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too much!
I'm new here I actually started on the substance abise site to get off pain meds.but I have milodisplaysia..my biggest prob with it is the scholios I had an 80 degree curve they tried correcting with harrington rods wich didn't correct 100 % but kept my rib cage from turning and crushing my heart and lungs..I take 750 hydro but I've way over medicated for years..I'm trying to taper to the recommended dosage need some advice?
Yes absolutely the help me function...I am divorced single mom boys 12 and 8 and they're dad isn't in their life at all financially or otherwise...its impossible to raise them on what ssi pays a month so I am bound and determined to wrk ..I am a partime hairdresser 3 days a week ten twelve hour days sometimes and the other 2 days a week I'm an office assistant...mid way thru my day I'm hurtin even with pain pills..I just kno I've been way over medicating ...I'm not one to lay around have always done nething I put my mind 2..I've walked on crutches my entire life..I think as I get older the pain is deeper gets wrse..
Sorry to hear about your probelms tisha! Does the pain medicine help you function more then before?
Alot of people here take pain meds to help them function and I have to admit I am in that catagory also, as I didn't walk for almost a year until I was put on a fentenyl patch.
Now as much as that fentenyl patch helped me it came at a price. My intestines stopped working and I was then diagnosied as having a "gastric emptying probelm" I lost 70 lbs from that. I have one good day now and one bad day because the patch runs out on me too early and I go through a constant cycle of withdrawals which is hell in itself.
So I'm starting the tapering down process with the help of my docs and going to try something different, getting that 70lbs of extra me off my frame helped that pain a lot also so I'm hoping that I will need less of something else to have a halfway normal life (I will never run a marathon, I just want to be able to go to the store once in awhile and do some things around the house without having to be laid up in pain for a week after I try to do something extra).
My suggestion for you would be to speak frankly with your doctors. Assess your pain and mobility and decide what works best for you. Have you been over medicating to make your life tolerable? Or just because it made you feel good? If it is the first then maybe you need to speak to your doctors about increasing your dosage? We do become more tolarant of pain meds the more we take and dosages do need to be adjusted because of that.
Alot of people here take pain meds to help them function and I have to admit I am in that catagory also, as I didn't walk for almost a year until I was put on a fentenyl patch.
Now as much as that fentenyl patch helped me it came at a price. My intestines stopped working and I was then diagnosied as having a "gastric emptying probelm" I lost 70 lbs from that. I have one good day now and one bad day because the patch runs out on me too early and I go through a constant cycle of withdrawals which is hell in itself.
So I'm starting the tapering down process with the help of my docs and going to try something different, getting that 70lbs of extra me off my frame helped that pain a lot also so I'm hoping that I will need less of something else to have a halfway normal life (I will never run a marathon, I just want to be able to go to the store once in awhile and do some things around the house without having to be laid up in pain for a week after I try to do something extra).
My suggestion for you would be to speak frankly with your doctors. Assess your pain and mobility and decide what works best for you. Have you been over medicating to make your life tolerable? Or just because it made you feel good? If it is the first then maybe you need to speak to your doctors about increasing your dosage? We do become more tolarant of pain meds the more we take and dosages do need to be adjusted because of that.
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