RE: To Sharon... about Vicodin Debra V. Tigger

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Hey are you feeling any better? I am suffering 4 days now with consuming

cluster headache only getting worse, meds around the clock, not sleeping with

Ambien so no rest from it, it has only increased with each stormy day, have not

had one like this in yrs, one more day and I think the ER will be seeing me

again for a shot! Hope your getting well. Good to see you on. I called Marti

today. she sounds good but Chemo bad! Take Care, Hope you lighter days. We

have another big storm coming Tomm. Hubby never going to get back to work!, and

funds have run out.. Well hope you had and have brighter days. Take Care

Sharon

Tigger wrote: Wow! Sounds like me. Give

me Vicoden and I'm Chatty Cathy. Does almost

nothing for the pain. I'm so very resistant to most meds.

Tigger (Ruth) in Rhode Island

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From: Fibromyalgia_Support_Group

[mailto:Fibromyalgia_Support_Group ] On Behalf Of sharon

studley

Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 12:57 PM

To: Fibromyalgia_Support_Group

Subject: Re: To Sharon... about Vicodin Debra V.

Debra- Now we really are thinking alike! I to do not get anywhere near full

relief from pain with this drug, actually when I first started taking it I

was so hyped up from it that I could not sit still, now it does it job of

only taking the edge of and keeping me from nodding off any given time from

exhaustion. I just was asked last tues. by my PCP if I was getting relief

from this med anymore. I have been on it a long long time, and as you which

the Dr. and I both new going on, if I was in this disease with my symtoms

for the long haul, eventually it would stop working. By NO means have I ever

gotten high on it, and hate the ones who do think because of the daily use

we are DRUGGIES, I only wish I could take something that would put me in

that painless fog, call it high, I don't know, but just full relief of the

pain. I have also been on oxcycodone, for night time pain, as if I wake in

HS in the pain I get in, and take the vicodin it only keeps me awake. I

stopped myself from getting these. I also have thought of D/Cing the

vicodin, I worry sometime of my long term use, liver stuff, as my family has

my mom says generic livers to begin with, my g.mom, bro.cousin, uncle all

have died with liver cancer, I will say the cousin/uncle did use daily

alcohol, I don't touch it, but maybe a time when use to get out for dinner!

I also know the withdrawels will come with getting off, as I have done this

before, alone, and once went through it all the Fibro did kick in, and this

is when it took over other areas of my body, and has been screaming ever

since! I don't know the answer. I know, I admit I am dependent on this or

need to be on some pain med now, my Dr.nows and believes in my real pain,

and does not want me to be in it. I use to fight through it without

anything, and like you worked, and I fought 12hr shifts, sometimes 24hrs

plus, tensed up with pain the whole time, going into the bathroom to cry out

in the pain for relief,

and right back to the job. Shoot I even got stuck in a patient's room one

morning, I was frozen in pain, and he could not figure out what was wrong he

kept asking if I was alright, and I could not answer, just trying to think

how was I going to get out of there and worried something real bad was going

on, he had a phone in his room and was ready to call 911!, I was able to get

out not too. So Debra what is the next thing, I don't want to keep damaging

my liver with the high doses of vicodin I am taking, as now sometime they

make me feel sick, never did before. I have had liver enzymes tested alot,

but pancriitis worry etc. you know what I am talking about. My Dr. belives

it is time I go to a Pain clinic and except this is probably my life and go

on a stronger narcotic. I am scared of oxycontin, though I think yrs ago

when I broke my ankle and vicodin did not work they may of given, small

white, but could of been oxcycodone just in itself, did not pay that much

attention,

I just know the Pharmicist said it was the strongest drug out there then,

and I would be mush on the couch with No pain, well I was neither.??? Hope

we can figure this out. But I know now what it is like to go off the vicodin

now, and do not look forward to the withdrawel or possible pain ravicing my

body after off the mo. again, I could not even walk at all!! But part of me

says maybe I will feel better in other areas if I stop. How come they don't

use dilauded anymore, would that not be less trauma to the liver? I was

given the 5mg oxcycodone last time instead of 5/325 as usually given?? If

you come up with replacement idea let me know. I hope you lighter days, and

I have been thinking I miss going to work and seeing my patient's and

co-workers, as though pain was there, my mind was filled with laughter most

days from the things that would arise in a shift. Take Care

Sharon

debra van ness <ladybug75901@ <mailto:ladybug75901%40yahoo.com> yahoo.com>

wrote:

I so agree with your letter. You took the words right out of my mouth. How

much you wanna bet that the junkies on the street abusing this drug don't

have fibromyalgia or any other chronic pain condition? They don't .... they

pop it for kicks. So therefore I realize I am not any where near the

definition of a junkie. I know there are many people out there that would

call me " a prescription drug addict " . I hate that term because I am not an

addict. These are the people that do not understand what kind of pain we go

through because if they were in our shoes, they would think twice.

I will say that hydrocodone does not do the job for me it use to. My body is

too accustomed to it. I am considering weaning myself away from it slowly.

(I am not an addict just because I would have withdrawals coming off it...

addiction is partly psychological also).

On the other side of the coin, maybe it is doing me alot more good than I

realize. I might find that if I do drop the dosage I might go into a fibro

flare from hell.

love and hugs,

Debra V.

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