Again, the medications I was taking then pale in comparison to what I’m taking now.

It’s become apparent that the new pain is now the normal pain. The pain level has increased significantly, by at least a point on the pain scale, and it’s (painfully) clear that it’s staying that way. Which is, you know, bad.

I’ve recently changed my drug regimine from:

  1. A whole fucking lot of Vicodin;

To more along the lines of:

  1. Not quite as fucking much of Vicodin, and;
  2. A significant quantity of naproxen and ibuprofen.

Which seems to have helped, but not significantly. On school days and/or days I’m not working the typical dosage of hydrocodone is around 15-25mg. On bad days and/or days I work 7-9 hours, the typical dosage is around 35-55mg. That’s quite a bit. I try to keep it as low as possible, but the bad days… not even that quantity helps the pain.

This is my life, it seems.

This is, in fact, my life.