Re: Some thoughts: pain levels RX

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Debra- Just thought I would inquire, you don't get benefits where you work?

Isn't that unusual in the nursing feild, or do you have one of those optional

jobs like I did when I last worked a facility where I went in Leu of benefits as

it brought me $2.00 more an hr. which meant 16.00 which was better than the

health insurance they offered. It sure is hard to have no insurance though

isn't it? The Rx are tougher to get because the exact reason you pointed out,

to many people selling them, instead of using them for what they went to Dr. c/o

of.! Ut cost apprx,, $1.00 a vicodin RX wise, and sells on the St.'s for up to

10.00 a pill,depending on strentgh, and where you live!, No wonder people like

us with unseeable disease end up suffering, I have very believing,

understanding, Dr's who have seen me have to be wheeled in so I am lucky, but

those who can't get help I feel so sorry for. My mom has a neighbor who has

this disease and she said before they treated her, she a

couple times felt like commiting suicide because of the pain, and she is in her

70's!!! Oh I hope things get better for us before that, I don't want this pain

that much longer! And please no one take ALERT to the fact that I mentioned the

cost of narcotic's being sold on the St's as I grew up in a overpopulated town

of drug abusers, plus again us that work in the healthfield are well wise to

what is happening out there.that is all I am not into buying and selling!

Sharon

debra van ness wrote: I can look back years

ago and recall that I had fibro though it was not diagnosed. The symptoms were

mild then and I could brush them off for the most part. Up until 5 years ago

when it hit me really hard, I never had a pain that Tylenol would not take care

of. Had a doctor have told me I had fibro back then, I would have thought, well

I can take this without medication. It was not bad then. Matter of fact, pain

was not even an issue at the time... it was just some numbness and tingling in

my fingers, some fibro fog (which I did not know it was then), and being overly

tired. The pain did not hit me bad until that flare from hell about 5 years ago.

Then I found that no amount of over the counter meds would take care of it or

touch it. I remember being at work one day several weeks before the

diagnosis.... I thought I was getting a " virus " . I was aching all over. I

remember taking Tylenol.... no relief. Added some Advil

to it.... no relief.... took some

naproxen.... no relief. I thought to myself... " that is strange.... wonder why

these medicines don't work... must be a really bad virus coming on " .

I would not have imagined that within a week I would be in such pain that I

would think I was dying and had some terminal illness. Thus, I went to doctor

after doctor and finally got the diagnosis of fibromyalgia.

So, let me just say that this disease certainly has its stages and its

difference in severity from one person to the next. And when the pain gets so

bad, and over the counter meds no longer work, I promise that any human being

will take a RX medication to try to help it or they will become non functional

and lay in misery.

Hopefully, some people will never progress to this stage and will continue to

have mild symptoms because I don't wish this on anyone. BUT, from my own

experience... I know that without RX pain killers I would not be able to get up

and go to work or do anything.

COST issues-- I do not have insurance, but the cheapest and oldest drugs for

narcotic pain relief are cheap. Hydrocodone compared to some other drugs is

definately not expensive. (unless you get them off the street.. then the price

will be very high).

Also, lets just look at the facts. Rx drugs work on the pain before they get you

" high " or " zombied " . If you take a RX that is really too strong for the amount

of pain, yes you will probably get wasted on it. But if the pain is bad enough,

the medication will work on the pain and will not put you out of it and into

neverland.

Just some thoughts.

love and hugs,

Debra V.

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