Today turned into a 'pause' day.
I had been 'pushing' myself harder last week, trying to build up muscle, but I finally figured out I was having an adverse reaction to the 'new' pain meds I was taking. Just trying to get the loom dressed over the weekend was...not much fun.
But I talked the pharmacist, then my family doctor and last night I got a new pain medication. The pharmacist advised that I wean off the old medication, but that I could start the new one now if I felt comfortable with that. Not having *any* pain medication was not an appealing path forward so I reduced the old to one capsule and took one of the new. I can't say that last night was very successful, but I expect it will take about 5 days to clear my system of the old and then another couple of weeks to tell if the introductory dose of the new will be sufficient, while I wait for the muscle and joint pain to fade (as the old med clears my body.)
Pain is the angry toddler of health issues, I think. If 'too much' is a trigger, it's hard to know when you have tipped over into trigger territory, usually until it is too late. Yesterday I had several potential triggers - we got our Covid vaccines, then I walked way too much around Costco picking up a few things we wanted to stock up on. Then I went to the pharmacy to pick up the new meds and wound up standing longer than I should have after trekking through Costco. When I got home I wanted to finish getting the loom set up before I took a nap.
In the end I didn't do everything I wanted, but the loom is threaded and sleyed, ready to be tied up.
However, a friend emailed the other day and asked if we could have a (zoom) visit, and we will do that this afternoon. In the meantime I have a bin of towels hemmed, ready for pressing so I think I'm going to go do that now and then I can clear the worktable off and do the zoom there.
Plus I ran out of my oat bars so I was going to get them done this morning, but a night filled with too little sleep means I slept in (finally!) and the morning has evaporated. It isn't as though I don't have other things I can eat, but the bars are non-allergen and I can grab one for a quick snack if I am feeling peckish. Maybe after the Zoom...
However, the treadlings for the new warp are generated, all I need to do is load them into the laptop, tie up, wind bobbins, then weave my samples. I'm thinking I'll put off wet finishing the towels I just took off the loom and do the samples with that load so I can see what I've got. And then I can begin writing the article.
Looks I have a full calendar - or, at least, as full as I can anticipate while I hope like hell I can find pain meds that don't make things worse while I try to get better...
2 comments:
That made me tired just reading it - you got a LOT done! I hope your new pain meds work out well for you, and that you don't have much of a reaction to your recent vaccine.
Hi Laura. My husband knows all about pain because he has a lot of problems including osteoarthritis and a steel nail up through his knee and thigh after an accident some years ago.
I don't know if you are open to some alternate therapies, and that's up to you to decide. But my husband wanted to get off the morphine patches he was on for the pain - we both wanted that.
He was advised two alternate medicines; one called Coryber and the other called P.E.A. They are in pill form ( we call then tablets here in Australia). They were advised by our naturopath.
My husband began with weaning himself off the morphine (like you are doing) and onto the alternatives.
He is now (a year later) off all morphine and only on the alternatives. He is more "present" now without the morphine. He is no longer reliant on it either, which is a good thing. I struggled with the use of the morphine from the beginning but felt it was my husbands choice because nobody but you can know the level of your pain. But I am glad he is off it and I did encourage the change.
No matter what you choose, good on you for weaning yourself off drugs that were perhaps not the best option for you anymore.
I am a member of the Weaving Academy and see you in the forums and ZOOM meetings now and then. Glad you are back to weaving and I wish you all the best for your health.
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