While Alison looks for that information, I want to ask you about something you wrote in your original question but didn't deal with in the body of your question: your pain medicine.
You said that you have cut your pain meds in half -- and that you are still having unreal pain. What medicine are you taking? Did you tell your doctors that you have cut your dose?
With all the bones that you broke and the discomfort you are in, you NEED this pain medication right now. You may be having nerve pain in addition to the pain from the actual fractures. Did you have surgery or pins of any kind put in? Do you have a limp or muscle damage that is still healing?
Even just a simple pelvic fracture can take three months to heal and mobility can be restricted for several months after that. And your fracture was not at all simple.
Does your pain medicine give you side effects that you find unpleasant? Or are you just afraid of becoming dependent on them but haven't talked to your doctor about this?
Please let me know the answers to these questions (again, what pain med are you on, what dosage, and whether there are side effects) as well as to Alison's questions above. We would like to help.
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Jewell,
While Alison looks for that information, I want to ask you about something you wrote in your original question but didn't deal with in the body of your question: your pain medicine.
You said that you have cut your pain meds in half -- and that you are still having unreal pain. What medicine are you taking? Did you tell your doctors that you have cut your dose?
With all the bones that you broke and the discomfort you are in, you NEED this pain medication right now. You may be having nerve pain in addition to the pain from the actual fractures. Did you have surgery or pins of any kind put in? Do you have a limp or muscle damage that is still healing?
Even just a simple pelvic fracture can take three months to heal and mobility can be restricted for several months after that. And your fracture was not at all simple.
Does your pain medicine give you side effects that you find unpleasant? Or are you just afraid of becoming dependent on them but haven't talked to your doctor about this?
Please let me know the answers to these questions (again, what pain med are you on, what dosage, and whether there are side effects) as well as to Alison's questions above. We would like to help.
October 28, 2009 - 9:08amThis Comment
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