Yeah. I mean the worst side effect is that you just feel so sick all the time and sometimes I just find it very difficult to eat, just the thought of food is just... but you have to force it down. I mean you do have to eat because it would be quite easy not to. I find I have to eat Weetabix, Weetabix have just been the best thing because they just act as a natural laxative, you know, because the painkillers just bung you up and cause so much constipation.
But, if I can have my Weetabix every day, good advert for Weetabix, I don't need to take the laxatives. But to force something down when you get up in the morning is so hard and I've just got to the point now where I'm thinking I just can't eat these anymore, but I know they work.
So the sickness and dreadful sweating, but I think that's also the pain as well. The pain comes over you in waves and then, you know, you just don't know how bad that wave's going to get and I think it's a lot of panic as well and I just absolutely drip and I thought 'oh well, I didn't realise it was the tablets that was doing this', I thought 'oh well it could be my age', it could be the menopause, could be 'cos I'm overweight, but then, when I spoke about it to other people at the pain clinic, it happens to a lot of them, a lot of them get this just awful sweating.
But I just find that so embarrassing if I'm out, and it happens, 'cos then you panic about it and then that makes it a thousand times worse. I hate that side of it. Your loss of libido is probably, you know, the worst I suppose as far as your relationship with your partner's concerned. I mean that is just, you know, you think well is it the tablets or is it just the pain or what is it, you know, but you read the bits they give you and it nearly says on most of the ones I take, you know, that this does happen. So therefore relationships do suffer a lot. |
