Fell and broke my back in five places

Yes I am being taken care on that end but then it's just what ever is around. Not all that good. About all it does is keep my mind coping with all that is going on.

Some days I eat good but most I eat just once a day. I don't eat junk food but my body don't seem to get nutrients from the food I do eat. The wife and I are thinking some other things are going on. Most days I am just so weak. My wife say I need to stop being so hard headed about taking the pain meds.

 

Sucks, so you've smoked before on more than one occasion? You're familiar with the feeling of it?

 

Yes been messing with it since the early 70s.

 

https://youtu.be/2IU9emzBDRA

 

That was interesting. Now I need to go get a good back massage.

 

So I've already watched like 5 of those vids now...something about snapping joints back into place

 

Yeah, seems pretty cool. Not sure but I think it's a different way of chiropractic procedure, or just another form of it.

 

Sept 16 at 10:30. Finally have an appointment to see a Neo surgeon. 5 months, damn good thing they were nothing seriously wrong with me.




The morphine sucks a big one. Dr put me on it 07/07 and he gave me enough for 16 days at 3 a day. I just checked 9/2 and I have 5 pills left. The most I have taken in a day is 2. About 2 months back I went off the pain meds to see just how bad things were and made it to the 4th day and was down on the bed. About three weeks ago I went off the pain meds again and made it to the late 4th day and could take no more. Even with the morphine the pain it still way the hell up there but the mind can deal with it most of the time.

That video was good. I only wish I could go and have them pop a few bones and all be good. I would like nothing more to be able to go see a few chiro friends I know. I just don't see one being able to pop anything, 4 of the 5 vertebrates have multiple fractures. One thing that came about a month back is now when I sit or tilt my upper body sideways the bottom of my rib cage touches and grinds against the top of my hip bones. FUN! Just part of what happens when the vertebrates are crushed and my spine being tilted in the wrong direction. The damage to the vertebrates are on the front side of the spine.

As of today I have lost 53 pounds in all since March 24. In March I was at 187 and now 134. The weight loss and the rib thing along with abdominal pain is all part of this many crushed vertebrates. Went back to the Dr last Sat and he changed up one of my meds. Took me off the Gabapentin as it was doing zip, he put me on Skelaxin 800mg a Muscle relaxant. The Muscle spasms are 24/7 from the waste to the neck. The Muscle spasms are better unless I put my self in a situation. Not gone just better. I am hoping if I get the spasms under controll that the pain might be better. He also refiled the morphine. My Dr is trying to get me appointment to see Radiological Intervention before the 16th. He is also doing a lot of test for the weight loss thing to make sure something else is not going on. It's weird what a lot of bad pain can cause your body to do. My blood presure is still fliping around, yesterday my pulse was hanging around 47 to 50 bpm most of the day. I stand and walk around my top number goes low 87 to 90 or so and pulse stays around 65 to 70. I then sit and check it again right away and the top goes back to around 120 but the pulse drops back to the upper 40s. Today all seams to be good on tha part.

163 days since this happen and it feels like years.

 

Stone, hope the appt on the 16th got you a diagnosis and plan for treatment. With the spasms you are having, sounds like what my sis went through when the cancer had eaten one of her vertebre. After surgery to fix her back, she was good (from the back pain anyway). I have my pain issues, but nothing compared to you. Really hope the docs can get you fixed up.

 

your source for this please?
morphine does not thin your blood causing hypotension.
"blood thinners" taken to "thin" ones blood such aspirin, coumadin, plavix or xarelto... dont cause low blood pressure. and they dont actually thin your blood, they essentially cause it to be slippery, each in different parts of the clotting cascade to prevent coagulation of blood cells.
opiates, like morphine cause low BP because they are central nervous system depressants, they can slow breathing, thinking, speech, reflexes, heart rate and drop BP....

 

update?

 

Update??