Nerve Pain. It is really getting me down. All the medication I take helps with the day to day pain fine but the nerve pain is unending. I take 20mg amitriptylene at night but my legs and feet, particularly my right side seems in a constant state of feeling it is about to get cramp. My podiatrist comments on how tight my calf muscles are yet I do exercises that stretch those muscles every day. I wake up in the morning and I am like an old lady, the way I move.
How do you learn to focus on other things when even when you are sewing or reading or teaching, the pain pushes to the front of your mind and ends up distracting you from what you are trying to concentrate on.
I know, from what I have read, that learning to alter the focus helps us cope with the pain and sensations we feel. It will help block them out.
I have my first appointment with the Pain Management Psychologist on Friday. Not actually looking forward to it having had bad experiences with the Sports Psychologist. All she did was make me feel even worse until I felt like crying the whole time. Don't want to go through this again with someone else. They delve around in your mind and stir up things that are best left and leave you with things and no way of dealing with them. I will give it a try but am so wary I think it might be an uphill job and more of a battle than I need to face.
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