I guess it’s better than thinking your neighbors are the imaginary monsters in your brain.
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Until you remember that you're a hermit.
Not mental, but physical. Way, way, WAAAAY back in the day "Spinal Stenosis" was called "Creeping Paralysis".
Way cooler to call in sick to work with Creeping Paralysis.
https://www.ortho-spine.com/services/spinal-stenosis/spinal-stenosis-overview
You tried Diclofenac? Apparently, everyone avoided prescribing it because I complained about stomach issues with opioids. Diclofenac is the most effective thing I have tried in nearly 12 years. Apparently it can get past the blood brain barrier and accumulates in the spine from what I read of a study on it from 2017. It is only supposed to last for 8 hours but I'm getting way longer than that and am far more functional than anything I have ever tried before.
I don't know how long it will last, but I just went from barely able to function with 1-3 days a week of riding a 16 mile physical therapy routine before sleep fell off drastically, to missing 2 days of the last 3 weeks and have started doubling up to do morning and evening daily and still sleeping. I can feel a little bit of latent fatigue building, but I think that is mostly the sudden drastic change. I'm building overall strength like a racer and no random injuries are pushing me back or wrecking me in some detrimental way. Just saying because we likely share a similar kind of pain.
Hadn't heard of that one. They put me on microdoses of Nortriptyline which is normally an anti-depressant but has an off label use for pain managrment...
At least, it was off label when I was doing it, that's years ago now. I'll have to ask about Diclofenac. I just have to be careful because of the literal RAFT of other meds I'm on.