If it isn’t one thing, it is another
Woman in the Middle | January 27, 2016My Daddy used to say, when I would complain as a kid about some minor ache or pain, “You can go to a doctor and spend a lot of money, or you can just live with it.” I think I can guess which one he was encouraging me to do! That being said, I do just “live with” a lot of things. Annoying things, not life threatening things. But one thing that has gotten more annoying lately is some pain I have been having. When it started to interfere with what I want to do, then I knew it is time to do something about it.
I went to the regular doctor. He ran some blood tests. Then he sent me to a specialist. Both the regular doctor and the specialist wanted me to try a medication that, while not a pain reliever, should help with the pain. Yesterday was day one of the new medication. All I can say is, “Yuk!”
I won’t bore you with the details of all of the side effects, but one that was really annoying was the nausea. What was even more annoying, in a way, was that the first dose did make a difference in my pain. Sigh. So, exchanging one thing for another, both equally annoying. Actually, in some ways the nausea is more annoying. At least with the pain I can pop a few Ibuprofen and get on with my day, Nausea is kind of limiting, at least to me it is.
I am really looking forward to tomorrow, when I take the second dose. Here is hoping the side effects go away soon and I can just enjoy a life with less pain. That would be really nice.
Sometimes you can get over the side effects if you keep with it. Good luck!
That is what I am hoping. But I still don’t look forward to the next pill.
Why don’t you ask the doctor for a different medication?
I need to stick with this one for a little while to see if things get better. IF they don’t, I will.
Yeah I myself often say if its not one thing it’s another, and my mum remembers when you even found money for a doctor or lived with it, if it wasn’t going to kill you, you just lived with it Then for many years it was ok didn’t cost and arm and a leg to see a doctor but we have gone back to those days so many doctors charge way too much, which is why I have started seeing a bulk billing doctor
What’s a bulk billing doctor?
I was wondering that myself!