JamesBrown - Illness, Hospitalization

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I seriously almost feel like james but not as bad and not to change topics so I wanna know whats up with this. I can barely eat my weight goes from 4 to 5 pounds in days drops then goes up, I get temps when I start feeling the pain its very weeird. I havent taken a proper shit in a min but I do shit....Its fucking scary. So Ugh I wish Jmes the best this is so hard posting to and reading
 
ive been ignored by doctors afted OD'ing several times as well.. i had my heart stop on 3 seperate occasions due to doctor negligance.. yet i cant even imagine what jamesbrown is going through.. it must be so hard
i feel for you brother.. and i respect you very much.. please get better man.. i beg of you..
much love my friend..
 
hello everyone, this is atually james. i was able to get some meication that will allow me to post for a short while. for soem reason i have a hard time staying away from BL. i just think its a great community, excpet for the occasional asshole.

im so glad that my sis was willing to keep people updated about my situation even though my situation was pretty much always just "PAIN".
she is going to make a screename of her own and keep posting for me once my meds stop working.

just so you guys know, either im becoming slightly use to constant intense pain, or my pain has vrey slightly decreased in the past day or two. to be completely honest i think that im just becoming more use to the pain because after this long of constant hellish pain and lack of food and liquids, my brain probably has "re-programmed" itself to make it think that this pain is something natural and normal. and as a result, it bothers me slightly less. allthough dont get me wrong, i still scream and cry and cant eat and barely drink, its just very slightly better. or maybe im just delirious and think its ebtter who knows.

anyway, i cant wait for the appointment with that pain specialist on tuesday. i deciced im going to go in there and tell him first thing...."I do not want to be given ANY opiates whatsoever unless you think it is absolutely necessary." I thinkt his will help me get better treatment. i was reffered to him by my sub doctor so he knows about ym situation and history but i dont know if that will benefit me or not because i told my other doctors at all the hospitals about my history and they treated me like shit. so who knows?
anywa, i really dont know if i need opiates, allthough I do know for a fact that i need something to kill my pain or i will die from not being able to eat or sleep or possibly a heart attack. i would have no problem with just getting an injection thay numbs my back and spine so that the pain is completely blocked cuz the nerves cant transmit the pain. that would be AWESOME. if they did that and i instantly couldnt feel any of this horrible pain, i would weep with joy and then probably pass out from being so tired. then i would wake up and hug my doctor for like 10 minutes.....seriously....thats the kind of hell i have been through. imagine getting hit in your spine with an axe every 5 minutes for a month. that gives you some idea of what i feel. im not tryin to get sympathy, im just honestly and accurately describing my pain situation.

i hope he doesnt just see me for a few minutes, ask me questions that will take a shitload of what little energy i have to answer, and then just send me to somewhere else to get some sort of scan or test done. because who the hell knows how many more days i will have to wait for that to happen? and then how many more days until i get to see the doctor again? hopefully he will give me some sort of injection before i leave his office so im actually capable of lying down to do a cat scan or mri. im sry that some people have made comments about me just toughing it out and lying down the best i can to do the tests, but when i say i cant lie down at all...i fucking mean it. i literally cannot bend backwards more than a couple centimeters. i havent layed down in god knows how long. there really is no need for me to though cuz i cant slep anyway. but for a MRI or CAT scan, i wish i could i just cant without something helping with the pain. and i cant buy painkillers off the street anymore because they will show up on my urine sample and the doc might not help me if he seees that. "just another junky". also, he is good friends with my sub doc and that could get me kicked out of the program.

sry, i dont even know what im getting at here. i just felt like i needed to post something while i was capable of doing so. i miss bluelight and all the good people on it. thank you all for your support, and im sure my sister will make her own BL name and keeep you updated....that is only if your interested. it meant alot to me when i was screaming on my living room floor, propped up with pillows, twitching in pain, and my sister tells me that alot of people have been sending me there best wishes and praying for me and hoping i get better. if i wasnt crying allready i probably would have cried.

anyway thank you and i hope all of you are doing well.
 
