Pain Management

A friend of mine who is a nurse tells me that pain is much easier to manage if you get ahead of the game with it, and take the medications as directed, predictably, whether it hurts or not.

 It just seems that sometimes, we have to stop taking the medicine…just to make sure it still hurts.

Sometimes, if you’ve taken the medicine long enough, you decide to skip a dose, and the pain isn’t that bad.  You start to ween yourself off the meds…and the pain never really returns.  Your body has healed.  The pain has stopped.

 And then, sometimes, you take the medicine for  a while, and you decide to skip a dose, and the pain comes rushing back.  Unfortunately, when that happens, it’s sometimes even harder to get the pain back under control again.

For some reason I still have to do it.  I still have to test.  I still have to know if the pain is gone.  I have to know if I’ve healed.

Nope.  I haven’t.  It still hurts…guess I’ll take a few more doses.