unusual and interesting kinds of pain

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my hangover has manifested itself in my cheekbones, and only my cheekbones.

― rainy, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

when my brain doesn't want me to think about something (like: my depression, right now) it makes my teeth hurt. bad.

― jess, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not so much sinus headaches as bridge-of-nose headaches. What the hell? Plus weird times where I feel a sudden flash in my nervous system somewhere that spreads out like a web, a weird burst.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

also, i have a "heart thing" which acts up at the oddest times (i.e. me moving 800 ton food order across the store yesterday, nothing. me sitting on my fat can all day today, yes.) and proceeds to beat really, REALLY fast, which doesnt even hurt, really, but winds me.

― jess, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the pain is dispersing now, up into my eyebones.

I want to find and eat 800 tonnes of food.

― rainy, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*munch munch* Can't complain if the food is good. :-)

I am currently listening to David Kilgour's Sugar Mouth. I firmly believe this to be an album that heals the sick and raises the dead.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i am currently listening to yrself is steam which is surprisingly good cleaning music.

― jess, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's good everything music. Perhaps I shall listen to it now.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I had a root-canal done the other day and kind of enjoyed it.

― dave q, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

too much coffee >> heart thing, jess

― mark s, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Enough caffeine can make my face twitch. And stress makes my ears hurt.

― bnw, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The heart thing may be what I have - an extra valve in one of your major blood vessels which causes a 'double beat' when it remembers its own existence and starts working. The valve atrophies with general disuse as I understand it so I get the 'heart thing' less and less.

― Tom, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My hangovers go to my knees. I have no idea why. I also get pains in my foot as if someone is slitting them with a razor. Nice.

― alix, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sudden zingy pains in the top of my ears and right armpit. Also the 'heart thing'.

― Anna, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just after starting uni (=walking half an hour each way every day instead of sitting on my arse), I got these intense cramps in my legs, like palls of pain. Every time I got them I thought I was going to die of blood clots. They've stopped now.

― Graham, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My hangovers can often be found in my feet. They don't hurt exactly, but they itch like hell.

― nick, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hmmm, hangover - or fungal infection? You decide.

I currently have great pain in my thighs as if I had spent the whole of last night pole dancing.

― Emma, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pain? What's that?

― Pete, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Root canal work. Pah. That doesn't hurt (much) and you are a wuss dave q. What you want is an ulcer under one of your molars, combined w/a coincidental bout of sinusitis, like I had last year.

― Norman Phay, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

heart thing possibly = affliction the fellas don't get too often which i forget the name of right now? it went undiagnosed for years until i met a female coworker who had a very similar problem. (nb: it's not the coffee mark, becuz i've had it on and off since i was 12. although the coffee has begun to affect me in other ways...)

― jess, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I will show you later Pete.

― Emma, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Frequently suffer from bizarre tooth-aches. Dentist said it again yesterday: I am way too nervous.

― helen fordsdale, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Huzzah! I have finally goaded Emma into a sado-masochist relationship. All these years of nagging haf not been in vain.

― Pete, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

every now and then (never when i think to mention it to a doctor say) i get weird shooting pains in my leg between knee and ankle. i've had them on and off since i was 14. i think it's dehydration, but haven't actually noticed a real correlation with anything.

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete I was just going to push you down the stairs, surely that is not a sexual fetish?

― Emma, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

paging kodanshi...

― jess, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The bits of my skull just behind the bottom part of my ears have just started aching. I feel very faint in general and have started to sweat. I fear that once again the pox is upon me.

― RickyT, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Badger pox? I didn't think that existed til now.

― Nicole, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My nose is hurting now. I must have the wierd wandering pain pox.

― RickyT, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Have you been bit by a badger lately? It might be signs of the onset of were-badgerism.

― Nicole, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh dear. this means that once again i have to look after RickyT and make him toddies *sigh* i'll get the lemons :):)

― katie, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Remember More Position Of the Fortnight 182. That involved being pushed down the stairs but being restrained by elastic. I think you have to be careful no-one breaks their neck, but besides that it looked rather exciting. (Very similar to Position Of The Fortnight 132 - which was the same but in the bath).

― Pete, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i feel of the shite today too. no one to take care me though, badger boy! be a MAN about it and run a few LAPS.

