RE: Overdone it yet again!

[Guest guest]

I'm sorry, I didn't get your name but identify with you oh so well. For me

it was mostly in the early years of my disease but I do still push myself

when I know I shouldn't. I think it's because we so badly want to be able to

still do and act as we would if we were healthy.

I think it's a process that takes years and sometimes never to get over

entirely. And that's what we are here for in part ;0) Another reason my

doctor keeps my pain meds at a fair to limited amount is because since the

early years he knows that if too much medication is used we won't

necessarily listen to our bodies and quit when needed. So, he gives me

enough to keep my pain controlled but not if I do too much and I don't get

more, lol. Sometimes I don't need it and others I sure wish I had more but

am glad he is conservative because pain is our bodies' mechanism to letting

us know when to stop in part.

I hope your swelling goes down quickly and it's doesn't stay bad too long. I

know it's very hard to deal with Still's because our limitations change all

the time. Write more when you can and let us know how you're doing and feel

free to write me privately whenever you like.

Best wishes,

Overdone it yet again!

> Its 4.30 in the morning and I am sitting in my lounge in a lot of pain up

> to my max on pain pills. I had to get out of bed for my partners sake

> because pain meds make me talk a lot of gibberish and its not fair on him

> not to get any sleep. Went into our local village today and instead of

> going on my mobility scooter thought it woukd be a good idea to walk..

> Wrong!

[Guest guest]

rmmcgrave

He He talking when under pain pills now that is never good as you never know

what you may say or give away and so like you I get up also and sit in another

room LOL. Only I do it for me not my wife as she some how has learned to sleep

right threw it most times but its the times I sleep threw it and she dose not I

worry about so getting up keeps the peace ya know (joking as how can one sleep

when there in pain any way I get up to let her sleep with out my consent turning

and tossing in bed .)

 Now about that walk instead of the scooter ride well we all do that now and

then its kind of a flash back to the old I used to and no reason I can not still

but what we forget it we may make it to were ever fine but we seam to forget we

also have to then make it back also. kind of like me using a handicapped parking

pass here do not really need it when I start my outing but by the end of it dang

glad I did use it .

 so feel free to write here any time as some one I bet has felt like you before

and if not they can at lest relate to your pain or feelings

hugs from across the pond

 

The Redneck

Marty G.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

[Guest guest]

I know exactly how you feel about overdoing things. We just don't seem to

learn. The only positive outcome is that we are fighters if we didn't push

ourselves sometimes we would go under to Stills and that would never do.

Hope your night wasn't too long.

Joan U.K.