Pain in the ...

 So they took the Oxycodon away from me, now it gabapentin.  And I'm skeptical after what happened to Joel and gosh knows I'm likely to go off the rails at any time.  But Emma and a doc here in the walk-in clinic insist. Never could refuse a woman, now could I?  

The pain is exactly where I sit down. I had x-ray, CT scan, MRI, bone scan, MRI, cancer doc pleased no lesions on bone, back doc says you got a pain in the ass, writes a referral for PT.

She determined exactly where the injury is and gave me stretches to work the area.  I have a routine of stretching which I am very lax about with the dry land walking.  At the pool, I always do a set of stretches in the hot tub after a swim or water walk.  Learned that I'm not holding my stretches as long as I should and that same as lifting up in the cardio room, one needs to do more than one set each.  

Therapist gave me a routine of stretching that gets at the area that hurts.  Took a short walk later that day, just to warm up a little then did the stretches.  Then it's back for another meeting today.  See how it goes.

On the chemical front, gabapentin has helped with sleep, ironic because one of the published side effects is trouble sleeping.  But another more common is that it makes people sleepy.  Worked for me so far, five or six hours uninterrupted sleep is better than the same total amount of sleep but in one and two-hour chunks.  

Promised my companion, land lady that if I got regular sleep and control of the nearly constant pain, I'd be a good boy and she doesn't have to call the sheriff and have me escorted out of here, all my junk in pile at the street.

See how it all goes.