Feel like my life is ruled by pain

[LargeGlassofRed]

Woke up in agony again, it's been getting worse the last few days, I have pluratic type pain on the lower right side of my chest, been going on for months.
I've got morphine for when it's at it worse which I've been taking the last few days, along with cocktail of ofher stuff,
Feeling completely overwhelmed by it this morning
Suppose to be having a lie in for my birthday but pain is forbidding that.

I hope you are ok. Please update us if you can. I hope you have RL support.

I just saw your update. I am SO sorry. It must be terrible to be so ill and to feel that you are on your own with it. Do you have supportive family / friends? Are your doctors and nurses being kind to you?

how poor you are. hope you are feeling a bit better now. do you find someway to cure your pain? if you don't and also interest in herbal medicine, you can try it. it is good.

So sorry to hear how poorly you are. I hope the high dose steroids knock all that stupid inflammation for six, (gentle hug) and get you better and home. Hospital can be such a lonely boring place to be ill!

Large glass sorry you are still in pain and still in hospital . I hope steroids help - they certainly had a fairly miraculous effect on neuro pain I had which was caused by spinal damage.

I hope MRI helps- it does tend to show where things are pushing Etc in good detail so has generally been a good diagnosis tool. I did find that once you have someone on case who knew what they were doing the pain could be dealt With so have fingers crossed about neuro guy.

the loneliness and feeling of prison in hospital sucks. have you got books,podcast etc to pass time.

I know it is hard as you are probably exhausted with the pain - it is mentally and physically draining ESP neuro pain.

Yes high dose steroids worked very well for me , although it took a few days to see a difference. Made me very hungry!! But also rather moody and gloomy after the initial few days. I hope you soon start to feel much less ill with better pain control- and well enough to get home with your family.

How are you?

Hi Red, just dropping some well wishes off for you. Hope the steroids do the trick.

Sorry taken me a while to update, just went into a shell and didn't know where to start.
I got out of hospital Friday evening after days if begging and pleading, I had to back in Sat ans Sun for drips, but hopefully at home tomorrow. They've agreed to treet me as an outpatient on the agreement if any of my figures get any worse I'm to go straight back.
I found out on Thursday evening after 3 hrs in ophthalmology that my eyes are now very badly affected also, I started a 3 day steroid infusion on Friday to try and get in top of this flare.
Still haven't spoken to London neuro so that's my first Job tomorrow, as I'm still in the middle of this flare I don't know how much if the affects are perminate yet.
Before I left hospital had physio's and ot's see me and have been measured for a wheelchair :( .
They were lovely and really helpful, head is all over the place though:(
Pain is much more under control still taking a lot of morphine but at least feeling in control of it at the moment.
I'm not sure if I said in earlier posts that they now know the origin of my right sided plueratic pain.
The sarcoid is in the pleura itself, probably due to scarring from previous surgery's the sarcoid likes to go into scars, it's weird when I'm having a flare up even my tattoo's go 3d and covered in bumps.
Anyway long unorganised ramble, will update again with more news, the next stage they are planning is a drug called inflixibab. But it's expensive so might take some time to be agreed.

Oh goodness, I know what you mean about going into a shell, I had spinal surgery that resulted in a spinal fluid leak and meningitis with a 7 week hospital stay, it does drive you into yourself.

I hope they can agree to the infliximab quickly, my brother has been having that for about 4 months now for ulcerative colitis and his quality of life has improved hugely. It is expensive but if it works then it is worth it.