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I hear you on the work thing. I got downgraded from a work capacity of of 8-15 hours to 0-7 by Centrelink's own assessors, which is a real bitch as I'm on Newstart. My own doctor isn't going to release me for work until I've been stable for at least 3 months and that hasn't happened yet so I'm stuck in this zone where I'm doing better but not better "enough" and feel like a fraud at times because I'm nowhere near as bad as I was a year ago.
I'm getting wary of the multidrug cocktails as they really don't seem to be working well for many people. I understand trying them, but it seems pretty pointless to keep people on them or to just add another drug to the mix if they aren't working anyway - it gets to the point where it's impossible to tell what's a product of the underlying illness and what's a side effect of the drugs themselves.
On a side note, I find it ironic that OTC pain relievers containing codeine have gone behind the counter in my state but you can still buy cold and flu preparations containing the same amount of paracetamol and codeine off the shelf without consulting a pharmacist and you can still buy lethal quantities of paracetamol for bugger all (the reasoning was supposedly that people are damaging their livers by taking too much paracetamol to get the codeine). A lot of people are just going to take bigger doses of paracetamol now.
Hope things go well with your doc this afternoon.
I hear you on the work thing. I got downgraded from a work capacity of of 8-15 hours to 0-7 by Centrelink's own assessors, which is a real bitch as I'm on Newstart. My own doctor isn't going to release me for work until I've been stable for at least 3 months and that hasn't happened yet so I'm stuck in this zone where I'm doing better but not better "enough" and feel like a fraud at times because I'm nowhere near as bad as I was a year ago.
I'm getting wary of the multidrug cocktails as they really don't seem to be working well for many people. I understand trying them, but it seems pretty pointless to keep people on them or to just add another drug to the mix if they aren't working anyway - it gets to the point where it's impossible to tell what's a product of the underlying illness and what's a side effect of the drugs themselves.
On a side note, I find it ironic that OTC pain relievers containing codeine have gone behind the counter in my state but you can still buy cold and flu preparations containing the same amount of paracetamol and codeine off the shelf without consulting a pharmacist and you can still buy lethal quantities of paracetamol for bugger all (the reasoning was supposedly that people are damaging their livers by taking too much paracetamol to get the codeine). A lot of people are just going to take bigger doses of paracetamol now.
Hope things go well with your doc this afternoon.
thanks lolie without going into too much detail by the end of the afternoon i was chilled n happy enough to pass.....
) with that done within a under a muinite (A NEW PERSONAL RECORD)![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
many many a thanks 2 u Lolie 4 keepin me on my toes