Hey man...glad to see you posting!

Keepin' you and your family in my thoughts

:)
 
I dont get why your trying to see a pain managment doctor I mean I get that your in pain but there has to be a reason. Intense pain coming out of the blue is not normal something is very very wrong with you. You need to get that cat scan done asap like yesterday if you have to get loaded on OC and kolonopin so be it fuck em. I would go to that university ER and not say shit about suboxone they dont need to know if they say something bout OC be like yea I had some left from getting wisdom teeth(insert random event) or w/e was in horrible pain thought it would help. But yea starving to death is not gonna be pleasant. Sorry to be blunt and I know that doctors are assholes but you gotta play the system or it will play you.
I hope you feel better.
 
I dont get why your trying to see a pain managment doctor I mean I get that your in pain but there has to be a reason. Intense pain coming out of the blue is not normal something is very very wrong with you. You need to get that cat scan done asap like yesterday if you have to get loaded on OC and kolonopin so be it fuck em. I would go to that university ER and not say shit about suboxone they dont need to know if they say something bout OC be like yea I had some left from getting wisdom teeth(insert random event) or w/e was in horrible pain thought it would help. But yea starving to death is not gonna be pleasant. Sorry to be blunt and I know that doctors are assholes but you gotta play the system or it will play you.
I hope you feel better.

the doctor im seeing IS at the unversity hospital. and i had tried going to get scans and tests and hel at many many other doctors and hospitals and was refused service, and i was told this particular doctor at this particular hospital would help me cuz hes friends with my sub doc.....so i gotta trust that. Cuz I dont have any mre money. This is it, his visits are gonna cost me $500. If I go somewhere else and they refufuse to numb my pain or kill it like all the last dosctors then i cant do it cuz im in too much pain to lie down or sit still. its taking me like 45 mminutes to type this. And if that cat scan doesnt work, i get a bill for that shit still, and then i am fucked and cant go see that doctor who is supposed to help me. he has allready personally talked to my sub doctor in front of me and knows al about me and my history but he also knows that ive been good and clean for 6 months. my sub doctor told him i was a good guy with a good family. this pain doctor use to be an anasthesiologist(spelling) but now is a pain management doctor and the main reason im going to him is because he allready knows about suboxone because he can prescribe it, and i cant do ANY tests until atleast some pain is taken away, and no hospital or doctor has been willing to do that in a month so im gonna take my chances with him. i would have gotten tests done earlier, but i just cant...simple as that...impossible. and im not just being a wuss, i literally cant bend in any way that allows me to do a scan, let alone sit still long enough. trust me i have had to try on many many occasions, and also trust me,i dont like having to spend tens of thousands of dollars going to practically all the hospitals in my city, going to a shitload of specialist etc...so i can be called and treated like a junky, just so i can puss out in the end and fake not being able to do a test that could fucking help cure me. that is not something a fucking sane person would do and im not fucking crazy ok. i NEED to have atleast some of my pain killed in SOME way before i can do any test. and i just dont have the money to get oxy or anythign else anymore, im fuckin broke. so is my family. were going to have to charge my next visit to a credit card and hope it is accepted and goes through. because they dotn take my insurance, the $500 only covers the visit, not all the tests, etc.. so it will be even more. and after that visit, we really have no idea at this point how we are going to go back because we wont be able to charge any more to the credit cards, we have allready maxed out all of them prety much except for this one last one we think still has some credit. The only other option woul be to start pawning off all of our families valuables and that is NOT somthing I should have to do in FUCKING AMERICA. Im sry but I pay my taxes and I pay for health insurance so after I have gone to several hospitals, doctors, specialists, chiropractors, etc....had to go through cat scans, had over 15 vials of blood taken from me over the course of the three weeks, etc.etc. etc. and I have COOPERATED COMPLETELY as best as I physically possibly could (if you read my story you know what i went through) then I should not have to fucking pawn off my fucking families property just so I dont fucking die!!
 
