IMSUSCOT1
Threadhead
Reged: 10/23/02
Posts: 874
Loc: usa
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I honestly don't get the point of taking a holiday from a med you take to treat a legitimate condition. Diabetics are dependent on insulin...but you certainly don't see anyone telling them to take a holiday! You have to do some soul searching...but I take pain meds for a totally screw up spine, evidenced by 3 spinal fusions, four surgeries total...and for the last year and a half I have lived life, worked, cleaned my house, tended my roses, cleaned up after my bird, etc, etc after 5 years of doing nothing but laying in bed suffering....so I don't take a holiday even though I'm sure by now I'm totally dependent on narcotics...dependence is a medical term....it does NOT translate to addiction...which is a phsychological condition hallmarked by COMPULSIVE behavior. So, don't let others make you feel something is wrong with you because you have a medical problem...Be thankful for everyday your able to live pain free and use that time productively! Ok I'll get off my soap-box now!
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chevygal
Veteran
Reged: 04/28/03
Posts: 504
Loc: Way down south
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I agree with ya IMSUSCOT1, I don;t do it cause I simply can not seem to inflict that much "ick" on myself. Could think of no better word to describe how it feels, well really I can but can't use that kind of language. I have had to take a weekend holiday, forced. And I was not very happy and not very pleasant to be around. Everytime a saw a ups or fedex truck I could have stopped him and just punched him. The w/d are miserable and I can't live with the pain, I have had it under control, relatively speaking, for a bit and like you, I can be me again. I can't quite do what I use to do, but things do get done and I am not in tears doing them or not able to complete things cause of the pain. Not too long ago I did spend alot of time fretting and stewing over the fact that I take medicine, but I was putting my self through as much mental pain just to get rid of my physical pain. So I gave up the worrying, and figure if there comes a time I must stop I will deal with that when it happens.
chevygal
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Sky_Queen
Fly Girl
Reged: 12/03/02
Posts: 1962
Loc: Texas
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Wow, how funny - I look back on this post months ago and oh how things have changed. The only holidays I will be taking is to get my tolerance down "if" I need to - otherwise I have to agree. If I'm going to be in pain for the rest of my life why put myself through that?
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Jeremiah
Agape GrandParent
Reged: 07/14/02
Posts: 705
Loc: U.S.A.
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Very Well Said!
I'm with you,Imsuscot1, I dont take a holiday for any of my other meds for my other conditions,why would I for this one? Knowing this is a life long illness,and having finally accepted that, I view my pain meds the same as I do my BP ,etc..meds. In fact,my Lipitor is perhaps just as hard on my liver as the apap in my hydros.
Thanks for such a well thought,realistic post!
J.
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shine
Banned for being unpolite
Reged: 03/16/03
Posts: 128
Loc: California USA
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very well written Chevygal,
why do they (Doctors,nurses,no one in your shoes)feel the need no only to make it very difficult and expensive not to live in agony all the time, I always think I should take a holiday, or it is forced, by not being able to get meds. and not only is the pain bad, but the no meds make you into a mad Women....They give you paxil like it is candy, saying there is no withdrawal, but anyone that has taken them for a period of time knows there are big withdrwals with them too...So why be in pain to make this Darn world happy, or are we suppose to enjoy life while we still have one to live. Even on meds I have bad days but sometimes we need to do what we need to do...I hate Pain......and DT'S.....
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