Dear Kymm, I read with interest your message, I have to tell you how proud
you made me feel to read your story and I personally think you deserve the
whole store so you can have all the lolipops you deserve. Thanks for sharing
Love @ hugs Gloria
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From: <cherokee@...>
To: <pain-in-the-law@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 11:22 AM
Subject: [pain-in-the-law] Re: Where's my lolipop?


> Dear Kymm,
>
> I have only been suffering for 10 yrs with my spinal injuries and
> 1.5 dozen surgeries and procedures. However, I was on MS Contin
> 120mg. daily for 3 years and I have to say, if there is a way for
> you to reduce and change or get off those types of drugs, it would
> behoove you to do so.
>
> When we take those kinds of major narcotics for a long period of
> time, our natural bodies ability to handle pain is greatly
> diminished. Thus, things hurt even more then they would if we were
> not taking them.
>
> I also got very tired of missing out on most of my life as the short
> term memory was shite and all my memories went into the same big
> bowl. I could remember some of them, but had no idea as to a
> timeline.
>
> I am not without pain by any stretch of the imagination, but I do
> recognize damaging pain from just daily pain. I still have heavy
> meds at my disposal if things get out of hand, and to occasionally
> take the edge off, but I have noticed that my ability to handle the
> pain is much different now that I am off the daily mass doses of
> those previous meds. (Morphine was not all I was on either.)
>
> I try to swim,(upper body), at the YMCA, which has a lift to put me
> in and out of the water, and try to get a good massage 2-4 times a
> month to keep the spasms and shooting pains to a lesser point. I
> check my posture and shrug and roll my shoulders all day to keep
> those muscles from tightening up and creating more problems as well.
> I finally got a lift for my truck just last month, so I do not have
> to put my WC in and out of my truck and upset my body even more.
>
> Anyway, yes, these folks have little clue of which they speak of,
> but it might be in your best interest for you to look into changing,
> altering and/or reducing these meds that you have been on for so
> long.
>
> I will be honest, that for me it took God's hand to get off that
> last 30mgs of morphine, due to heart problems it had caused, but I
> did get off it. I think in the last 2 years I have had 2 30 mgs
> doses of morphine since I stopped them. Now I take Lortab (2) and
> either Soma (2) or some other anti-spasm med that is prescribed and
> at that point, stop doing any activity, and let my body rest.
>
> This has worked much better than previously going until I dropped
> due to not knowing I was over doing since the drugs were masking the
> pain I needed to know about. And I might add, all those meds never
> did take the pain away, they just numbed my brain enough eventually
> that I was too brain numb to care as much.
>
> Well, I hope that you are able to change some things. I alway try to
> alter my meds every couple of prescriptions anyway, but that is
> because I do not like to have my body build tolerances to anything,
> or build up immunity to anything. I suppose it does not matter much
> now though. My doc only has to write me a 30 day supply about once
> every 3-5 months, I use so little now.
>
> And here is your lollipop :-) ()
> \
> Be well,
>
> LT
>
>
> >
> > I have suffered from chronic pain for over 20 years due to a
> spinal trauma and multiple fusions and surgeries throughout.
> Anyway, I just got home from my pain managmenet doctor and somehow I
> felt as though I should have been handed a lolipop when I left.
> >
> > As usual he asked how I was feeling, only half listening, because
> my condition rarely changes and never for the better or maybe
> because he's just bored. We got to the part of the appointment were
> he needs to write prescriptions. Now the questions start. And the
> tone of his voice changes to that tone that's reserved for fathers
> and authority figures. "So, how are we doing with the
> medication?" "Are there any concerns we should be aware of?'
> and "Do you think it's time we started tapering you off the
> medication?" First of all I wasn't aware that "we" were in this
> together and second I resent that his concern lies more in his fear
> of my doing something stupid with my medication than with my pain.
> I realize there are those that abuse their medication, however he
> knows my condition, he's seen my xrays and must know I am in
> extreme pain the majority of the time. After I assured him I was
> being a "good girl" (I even degraded myself and used that term) he
> wrote my refills. I don't feel embarrassed or bad for taking my
> medication normally but when I leave the doctors office I feel like
> a scolded child .
> >
> > When I left his office I went to the pharmacy and went through the
> whole thing again. "Do you know how strong this is?" "We'll need
> to call the doctor to verify that he wrote this". "You really
> should try to get off this stuff". You'd think these people knew me
> the way they judged me instantly. I really wonder sometimes how
> those who hurt more than me handle it.
> >
> > Anyway, I never did get that lolipop!!
> >
> > Kymm Cummins klcglc10@s...
> >
> >
> > Kymm L. Cummins
> > klcglc10@s...
>
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