The second month (plus maybe 1-2 weeks) were the worst for me. After that, I was thoroughly fed up and drained, but the gradual improvements helped a lot. Hopefully you’re creating the peak right now. 🤞🤞🤞

In case you decide to try a different kind, I found celecoxib much gentler (and I took pantoprazole daily to protect my stomach). When I had shooting pain down my arm, Amitriptyline made a huge difference - it treats nerve pain. Keeping the worst pain at bay with consistent meds helped a lot.

I was shocked by the unrelenting pain. It unraveled me. I hope you have the space to be gentle with yourself and that others are too. ❤️

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Naproxen made me so sick. The Dr tried three different anti-inflammatory meds and the third was more effective and better on my stomach. I also took another pill to protect my stomach once a day. Combining anti-inflammatory meds with paracetamol was also effective.

I had a frozen shoulder 2022-23 and it was excruciating- especially the freezing stage. Sending all my sympathy. Drugs for nerve pain ended up helping somewhat - they took a week to work and not make me nauseous though. But it’s brutal.

‘Thrill’. Okay then.

Ah I misread that back then! My apologies.

When I read about the story LoTF was inspired by, I kind of hated that it had been written - amp.theguardian.com/books/2020/m...

1. Read and didn’t rate. 2. Read and don’t plan to read again. 3. Have had for ages and can’t see myself reading. 4. If I really want to read again then I could get it from the library etc pretty easily.