I feel like I’m wearing heavy boots on both feet. My left foot felt almost like it was burning on the sole when I got up, but now that subsided to the numbness of yesterday, only a bit more severe. My lower right thigh is more painful, and my right foot is now showing a distinct propensity to turn outward. It’s hard to keep the sole flat on the floor.
The Detrol LA seems to work as advertised from the get go.
The Tegretol seems to be working finally. There are still spasms but their frequency and violence is much reduced. There are some side effects: slight dry mouth, slight stomach upset. Neither is at all severe. I have not eaten anything yet this morning.
I can trigger the lower abdomen pain by raising my right arm only. However, the effect is not immediate, nor does it occur when I’m sitting. It only happens when I’m standing. If I raise my right arm to shoulder level the weakness and pulsating pain start at a low level maybe 20 or 30 seconds after I lift the arm. A fully elevated arm will trigger the same milder (but severity increases over time) reaction after 10 or 15 seconds.
I was unclear as to when the abdominal pain occurs full time. It happens when I’m standing and my posture isn’t perfect (i.e., I’m leaning forward on my crutches), or sitting leaning forward, or on either side or my stomach when prone. I’m OK standing straight, sitting with good posture or on my back prone.
The stairs (a flight of 12 lower, a small landing, and 3 upper) are increasing difficult and I suspect will become impossible in a day or two. I made two trips down and up yesterday and they were slow and very difficult. I use a single crutch and the heavy banister as assistive aids. I always have a brace on when on the steps and I think starting in my trip down in the next 1/2 hour, I’ll use braces on both knees.
Most of the work going up seems done by my left (banister) arm; essentially I pull myself up. I back down, so that a knee buckle doesn’t pitch me forward down the steps. A serious buckle and I seem to have at least one a trip just forces me down on steps I’ve already passed. I’m now afraid of the steps.
Right now the lower patella area of my right knee is throbbing at about 4 out of 10 pain level. This is new, started a few minutes ago as I sit here at the computer with good posture (i.e., no abdominal pain). It’s about a 4 out of 10 and I don’t have the slightest idea what it is or what’s causing it. It’d be nice if it just as mysteriously stops.
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