31st May – More on pain

Bear with me – I am still learning how to do this blog lark and having just read through the earlier ones (sorry about the typos – I could have sworn it was error free) I see that there is a date to the left of each post so I don’t really need to start off with one on the heading.  And now I’m rambling:  Or Gabbling.  Put it down to the Gabapentin.

That is the drug which is giving me some relief from the pain but my new best friend Dr Brownlee has suggested I ease back from the dose I’m on (which is quite high).  So, having done this exercise before and failed, perhaps because I reduced the doses too quickly, I will do so very, very slowly.  And I’m going to go into the exact doses just in case there is anyone out there reading this who is going through the same exercise.  I was on 900mg+900mg+1000mg over 24 hours.  As requested I dropped the nighttime dose to 900mg (2.7g every 24 hours).  And Claudia sidled round the corner.  But just a quick strike.  Monty has had a go too and the Esther made a fleeting appearance.  I cannot say if I was doing anything any different that may have disturbed their slumbers, and the appearance was so quick.  OK.  I can cope with that.  Let’s see what happens over the next few days.  I find it hard to believe  that the 100mg drop makes a difference to a slumbering snake.  There’s a ratio or a fraction or a percentage in there somewhere and those who know me can work that out.  I can only go down (or up) in 100mg amounts.

The next post will be about the Nerve Conduction tests. I think.  What appeared to be randomly applied sticky things (which had lost their stick) a tape measure (the sort I have in my sewing box) and loads of wires.  I HATE wires.