― Coach Jess, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sadly for you Pete I will be fully clad so it will be nothing like any PotF.

― Emma, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If I do LAPS I fear I shall die. I'm feeling so rough I even refused a trip down the pub at lunchtime. This is all very annoying as I was gunna go and see David Thomas And The Two Pale Boys tonight, and there's just no way I could cope with it now.

― RickyT, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What about PotF 98 - which is very similar to PotF 48 but fully clothed. You have to be willing to rip some of your clothes though.

― Pete, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey Rainy remember when you kissed me on the cheek and I said 'that kiss was more like a punch' and you got really offended?

― maryann, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I get your heart thing...in my right calf!

― Maria, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

manny, yeah those were the days... love, violence, custard tarts...

― rainy, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The exquisite pain of yearning for something you can never have. Nothing tops it. Nothing bottoms it.

― Trevor, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm kind of used to pain these days - it's not so unusual or interesting though. It's just a nuisance.

― Kim, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mum of mark s: "How's your back?"
mark s: "Definitely better. The painkillers help a lot, so I'm not stressing about it. And the exercises are beginning to have an actual effect. I'm not sitting thinking I'll never not have pain again."
m1: "That's how some of us have to live our lives, you know."
m2: *sighs* "Yes mum I know. But you're 65. I'm only 41."
m1: "George Harrison was only 58. I've been crying all morning."

― mark s, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eight years pass...

Pain from MS is pretty unique. I feel like I'm rusting.
Last week I felt I was losing my sense of taste.
Feeling a little bit less every day.

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 14:04 (sixteen years ago)

Damn, and I opened up this thread to bitch about getting poison ivy between my fingers. That sucks, Trip Maker.

― M. Loh, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 14:07 (sixteen years ago)

oh jeez :( my best wishes

― vike me down (dyao), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 14:08 (sixteen years ago)

Today is really bad. It's not usually this bad.

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 14:09 (sixteen years ago)

Shit Sean, hope yr okay. Do, uh, herbal remedies help at all?

― Vision Creation Mansun (NickB), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 14:14 (sixteen years ago)

Certainly. But not while I'm on the clock.
It's been so humid in Missouri lately, it really fucks with me. Heat is no good, either.
Could be a rough summer. I just have to remember to take care of myself.
I need to get into a yoga routine for sure.

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 14:17 (sixteen years ago)

Yoga's probably a good call, I think there's lots of benefits to be had from that. Hope tomorrow brings a better day though!

― Vision Creation Mansun (NickB), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 14:23 (sixteen years ago)

Thanks, Nick. I'll be fine. Just having a rough morning and needed to vent.
I've got it pretty good, really. Never woken up blind or anything like that.

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 14:29 (sixteen years ago)

How much of these pains/losses can be gained back after the flare-up or whatever? I remember when I was high-school-ish-aged, people thought all losses from MS were irreversible, but is that still true? Wishing you calm and cooler weather.

― wasting time and money trying to change the weather (Laurel), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 14:37 (sixteen years ago)

Thanks.
Nothing about MS is totally clear. Some people do recover sensations that they'd lost, I think.
I've been on the same Interferon medication for six years (maybe even longer? Can't remember), as long as I am using it I think I'll probably maintain my slow and steady decline.
I'm stable enough that changing my medication is probably a worse idea than just staying with it, even though I kind of hate it.

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 5 May 2010 14:43 (sixteen years ago)

Not trying to second-guess your treatment plan, dude, and I hope it keep working for you...but I had a roommate a while back who was diagnosed at...age 8? and still more or less doing her thing at 28. She gradually got clumsier but then she was never, like, a gymnast or plate-spinner so it wasn't horrible. I think she went off her medication AMA, actually, but she made a lot of life changes to stay on top of things.

― wasting time and money trying to change the weather (Laurel), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 14:53 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

Oh my god, it feels like there's a migraine in my mouth

― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Saturday, 19 June 2010 02:19 (fifteen years ago)

Interferon -> a friend of mine is on a 40 something week course of this to try to get rid of hep c. i hope the side effects arent as bad for you as they are for him. xxpost

― knocking u out like rocky balboa (sunny successor), Saturday, 19 June 2010 06:28 (fifteen years ago)

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