The VA Pain Diaries - A History of my Pain and the VA

 August 2020

02 Aug

1705. Lost all notes from July due to phone crash. A bitch of a month. Woke 0600 to severe

pain. In and out of I"m ready for bed all day.

1851. Up for awhile, back in I"m ready for bed writhing in sight pain.

1925. No change. PP. Hardly able to eat anything today because of severe pain and PSC

(Pain Seizures and Convulsions).

2213. Bad bad day ends. Hope to sleep.

03 Aug

1035. Usual shit morning. Still in bed.

1145. PP.

2213. Eventually able to get some things done.

04 Aug

0927. Woke 0915 after real good nights sleep.

1158. Still in I"m ready for bed. Missed breakfast.

1412. FM, CFS, PTSD all jumped on madame time. Down in I"m ready for bed, barely able to

open my eyes.

1514. Everything worse. Hell broke loose in Georgia sure.

1523. Fucking PAIN HELL.

1541. Pain Seizures galore.

1635. Continuous violent seizures continue. 60+ minutes.

1804. N0 let up in the severe Seizures.

2005. Pain Seizures continue unabated. Pain meds seem to have no affect.

05 Aug

0711. Woke 0414 to pain. PP. Dozed off. Woke again this time. Pain still signals. PP.

Applied pain cremes.

0752. Have noticed tingling and numbness in left side of tongue and left side of body

Especially in left hand where fingers are numb and tingling. Great fun. Pain causing continuous

moderate seizures. Here we go again.

0951. Looks like I had another TIA. Great fun. This one seemed a little stronger than the last

one. Back in bed again due to all of the above.

1310. Doing some better.

1519. Back in bed.

2210. Have been a little loopy tonight. Probably because of the TIA.

06 Aug

1021. Woke ~ 0930 to the usual. PP. Now just waiting on meds. Applied cremes.

1117. Pain now bearable; but CFS and PTSD keeping me in bed. Oh yeah side note: BP &

left brain stuff doing their thing.

1232. Was able to get out of bed for awhile and eat lunch. Missed breakfast entirely. Back

in bed.