Bladder pain
As of today I have been bedridden for two and a half days. I have missed two days of work again. The hours blur into each other - I can’t believe I can say I’ve missed two days of work. I swear it feels like I just got home from work…but that was Wednesday afternoon. Right now, it’s Friday afternoon.
Hi. That’s me. I look so much older when the pain has been beating me up. You can actually see a progression - I’ve been keeping track:
If you mouse over the Daily Mugshot photo above, a set of controls will appear, and you can pause the stream and even go forward or backward manually through the photos.
Today the endometriosis pain is hitting at my bladder much harder than it was yesterday. Today it’s ALL bladder.
If I didn’t have confirmed endo on the thin tissue between the bladder and the abdominal wall (bladder reflection), I’d seriously think I had a bladder infection.
With the pain in this location, the Tylenol 3 isn’t doing as well as it usually does. The pain is not blotted out.
Sure, the pain is dulled by the Tylenol 3, but it’s still nagging. It’s 1pm and I’ve had two Tylenol 3 pills already today. I’m ready for another. I just took 600mg Ibuprofen to augment the Tylenol 3.
It’s hard to do anything. I can’t sit or lay down for too long because the bladder is so angry, I have to keep getting up and going to the bathroom. Makes it hard for the drugs to keep me knocked out, when my bladder is screaming through the drugs, “HEY! WAKE UP! OMG I’M GOING TO EXPLODE DOWN HERE!”
Ugh.