I asked if I could post a picture and she said Yes. Then - Wait! -
she pulled out this postcard of the sunbathing cats. She said her little grandchild was awestruck by this: --How did they make the cats let them put the bathing suits on them? :-O
hee hee!
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I have been to two pain clinics and they done nothing for me. I had those shots in my lower back three times and two blocker shots later, just pills and more pills. I live on Oxy-Contin 80 mg and Perocet all the time, Cat
God, I did such a messy round with those damn clinics.
I forget, I think you're in GA not FL? We have that thing here where they like to put pain docs in jail.
So I was getting oxycodone from my rheumatologist, but it made him nervous. I was up to 120 of the 5mg pills a month. It was never nearly enough, either. Then he got a bug up his ass about the police.
So he made all his narco patients sign a Pain Management Agreement. It was not a very nice piece of paper. I've seen others since, and they don't have to read like Dear Patient, Since we know you're probably a criminal, here's how we can catch you when you sell your meds on the street: blah blah blah
and I had to give urine samples all the time, and so forth, and he was STILL all scared.
I actually don't blame him a bit for that. Here in FL? hell, he SHOULD be scared. But the way he handled it was brutal to his patients who were already in enough pain and fear of their own. He didn't need to do it that way.
So I kept his services as an arthritis doc, but went looking for a different doc for pain treatment. I told the RA doc it was because so much of my other sources of pain were nothing to do with arthritis, so I wanted an Overall Pain Management doc. Which was actually true, anyway.
I'll do a big ol' post about it all, one day. It became an interesting adventure.
I never did the spine shots, partly because I'm a carrier for the antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria MRSA. One goof in my spine and I'm dead from my own germs.
But, finally, I ended up with the most wonderful doctor. A hospital anesthesiologist. He's just unbelievable. So smart, so funny, so truly kind, yet so take-no-shit-from-nobody.
Now I'm on the patches, Fentanyl 50 mg. It's still not enough, but the best by far, ever.
And one really great thing? They last for 3 days. That bouncing up and down shit was horrible. You take your pill. You're sort of okay so you go about your business. Oops, forgot and waited 1/2 hour too long before taking the next one and SLAM you're on your ass trying not to beat your head on the floor because the last one wore off before the next one kicked in.
HORRIBLE.
God, and then it wears off in the middle of the night and you wake yourself up screaming, or try to get out of bed to go pee and fall down instead? Or you're out somewhere, and sit and try not to cry in public while you wait for the fucking pills to kick in? People you love see your face and think you're mad at them but you're in too much pain to explain you're not even thinking about them? Every single morning of every single day?
So now, I can pretty much function again. I could kiss that guy's shoes.
Not that I'd ever tell HIM that!
I've always wondered about the Oxycontin. I really avoided it because of the police state thing here, that's the one drug of all that they zero in on. How long does it last? Does it give you some of the stable relief like I get with the patches? Do you take the Percocet steady throughout the day or just to boost the Oxy. as needed?
Oxy-Contin 80 mg are great, they last about 8 hors and do take care of the pain. I take the others to help, Oxy-Contin are very high dollar. I also take methadone, about four a day, these doctors in GA say that it is a great pain medicine. I have tried the patches and the suckers, don't last long enough for me. One doctor got scared and cut me off, but my main doctor will try anything on me. I have also been on morphine, valium, prozaz, vicadene and many others, I hate all of them.
Do they make you feel sick?
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