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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 306531" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>Boy Janet. Do I hear you! It's really weird how as this progresses, you sort of suppress the pain so you can go about your business (I try to avoid the narcotic pain medications as I have horrible problems with dizziness and nausea when I take them)</p><p></p><p>Back in March, after a change in my dosage of APs, I got so dizzy that I basically folded up and fell in my kitchen.</p><p></p><p>I knew right away that I'd broken several toes and possibly a bone in my foot. The ER xrayed my ankle as well because of how swollen and bruised it was. Luckily it wasn't broken, but the doctor and I were both stunned at the amount of bone spurs and loss of joint space.</p><p></p><p>He outright asked me how I was walking on the thing! I told him that it seemed okay once I got the stiffness worked out of it when I got up in the AM or stood up after sitting for a while.</p><p></p><p>I seem to have some weird ability to suppress the pain and just get stiffer and stiffer. My gait is really bad. I almost waddle when I walk due to the legs and the back (I have spinal stenosis as well--it runs in my family and I suffered a compression fracture in my back years ago when I fell off a horse).</p><p></p><p>Of course, the great thing with the back is they tell you in one breath that they can hopefully fix it with surgery, but in the next breath they tell you there's a big chance it will recur in a few years. Sort of like 'why bother?'</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 306531, member: 1963"] Boy Janet. Do I hear you! It's really weird how as this progresses, you sort of suppress the pain so you can go about your business (I try to avoid the narcotic pain medications as I have horrible problems with dizziness and nausea when I take them) Back in March, after a change in my dosage of APs, I got so dizzy that I basically folded up and fell in my kitchen. I knew right away that I'd broken several toes and possibly a bone in my foot. The ER xrayed my ankle as well because of how swollen and bruised it was. Luckily it wasn't broken, but the doctor and I were both stunned at the amount of bone spurs and loss of joint space. He outright asked me how I was walking on the thing! I told him that it seemed okay once I got the stiffness worked out of it when I got up in the AM or stood up after sitting for a while. I seem to have some weird ability to suppress the pain and just get stiffer and stiffer. My gait is really bad. I almost waddle when I walk due to the legs and the back (I have spinal stenosis as well--it runs in my family and I suffered a compression fracture in my back years ago when I fell off a horse). Of course, the great thing with the back is they tell you in one breath that they can hopefully fix it with surgery, but in the next breath they tell you there's a big chance it will recur in a few years. Sort of like 'why bother?' [/QUOTE]
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