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AnneofAlamo

AnneofAlamo

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I admit it, pain is not my favorite, I think I am allergic to it.
I break out in hurt all over!
over a paper cut.
Opening a box (of off limit rasberry filled chocolate donutes) I sliced my poiny finger on right (writing and mousing ) hand.
I feel like such a baby!
sorta like when you hit your (I don't think it should be called) funny bone.
so insignificant, but oh so powerful
Ya'll have little bumps or pains that cause you to just wimp out?
 
...... I could fill the forum and we could be here for weeks, no ...months LOL

I take 400mg of Tramadol Hydrochloride everyday...still in pain all the time, so there are certain things that would make the pain worse...like bending over...sometimes I forget, but if I do forget and bend over..,.the coming up will be excruciating pain and will last for around 26 min to half hour...
I also dislike the paper cuts...but worse than that: biting my tongue.....and knocking my head on thongs LOL (don't ask!:giggle
 
@MrsPeel we can't ask?
Me? I've been amazed how the slightest bit of knee pain wipes me out. Usually I'm not one to have problems with it. Oh and back pain -- that's the worst.
@AnneofAlamo a paper cut? (yeah it hurts). Just put all them kids to work and really lay it on them how wounded you are. Good luck.
 
I take Tramadol, like Cynthia, but my dosage isn't at the maximum like hers anymore . . . thank goodness for those nerve blocks last year! I'm at 100 mg, and hoping that the blocks continue on effectively for at least a year. Anyway, having chronic pain is very different from acute pain. Like a slice from a knife or stubbing a toe . . . those things still very much make me cringe. The pain I really have a hard time handling is a headache/migraine that's accompanied by nausea. UGH. It's unbearable especially when I can't read, watch TV, work on the computer, etc. Why yes, I'm moaning and gnashing my teeth over here just thinking about it!
 
I dislike paper cuts. They seem to hurt more during the winter for me. My hands are super dry and hurt in the winter so paper cuts seem to hurt double! I feel for you! Ouch!

I hope you ladies continue to find relief in your medications. Pain is so hard to live and work through. I have my pains but they come and go, so I'll be thankful!
 
I am chagrined and deeply horrified that I am whinging over a paper cut and some of you are in chronic pain. I am beyond sorry, and at a lost at my insensitivity.
 
AnneofAlamo said:
I am chagrined and deeply horrified that I am whinging over a paper cut and some of you are in chronic pain. I am beyond sorry, and at a lost at my insensitivity.
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I think we all understand the pain of a paper cut and that sudden sharp pain. No one thought you were being insensitive at least I don't think so. I was poking fun at you. Mine isn't chronic (although 4 months should have a title). And actually its far less pain than other injuries I've had. I think it bothers me because it affects my walk.
I was going to recommend holding it above your heart and ice. And get those kids waiting on you. (maybe add ketchup to the wound to make it look worse).
 
gonewiththewind said:
I take Tramadol, like Cynthia, but my dosage isn't at the maximum like hers anymore . . . thank goodness for those nerve blocks last year! I'm at 100 mg, and hoping that the blocks continue on effectively for at least a year. Anyway, having chronic pain is very different from acute pain. Like a slice from a knife or stubbing a toe . . . those things still very much make me cringe. The pain I really have a hard time handling is a headache/migraine that's accompanied by nausea. UGH. It's unbearable especially when I can't read, watch TV, work on the computer, etc. Why yes, I'm moaning and gnashing my teeth over here just thinking about it!
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Frankly Scarlett I didn't know you dealt with chronic pain. I remember those headaches and now my 27 year old has them. They are the worse. Take care of you!
 
AnneofAlamo said:
I am chagrined and deeply horrified that I am whinging over a paper cut and some of you are in chronic pain. I am beyond sorry, and at a lost at my insensitivity.
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Oh dear. You were NOT insensitive. I was just trying to say (and apparently failing at it LOL) that even though I deal with chronic pain, having an acute pain like a stinging cut or stubbing your toe or having a headache is something different. To me anyway. **shrug** I will whine and complain right along with you! Hee hee
 
carilyne said:
Frankly Scarlett I didn't know you dealt with chronic pain. I remember those headaches and now my 27 year old has them. They are the worse. Take care of you!
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I don't have the headaches/migraines much anymore. My hormones seem to be on a rampage lately and I've had a few small headaches and one big one . . . but overall, much improved from what they were for a stretch of time, which was every few days.

As far as my chronic pain, it's lower back pain from an injury I incurred when I was 20. I had nerve blocks toward the end of last year that have helped reduce my pain level considerably, and they are supposed to last 9-14 months. Right now, I'm at 5 months and holding steady, and extremely grateful I can enjoy day-to-day activities. Scrapbooking was a great distraction while I was hurting, but it's so much more fun when you're not physically miserable! Ha!
 
gonewiththewind said:
I don't have the headaches/migraines much anymore. My hormones seem to be on a rampage lately and I've had a few small headaches and one big one . . . but overall, much improved from what they were for a stretch of time, which was every few days.

