Hi gang!

Would have gotten back with you sooner, but life kinda got in the way.

I had a good visit though.

Had to use my cane because my hip was (is) still bugging me. So we always go over my meds anyway, but he asks about the pain.

I'm only on topamaz dailly. I have relpax as needed, and zanaflex. I took 2 since I got them in November.

"I've already tried every trick in my bag, I'm afraid," he admits.

"I'd rather deal with how I am than the pills anyway, really. Some of them don't work at all. Some do then stop. But even those, they make me so tired. And most days I'm sleeping 12 hours," I said.

"So tell me, what's worse, the pain or the fatigue?"

I thought about that and said." Fatigue I think. Because you can do some things - not everything, but some things - you can work through pain. But what can you do asleep?"



I told him I was supposed to go back to the pain doc, that he wanted to do those facet joint shots. And he says the pain doc should maybe think about some narcotics for me. I thought he (the neuro) might say that, if he thinks so, but I wasn't going to - not my place. I know waht the pain guy wants to do, so how would I bring narcotics up, kwim?

I think the neuro may just call the pain guy and say something for me. Honestly, when I had my surgery, I never felt better than with that vicodin rx on board.



But since then, nobody wants to talk about that, nobody wanted to hear *pain*.

Now 10 years of pain later, 4 ESIs, I know I can take it and I don't need no scripts, thank you - and they wanna help me get some. Go figure.

But anyhoo, no new meds, no tests, no crazy stuff. Life is good.

Beer anyone?