Misc The Pain Management Mega Thread version 3.0

[*samsonite*]

I really really really can't stand the nurse at my pm office! I went in this morning to get my refills and she wrote not to fill my OxyContin or Soma until Saturday! Wtf?! That puts me 2 days after 30 days. She didn't even mention it. I found it out when I dropped off my other scripts. I pay the same copay whether I see her or the doc but I only see the dr every 3 months. I'm going to requests all my visits with him from now on. I can't stand that bitch. She is also the only one who makes me drop UAs. I have not tested positive even one time in the 3 years I've been getting treatment.

On a positive note, I did get my percocet w/o acetaminophen this time. Even that was a war with the hag but she ended up doing it. Now I have to live with just percocet and steroids til Saturday.

Hope you all are doing well and having better luck with your drs!

 

[Doomed2pain]

oh no samsonite i'm so sorry that happened I know how much you needed that refill. Sending all my healing thoughts out to you sugar

as for the whole mind over matter toughness, yeh I have an insanely high tolerance to pain from years of martial arts training with men 4 times my size (Im a woman, 5 foot 9inch 65kg ex semi pro cage fighter) and I will tell you this, if it wasn't for my past discipline and training I would spend every single day stuck in my bed screaming. I force myself to go out at least twice a week as that is usually the max I can manage. but fuck that, if your pain is higher than the amount of dopamine and other natural pain killers, YOU ARE FUCKED. hence the need for opiates to replenish the ALREADY HIGHLY DEPLETED chemical levels....


anyway, hope everyone is good, I agree with tri, big dirty is half man half machine :D

 

[tricomb]

Good morning patients, how are you guys doing?

Samsonite that seems horrible, if it's any resolution my PM doc took me off soma cold turkey from 2800mg --> 0mg, and then later when I begged for a taper, he RX'd me 10 days worth of 700mg a day..... He said its the first and last time he'd write an RX for carisoprodol.

 

[brighton]

^ ugh not very good today. im having some ultrasound on my wrist today so hopefully i can get a few days/hours relief. im so burnt out. omg doomed, thats amazing that you were a cage fighter!

 

[Doomed2pain]

unbeaten female regional champion baby

woah i hope it isn't too serious with your wrist b super hugs

 

[Coraline]

I am hurting bad. My legs are hurting in a way I can't really describe.
I am hoping for a miracle to make it stop.

 

[tricomb]

^ ugh not very good today. im having some ultrasound on my wrist today so hopefully i can get a few days/hours relief. im so burnt out. omg doomed, thats amazing that you were a cage fighter!

I hope it helps!!!

Doomed2Pain is going to be going through multiple withdrawals this weekend due to negligence on the behalf of her medical care, so let's send her some positive energy.

Zoeylynn, is it like RLS?

 

[Doomed2pain]

thanks Tri that was nice of you

 

[dais]

Hope you all are doing well!

Is anyone doing anything new? Tried something fun? Lifestyle change? Haircut? How are you people?

the family went camping for a few nights and i blew it off at the last minute.

i've got a few things to take care around the household and in the yard to tidy up, otherwise it's just me time! kinda regretting not going but i can recreate the scenario in the backyard plus my woodstove is INSIDE as compared to winter temperatures and an outside firepit. so i don't need to move far!

 

[tricomb]

i wish I could help more!

 

[TyLannister]

Doomed2Pain,
Thats incredibly cool! I also did some MMA such a great release, if only i would have went that route instead of another sport, i may have not had to have so many damn surgeries. As much as i loved competition and the crowds and what not, the actual gym time was my favorite part about it. Damn it depresses me to no other to think if i went in right now for some bag work i would probably actually be beaten by the bag.

 

[brighton]

I hope it helps!!!

Doomed2Pain is going to be going through multiple withdrawals this weekend due to negligence on the behalf of her medical care, so let's send her some positive energy.

Zoeylynn, is it like RLS?

omg ultrasound + my new tens unit + clonazepam = a huge pain decrease and a very happy brighton. yus! it feels like heaven.

 

[brighton]

I am hurting bad. My legs are hurting in a way I can't really describe.
I am hoping for a miracle to make it stop.

oh dude. pain love why didnt us humans get made with a "pain on/off" button (or just the off button)

 

[HaZeX]

I am hurting bad. My legs are hurting in a way I can't really describe.
I am hoping for a miracle to make it stop.

Come over and ill spread the love, that is of opiates.

