cincee

[hippy]

it has aslways seemed to me whenever i used everything in my life would go wrong, when i used  i would get flat tires every week.
when i used i got arrested at least 50 times' for things that i was not even part of doing.
i think they call it murphy's law , well it always had a strangle hold on my life ,whenever i  did drugs.
I somtimes thought it was my father praying for me, so i
would say to him stop praying for me , i crashed my car,
lost my job and broke my ankle  that week.

there is the other side of this story, once i started on the
road of staying clean the oppisite happened, everythin that could go right did, instead of spending my money on drugs,
and buying 5 dollar tires at the junk yard  i, bought sears steel belted raidels and never got a flat agian.
i never got arrested agian, inever lost my job agian,
i got custdy of my kids, ect, ece,
when i got clean and went to meetings it was like i was invisible
to the cops, and invisible to bad things coming my way.

i am writing this because  cincee posted that the only na meeting she could find was i the bad lands,in her town
and she would not go there unarmed, well my experence
has always been ,whenever we make that effort or surrender to
go to meetings , we seem to be invisible to trouble.
i grew up in the bad lands in philly so i understand her concern.
when ever i went back to the badlands to start meetings
or attend them i was a little leary but nothing ever happened.
CINCEE -call the na hotlone and ask , there are a lot of meetings not listed , talk to smeone sbout ,in your area.

[CinCee]

I had a cervical epidural 1 1/2 weeks ago which is not helping at all.  First days of w/d I had other problems, but now, neck is getting a little worse every day, one morning soon, probably while dealing with other coming stress, I will not be able to move my head.

Injection last week, with new ortho doc, in my shoulder worked very well.

Physical therapist said that both facet joint injections or prednizone are probably the next step.  Doc has not talked about facet injections, only prednizone.

Am told that surgery is not the answer for the discs at this time.

What kind of doc does facet injections?  Ortho or neuro or physiatrist?

Trying to be open to anything.  The last time she brought up the prednizone, I was too tunnel-vision on hydro to consider it.

Hope you can get some rest tonight.

I, for one, am really thinking about you a lot.  I can see that many others are also.

[suzieneedshelp]

Yes dear I know!  I think i'm regressing a little.  Its like before you go on a diet..you pig out!  So...now that I know that the end of my drug use will soon come..its like i'm having a party... Dumb! Dumb!  YU do not have to apologise for your help.  I need your words.  You know that.  I never anger at a kind word of wisdom no matter how hard the subject matter is for me to face.
MIssing you as well...

Suz
Get the gedada...

[Chezz]

Prednizone(or any oral steriod) will never take the place of trigger point injections into the facet joints, as well as any affected area.
I have done both. Prednizone works for certain issues/pain/people. It didn't work for me.
Although, I recommend everyone to try everything out there that is non-narcotic for pain. You are bound to find something that works.
Even if it is an eplectic medicine, or a anti-depressant. I have found results with meds in both families. Although the duration of relief was not long, it did provide relief for a few months. Of course, those meds don't work anymore. So, time to try and find some that do.

Chezz

[CinCee]

Also we're talking short-term on the prednizone: 5-10 days, for loading of anti-inflammatory action.

[CinCee]

I've heard what you're saying about Prednizone, that's why I am concerned.
But what's a person to do when they have major paing problems, and everything else has failed?

Dr. DeLuca says that pain is mind-altering and life-shattering.  Not that I subscribe to his dogma, which I don't know that much about.  But sometimes I really do need a vacation from pain.  Unfortunatley, I'm always gone a little too long;-)

[GOD]

Oh.. that Lexicon software comparison I ran was against an exerpt from a chapter from Dennis Miller's book called "The Rants" (against one of your older posts from the archive, and your Recipe) ALTHO- I ran your stuff through the spell-checker first.... Not to say you have a problem w/ grammer or spelling, but I didn't want to "taint" the comparison... You know how we all spell after a late night's long posting... Hehe!

but, I tought the results were FUNNY. I think you guys just have a little of the same DRY and Intelligent wit about you. most programs couldn't tell the difference!

Jess