I wouldn't say difficult to stay away from. That makes it sound kinda like I have a choice. 🤣
I did back breaking work working with elderly clients in an assisted living facility. I owned the salon there for 20 years. All the lifting, supporting, tugging for so long finally took its toll. I was devastated when I was forced to stop working. I'm just thankful the pain meds still do their job. The xanax I started after I had a sub-arachnoid hemorrhage (brain bleed) in 2011 and was in ICU at Shands in Gainesville FL for 8 days. Side note...I only missed 2 weeks of work too. One in Shands and 1 the doctor made me take off. Lol
I was very lucky that I didn't need surgery. I could have taken a year, per the doctor, but I questioned why a whole year but quickly learned I needed that long to fully recover. I still showed up for work though, yes I LOVED my job. 🤗
I will most likely stay on the pain meds because that situation won't get better without surgery and I honestly don't want that. As long as the anxiety is managed by the lowest dose possible, the quarter mg except in situations that calls for full dosage, I can live with that because if I stopped the xanax today, I would not experience withdrawals at all.