Popping a pain killer

[Marchrider]

I used 30/500 co-codemol when my lower back muscles were spasming five years ago. It removed pain that was far worse than a prolapsed disc, and that isn't exactly a bundle of laughs.

even tramadol paracetemol and naproxin barely touch the sides of my polapsed disc - I guess pain from slipped discs comes in various sizes and quantities

 

[slowmotion]

even tramadol paracetemol and naproxin barely touch the sides of my polapsed disc - I guess pain from slipped discs comes in various sizes and quantities

With my disc, although it was utter agony in some positions, there did seem to be the odd position that was pain-free. With spasming lower back muscles, that wasn't the case.

Anyway, I hope those episodes are a thing of the past for both of us.

 

[Jameshow]

I've got a cold are a couple of paracetamol ok ..asking for a friend obviously!

 

[kingrollo]

Back from a consult with the aneurysm surgeon; ( drop dead gorgeous - ! ) @ the hospital and transpires I have not two aortic aneurysms as I thought on previous findings, but seven - !
Open surgery booked for sometime in the next three months and along with the surgery for my inguinal hernia, sometime in the next six months, I'll be seeing a bit more of the inside of hospitals than I have in the last sixty years - !
The only things I'm not looking forward to are the recovery times of several weeks each. I understand why it has to be done, but I just want to get on with life - !
Just hope that the operations don't clash with our busy social programme in March & April - !

Best wishes big man - take it easy.
That's some serious surgery. My dad had that in his Late 70s - he was on the borderline of being too old. Recovery took him a while but he had a good few years after that.

 

[simongt]

Pain killers are fine for short term acute pain. The problems arise when they are taken long term, as regular as 3 meals a day.

As was my experience when I broke my leg.
The painkillers were causing constipation, so I was also taking something else to counteract the constipation.

 

[simongt]

warm gloves would not remotely help my version of raynaulds - I would need to warm the tops of my arms and my neck, or at least stop these parts from getting cold, as coldness around these parts (esp in the summer) cause my fingers, and sometimes my nose to turn white then become very painful when the colour comes back
Bare hands in the snow is never a problem, they can get cold and painful like anyone else's, but never the whiteness, the blood getting cut off to my fingers seems to have nothing to do with my hands getting cold
- do your fingers turn white during your episodes?

Accoring to a Rya Mears documentary I watched a few years ago, if you get cold hands, plunge them in cold water. This may sound counter intuitive, but according to the crew on the doc., it works.
But don't think any of them had Raynaud's. I know that when my hands are cold, one thing NOT to do is put them in even warm water and definitely not in hot.
Very unpleasant sensations for several minutes unti the temperature equlibriates.

 

[Marchrider]

Accoring to a Rya Mears documentary I watched a few years ago, if you get cold hands, plunge them in cold water. This may sound counter intuitive, but according to the crew on the doc., it works.
But don't think any of them had Raynaud's. I know that when my hands are cold, one thing NOT to do is put them in even warm water and definitely not in hot.
Very unpleasant sensations for several minutes unti the temperature equlibriates.

It has been an interesting thread for me this, I was diagnosed with Raynaulds 10 / 15 years ago, it is a minor problem than I can easily avoid. And I have always thought my version of Raynaulds was the only version, so was surprised to read @roubaixtuesday version. But in fact his is the normal version and it is me that has a somewhat unusual version, not unheard of but far from common.

with me by body can fooled by a cold draught on my upper arms and / or neck that my core temperature has dropped and then in some mad physiological response it cuts off my blood flow to my extremities to protect my core from any further cooling. And for whatever reason this only happens in the hottest of summer weather. (only gets my nose and fingers, with others it can affect feet too)

I can still get cold hands during the winter, in fact it happened yesterday, stopped at the side of the road got my hands under the armpits to get them wrmed, but even here my fingers never turned white or endured the intense pain when they warmed up as I would experience with white fingers in the summer.

so my raynaulds seems to have no relation to having cold hands

 

[Ming the Merciless]

https://www.raynauds.org/2021/04/16/can-you-train-for-cold-tolerance/

 

[roubaixtuesday]

https://www.raynauds.org/2021/04/16/can-you-train-for-cold-tolerance/

Decades of commuting suggests building up tolerance doesn't work for me!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Decades of commuting suggests building up tolerance doesn't work for me!

You commuted with a your hands in a warm bucket of water 😳

 

[roubaixtuesday]

You commuted with a your hands in a warm bucket of water 😳

Well, one study says hands warm, body cold, and the other says hands cold to acclimatise, so it's not consistent...

However, I've tried both: hands cold before I got electric gloves and hands warm after.

Neither has worked.

 

[fossyant]

Popped to the pharmacy to top up on the pain killers. One pack of 32 co-codamol, and then was given 96 pack of 400mg ibuprofen. Ninety Six.

That's going to keep me going a while.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That's going to keep me going a while.

Another 96 years …

 

[fossyant]

Another 96 years …

Not at the current rate, 3 weeks

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Not at the current rate, 3 weeks

Blimey I will not have reached even 20 ibuprofen over my full lifetime