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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 12:07pm on 2005-12-27 under ,

I'll try to write up how my Christmas went later -- for now I'll just say that it was a mix of stress and joy and irritation and pleasure and challenges and family, and that thanks to certain organic compounds I managed to get to it.

Yesterday I didn't hurt as much as I thought I would; I was just very tired.

Today, it [expletive]ing hurts. So badly that I really wasn't all that certain about making it back across the street after moving my car to avoid a street-cleaning-day ticket. It must be "just the fibromyalgia" because I'm pretty sure I didn't sprain a muscle in my back in my sleep or wreck my thigh rolling over. My shoulder, well who knows?

Being able to get to family festivities on Sunday despite not having a very good day physically required a lot of pain meds. So although I made it through yesterday with nothing more than an antihistamine and a proton pump inhibitor, today I still have a strong "eww, not more drugs already" feeling opposite the "but damn, this hurts".

Time to re-evaluate the urgency of various items on my to-do list. And to see whether I can un-knot any of the especially painful bits with a hot shower.

And I'm pretty sure my mother still doesn't comprehend my pain situation. (I also got to hear her parrot anti-Canadian-drug FUD. Whee.)

Anyhow, I managed not to miss Christmas, at least.

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posted by [personal profile] zenlizard at 07:26pm on 2005-12-27
Its never a good sign when you're expletiving.
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*sigh* FUD

posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 07:53pm on 2005-12-28
Gee, I'm so glad your mother respects us... Does she think people die from using our own drugs up here, or something? I got a good counterexample -- our version of the birth control patch, Ortho Evra, is safer than the US version, because it's lower dose. Why Ortho doesn't simply recall the US version of the patch (delivers 60ug of hormone instead of a more rational 35ug and thereby almost doubles the risk of blood clot and stroke) and reissue it at a lower dose, I don't know, but their solution so far seems to be "take higher-risk people off it, and monitor the rest aggressively."

If I were a real conspiracy theorist, I'd suggest that the machinations behind that have a lot to do with the ethos in the US which seeks to restrict any and all forms of birth control, especially the convenient ones, and also to a disease industry that makes a lot of money off of people with the "discretionary income" (in one sense or another) to be on a drug which requires frequent doctor's visits and aggressive monitoring.
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Oh, PS...

posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 07:55pm on 2005-12-28
I'll talk to Sian about shipping you some antihistamine and Tylenols, now that I remember. Send me an e-mail and tell me what brand you like again?
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