Sorry to see your sick for sure! I agree with you as for the healthcare situation in this Country is horrid. No one should ever have to face not getting treated due to ability to pay. I know all...
Kara I am so glad that you get to go. I hate it that it is going to cost so much as we have so very little to survive on to begin with and then to have to pay out of pocket for an office visit is...
AMEN Gramps! Chronie there are a few things that you can do to make sure you dont have to suffer any W/Ds from not getting your meds on time and one it to make sure you schedule your appointment on a...
The thing that irks me the the most in all this is they offer incentives to transfer to their store and then have the audacity to think we are trying to pull something over on them when we do! My...
RY, I have no problems with giving you that info but would rather not post it on open forum and I see that you dont have an email addy in the control panel. If you do not want to use your regular...
Ry I live in Central KY and it is just as difficult here and sometimes more so with all the hype and oxy deaths we had in the mountain areas and the drug wars took hold here. They implemented a...
PAlady I know it seems that far too many times the road uphill is far to steep and from standing at the bottom looking up it? It is too steep to climb,so here you pull out that acceptance and pin it...
Just wanted to pop this back to the front page as I think it has some great issues discussed and many many of us can benefit by radical acceptance theory. I made a post in Chutz's passion thread and...
Wow! It seems most of us that read like the same kinds of books and Authors! I read Nora Roberts as JD Robb in her Eve Dallas series as I love all the in the future stuff but it isnt far fetched...
So sorry honey. Is there no one else you can ask for a ride even if you need to be dropped off and picked back up? You said your going to run out of meds and that will be awful and who knows how long...
You are more then welcome! Too many times we long for the days we dont have to center our lives around meds but far more we exchange that for centering our lives around pain! I would much rather take...
Thanks Ry for the response. I am thinking along these lines myself as even though their hours are not as convenient as the larger places but even given that it would be nice to have someone recognize...
Not Keah Kara but wanted to say that the more you get the cheaper they are so 120 may not be but a few dollars more then the 90. Just wanted to let you know and shop around,check out the drugstores...
Hey Kara, wouldnt it be nice to have a sticky of sorts for new users at the top of the page with a guide of sorts for abbreviations? Sure would make it easier for alot of folks new to posting and new...
LB, congrats on your pregnancy! Also on your sobriety. I am begining to sound like an advocate for Methadone anonymous here but if you enter a google search you will find it and it is a great place...
Hey Skeeter,glad to see you got a change at least,means your Doc is at least listening to your complaints. Morphine is alot of folks savior and some nightmares and this again is based on individual...
I do so apologize beforehand for this one but this just gets me in the worst way. I had an appointment last week on the 13th with my Doc who is going to tale a little breather this week since he...
First Kimb it is NOT an addiction when your taking your meds as prescribed and you are taking them to give yourself a better qulaity of life,big difference there so dont beat yourself over the head...
Lyrica is one of those meds that work by directly changing the chemical components I might say or balance of our brains much like the neurontin and although it is not unusual to experience some...
Hello Twiggy! I also did one of those crazy shoveling days a week or so ago myself. I would be the first to say going to the ER and this is not my usual place to refer anyone,is a good idea. It...
Tammy sorry your having to deal with all this ontop of family problems,unfortunately life moves on around our pain doesnt it? As for the pain and the diseases worsening it is a fact with a...
Hey Ry, like everything else accupuncture is hit and miss. Works wonders for some and not at all for others but unlike other treatments I have not heard anything negative coming out of them so what...
Letting your Doc know about this is the first suggestion I would make and then go from there. Ry had a great idea with the mattress as once I changed to my memory foam I had alot less pain ina lot...
Ultram is relatively cheap now but there are others that are just as cheap and do much more good. I have to agree that if it didnt help then it probably isnt going to do much good now. Methadone is...
It is certainly posts like this one Ry and PA that make me count my blessings for my Doc, I think I will send him a thank you note this week for good measure! Keah my Dad passed away in 98 from Lung...
