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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: In a house... heh Tacoma Wa.
Posts: 32
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: In a house... heh Tacoma Wa.
Posts: 32
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I'm going to try to lump all the replies into this one post here. If we go back and read most of the posts, everyone is saying the same basic thing, AFTER telling me that it can't be done. That is, moving the pain out of the way so you can get on with your day. You all say that this is impossible, if I read it right, yet you say that you have no choice but to endure it. It's the same thing to me, I just prefer to say that I am moving it out of the way. As far as pain meds go? I'm lucky if I have one that will knock the edge off the making it a little easier to deal with.
I will also say that you can go too far with pain meds as well. For a time, I was given "Marinol" (synthetic pot) for spasticity. A side effect was pain management. When I got high enough, (by this time I was also buying and smoking it) the pain simply did not matter. It was still there, still an 8 or what have you, it was just that I did not care any longer. You would think this was great, but I also did not care about anything else, that is, the things I was aware of. My doc pointed out one day that I 'might' have a problem with addiction. I stopped smoking and taking the pills that day. Eventually the pain started to matter again and we eventually found another way to deal with spasticity. My point is this: with pain, you have a choice. Medicate yourself into oblivion, or find enough to take the sharp edge off and then just go through the pain. There is no need to throw a tantrum, or go into any type of fit over it, all this does is make it worse, and causes everyone round you to suffer as well. You do not want that, and you know it, under normal circumstances.
So here in this thread, I am trying to pick your brains, as much as I am sharing my experience. The real question here is, after the medical community has done about everything they can, (AT PRESENT) to deal with your pain and it's now up to you, how do you do what you do? Even if it is just having to endure it, how do you do that?
MSDave
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