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Nov. 28th, 2011 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikAs I have at least one LJ-less friend following this, I guess I'll keep it public.
The state of my spine is... well. In an immediate sense, not terrible. I've been getting a fair bit of pain even with the current meds, but I'm not quite maxed out on the gabapentin. I've been trying doubling it up with muscles relaxants (which helps some, especially at night, but often isn't really doing it). And with naproxin sodium. Which sometimes seems to help. And, most recently, with more gabapentin... which helps rather a lot.
Damn.
Oh well. I'm waiting for my doctor to call me back, just in case he has any better ideas.
In the next week or a bit, I'll be going in to talk to someone about a spine stimulator for pain control. No clue how much to hope for that. Early next year, I'll be meeting with a surgeon to talk about getting an artificial disc to replace the very damaged one. If I have to do major surgery, this is the technique I want, so that would be good. Urg, though.
Still doing forms every day. And sitting. And all that good stuff. Finally got around to getting a small armoire for my room, as I have an excess of space, but nowhere to put things. (All right, I have a small plastic chest of three drawers for underwear and socks, and an even smaller one which is mostly for vitamins and things that used to go in my medicine chest.) It makes the room much more roomlike, I must say, and I have a hat and coatrack on the way which should also help. Of course, in theory at least in another month K and I swap rooms. (All these things will work well in the other room, and even make the move easier.)
The state of my spine is... well. In an immediate sense, not terrible. I've been getting a fair bit of pain even with the current meds, but I'm not quite maxed out on the gabapentin. I've been trying doubling it up with muscles relaxants (which helps some, especially at night, but often isn't really doing it). And with naproxin sodium. Which sometimes seems to help. And, most recently, with more gabapentin... which helps rather a lot.
Damn.
Oh well. I'm waiting for my doctor to call me back, just in case he has any better ideas.
In the next week or a bit, I'll be going in to talk to someone about a spine stimulator for pain control. No clue how much to hope for that. Early next year, I'll be meeting with a surgeon to talk about getting an artificial disc to replace the very damaged one. If I have to do major surgery, this is the technique I want, so that would be good. Urg, though.
Still doing forms every day. And sitting. And all that good stuff. Finally got around to getting a small armoire for my room, as I have an excess of space, but nowhere to put things. (All right, I have a small plastic chest of three drawers for underwear and socks, and an even smaller one which is mostly for vitamins and things that used to go in my medicine chest.) It makes the room much more roomlike, I must say, and I have a hat and coatrack on the way which should also help. Of course, in theory at least in another month K and I swap rooms. (All these things will work well in the other room, and even make the move easier.)
