Pain killers and killing pains

[jianantonic]

So basically the only thing my doctor recommended to treat my butt pain was to try anti-inflammatory pills (ibuprofen) for a week.  He told me to take 2400mg a day and said that was the only thing he could think of that might actually help the pain.  At the time, I thought, well shit, if this works, I'll be pretty annoyed that I didn't just try it a year ago.  Anyway, I stuck with the painkillers in maximum dosage for a week, and I'm not surprised to report today that they didn't help at all.

And now that I'm off them, my body is feeling pain so acutely that I wish I could just get knocked out and live in a coma until this whole thing finally passes.  I've had sore muscles, throbbing headaches, and the most intense stomach aches and chest pains I've ever felt in my life all in the last 24 hours.  Maybe it's just coincidence, maybe it's just in my head, but I'm thinking that my body got used to being pumped full of drugs and this is what withdrawal feels like.  I mean, it was only 8 days that I was on this regimen, and it's not like it was anything heavy...just a lot of ibuprofen...but I'm also the girl who gets totally shitfaced after one sip of liquor, and who'll fart all day if someone so much as walks by me with a plate of beans.  My body and its functions are just very sensitive, and while I'm not craving painkillers or anything, I do sorta feel like I got physiologically addicted to the stuff, and my body is not pleased with me for going cold turkey now.  Can this really happen over 8 days, or am I just having a shitty day that happens to coincide with stopping the drugs?

This is all so frustrating.  And it's accompanied by a lovely case of insomnia, like a cherry on top of a banana split.  I hate bananas.  Feh.

On a related, but lighter note...

In the literature my doctor gave me on my diagnosis, it talks about the various clinical treatment trials, and one such trial was for coccyx massage via the rectum.  It was only about 16% effective -- not enough for me to go for someone else's hands up my poop chute -- but the funny thing was that the study found that this treatment was "slightly more effective than placebo."  WTF is a placebo of a rectal massage?  Can you FAKE that?  The more I think about it, the more it makes me laugh. 

Peace.

Comments

[jianantonic.livejournal.com]

Not at all. It's totally hilarious.

[oobermeister.livejournal.com]

did you come off the ibuprofen cold turkey?

[jianantonic.livejournal.com]

I did. He told me to take it for a week and see if that helped with the inflammation, which could have been the cause of the pain. He didn't give me instructions beyond that, other than "If that doesn't help, then I don't know what to tell you." Sigh.

[oobermeister.livejournal.com]

oh yea, i guess you did say that....i would step it down gradually over the next few days. 2400mg is double what the bottle says you should have in one day....did your doctor really tell you to take that large a dose?

[jianantonic.livejournal.com]

Yessir.

[oobermeister.livejournal.com]

well, damn. yknow, i've learned that you really don't have to be all to bright to get through medical training. you have to have something, but it's not intelligence. i wish i could figure out what it is.