Unknowing

Call it an experiment, a need to know action, or just plain laziness. Either way the results are the same. About two weeks ago I ran out of a prescription medicine, an anti-inflammatory that I have been taking for years because of the arthritis in my hips, and have not been to the doctor yet to have the prescription refilled. It sure did not take long before the drugs residual effects to leave my body and the constant ache and the stabbing pains to return.  I expected this to happen and it was not a surprise in the least, but what was a surprise were the new aches that have showed up in various other joints in my body. I now have aches in both my shoulders and my elbows, unknown is the cause of the aches but it defiantly has to do with inflammation. I wonder how long this has been going on as it has been masked by the anti-inflammatory medication that I have been taking. This brings up another question as to whether or not a person should continue to take an anti-inflammatory medication and run the risk of potentially doing long term damage to another part of a person’s body due to an injury that goes unnoticed, or to continue on merrily in unknowing bliss.


Where am I? What am I doing?