Re: Back pain advice/Dave

[Guest guest]

Dave,

Just think of yourself as a diabetic and you need insulin. I encourage

you to also to go to the pain sites show how patients are successful

with long term opoid usage.

I cannot lift anything over five pounds or I suffer. I changed my

career field to teaching so I did not have lifting duties,although I

am on disability now. Of course, my husband is the main supporter of

our family and I cannot imagine if we had to depend on me for finances.

My employer told me I cannot come back to work Nov 2006, I walked in

one day and they had a letter. It was the same year my son started

college and we were not on scholarships. He was in the 12 % of 1000

students and if he was 10% he would have full scholarship.

It was a real shock but it was good because I was also having

hypothyroidism that caused me small strokes, high blood pressures,

incoherent,

slurred speech, difficult swallowing, hair falling out, vitamin

deficits. I had thyroid surgery in August, they took it out because I

had many nodules and I

also had a mass on my larynx. My work thought my symptoms were

because of my medications and I was a druggie.

It was horrible to my self esteem. I had exceptional evaluations but I

did not need to be working with the pain conditions I had. I would

have just kept getting up until I dropped over. What a life. Now I am

trying to take care of myself FIRST and heal mentally and physically.

I was lucky enough to get disability without a lawyer the first time.

I also have good health insurance and a pain management doctor NOW. I

had poor

pain management doctors before.

Dave, please put yourself first and know most of us think the same

thing of our pain medication. What if my doctor moves, dies, or

closes?

What if, the questions could go on and on but I am working on not

worrying so much. This pain group and others and research on the

internet help me to make decisions to help me.

If you need any help, an ear to listen, my personal e-mail is

bennie@.... Good luck Dave and we are thinking of you.

Bennie