Feel the burn...

If this is what its like with the lignocaine, I hate to think how it feels straight.

I saw my pain specialist on Saturday and he prescribed a strong pain med-tramadol SR, plus lignocaine gel and Capsaicin cream. I was having a bad day and couldn’t bear him touching me and I felt really bad about it, I was trying so hard not to cry in front of him that I didn’t speak much at all really. I think he guessed that I was in pretty bad pain even though I didn’t say and they also called my physio to talk to her while I was there. He gave me the option of having a peripheral nerve block as well but I am thinking about this before I decide whether to or not to go ahead with it. He offered to do it then and there, but he was running late and I didn’t know what to decide so I chickened out. He has told me just to give them a call before the 10th of Dec if I decide to go ahead and they will fit me in. Now that I know where he will probably inject I can think about it better but I am going to talk to my physio tomorrow and get her opinion to help me decide.

Today I filled the rest of the prescription (got the tramadol on Saturday afternoon but they had to get the creams in). I was instructed to use the lignocaine gel and then the Capsaicin cream on the area that is most sensitive and painful, but to make sure I put the lignocaine on first. Well tonight I got up the courage to try it out, I liberally applied the lignocaine gel, testing to see if I could feel much and then added a bit more just for luck. Then I sparingly applied the capsaicin cream to the same area-not long after the burn started…hmmm so this is going to be interesting. I’m supposed to do this twice a day so I hope it gets better the more you apply it.