Re: Just a vent-- A PRISON OF PILLS

April 25, 2008

Debra and all,

YES!!! Very well put. I take much of the same type of medications. Without

them I would be bed-bound. As it is, I am mostly house-bound. I hate my pain

and all the diseases that cause it. What other options do we have? None.

At least not until the medical community gets off their fat butts and realizes

we need help.

Hugs,

Annie

debra van ness ladybug75901@...> wrote:

Dear friends,

I just wanted to vent this last thing before I go to work. I often think of how

pills are so much a part of my life. It seems I depend on so many pills just to

get through life and work. (not all prescriptions but the endless vitamins,

supplements, and anything I think will help. Including adding non prescription

meds like naproxen or aspirin for inflammation of my right shoulder). On the

other hand, without them, fibro would have me down so far I would not be able to

move. So I really don't have choice here. And that is the truth. If not for the

meds, I would be in a hell of a mess. But it seems there is always some pill to

pop. The vicodin that I cannot do without becuase the fibro pain will triple.

The Lyrica now that seems to be the one drug that has actually tried to keep the

fibro at bay and decrease its never ending symptoms. The blood pressure

medication, the Xanax which I take less than I use to but sometimes my nerves

get so wound up I have to

take it. Then there is the Zoloft for depression that I have had for YEARS

before the fibro kicked my A$$. Then the calcium supplements, the Vit D, the

B12, the multivitamin etc. And lets not forget the muscle relaxers I take about

once a day because my damn muscles knot up so bad that I feel like I cannot

move.

I do wish I were healthy again. And stopping any of these medications would have

consequences. But you know, I will take them because it is my only lifeline with

the beast called FIBROMYALGIA that went 10 fold in the last 4 years.

Just venting. Anyone else feel like they are in a prison of pills????

love and hugs,

Debra V.

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April 25, 2008

>

> Dear friends,

> I just wanted to vent this last thing before I go to work. I often

think of how pills are so much a part of my life. It seems I depend on

so many pills just to get through life and work. (not all

prescriptions but the endless vitamins, supplements, and anything I

think will help. Including adding non prescription meds like naproxen

or aspirin for inflammation of my right shoulder). On the other hand,

without them, fibro would have me down so far I would not be able to

move. So I really don't have choice here. And that is the truth. If

not for the meds, I would be in a hell of a mess. But it seems there

is always some pill to pop. The vicodin that I cannot do without

becuase the fibro pain will triple. The Lyrica now that seems to be

the one drug that has actually tried to keep the fibro at bay and

decrease its never ending symptoms. The blood pressure medication, the

Xanax which I take less than I use to but sometimes my nerves get so

wound up I have to

> take it. Then there is the Zoloft for depression that I have had

for YEARS before the fibro kicked my A$$. Then the calcium

supplements, the Vit D, the B12, the multivitamin etc. And lets not

forget the muscle relaxers I take about once a day because my damn

muscles knot up so bad that I feel like I cannot move.

>

> I do wish I were healthy again. And stopping any of these

medications would have consequences. But you know, I will take them

because it is my only lifeline with the beast called FIBROMYALGIA that

went 10 fold in the last 4 years.

>

> Just venting. Anyone else feel like they are in a prison of pills????

>

> love and hugs,

> Debra V.

>

> I feel the same way, with my meds, it seems like i cannot go a day

w/o them,if i even tried omg i would not be able to move!!!! I have

come to the conclusions.... we have to do what we have to do, to get

through the day, and if no one understands were we are coming from, I

would be more then happy to give them just one day of our pain!!!!

hope you are feeling better BIG HUGS Leanne

>

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April 25, 2008

> Just venting. Anyone else feel like they are in a prison of pills????

I don't feel like I'm in a prison. The pills I take, and there are

many of them, either enable me to function, or are a result of my

deliberately creating malabsorption in my GI tract in order to free

myself from super morbid obesity.

Without the antidepressant, I would suffer. Without the Celebrex, as

I discovered over the past month trying to switch to generic

Voltaren, I have swelling, pain, and stiffness of arthritis in my

joints, and the pain saps my will to live and my desire to be active

and interested in things. The thyroid supplement gets my nose out of

the carpet. The Aciphex keeps me from dying a horrible death from

esophogeal cancer.

I have traded off taking diabetes medicine and blood pressure

medicine or diuretics for taking supplements since my weight loss

surgery. I must say, without the diabetes medicine, I no longer have

the horrendous dry mouth problems and I enjoy actually having spit.

I take about 28 pills per day. I do them up in pill containers once

a month. Two or three times a day I swallow some.

Maybe it's because I've taken so many pills for so many years, but

nope, I don't feel like I'm in a prison at all. When my grandmother

was my age, she had pain just as bad, but there were no knee

replacements, and no effective blood pressure, Type II diabetes, or

arthritis medications. I feel extraordinarily blessed.

Z

April 25, 2008

Debra, I think I have lived most of my life in some kind of pain.

Perhaps the first 23 months were very good, but after my brother was

killed, I remember the nights my mother would call the doctor for

something for me. In high school, I missed so many days from lung

problems that the principal we had when I was a senior told me just

before graduation that he had called me " croupy " because of the

double pneumonia I had in the fall, then a week or so before

graduation, I tore a ligament in my right knee, so he had to change

my nick name to " gimppy! " And the summer I met my present husband,

the others on the archelogy dig we were members of started callimg

me " Full of Grace " because I was always tripping over something,

tree roots, my own feet, you name it! Oh, and the bicycle accident

when I some how got the front tire caught in loose gravel and still

have the dirt in one knee and one elbow in addition to the broken

nose!

Oh, and I would throw up every morning before I could even eat

breakfast! And I swear, I have a cast iron stomach as I was eating

baby asprin from the time I was 2 or three! Migraines, the list goes

on and on!

So, I think that pain has been a part of my life for so long that I

just accept it, but that doesn't mean it kept me from doing almost

anything I wanted to until about 4 years ago, when the job started

getting to me and the doctors were finding more and more problems all

over my body!

I can only hope that when we move in June and I am around my friends

and family, I will be able to do some gardening and THIS WILL SHOCK

my husband, start cooking again!

And now I am going up to take my afternoon nap!

>

> Dear friends,

> I just wanted to vent this last thing before I go to work. I often

think of how pills are so much a part of my life. It seems I depend

on so many pills just to get through life and work. (not all