Did the short walk to Central Park Cafe and had an entirely shameful sausage roll for lunch. Too much processed meat for this week, but I did enjoy it... And comfortably beat the day's activity target.
I take 40mg amitriptyline daily for nerve pain in my right thigh which goes way back before myeloma. And I gave myself a few days off it because my prescriptions got into a bit of a tangle over the holidays and I ran out. I thought I'd take a break from it to see if that had any effect on the thigh problem (it didn't). But that's a pretty se match to when the putative PN appeared, and now that I've been back on the amitriptyline is back it's been getting a bit better. And reading up shows that amitriptyline is a standard treatment for PN. The snag is that 40mg is as high as you can go before amitriptyline starts acting differently (e.g. as an anti-depressant, which I don't think I need). Anyway, I think that story confirms that I am dealing with early PN rather than nerve compression issues from the neck and shoulder (the one I broke back in 2017)..
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