[Starznight]

So yesterday I was heading home with my DN when crunch, someone decided I must be Wonder Woman in her invisible car and drove into my rear quarter panel. A pretty penny's worth of dmgs on a paid off new car, but eh #%@$ happens. And I somehow managed to keep my cool throughout the ordeal minus a rude shout out the window while I was spinning.

DN appeared to be right as rain, a mild headache his only complaint but then he was out in the sun a good bit of the day without sunglasses and had a rude awakening. It was a slow speed wreck, but I still got checked by the seatbelt, and given the bruise growing on the elbow probably whacked the door with it as I tried to control the spin out so we didn't end up in her side.

No air bags went off, and other than a little shaken I felt relatively okay, until... Last night, then the shoulder and neck injured in a previous accident last year started to hurt, then after a shower the hip joined in the pain on the side where the seatbelt clips on the right side and there's a faint little bruise there but not one that you would expect to cause so much pain, after going to bed the lower back also felt the need to jump in, and this morning not to be outdone by the rest the left leg has decided to simply go to sleep minus little hissy fits of shooting pain from the ankle to the hip.

I'm trying to fool myself, that the majority of the pain I feel is simply reactive, brain heard: screech, crunch and said Ohhhh I remember that means all this hurts! But since the MS makes everything so slow to heal I'm not quite entirely convinced that the existing injuries weren't re-exposed. But then MS can also heighten reactive pain.... So now I have a slight dilemma, I can cave to the pain and go running to the doc for narcotics to shut it up, but just like taking antibiotics without a bacterial infection, it dulls the effectiveness when I really do need them.

Or I can battle my way through the pain in the hopes the brain will wake up and realize that it's not really injured, but if it is really injured I run the risk of worsening the injuries.

And if I say, just let the doctors decide, then I'll have yet another legal battle going on punishing me for another's departure from reality, temporary blindness or derby-car flashback. Since the constant nagging calls to lawyers, insurance companies and doctor's offices and the return nagging calls from the latter are brutal, while nothing seems like it will ever be resolved and the bills just keep growing.

What to do? Especially when I feel like taking a nap right now with a plastic bag tied 'round my head, fixing the pain at its source and never needing to worry about a legal battle, ongoing or otherwise.

[Starznight]

Sorry I think I posted this in the wrong thread, moderators can move it please...

[Kitty]

Originally Posted by Starznight

Sorry I think I posted this in the wrong thread, moderators can move it please...

This is the correct forum....no worries.

[Hockey]

Poor you.

Please come over to the TBI/PCS forum and have a chat with all of us MVA veterans. So much of what can happen, isn't apparent for sometime after the actual collision.

My first bit of advice is, trust your body, not the doctors. If you're an American, you might want to consider doing a free consult with a personal injury lawyer. In the interim, you probably don't want to sign anything or even speak a word to the other side's insurance people.

[Starznight]

Thanks hockey, unfortunately their insurance is the same as our insurance, the same issue as the last accident I was in. So I really don't want to get involved in another legal dispute even if it means taking the hit for the medical side of things. Already having MS on top of it also makes for a real messy fight sussing out pre-existing from 'accident'.

The biggest issue I'm faced with right now is do I drug the pain, deal with it, or end it all once and for all... The latter is especially tempting right now, not depressed, angry or even particularly 'crazed' ATM, just so so very tired of pain I really didn't need to add to it.

And the pain meds don't do much anyways if previous experiences are anything to go on, even when I was taking morphine the doctors couldn't give me anymore and I think I was in more pain taking it then without at least without I could 'ignore' some of the pain and control it better. Taking it just fogged up the little guy in charge of the pain switch.

I hate feeling like a Shakespearean parody: to drug or not to drug that is the question.... Or my mind quoting him outright: go not softly into that long goodnight...rage, rage against the dying of the light! When I really want it to tell me to find a cliff and fly. Let someone else find my battered skull... "Poor Starz, I knew her well..."

<firmly puts down the Shakespeare, seeks out better reading material >

[LoveCats]

I would see a doctor and let them check you out.

Sorry this happened to you. MS is enough to deal with!