Medications that totally change how my pain affects me? Is this the Twilight Zone?

[brightlotusmoon]

Yup, the Baclofen is still working, and I am still in shock about it. I am really really not used to my left side feeling this loose and calm. Not even any tiny spasms in my fingers. Plus, I can drum my fingers on a table with each finger individually and with almost no pain (!!!) - that was always my main indicator. See, it's fairly simple to drum your fingers, right? Not my left hand, since all the fingers would hit the table at once. I could never get them to hit one by one. But now I can, even if it is very very slow. And you know how most people can touch each finger to their thumb fairly quickly? I couldn't. Now I can. So, erm, wow?

This is insane. I feel as though this is wrong somehow. This isn't me, this isn't what I'm used to. I know I will wake up tomorrow and things will be normal again, and then I will take the Baclofen in the evening and everything will be weird and insane again, and the cycle will continue. I have no idea when this "temporary new normal" will stop freaking me out.

Also, next month when I see the pain specialist again, I need to discuss this ridiculous pain in my left wrist. It is sharp, stabby, hot, explodey, electric, and localized. I'm guessing repetitive stress pain, but I'm not a doctor. We'll see. I still need to go get X-rays on my knees.

This is so weird, having such a newly active medical team working with me. Awesome, but weird.

Comments

[natalief.livejournal.com]

I am so glad for you that baclofen seems to be helping! I cannot believe that they did not suggest such a normal anti-spasticity medication to you before now - it is the first med suggested to those of us with MS spasticity and I would have expected it to be used across-conditions for spasticity!

*hugs*