Lol...no.
Actually I can't even FEEL all of those. Had a big chunk of one ripped off by a pike as a kid, and had it reattached
And that same hand, seems to cop every damn accident that wants to happen to a hand, wrist, or fingers. Unexplained wrist drop, myoclonic jerk propelling wrist into industrial pillar-drill whilst using it as a circular saw to cut slots in steel bars for guitar parts, missing the radial and ulnar nerves and radial artery by the width of a gnat's nackers, luckily, missing everything and just leaving 3 massive deep gashes, and encounters as a kid that were too close by far, involving conc. HClO4, liquid SO2, thionyl chloride and other things that like to eat holes in tender flesh
(at different times)
Left most of one hand a buggering big scar.
(and that damn liquid sulfur dioxide...that went and soaked my then favourite pair of spiked leather gauntlets and completely ruined them too
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And lol, scriptwhore. No worries, no offense taken btw
But in my defense, two OC 80s a day is not a huge dose. Not for somebody in severe, chronic pain, part of the cause of which is un-fixable. You have been a smackhead (H) in the past haven't you sham? you know full well what tolerance is like and how easy it is to build up.
I was on opioids for over a decade before I managed to persuade my doc to give me some real bona fide strong pain pills, even when I first started on the codeine, and DHC, it only took the edge off, and I didn't have the bursitis then either, or any real tolerance, beyond what might come from the occasional bit of codeine and morphine syrup over the counter recreationally, or the odd isolated handful of DHC pills, seasonal poppy harvests etc.
script-wise, this is what I take per day:
OC 80, twice a day,
192mg chlormethiazole, (heminevrin) again, twice a day,
50mcg of clonidine three times a day,
20mg omeprazole (proton pump inhibitor) BD
4mg tizanidine QDS (this one is similar to clonidine in action, although shorter acting, much less hypotensive, but far more powerful as a myorelaxant)
4mg chlorphenamine, 4x/daily
1xfexofenadine (nonsedating antihistamine, although I don't always bother using it, I don't need it all the time, as I prefer to use the chlorphenamine instead)
Gaviscon as needed
Xylometazoline nasal spray, daily as needed, I find that alpha2 adrenoreceptor agonists like tizanidine or clonidine cause nasal congestion and stuffyness, particularly if used intravenous.
Ranitidine (forget dosage, 100 or 150 I think, twice a day)
Buscopan (scopolamine/hyoscine, 10mg TDS)
Scopolamine transdermal patches, 3 a week
Movicol-as and when, every few days, just as a prophylactic against opioid-induced constipation. Bah...just try taking a shit when you can't even sit down without it hurting, let alone try and squeeze out something that goes a good way to demonstrating to a male, what its like to give birth to a large sack full of broken bricks
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Indomethacin-150mg/d
And a voltarol diclofenac topical spray.
Hardly scriptwhoring, there are only the oxy, chlormethiazole and clonidine/tizanidine that could be abusable there.
Only other things I've asked him for lately, have been two one-off short term (a few days) worth of nitrazepam, one small rx for immodium after a bit of an upset stomach, some more steroids and a tube of eye drops after a combination of arc-eye and exposure to, I forget what now, but some chemical or other that was decidedly not something one wants in one's eyes.
Edit-Shambles, its true, people with terminal illnesses, or worse pain than I'm in, and getting less pain medication. Happens. And never should happen. Doctors are IMO, way, way too fucking skittish and pussywhipped in many cases about giving pain meds out. IMO somewhat overmedicating, is much less of a bad thing than way undermedicating. Or worse, leaving somebody to go with nothing whatsoever.
I hate feeling like i have to fight to get anything at all, IMO docs should be working closely with patients, to determine an adequate level of analgesia for the case in question, without the patient having to more or less plant their feet, pout and challenge them to a single combat duel to the death
