New Pills

Antispasmodics are awesome. Seriously. Stomach's calmed down almost completely, only bugging me the tiniest bit if I sneeze or go into hysterical laughter. Which meant I managed to get laid last night, for the first time since this thing started, over three weeks ago. So freaking happy about that. Oh, I was also laughing without being in pain, and it felt really weird, I was that used to laughter being painful.

New painkillers, though, I'm not so happy about. I can't quite work out if they're giving me a tiny bit of pain relief or if it's just that my abdomen no longer hurts and therefore my overall pain level's dropped. The rest of me is still aching and painful (and just after I started typing this my back went super-crazy spasming-pain*) but overall I feel in less pain...I'm thinking that, as with the laughter, I've just gotten so used to abdomen pain that the relief from that feels weird. I think. New painkillers might be helping a tiny bit. But even if they are, the payoff is too much. These are the first pills that have had any kind of effect on me, pain relief or otherwise, and they're making me ridiculously lightheaded, on top of my normal POTS lightheadedness, and have given me such bad dry mouth that I can no longer eat dry food.

But I'm clinging to the hope that side effects and maybe a tiny bit of pain relief means we're on the right track, and that maybe the next step up will be what we're looking for, and that I nearly have working painkillers. :)

Going back to the doctor on Friday, to get a rheumatology referral, as apparently the one I've been waiting on for the past two months never happened. I got a call about an hour and a half after my appointment yesterday telling me that and asking me to come back. This doctor actually checks up on things when I ask her to, and fast, and then bothers to call me and make a new appointment! I love this doctor. I have never seen such competence from a GP before.





*I ran away about a minute after typing that, literally ran up the stairs, screw joint and muscle pain and lightheadedness, and collapsed on the full-body pregnancy pillow on the bed. That pain was so insane, I can't even begin to describe it, but the fact that I ran upstairs to escape it should be description enough. Anyhow, five minutes on my pillow and I was beginning to feel myself again, another ten minutes and my back was fine. Seriously, those things are incredible. I need to stop thinking I can lie on the sofa without dragging my pillow downstairs first.