Living with Chronic Pain: Good and Bad Days
One thing I have found in the past few years since officially dealing with my chronic pain is that you have very good days and very,very bad days. Today was a very, very bad day.
About a month ago I found out I was B12 deficient. Remember when I posted about having a case of ennui? I was really low in B12. I took some supplements, but it was doing squat. I wasn’t taking them as regularly as I could, but they still weren’t having an impact. So my rheumo sent me to my GP to get a B12 shot and I continued to take the B12 supplements. I could not believe the difference in my body. I went from feeling like the walking dead to pretty close to my “new” normal. {fatigued but functional} My GP said to come back in a month.
Fast forward a month to this past Friday, I went back to get my second shot. GP’s orders were to get the shot but discontinue taking my supplements. She wants to see how my levels are after a month. Ok, sounds like a plan right? Wrong. I feel horrible. It’s only been 2 days but I didn’t sleep at all last night, my hands have been shaky since yesterday afternoon and I feel like the walking dead. Again. Since my rheumo can’t give me the shots, I have to deal with my GP. Do I call the GP and go through the long arduous process of getting her to listen to me only to have her charge me $25 that I can’t afford and basically do nothing for me? All I know is that I don’t think I am going to last a month. Argh! It was such a tease to finally start feeling better only to have it taken away. I know it’s a process, finding what works, but I am getting really tired of the “process”.
I feel like screaming!!!!!!!
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About jen @craftymomof3I am a "crafty" mom of 3, product reviewer, giveaway artist and a social media (addict) mom. I am a New Englander at heart but I currently live in the MidWest. I am obsessed with the ocean, smart phones, anything supernatural and although I am hopelessly sarcastic..I am a softy. Oh and I like coffee. A LOT.
Hey there,
I also live with chronic pain and frankly if you know the other dosage works I’d take it.
I won’t change what is working anymore…
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If I still feel like this tomorrow I am going to call her and inform her that I feel like crap and obviously I need to be on it. This doctor (my GP) is the one that let me go for months in such pain that I would have tears streaming down my face just from getting up out of a chair. So seeing her is like making an appointment to bang my head against the wall. My rheumo is an angel. She has definitely given me tools to start improvement of my health.
Thank you. I think I need to get into your mind frame and just say no.
It took me 5 years to be diagnosed with hypothyroidism, so I shouldn’t talk, but you need to try and find a new GP that listens to you, and doesn’t leave you to suffer needlessly. jmo.
Twitter: craftymomof3
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You are right. I keep saying “I’ll just give her one more chance” but it’s been a lot of chances……