Ugh. The past few days have not been fun at all. My back's been acting up since Thursday after Physical Therapy and the muscle relaxer they had me on was not helping at all. Instead it started to make things worse up until yesterday where all the excitement happened.

I've been on this med for just over two weeks now with no effect so the doctor ordered the dose to be raised a level. Well that was last Monday. Since then I experienced all the wonderful side-effects the medicine could offer (dizziness, nausea, lack of balance, and some other 'fun' effects that I won't get into). That is until yesterday when I was at home going downstairs I got hit with a wave a dizziness to the point I fell and went down a few steps before stopping. Now the fun didn't stop there because I also happened to be carrying my tablet as well.

Well, you know what they say about applied force, gravity and tablets right? Mix them together and it never works out well. My tablet was no exception and needless to say I was a little more than angry once I recovered from my fall. I ended up having my roommate drive me to Best Buy to get a new tablet (my only portable workstation and link to the world when traveling or in my room or at school cus duh. Digital Textbooks). It was a good thing to because I was ready to call my doctors office and leave a scathing message for them to call me back and get me off that damn med.

Well today arrived and I called since I felt calmer and better then I did yesterday (a morning sitting outside having a cup of coffee and reading the news in the sunlight seems to have that effect on me). The nurse who took down my info called me and literally 10min later my Doctor called and was very concerned when I explained what happened (RIP Tablet) and now has me tapering off the med and put me on a new med that should do better.

Well I hope it does and this time I'm not going to take any chances. If I don't like the med I won't wait until something happens to tell someone, I'm gonna dame well say something then and there. So. The moral of the story is, if a medicine makes you feel icky, tell someone or something bad could happen.

PS: Screw You Gabapentin... you owe me a new tablet...