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why would you even pay the hospital bills if they treated you like shit and just called you a junky and made you suffer? just dont pay it..and use the money for something like the thing youre doing tuesday, good luck man
 
James, I am so glad you posted and I wish you the best with your visit on Tuesday. I had not considered osteomyelitis; the sub doc/anaesthesiologist should be able to treat your pain. Although the doctor is your diagnostician, I think Izzy's suggestion and experience in hospital nursing should be taken under serious account.

I hope that you and your family are out of pain and financial issues sooner rather than later. Much love and strength to all of you - and keep your head up, man, the world needs more good souls like you and Angela.
 
would your suboxone doctor consider writing you a script for sub again? Bupe is, from what i read, pretty helpful for pain.

Next, if your computer has Windows Vista or 7 (possibly XP) you should have a speech to text (different than text to speech) program. You can enable this feature under accessibility options in the control panel.

You need a microphone and some patience for the tutorials.

Once you finish setting it up, you can command the computer for the most part by using the mic and TALKING TO IT! :)

Many programs work well with speech to text...web-browsers like Firefox and Chrome suck tho. BUT you can navigate the web with a mouse and for BL you can dictate your posts into notepad/wordpad and just use a mouse to copy the text from there, paste it in the web-browser and click submit.
 
would your suboxone doctor consider writing you a script for sub again? Bupe is, from what i read, pretty helpful for pain.

Next, if your computer has Windows Vista or 7 (possibly XP) you should have a speech to text (different than text to speech) program. You can enable this feature under accessibility options in the control panel.

You need a microphone and some patience for the tutorials.

Once you finish setting it up, you can command the computer for the most part by using the mic and TALKING TO IT! :)

Many programs work well with speech to text...web-browsers like Firefox and Chrome suck tho. BUT you can navigate the web with a mouse and for BL you can dictate your posts into notepad/wordpad and just use a mouse to copy the text from there, paste it in the web-browser and click submit.

I actually never stopped getting suboxone scripts. I stopped taking them but whenever i had my appointment, i would just put urine from a long while back when i had been using suboxone into a couple plastic baggies wrapped up, and tape it under my sack, hehe, and then use that as my urine sample. the temp would be right and the drugs in the urine would be spot on, so he would continue giving me suboxone. I also have a huge stash anyway.
But, I know exactly what suboxones pain killing properties are. If you arent aware of how I used my subs when I was on them all the time then ill tell you. I would take low doses so that I could actually benefit from the energy giving, and euphoric(analgesic) properties of it. And whenever I had pain, it definitely helped, but it by no means woul even put a dent in the pain I am experiencing. I know that for sure. And taking more subs would only decrease its analgesic properties. Ive tried increasing my dose on several occasions purely for experimentation, and at doses higher than like 2 mg's, the effects were much less appealing than low dose subs. Its painkilling effects definitely go down the higher dose you take. Thats why Temgesic for example is only prescribed in 0.2 and 0.4mg pills. If they gave you more, it would only increase the antagonistic effects and decrease the agonistic effects.
I mean, since I have had this extremely intense and horrible pain the past month, the only thing that even helps slightly with my pain and makes me able to sit up a little and maybe post for a short while, is very high dose oxycontin mixed with high dose benzos. And even then, 90% of my pain is still there. Im not tryin to get sympathy here or brag about how bad my pain is, but seriously....this pain is beyond extreme.

Also, thanks for the advice about the computer voice command thingy, but I have an old computer with windows XP and its just an overall crappy computer. I dont even have speakers. And the keyboard is really old and sticky, and the monter is a fucking huge cube. Id rather just have my sister make her own account here and post on my behalf then have to worry about setting up a complicated speach recognition dealy. Also, the main reason i cant post on BL much is because I cant sit at the computer. Not because my fingers hurt. Its my back pain that is the most debilitating. And the very few times I am able to post(after I have been given plenty of painkillers and benzos) I can only sit in the chair for a short period of time before the pain comes back in full force. I am constantly having to switch from a chair, to the floor sitting up , to my side sitting up, etc...if i sitin one place for more than like 15-20 miinutes, there will definitely be hell to pay....and when i say hell, i mean cryinglike a baby and screaming for death.

