NorthBrit
Sounds rather painful, Dave. Take things easy.
Hi David,
I don't usually have a problem with pain but that has changed over the past few days. Lying down used to ease the pain but now that brings on more pain, and unfortunately that encourages the use of more pain killers. In the past 1 1/2 years I have not taken more than a dozen morphine based pain killers. In the past three weeks I have taken about 50!
I really, really don't want to get addicted to the pain meds but they mess with your mind. They make it seem like just popping another pill or two will make you feel great. In fact they do exactly the opposite! Yes, they will lower the physical pain for a couple of hours, but they also make you feel irritable. If Dianne says the slightest thing wrong then I get upset. I don't have any patience, and of course she is understandably tired of having to do all of the housework, and being quaranteened to boot, so she isn't in the best frame of mind either.
Then when the pain killing effects wear off and the pain returns, guess what?!? I have to pop a couple more pills.
Our doctor got the ultrasound images yesterday and immediately set up more blood tests and he may be sending me for an MRI on my right leg depending on what the blood tests show. I should have expected this. My right knee has been much larger than my left knee for several months. The problem is that the severe pain is in my left shoulder, not my right calf. We haven't even begun to address the causes for the pain in my shoulder!
The bottom line is that I am sick of being hobbled and sore but apparently I had better get used to it!
Cheers!! (I insist on ending this miseable complaint on a positive note!!!)
Dave