

My therapist suggested trying medication, but I was wary. The pain was too excruciating, and I started to feel like if I couldn't get it under control I didn't want to be here anymore.

I'd tried antidepressants in the past and didn't feel they were right for me Stress kept piling up, and I was at the end of my rope. In this time I also lost two family members to COVID-19. I was often so nauseous from my leg feeling like it was on fire that I couldn't eat, and I spent most of 2020 drinking Ensure.ĭuring the first 18 months of the pandemic, I lived with that pain while also running my own business for the first time - a stressful endeavor under normal circumstances and a practically heroic feat while the world was falling apart. I couldn't sleep without weed - or, when the pain was beyond weed's capacities, opiates. It often indicates a user profile.įrom July 2019 to December 2021, I had excruciating pain running down my leg due to pressure on my sciatic nerve.

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