Seriously though, sounds like a bad day. Hopefully tomorrow is better! feel better, along with all my fellow CPP's

 

[Bluefrogger]

My bones are aching and the RSD is really sensitive, burning, and swollen today. Then for two dam hours, my foot and leg turn freakishly cold. While still burning! ! ! I get so frustrated!
LOL "freakishly!" Is that a word? The weather keeps changing, right now just the humidity that keeps changing and still hot! Not good for a lot of us.

I got a break and received some good news though! That always helps to know you have something good to look forward to - good for the depression, you all know what I mean.

I have a shout out to all of the leg pain sufferers on the thread:
(There has been a lot of talk earlier in thread about nerve type pain in limbs and jolts, jumping, stuff like that.) I have sleep apnea - snoring really bad, and can't sleep at all without a bi-pap machine, blowing forced air down my throat all nite to keep my airway open. This is due to the relaxers, opiates, one partially collapsed sinus, etc.
Anyway, getting to the point, during a sleep study, they told me that I had RLS (restless leg syndrome) showing up on the test! My sleep doc. gave me Ropinirole , a generic for Requip, and my legs feel great in the a.m. now. They were feeling like crap before and I didn't really know why? The doc. also told me that increasing the dose when I was tapering or in a withdrawal, would help the jerks and spasms. The medicine works differently than a muscle relaxer. It specifically targeted for muscle spasms. (Said to take neurontin also for w/d relief.)
Anyway, I didn't notice that Requip had been mentioned before in the Thread, so just wanted to put it out there for anyone in need.
Hope everyone's done the best they can for the day That's all we can do!entioned before in the Thread, so just wanted to put it out there for anyone in need.

Zoeylynn, hopes this info. can help the leg problems and just remember that the S.S., and tried and proven IME Dr's are all very corrupt!
Doomed, Hope it's getting better for you!
Samsonite, so disturbed that after all you've waited for was more waiting. So sorry, hang-in there!
Tricomb, this yteek, sounds like a hurtful idiot that only likes to pick on someone, so they think it will make makes themselves feel better. Hope someone can find a good home for him/her someday soon.

Hope everyone's done the best they can for the pain today!!! That's all we can do!

 

[effie]

Guys, lets keep this thread on-topic and supportive please. Anything off-topic or defamatory will be removed. We're here to help each other, not criticise. Take anything else to PM please

 

[Bluefrogger]

On topic!!!

Thanks Effie!

 

[lady_stardust]

i meditate at least twice a day although have had 5 sessions today due to the pain. it helps loads

doomed2pain - is that u? i tried pming u, but im having tech problems and can't pm..".".how R U long lost friend??? (long story short - i lost my contacts) ---- ah shit, just read the post about u suffering because of a screw-up w/your meds....i'm so sorry!! (i don't want to repeat myself- i feel like written this already in a few threads - BUT - because of an admin error, i too was in terrible pain and "mild/mod" wds - Kratom has saved me, and i feel like i can make it until my script is filled in a few days. my pain is still "10", but the wds r GONE! and i had tried everything else i had first: diazepam, neurontin, soma, baclofen, weed, alcohol, none of it did anything for the wds - and then after getting some relief from the Kratom, the weed helped too, but not before, and fyi- Kratom has never done much of anything for me before....) - i'll pray for you sweetheart.

love u much
g

 

[lady_stardust]

Yeah I too am currently in the middle of the SS Disability process. Since I had my first application denied, I've had two more spine surgeries and hired a disability attorney who, although taking 25%, has me feeling almost over confident that my appeal will be won. The sad thing is that the government is so far behind that they told me it could take a year to get a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge.

Combined with my litigation against the makers of the defective bone graft I received, and my whole future in terms of supporting myself are tied up in some form of legal mumbo jumbo.

Other than that, I find myself having a tough time doing some simple pool exercise I learned a few surgeries back, as the pain gets much worse each time I've been in the pool the last 2 weeks.

i hate this:as we get worse, they find us "better." i missed what country u r in, but in the states u can keep your bebefits throughout the appeal...?

... and god, i know TOO MUCH about having your entire future being tangled-up in a mass of legal shit!!

good luck (also, in the states, they pretty much, as a matter or course, deny your first app. and having a lawyer is worth the money - too much at stake here)
peace
g

 

[Allein]

Effie has already asked that this thread be allowed to get back on track, of you have an issue with a moderator take it up with them via PM.

A polite request has already been made, all these posts about what a moderator and member of this site does or doesn't and vague attempts to identify them just do not belong here.