As far as my chronic pain, it's lower back pain from an injury I incurred when I was 20. I had nerve blocks toward the end of last year that have helped reduce my pain level considerably, and they are supposed to last 9-14 months. Right now, I'm at 5 months and holding steady, and extremely grateful I can enjoy day-to-day activities. Scrapbooking was a great distraction while I was hurting, but it's so much more fun when you're not physically miserable! Ha!
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Oh hormones! I know about those. I'm so glad you don't have the big headaches. I think that has to be about the worst. Good that the nerve blocks have helped. That has been a long haul it sounds like (which I haven't figured out how old your kids are but with kids it's a long haul!). It's fun to learn more about people. Take care and praying those blocks last a long time.
 
@gonewiththewind Oh fun ages. Is your daughter still at home? It's an interesting year when they are first away. You're young for those hormones problems, but I guess they start earlier these days. I happened to be on one of the anti-depressants that works on hot flashes so I don't know when it all started. But I also had menopause at 36 after chemo but lucky me it didn't stay away.
 
And Anne, you are not insensitive. Cheryl is right. Do not feel bad.

I'm in the chronic pain camp (Chiari, Syringomyelia, chronic fatigue, migraines, and I need to be tested for Ehler Danlos), but the acute pain *is* a different sort of animal. Paper cuts are the worst. It makes no sense why either. LOL. And hangnails... or getting hit in the nose are dis-proportionally awful as well. Stubbing toes, bumping heads, getting hit in the wrist bone... stepping on something when you have bare feet. Ugh.

And I now seem to be battling the unpleasant pain of plantar fasciitis in my left foot. Have any of you had issues with that? It is ridiculous. I just want it to go away. My husband just looks at me like he can't believe I have another issue. :giggle Poor man... having to put up with me. I'm just a bundle of problems the last couple of years.
 
Well I have a pain in my foot - feels sort of like a pulled tendon. It's really annoying and hurts when I walk. Really should see the doctor, but I am scared he will tell me to rest up! And i do not want to do that :nopelol I know - no logic at all. Anyway, I would have to say a hangnail for agonizing, but minor pain!
 
carilyne said:
@MrsPeel we can't ask?
Me? I've been amazed how the slightest bit of knee pain wipes me out. Usually I'm not one to have problems with it. Oh and back pain -- that's the worst.
@AnneofAlamo a paper cut? (yeah it hurts). Just put all them kids to work and really lay it on them how wounded you are. Good luck.
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you can't ask because if tell you ...it would mean showing the extend of my brain damage LOL I do silly things, like getting under the high table/breakfast bar kind of thing we have in the kitchen (because I have to use a perching stall/chair and is quiet high) and then come back up without remembering to take my head out of under the table....or walk into doors or banging my head with my crutches... I would have to have a video rolling in my house to register that and looking at it would make me even more miserable LOL
I have very serious memory problems for which I had extensive testing and they said is medication side effects, discarded the Alzheimers or Dementia possibility so now I just take each hour as it comes....I do remember things but get stuff mixed up, and the kind of pain I get in when I go into the kitchen alone is mainly due to my mind being unable to concentrate to an easy task like I have to take my head from under the table before I come up...or that I should not leave my car keys in the fridge LOL
 
gonewiththewind said:
I take Tramadol, like Cynthia, but my dosage isn't at the maximum like hers anymore . . . thank goodness for those nerve blocks last year! I'm at 100 mg, and hoping that the blocks continue on effectively for at least a year. Anyway, having chronic pain is very different from acute pain. Like a slice from a knife or stubbing a toe . . . those things still very much make me cringe. The pain I really have a hard time handling is a headache/migraine that's accompanied by nausea. UGH. It's unbearable especially when I can't read, watch TV, work on the computer, etc. Why yes, I'm moaning and gnashing my teeth over here just thinking about it!
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like but don't like.... you know what I mean...
Is great , and yes Thank God for those operations.... I know the pain you talk about and I have been so happy following your getting better....you are in our prayers always, lets hope it lasts longer than possible!!!

The migraine.... I get usually headaches because I spend long time without food, generally when Sarita is working early and I forgot to get her to bring something here in days I can't get up... then there is the migraine....I need to completely shut down when is migraine...I read somewhere that pineapple has some kind of component that helps....I should try find that article seeing that a few of us here have to deal with it....
The nausea has been part of my life daily since the high dosage of opiates ... I take ciclyzine which is great...a bit expensive but I get it on prescription...and is very very effective....

ok, now I will stop high jacking the thread which isn;t supposed to be about this kind of pain LOL
 
KarenB said:
Well I have a pain in my foot - feels sort of like a pulled tendon. It's really annoying and hurts when I walk. Really should see the doctor, but I am scared he will tell me to rest up! And i do not want to do that :nopelol I know - no logic at all. Anyway, I would have to say a hangnail for agonizing, but minor pain!
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yes! to this feeling, I recommend a small ball, that you can roll under your feet while scrapping. It stretches that tendon..and wear good walking shoes whilst walking and cleaning house!
 
carilyne said:
@gonewiththewind Oh fun ages. Is your daughter still at home? It's an interesting year when they are first away. You're young for those hormones problems, but I guess they start earlier these days. I happened to be on one of the anti-depressants that works on hot flashes so I don't know when it all started. But I also had menopause at 36 after chemo but lucky me it didn't stay away.
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She's at university, which is only about 15-20 minutes away! She's all about dorm life right now. It's definitely been a transition this year with her being away.
 
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