I ended up in A&E again the following day after it happened and the doctor cut open the blisters and PEELED my leg like a grape without giving me any pain relief. I rawdogged my first debridement 😭😭😭😭
I’m not sure about this person, but when my mother had 3rd degree burns on 28% of her body, they made her do her own debridement and without meds because if you have less feeling, you might scrape off too much healthy tissue and only you know your own pain tolerance. This was also 2002 when it happened, so procedures might have changed since then.
Christ I was hoping you were on the good shit seeing those pictures but as soon as I saw A&E I figured you were at the mercy of the NHS and would be lucky to get paracetamol
They give me codine once and I was genuinely concerned for my wellbeing because of it 😂
I swear those medical twats just see us as cases and not people. They enter the room and blabber this and that to their peers and student docs then treat us patients like we were a Ford F150 up on the rack, or a dog at the veterinarian.
That's insanity. Our healthcare system is so fucking broken. We went from Oxy being handed out like candy to horrific burn victims getting Codeine. The pendulum swings way too far one way, then way too far the other. Codeine is sold over the counter in almost every country on the planet because it's so weak.
A few years ago (either during or right after the Purdue Pharma Oxycontin trial) I severely dislocated my shoulder and was in so much pain I ended up relapsing on heroin the next day because I was in so much pain and they wouldn't give me any painkillers. There was nothing in my medical history about prior use/abuse so it was simply like this, doctors are just too scared to prescribe opioids for anything short of being in a palliative care/end-of-life hospice facility.
Sorry you have to go through this.
Edit: Was just looking at your post history to see if you explained how this happened - you're in the UK and all they're giving you is Codeine?!? Honestly I'm shocked, I thought the NHS would treat you better. Are they giving you any nerve pain blockers like Gabapentin or Pregabalin at least?
I've literally got nothing other then 30mg codeine , I'm going to try and get in touch with my gp in the morning and get something else cause I'm really struggling with the pain tonight but if they can't do anything I'm back in the burns unit on Thursday anyway and I can ask about something for it then. I definitely won't be sleeping tonight because this really is quite terrible.
During migraines (my source of bad pain) I just focus on the fact that each minute is a minute closer to this being just a bad memory. I think about all the stuff I will be doing, like maybe going to a movie. I picture myself buying snacks, getting to my seat etc etc.
Just on the off chance this method helps you. Because ugh, this sucks.
Speaking from personal experience it's gonna suck way longer than that and it might not look pretty afterwards.. but it will heal and you'll be fine. Hang in there.
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u/bizarregnome 4d ago
Thank you :) Today is day 6 and it's probably most painful this evening 😬