It has been a long time since I've posted anything, but I've been feeling the need to come back to a place where I can express my problems and people understand. I have several chronic illnesses and a few of them are flared up and bothering me now......
I have osteoarthritis in several locations, but my lower back has it most advanced in L2, L3, & L4. It has been hurting for several days now off & on, but today it is worse. I am in quite a bit of pain right now and my pain meds aren't helping very much at all. The thing of it is, is I don't have a clue as to what I did to cause it to flare up, but it's bad this time. I'm in the bed with a pillow under my knees and legs and my knees up towards my chest and I'm getting very, very little relief.
In addition to my back being flared up, my irribable bowel syndrome is causing a great deal of discomfort in my abdomen as well. Due to both of these problems, I haven't been able to sleep all night and had very little sleep Thursday night. Thursday night I was up every 30mins - 1 hour. I'm just really frustrated right now and thought I would try to post here and maybe it would help my feelings a little knowing that ya'll would understand. My family are supportative, but I often feel like they see and hear this soooooo much that sometimes, I just don't want to have to tell them; "I'm sick". I have things I really need to be doing, but I guess those things will have to wait once again...
Thanks for listening / reading / understanding.