I've been a chronic pain sufferer since 2001 when an accident left me with a damaged spine. This site is where I intend write about the effects of chronic pain not just on myself, but of those around me.
Current Dosage: 80mg
It’s now week 17 of the OxyNorm reduction plan and as you can see from my current dosage, things haven’t gone to plan at all in the past three weeks. (I should be on 65mg!).
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Sleep was most definitely not an option last night. All in all I think I managed about two hours sleep tops. I was suffering with the stomach bug, and it’s severely affecting the absorption of the OxyNorm so I was getting withdrawal type symptoms on top of everything else. But on a more positive note, my back had not reacted to yesterdays activities as much as I had expected.
For day two, we had the following to look forward to:
We were scheduled for a 5pm finish, but I was feeling so rough I doubted whether I would make it through the whole day. I decided to go for a cooked breakfast over at Toms with two of the other guys and just hoped that I could keep it down (and in !!). Tom’s is the name of the restaurant attached to St. Thomas’ Hospital and apparently serves the same food as served to the patients.