Re: Some thoughts: pain levels and medications RX

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Gee, Debra, instead of going upstairs when I walked into the house

after going out to the back porch to get a Dr. Pepper, I tripped and

fell, once again, flat on my face! Of course, when I am home I

scream, (if dh is home!) and he cane to help me up as I could not do

it on my own! --- Had been carrying a cup of water and came back

with the cup and the can! There I lay spralled on the floor amongst

all of the boxes he had brought inside as it was snowing and they

were getting wet! But instead of, once he helped me up, going

upstairs for the strong pain meds, I could have grabbed a bottle and

self medicated that way!! And I would have just as much sense when I

took another pain pill tonight and then called my sister!! I know,

even if I had not told her that I had taken the meds, she would have

known because I was so spaced out!!!

And I am pretty sure the reason my father drank as much beer as he

did was that it dulled his pain (probably both physical and

mental!). Mother did not like it --- especially if he was driving,

that had to upset her even more than many people after they had lost

their only son to the SOB of a drunk driver!

And if I had a wee bit of the bottle, I might have just gone off to

sleep so quickly. But I don't like the hang over the next day!!!

I have had a few of those and they do nasty things to me --- one time

triggered one of the worst migraines I had had in years.

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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).

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> 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.

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> Just some thoughts.

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> love and hugs,

> Debra V.

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