I am one of those people who got discouraged with ultram in the begining as I was still working at the time and alot of Docs were prescribing it for elderly patients very leniently and I was caught...
As bad as I hate those places I have to vote for the ER as well. Sounds as if something has gone very wrong and the sooner you know it the better. I am so so sorry your having such a time with this...
Ry and here I go again about this so called Doc of yours,she tells you that she is giving this last script but doesnt suggest a taper for you? I think not as that in itself is absurd. She has been...
Welcome RT to the forum and sorry your having such a time with pain,that is what this place is all about . Too bad you cant find another Doc in your area to do the treatment as it looked as though...
Mochiah is right and even if your limited as to what or how many there are a remarkably many meds without patnets that have generics that are cheaper and worth every penny if it brings about better...
It is possible it was an old batch of pills or maybe they had been exposed to extreme heat or cold for whatever reason and this can change the chemical comp of the med. It is hard to say but you may...
Hi Boater and welcome to HW. There is absolutely no reason your PM Doc cannot call and consult with your surgeron and even ig he doesnt have visitng privs at the hospital where your procedure will be...
This makes for a nice diversion. I love reading and I guess it is my 1st choice and read anything I can get my hands on. 2nd would have to be camping and yes even a CPP can go camping per say and yes...
Oops forgot the question about the arthroscopic surgery! I had both knee's doen via the scope and they left little tiny scars that faded to almost nothing a few years out. I was done and headed home...
Congrats Knitwit on your sobriety! I come from a very long line of Bi-polars and all of them had drinking problems? I use to wonder if all alcoholics were Bi or were all Bi,s alcoholic? I do recall...
84? Wow! You go! Welcome to the forum and sure hate to see your having such a time with sciatica as it is one of the most frustrating pains to deal with as it seems there is only breif relief from...
You are most welcome and I am so so glad that I am able to come here and give something of myself as I take so much away with me some days from here and I sometimes think others have no idea how many...
Well darn sweety. You already know how I feel about your current Doc and looking for a new one is a Great! Idea. However and there always seem to be these and the but's doesnt there? If this is the...
Your welcome. I certainly hope you get some relief at best and figure out a cause to put you on the right track to relief. I just hate it when we have to add another pain to the mix,like what we are...
I was getting some flak over the name thing so I changed it to lighten things up a bit. Even though Ruth Thomas was NOT my real name and the name of a dear friend who lost her battle with CP last...
It seems we all react so differently to meds and that is the reason I hate to see some of these Docs who have protocol meds and there is no changing them. I talked about how anti=dpressants effected...
Your on the right track in your thinking Ry. It will go down in your records as another failed attempt so that it may pave the way for another doc to go on to something else as many times they get...
I didnt get to the acceptance part of this until I stopped trying to accept that I was less then who I was and concentrated more on the fact I was just different then who I once was. I am in no a...
PAlady, 8 inches of snow to folks who dont own snow shovels and havent for years and stores that only carry 5 per store in mid November is about the equal of 23 with people who have plows on their...
I am awed at times how inefficient some of these ERs are and how any Doctor,PA,NP or whatever the title can release a patient from their care and not have covered their proverbial a**! Pardon my...
I am sorry Ry and I thin I like this Doc of yours less and less each post from you. Steroids work rather quickly with some effect and continue to wrk in smaller increments as time goes on and I will...
Kara I agree with PAlady here and I know I have sciatica and it effects my hip some times more then anywhere else,even when the pain is more down my leg it seems to originate in my hip before moving...
Calling your Doc was a good move but I still would have filed that police report since your meds were short and had you been under a contract at a pain management clinic and got called in for a pil...
Welcome to the board Ti. I dont know about others here with SC but I have certainly worked with my share of those who had it over the years and the progress we have made in treating this has been...
Welcome to the board Wicks! Sorry your having such a time and hope you finally have some relief. When I get a stomach virus my Doc will hold my regular meds and I use the patch or a time or two...