another day

[a549056]

mornin fellow junkies. todays another day. some of us are feelin ruff, some of us are feelin great. i just want to re-asure all of you that the pain WILL go away. take it from a hard-core, main-lining junkie who knows. hell, if my pain went away, everbodys will. im headed to work now, and feelin great. something i thought was never gonna happen again. but i'll be dam, it did. you all stay clean long enuff, and your gonna get the suprise of your life....feelin good without. (unnerstand suzi & tammy?) it will happen---------

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[Son4]

Thank you thank you I go to the DR tomorrow AGAIN !! I will sure bring this up and so far you are right on IBS ! I have had so many tests I think the DR I have is actually burnt out with me ! I do have an appt at the Cleveland clinic but not until March so  I think my DR is actually just trying to keep me quiet until then and the Vicodin does that !Thats why I searched for addiction because I knew that as it stood right now with 3 months of Vicodin I didnt want an addiction problem . I have saved your email and thank you again! Did you actually ever think at anytime during your ordeal that maybe you might have been 1 sandwich short of a picnic ??? I am kinda at that point and I even asked the DR do I need mental help LOL !! Anyway thanks and I will be in contact  SON4

[MrsRat]

Reading your post above, one thing SCREAMED out to me. I also had "bowel/gut pain" for years (ok, most of my life) and went to doc after doc. Most of them just wanted to put me on Vicodin ES too. By the time I found one who knew to run a barium gulp, iodine push, CT Scan (request this test, it WILL find any probs that may be in your digestive system) ... well, by that time, the Crohn's Disease I have was so bad, I couldn't be put on maintainance drugs for it. They had to cut out a little over a foot of my small bowel.

I don't say this to scare you.  I say it so you know that docs everywhere tend to poo-poo 'gut pain' and just try to tell you it's IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome).  In a LOT of cases it's IBD (Irritable Bowel Disease), Crohn's Disease or Ulcerative Colitis. Both of those diseases cause almost identical symptoms, but once diagnosed as IBD, docs can do other tests to figure out which one you have. I actually ended up having IBS and IBD.

If your gut is hurting and spasming, Vicodin is only gonna stop the pain for a short period of time. It will NOT stop the spasms that cause a lot of the pain.  There is a drug just to stop them that your doc may consider if you are having them. It's called Donnatal.  It's a combination of Belladonna and Phenobarbitol.  I've taken it for years at bedtime and it does stop the spasms.

Please don't let your doc get away with not doing a CT scan like I described above to you.  The CT scan will see things that upper and lower G.I. tests, colonoscopies, etc. won't see.  I KNOW, I'm living proof of this. You may also wanna do a web search under Crohn's or Colitis and read up on the diseases and see if you have some of the symptoms (there are many and it varies in all of us). Also let me know if I can be of any help to you, my email addy is ***@****.

[Esmith28]

They were banned for speaking of GOD? I was speaking of God everyday, and I qupted the bible once...why wasnt I banned?

[straightjacket]

it is sad to here that people have been banned beacuse of ther beliefs , we can use all the help we can get , im sure i am not the onlyone who feels a great loss , GOD.

[FINISHED!!]

Please DO read...but also post when you feel the need. Your words are VERY encouraging & as I said, you lifted my spirits with them. Thank you again.

FINISHED!!

[Son4]

Yes to all you have said I guess I didnt know when I made that post that Rex had been banned so glad I went ahead and yes I havent seen anywhere in all the threads I have read where Jesus or God has been pushed down a throat ! It is sad maybe the powers that be here will have a change of heart I think many will miss very good loving advice from him ! I will continue to come and read many know now my stand this is an awesome bunch of people and they are all GOOD !! Hope my above post doesnt mean that I cant come and read ?????