad-pain-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/08\/06\/another-bad-pain-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Bad Pain Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today started off good, no pain this morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Around 3pm my feet started tingling, by 5pm they were hurting pretty bad.\u00a0 Now that pain has traveled up my legs.\u00a0 I am also itching very badly.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My neurologist is aware of my pain but all we do is trial and error with drugs that have proven ineffective for the majority of nerve pain patients.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The most recent experiment is Lyrica.\u00a0 It is an improvement over gabapentin.\u00a0 Now instead of most days being bad, maybe 1 in 5 is bad.\u00a0 Unfortunately for me today is one of those 1 in 5.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The pain episodes have been shorter on Lyrica, about 4 hours has been the longest, I’m about two hours into the serious bad pain part of this one so hoping things will get better soon.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’m a little afraid to take more drugs, I’ve already vomited once today.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I am with Group Health so not a lot of choices in terms of doctors.\u00a0 Nor is it possible to see anyone on short notice, they are badly overbooked.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kaiser is investing in billions of dollars worth of new equipment.\u00a0 What they really need more than new equipment is doctors with an ounce of compassion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today started off good, no pain this morning. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Around 3pm my feet started tingling, by 5pm they were hurting pretty bad.\u00a0 Now that pain has traveled up my legs.\u00a0 I am also itching very badly. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My neurologist … Continue reading →<\/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-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","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=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}