Going off MS Contin(morphine withdrawls)

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Hello everyone,

I've been a bit sick latley, well, to tell the truth, really sick.

I've been on morphine for a long time now, and we live in such a

rural area, it's hard to find decent Dr's. I have gone through the

ringer , with the insurance co. we have, it's kind of difficult to find

a Dr. who really devotes anymore, it's like a slauter house, move them

in/out.

I know alot of you know most of my diagnosises, but I guess since I've

been so sick and shaky, I have a difficult time typing, and I

appologize to the moderators, that have to desiffer all of this, I'm

just a misserable wreck, cause I feel the Dr's I've been to see, and

won't take on cronic pain paitients, just don't give a hoot. Money is

all alot of them want, and they only want to deal with simple problems,

so they can get you in and out.

I have had deg. disc. disease for more than 20 yrs, my father had it,

his mother had it, and my mother has it. I have fybromialgia, bulging

discs in my cervical/lower lumbar, I've had 4 fractures due to o/a,

about 6 months ago, I was diagnosed w/systemic r/a. All of this is

documented, and I have now 2 sets of files, they cost my knight in

shining armor a bit, of $ just to get them and copy them. But I need

them so the Dr's don't think I'm just after drugs, I realy was glad

this new Dr. took me off the morphine, I don't like what It's doing to

me, riding it out is the most awful thing a person has to go through,

and the jest of it all is no morphine, that's fine, ut they only put me

on norco7.5-325, 2 tabs. a day, for 14 days then 1 a day, for another

14 days,how am I supose to maintain. I can't hardly walk because I have

cronic o/a in both my knees, w/no cartlidge in one, and mineute in the

other, bone on bone, I fall alot when I try to walk.

And I'll say something for social security disability, they I don't

qualify, my husband makes too much money, and I haven't work 5 out of10

years, well, darn'it, how am I supose to work, can't walk, can't crawl,

and I, before all my ailments, use to take care of men in Assisted

Living Homes, go figure. Beat's the heck out of me.

I'll close, and appologize for venting so long, I'm just beside myself

right now, I'm in so much pain, I could punch something, not someone,

but then I;d have that pain to deal with(ha, ha,)

I feel for all of you in pain, and having to go through so many loop-

holes to get the treatment we all so well deserve, I didn't ask for all

of this to happen to me, like all of you either.

Take care everyone, I hope you can get to a place of comfort someday

soon, as I dearly wish for myself as well. Warm Hugs to all,

Connie Byns