I am an 18 year old male who is suffering from a very painful back injury (Sciatica). I was prescribed Valium to help with my severe pain at night and to help me relax and I’ve been having a VERY difficult time with the Valium. Alright, two Friday nights ago I took it for the first time, and like exactly 30 mins later I felt exhausted, It was weird my back was still pretty sore, but I was so tired it was like I didn’t really care lol so I went to sleep pretty quickly. So I slept like 9 hours straight through. However, when I woke up Saturday morning I felt very very bad. I felt like I hadn’t been to sleep at all, I felt rundown like I’d just been running the past 9 hours. I felt so out of it like the effects were still on me but at the same time not because my back was hurting SOOO bad, but I figured it was just because I had never taken the medication before, and that I would get used to it soon. However, for the rest of the weekend It made me feel the same just very rundown and crappy. I felt so bad on Sunday that I didn’t even go to my families July 4th BBQ I just felt SOOO tired all the time. And this continued into Monday. The only problem was is that Monday I had stuff I had to do. I had to meet with my trainer at the gym and try to stretch and workout. So on Monday it is STILL making me feel very crappy, but I figure I have to go try to exercise and try to do my physical rehab. So I leave and I’m driving and I feel very weird driving. I feel unable to concentrate and just feel weird driving. And at the gym things only got worse, I head to the ab room so I can do my back stretches and some ab work. Now I know I’m not what you would call an athlete I suppose, but I’m in shape enough to stretch without getting winded, but on this day I started my stretches and almost right away I felt like all the air had been sucked out of my lungs, and I was huffing and puffing and gasping and I hadn’t even really started anything yet. It was terrible and on top of it my back was killing me so I just told my trainer what was going on and I just went home to rest for the rest of the day and see what happens tomorrow. Well, Tuesday comes and it’s the same thing, and than Wednesday, the same again. So on wednesday I come home from another horrible attempt at trying to work out and my mother is a retired nurse so I go home to her and voice my concerns (as I have been through this whole injury of mine) and tell her that its been continuing and what happend at the gym and while I was drive and how much my back was currently hurting. We have a talk and she suggests that perhaps I can break a pill in half and see how I feel after that. So that night I do that and it definitely seemed to take longer to take effect but it did take full effect it seemed after about an hour. My back was hurting, but I was exhausted and I fell asleep. I only slept about 5 and a half/6 hours. I woke up thursday feeling horrible still. So that day I had a physical therapy appointment, so I decide to skip the gym. I drag myself out of the house exhausted and in extreme pain and head to therapy. Therapy seemed to go alright, my back hurt pretty bad the whole time and I was huffing and puffing and sweating like Justin Bieber in prison, but I got through it. When I get home I go to tell my mom about how I was feeling and I guess earlier while she was cleaning her bathroom she found a bottle of 5 left over pain pills (Vicodin) from when I had my wisdom teeth removed about 3 or 4 months back. So she suggests to me that if I am really fed up with the Valium, and can’t hack it anymore that maybe I should try the Vicodin that night to see how it works and if it works then perhaps I should tell my doctor. So that night I decide that I am in fact fed up with that zonked feeling and decide to try the Vicodin. The instructions on the bottle were 1 to 2 tablets every 4 to 6 hours. So I take 1 pill and in about an hour I’m pretty tired and my back isn’t really hurting and I’m falling asleep. After sleeping more than 8 hours I wake up and after completely waking up I’m actually feeling okay, and pretty refreshed. My back is hurting pretty bad, but I have absolutely NO zonked out rundown exhausted feeling. I actually felt like I could drive and workout. So I’ve been doing this now for the whole weekend and I’m feeling a lot better. My back isn’t hurting at night and I’m able to get VERY good sleep and not feel terrible the day after, so I have been able to catch up on all my physical rehab this weekend. So my question is I should tell my doctor this tomorrow right? And do you believe in your best opinion that a doctor might agree that this along with the MRI I want is a good course of action, because this has really been helping me lately, and I want to know what is causing my sciatica. Please give me your opinions and advice on this and other sciatica treatment solutions, please. Thank you for your time.
@ babygirl: Wow…..If I didn’t need medication for my injury, then why would I even be asking about this? If I didn’t need to take pills wouldn’t that mean that I would be better? THINK!!!!
@ swordfish: Thanks for your time and answer =]

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