What a crazy last 24 hours. I got all new sand put in my clinitron bed and a new lining that I have been trying to get for 2 months now. That was the good part because it was SOOOO comfortable, and it had had two small leaks in some of the seams.
At 5am the horrid foot spasms began again. I had just had them less than a week ago! Mom worked with me for a couple of hours on and off throughout the night trying to get them to stop, or at least medicate me enough to sleep.
Started with one pain pill. Still screaming and crying in pain. She came back and had to manually clean out my rectum (I was hurting so bad I began to defecate on myself) and if I have stool in my rectum, plus am straining in pain with every spasm, I won’t be able to keep a phenergan suppository in.
So she did, all while I was screaming and crying.
Then a bit later, I’m still screaming. I had soiled myself more, and she had to clean me out AGAIN. She thought I had lost most of the first phenergan with soiling. So she gave me a second one AND a second pain pill. Finally they began to ease after about 30 minutes. All the meds finally knocked me out and allowed me to sleep some. But I had an appointment I had to get up early for to get my cervical injections in my neck for my migraines, and since I had the foot spasms the week before, I was going to ask for injections in my right foot as well. So this appointment I had to make it to come hell or high water, since it was for these exact issues.
So I only got a couple hours of sleep when mom woke me up, and my spasms had just started creeping back up on me about 30 minutes before she woke me up.
I was SOOOOO exhausted AND still very groggy and dopey feeling from all the phenergan mostly. My pain pills don’t really make me dopey, even if I take two.
So I got up in my chair, and normally, slowly with the aid of just my pain pills for some reason the spasms get BETTER after I get up in my chair… the longer I am in it. I took another pain pill (which I was due for) once I got up, with the hopes the spasms wouldn’t bother me all the way to my pain management doctor.
We came dragging our asses in a little late. I was supposed to arrive a bit early to take a half pill of Xanax before the procedure. Because last time, the whole needles in to my cervical spine of my neck made me a bit anxious. But I knew with all the meds I had had to take throughout the night and morning, that taking Xanax would NOT be a good idea. When we got there, they said they had it waiting for me, but I declined it and explained I had had a very rough night with foot spasms and didn’t need to take anything else. By this time, I was still SLIGHTLY groggy.
We went right in to see Dr. Harris in the procedure room, and explained what had been going on. I always have to describe to him like its a new thing, even though he has given me foot injections before, and talked to him about it before. Also had to kind of refresh his memory on why I was getting the neck injections. He just sees SO many patients that I think he forgets all the small details for each one. I can understand, I do that with my customers at work. I talk to SO many, that sometimes when I work with them again, I forget all the details regarding the previous call. Sometimes I can remember if they kind of remind me.
So he (like he has said before) thinks it could be Plantar Facetious. OR… this time he said it could be Tarsal Tunnel, which is similar to Carpal Tunnel of your hands/wrist. I read about it, and honestly, all the symptoms and the way it presents sounds exactly like what it is. It feels like an electrical shock shooting from my heel to my middle toes. It has gotten progressively worse over the years, and when it presents now, it is unbearable and untouchable by even some pretty strong meds. The shooting “spasms” as I call it, only happens in the middle of the night after I have gotten out of my chair and in bed. With each spasm, they start getting closer together in time, lasting longer each time, and stronger each time.
He felt around and found some pretty significant trigger points. Ironically, my foot sensation is dead as a doornail unless one of those spots gets mashed, or when I have the spasms. Otherwise, I can’t feel anything hardly on the foot. So much so, that the doc always forewarns me about how painful the foot injections are and a lot of people cannot even tolerate them. I always kind of laugh, because every time they have injected my foot, I felt NOTHING!
He injected me about 10 times in my foot and covered a much larger area than he had before.
Then I moved on to the neck injections. Now these HURT. Even his assistant, Ron, said “Man he really hit you hard this time!” But thats good. I haven’t had a full fledged migraine since my previous injections 4 months ago. He covered all the areas he mashed that made me cringe. Last time, I had complained a lot about my left shoulder blade, but he didn’t focus on it as much and was injecting a bit higher up. This time he found some spots that he could feel the muscles and tendons were/are really tight, and also made me cringe, and he basically worked his way all the way up the inner portion of my left shoulder blade (toward spine) and one spot he injected made me yell out in pain. It hurt BAD. These injections have anesthetic in them, but that only helps in the general areas he’s working in, so as he moves away, it’s like starting all over again. He went toward the top of my shoulder blade some as well, and then in my actual neck area. This time he asked me and palpated further up in to my hairline. That bony prominence area behind your ear, where normally a hard headband may cause headaches. If I am making this clear. But its more in your skull than neck, and my Migraines radiate from my should blades, up my neck, and in to my head on that left side.
He says “Ok you are going to hear a crunching sound with this one.”
I said, “A crunching sound?”
His assistant said “yes, its behind your ear and it does make a crunching sound.”
Sure enough… he stuck that needle in, in several sticks all around that area and with each one it was a very disturbing “crunching” that sounded like bone crunching. I classified it more disturbing than hearing a tooth get broken when a dentist is pulling it out.
He stuck me at LEAST about 12x that I was aware of in the shoulder, neck, head area.
I am a lot more sore with this round of the cervical injections than I was the first. But I am ok.
So yeah, what a night/day! LOTS of pain… but I hope these will keep me from some, at least for a while, and I am glad I was able to get well enough to make it to the appointment. I was a hot mess and there would have been no way in hell I could have made it if the spasms hadn’t lessened up some toward the time we had to go.
