I got no relief from Tramadol at all. It is a narcotic or very similar, but as I understand, it has been formulated in a way to reduce the incidence of physical dependency and minimize tolerance so it doesn't require increasing dosages the way regular narcotics do. It also means it doesn't work for everyone or for all pain, the way regular narcotics typically work for most everything.
I can't remember if you talked about it, but how have you recovered from your surgery? Doing ok?
Gabapentin worked great for me, for about 6 months. Took away the facial nerve pain, essential tremors in my hands, burning in my feet. I just switched to Lyrica last week, and it isn't working as well as the Gabapentin worked initially. But we decided to try it due to some side effect issues I have with Gabapentin. I might have to just up the dosage if the Lyrica doesn't work better. Tramadol seems to help with all of my pain, which is why I'm tempted to just go with it instead of all the rest. Guess I'll see what my rheumatologist advises next week.
I have so many different issues at this point that it isn't worth listing. Let's just say that not much in my body works well. The one part of my body that never hurts is my elbow (unless I bang it on something).
Waaaaaaaaay ahead of ya. I'm this close to a mumu.
Your nights of debauchery in Tijuana are finally catching up with you.
When I was 14 my family took a trip first to San Francisco then down the PCH, through TJ and to Ensenada. That is as much time as I've spent in TJ. When I lived in San Diego I never went at all. I was over 21 when I started living there and saw TJ as a place for 18-20 year olds to go and drink.
I haven’t really heard it used that way. I get it when you’re talking about how much money insurance or whatever is going to pay and how much you’ll be left paying “out of pocket” but to describe a person out for the day? Yeah that’s annoying.
Yeah it is a thing in business circles for whatever reason. Irritating AF.
I work at home, and on days I'm not going anywhere, I am in a "lounger" aka muumuu. Comfort supreme.
I hate that too. But I have to say it's better than the clueless gits just driving and talking, oblivious to everything else around them.
It would have never occurred to me to do that.
Yep. All of'em. It's my contention that there are very few actual traffic accidents. I would wager that 90% of "accidents" are the results of idiots being idiots in traffic and are therefore fully avoidable.
There are a few YT channels that show "idiots in cars" and when I'm board I'll watch a few. There is definitely a handful of common scenarios that lead to most of the accidents and none of them involve people having "accidents" per se. It's all either negligence or willful disregard for safety. So often what they show is one driver doing something stupid and another driver having all the opportunity in the world to avoid it but stubbornly charging headlong into an accident because they're "right" so they aren't going to slow down, back off, move over, or any number of things that could prevent an "accident."
