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Edited on Wed Dec-13-06 05:11 AM by symbolman
as a Pain Person myself I'm INCENSED that we are treated like CRIMINALS for NOT wanting to hurt, and to use a drug that's been around for thousands of years (instead of Gabapentin, which made my skin crawl and I felt like a mental patient, used for Seizures and epilepsy) -- when what's at STAKE is QUALITY OF LIFE.
So what if take a drug so that I am still motivated to Paint my house, fix plumbing, write a book, work on my cheap car, etc, when otherwise I'd just sit in my chair all day unable to MOVE, unmotivated, wishing god would just take me, or make the fucking pain GO AWAY.
I have a doctor that SCREAMS at people in his office in public, accusing them of "Doctor Shopping", and has verbally attacked ME with 4 people sitting right there in the waiting room, when I've come in for a 'Pain Vacation' shot, which I need to do about every 4 to 6 months because the meds I'm taking only DULL the pain, and now and then I NEED to FEEL NO PAIN at ALL, sort of recalibrate.
Would they treat a diabetic that way?
But we as Pain Folks also need to understand that the FEDS LEAN on these docs at the same time, THEY can go to jail just for actually KEEPING US FROM PAIN. Tricky situation.
For those pain people reading this, I'd like to WARN you about a new use for a medication, METHADONE. They are using it for Chronic pain, and while it's cheap and plentiful, DO NOT GET STARTED ON IT. If you've ever tried to kick pain meds and suffered for it, you will NOT BELIEVE how INSIDIOUS Methadone is. I got fooled by the Doc, asked him, "Isn't that the stuff they use to get heroin addicts OFF of heroin?" Thinking that IT wasn't so addictive.
Well, once I was prescribed it and used it at low doses for a while I didn't like it so I thought I'd just go cold turkey, and I have NEVER been so SICK in my life - some Heroin addicts say it's harder to KICK Methadone than it is Heroin!!
I vomited until the blood vessels in my eyes blew, chills, deep bone aches, fever, involuntary kicking, insomnia, the list goes on, and it took me Three whole damn months to get that monkey off my back. I'm pretty proud that I was able to get it completely out of my life and cringe now when I even hear the name of it. It was created by Hitler's guys as a cheap morphine, and is called the HELL DRUG, and it is.
DON'T take it, use anything else you can, pay a bit more but PLEASE avoid it, it's HORRIFIC.
And if the prescribe you Xanax, think twice about that as well, that shit eats HOLES in your brain after long term use.
With arthritis of the spine for ten years I've tried everything from Gabapentin, to whatever the latest left handed molecule pain relief from a lab anywhere in the world, and settled for good old Hydrocodone, as I've kicked that before with a few weeks when I'm not in need of it.
Funny, they have a Bumper crop of Opiates in Afghanistan, and WE have to battle for minimal amounts to keep ourselves functional.
I didn't see the beginning of HOUSE tonight, how did he get in this mess? WHO is after him, trying to jail him? I was amazed that a tv show would even EXHIBIT a Doc downing Vicodin, all that time I thought he was chugging asprin, silly me :)
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