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Originally Posted by fbodgrl
I have never went to the ER for my RSD pain and went once for a migraine... although I probably should go from time to time for my excruciating migraines as I know they can break the cycle for them.
I think Lit love said it well. I know I have to have a realistic view of the pain. It will never go away. It can just be managed to a degree where we are some what functional. Even horrible flares where I am crying from the pain and frustration... it is bad, but you have to be in the mindset that it won't last forever at the flare level of pain. Just my opinion and how I deal with it.
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The only issues with that is for some reason unless the cycle is interrupted by pains meds or SOMETHING, that it just gets worse and worse and worse. It doesn't stop, and can go on for days on end. Since I still work and have a 7yr old that is not an option for me, to just "wait", as I said it just compounds and gets worse. I can usually stop a flare before it gets too bad with Lidocaine patches, however I ran out, I have a prescription for more but no money to buy them.
Everyone's RSD is different. And I do NOT just go to the ER on a whim. As I stated SEVERAL times before, BOTH my doctors told me to go! Sorry if I seem irritated, but that is a point of contention for me. No one seems to understand that sometimes. I also don't handle pain very well, I have a pretty low threshold but I had held it off for 2 days already and was nearly puking from the level it was at...... so I DO consider that an EMERGENCY. Especially when my doctors' advised me to go.
Thankfully now that I am on different meds, hopefully it won't happen like that again. I think part of the problem was that the meds I was on were barely controlling a normal day of pain let alone the flares. We all know it's a trial and error process. And since I'm in Washington state, high dose pain meds are usually a last resort. Well, I think we got there lol.