....for example....i now cant post anymore, i feel the pain starting to increase allready, so im gonna go try another postion somewhere else in the house. its quite annoying and i cant really ever sleep even if I have paikillers, cuz once i wake up, i would feel like death. it happened once and i learned my lesson BIGTIME. I will NEVER falll asleep for more than 30 minutes again. I set an alarm on my phone now for it. Its sad but ide rather be exhausted than in ultimate pain(even though im pretty much constantly in extreme pain), i just dont want to do anything to make it worse.
 
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This may sound a bit strange, but have you ever thought of a hot tub? The hot, soothing waters and jets are quite relaxing.
 
hey bro when u see the pain doc.I dont think you should be like "I don't want any opiates unless absolutely necessary" just because it seems kind of odd, you saying that. If I were you, i'd play dumb, tell him about your pain, and just wait for him to make the move. Just seems a little weird if you push to go that way right off the bat.
 
Hi James.. I never really post but read a lot here, I just wanted you to know that you are in my heart and thoughts and prayers.
 
This may sound a bit strange, but have you ever thought of a hot tub? The hot, soothing waters and jets are quite relaxing.

I appreciate the thought but yes, I have definitely thought of that. Unfortunately, I dont have access to a hot tub and taking a hot bath is out of the question because I have tried it and it was impossible for me to get down to the floor of the tub. My back would scream at me and feel like its tearing apart. I cant even sit on the edge of the shower cuz that too hurts my back, I need a special kind of support for my back along with a folded up pillow right at the bottom of my back in order to sit down anywhere.

but that really is good advice and thank you. I wonder where I could possibly get to a hot tub at this time of year. I think the 104 degree heat on my back and the "no gravity" kind of feeling it gives would work wonders for me. I probably wouldnt even need to worry about back support if im just sitting/floating in a hot tub.

Do you have any suggestions as to where I could gain access to a hot tub? I mean, I doubt there are any physical rehabilitation places what will allow me to use there hot tubs for free. And money is a big issue right now. Were pretty much spending our last money(credit actually) on my doc visit tommorow and after that we might have to ask family for a little help. Its sad but I have to get better, I do not want any permanent damage because all my doctors thought I was a junky looking for drugs. I have talked to people who had a similar experience to mine and they ended up getting permanent nerve damage as a result. In fact I think the post is in this very thread. She has to use a cane now for the rest of her life and I believe she now has chronic pain as a result. I really want to prevent that because I want to get back into playing sports and exercising alot.

Thanks again for the advice.
 
A lot of gyms have hot tubs and they usually allow a limited amount of casual visits. Not free but the reality is that both diagnosis and treatment are going to cost money - you can only try to limit the cost. And you may be entitled to discounted access to physical therapy facilities if you're referred by the pain management specialist. A lot is going to depend on the provisional diagnosis.
 
A lot of gyms have hot tubs and they usually allow a limited amount of casual visits. Not free but the reality is that both diagnosis and treatment are going to cost money - you can only try to limit the cost. And you may be entitled to discounted access to physical therapy facilities if you're referred by the pain management specialist. A lot is going to depend on the provisional diagnosis.

thanks so much for the advice.
 
what dose of oxy and bz are you using and what ROA? if high dose oc wont touch your pain i dont know what to say. that shit makes cancer and kidney stones bearable.
[triggering and against the spirit of TDS, please be a bit more careful with your suggestions, thanks - n3o]
 
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Today's Tuesday.

Jb you're going to the Dr today right, good luck, let us know how it goes.
 
It's terrible that doctors see pain like this tolerable, when it definitely is not at a tolerable level..

Have you researched anything about Sciatica? Sciatica pain levels rise from small to extremely severe debilitating pain in the back..

I hope everything goes well today at your appointment James. Hope you feel better soon.
 
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