I didn't lack pain killers as I still had some left from a couple surgeries the last couple years only they are narcotics. I just wanted something stronger that wouldn't put you to sleep and make you feel drowsy afterwards or something that calmed down nerves or muscles...whatever they determine in my visit I messed up. The next day I read where there was a shortage of pain killers because of this virus. Yesterday I saw a nurse on the news seeming to be breaking apart down in, I think it was in New Orleans, over the state of things down there and she couldn't believe she was struggling to get Tylenol to her patients. So I would imagine it just the state of where things are at right now. The last couple days though it became to much pain to face and took the narcotics, I was like I can't think straight anyway so what the heck. I also switched from putting ice compresses on it like she suggested and went to using my heating pad. I think I am nearing about seventy percent better though I am not going to give that a one hundred percent until the narcotics start wearing off. My foot is till a bit numb but not as mind tingling numbness as it was. I think the biggest change switching from cold to heat may have had the biggest impact and I don't even know why I followed her advice on the cold. Cold is more for bringing down swelling. Once she told me I may have compressed nerves I should have followed the old heat to cold muscle theory from cosmetology school. If you have cramped muscle the trick is moist heat...I didn't use moist heat this time though just the heating pad. The trick to cramped muscles is they are constricted so you want to get them to constrict and un-constrict to get them moving properly again. You do that by taking a damp towel and placing it in the microwave (you can use a pot of warm, not boiling water also) you put it on the sore muscle area and leave it there until it cools, after it cools you wait a few minutes and do it again, you repeat the process until it works....and it works rather well. My heating pad shuts off after twenty minutes so I just laid there letting it turn off, waiting a few minutes then turning it back on, warm, cold, warm, cold. Constrict, un-constrict, constrict, un-constrict until everything starts to slowly loosen back up.
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That's a great explanation of how to treat muscle cramps sunlit7. And you know from experience that it works well.
I also heard a nurse saying that they were out of Tylenol and it just sounds too incredible to be true but you are right, it's the state of things right now.
It's shocking to tell you the truth, how could the government stockpile everything under the sun but leave crucial medicine's like antibiotic's and Tylenol under control of a foreign entity. I am not point fingers at just this administration as this had to have been the norm for quite a few years.
I agree and was glad to hear that Trump is setting up American companies to manufacture these things so we won't be having to rely on foreigners.
Well now they are sitting there with egg on their faces because the Asian countries that are achieving a win against this virus told the US they were doing it all wrong and that people do need mask to keep from spreading it. I've said that from the beginning, things just weren't adding up and I got attacked on blogs from people saying they don't work for the general population but the health care workers need them to keep from getting sick. I told them they should listen to themselves talk, they work for one group of people but not the other. It's not that everybody needs n95 mask, those mask they give people who go to the hospital sick so they don't spread their colds all over the lobby while waiting would have slowed the spread. In Asian countries they sell those packed in boxes similar to how we pack and sell dryer sheets. Needless to say they didn't get my n95 masks, mine were industrial not medical grade. (made in a sterile environment) A couple weeks after they had people donate their mask the hospitals told them they couldn't use them because they weren't medical grade....which is exactly what I told my kid as to why I wasn't donating mine, I told him it wouldn't matter as I doubt the hospitals are going to let them be carrying stuff in from places they don't know where they've been. Tonight on Tucker Carlson come to find out the government donated millions of mask to other countries, mostly third world, which I guess is understandable to a degree to minimize the spread and protect health care workers, that just goes to show you though that if you listen in between the lines to be skeptical, very, very, skeptical to how the government sells things to you, if you are good at it you can stay one step ahead of them. Just like if people take these government checks out and spend them it will be the cause of the second wave they keep talking about. They've bought time getting the major cities stocked up and now they will get everyone mingling together to set up the second wave of set ups....I told my kids don't you go near a store to spend that money or you'll be a stat on the second wave list. I fully understand why they have to roll it out like this to keep everything from colliding at once but it doesn't mean I have to jump into the fray of it all, as usual I'd just prefer to be the odd ball I always am and not go with the flow....you know what I mean....