I'm so sorry Pesky! OUCH!!! Have you tried ibuprofen in place of pain pills? I can't take it, but sometimes if there's imflamation, etc. it will work better.

Do you like to read? Send DH out for magazines and books LOL. Take it easy and I do hope you are feeling better soon. And like you said, at least there is a silver lining!

tina

I am so sorry, Pesky! I feel for you . . . literally. I think the most frustrating thing ~ other than the obvious, pain~ is that it always seems to happen when we have something important to do or finish. Hope you're feeling much better by tomorrow morning! In the mean time, enjoy being waited on by your DH,
Lynn (who's now propped up in bed and in pain, after throwing my left sacroiliac joint out of whack, while in the middle of reorganizing my laundry room . . . I don't have time for this!!!)

tina is right...pain pills often do a poor job at best of masking the pain. what you want is something that actually has a healing component ...that would be an anti-inflammatory. It will "do " something . You can take what is known as a pain cocktail. You take one aspirin and one Ibuprofen and one Tylenol. Do this every 4 hours. They work together in a synergistic way...no overdose in other words and the complimentary action of the 3 meds gives you way more bang for your buck. Do this of course only if you have no stomach problems or allergies etc to the 3 meds. Good Luck and be careful !! c

pesky, those are the moments I hate the inescapable linearity of time, iykwim. One second before, everything was fine, you were on your way to do something, and then BAM. Your immediate future is changed, you'll have to reconsider the safety of that step, you'll have to adjust your timeframes for finishing projects, etc.

But to help you feel better about what you're going through, read the thread I posted about Electron Boy...

pesky and lynne, hope you both will be feeling better soon.

OUCH! I'm sorry you fell. Rest and I hope you're feeling better soon.

Lynn - Hope you're feeling better soon too.

Oh no Lynn! I have fallen in love with my ice packs. I had one behind me and one on my propped up knee. Propping up my knee didn't help my back too much, tho.

Taking a nice little cocktail of vicodin & ibuprofen. Because of stomach issues, I can't take much anti-inflamatories, but a little will be ok. DH is encouraging me to stay home tomorrow, too...but I don't know, we'll see. I'm not in the field this week, office only, but I'll see how I feel tomorrow. Meantime, DH says I have to use the front door until he can fix the step at the garage.

pesky, It sounds like a train wreck, not a pity train!

Hope you and lynne feel whole and healthy soon!

You're entitled to some pity for sure, what a setback; annoying but do rest up
and let your body heal. and keep us posted !

I hope you're feeling better today. Sometimes the 2nd day after exercise or an injury is even more tender so take advantage of another rest day.

Once while trying to be helpful, my DH aligned the door mat below the kitchen to garage door. Seems reasonable. Except when you go out and step down from that door you don't land in the middle but off to the left. That's why I had the mat pulled over towards the left & not aligned. I didn't know he had adjusted the mat and my foot landed right on the edge of the mat and twisted my ankle. After mumbling some words I shouldn't even know, I hobbled to my car, had to pick up a sheet cake (!) for his church activity, & deliver it to the church limping.

The mat is now always in position, pulled to the left, not aligned with the door opening.

I hope you are better soon
but
don't push it, take your time and make sure you are ok.

Today I'm feeling like I was hit by a truck! Honestly, I think it's worse today. But then, I did just get out of bed. I took a pill before bed and slept hard, but I do recall moaning in pain during the night, just couldn't wake up.

I'm debating about going in to work, but I think I'll wait one more day. More ice I think.

I remember years ago when I was in a bad car accident. I hurt pretty bad (had to be taken by ambulance to the ER) and the docs said I'd hurt even worse in the coming days. I didn't think it was possible, but OH YEAH...man, that was horrific! I honestly didn't think that this stumble was so bad, but in retrospect, it was one of the worst I've taken.

Thanks everyone for your sympathy. Hhireno, so sorry to hear about your ankle. It's one of those double edged swords, isn't it, having a 'helpful' mate. Lynn, hope you're feeling better today.

It's always worse the few days following. I'm like you, ibupropen sometimes causes me severe stomach aches where I end up throwing up, so I get hydrocodone for bad pain, then try to take 2 ibuprophen with food a couple of hours later. I just pray my tummy can handle it though! Just don't be taking any tylenol though, it's already in the Vicodin and it will hurt your liver.

You must be in "happy land" from the Vicodin. It always puts me in a happy mood, especially when I have a cup of coffee with it.

Hmmm....must go fall off th porch again. lol

Wow, pesky, I'm sorry to hear you feel worse. Sometimes the things we do to not fall are just as damaging as if we were actually to fall. I had something similar happen and ended up with a stress fracture on the unaffected foot because I'd favored the hurt foot so much after the event, I torqued the unaffected foot into an injury of its own. Can't win for losing sometimes.

Hope you start on the recovery part of the graph soon...