I am so sorry that a couple of you are also in pain with your back and neck. It is so odd that I did not hurt mine in the farm duties but going to the store. Buying in bulk is good for saving money but bad for the back. There is part of my injury that may be due to the injury 2 years ago when I fell down stairs and nearly broke the left knee. At the time, I didn’t have any health insurance and it took a year to get better. The knee was torn inside the knee cap. Last night, there was swelling in the calf around and underneath the knee so there may be more problems that just the back injury. Since I do have health insurance, I may go in if it doesn’t get better soon. Of course, being a new year, the deductible is not met, so it will cost a lot of money.
Chiropractic has helped so many times and a good chiropractor is worth his weight in gold. Chiropractic has not helped the knee much. Tumeric over the past two years, has done the most good and relieved the pain and helped heal whatever is wrong in it. I also take some Chinese herbs that act as an anti-inflammatory, without side effects, addiction, or killing my liver. Lately though my knee has been giving me more discomfort. Part of the problem, is my husband has not been able to lift anything since his surgery. The animal food bags, dog food bags, scratch, and all of it is heavy and our property is steep and uneven. This lack of stable footage is hard on my knee. We have tons of steps going up to the area as well. So the yard is not kind to my bad knee. Normally, with twisting my back out, there should not be the degree of swelling in the knee and calf So, after last night, with the area of the knee and calf so swollen, there may be two things going on.
I will go for an x-ray if it continues to swell, to see what I am dealing with. It helps to have a diagnosis. I just don’t use the high powered drugs that kill your liver. I am very sensitive to pain pills. I am out for hours with one, I cannot function using them. I choose to have some pain, versus be completely dysfunctional. There is a level of pain, where pain pills become necessary, so I do understand that. The main point is try to take them for as little a time as possible. Try to go longer in between doses if possible and take the less addicting ones.
An example is Vicodin. Try a half tablet to see if it will work before you take a whole one. See if you can go 8 hours instead of 6 hours between doses. Take Magnesium and Calcuim to help with muscle pain. The Chinese herbs I take work well except for the knee this time. The knee is really nasty. Tumeric has really kept me going with knee pain until this week. I increased the dosage last night to see if that works. This morning its hard to tell yet. You have to experiment to see what works. Sometimes great pain takes a much greater dose of alternative medicine to do the job.
It is important to rest the limb. I know its really tough with farms and family. When you are down with pain, it is time to ask your friends, family, and husband to do more. We have a man who lives on the property, this being a three family plot. We have the main house, then there is a studio and one bedroom the landlord rented out. I asked our friend who lives in the studio to take the trash down the long drive way to the road and to carry some feed up to the chicken coop. I normally do it all but I needed help and asked for it. That is hard to ask for help with chores. Often we are always doing for others, but will not ask for help when we need it. When you laid up is a good time to let others give you blessings. I also prayed for myself when often I don’t. We always pray for others but often don’t include ourselves. Since we often are important to the family cell, if we are down, it certainly impacts our family. Let people know you need prayer as well. Prayer does help heal and does help pain. I envision myself and those I pray for being bathed in healing white light. I see the light bathing the area that is hurt or painful. I also pray for comfort and ease of pain when praying. God heals but not always on our time frame. Sometimes we do not get healing when we need it and its hard to understand. That is when Faith comes in. God is always there beside you in the pain helping you to get through it. So for those of you in pain as I am, know that God is there.
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