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05-16-2011, 11:12 PM
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What state are you in? (So that I never, ever go there!! Just kinda kidding!)
To answer your initial question, yes, I have had difficulty in getting pain meds. Oddly, I am former law enforcement also with absolutely ZERO history of substance abuse. And yet, that seems to count for nothing! I get an attitude when I am forced to go to the ER; And then my neuro "doesn't believe in" opiates and insists that a combo of Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen has an equal effect to Vicodin without the high or risk of addiction - um yeah. Definitely not addicitive, but I wouldn't give it credit for having the same analgesic properties. I have had Gamma Knife, glycerol injection, and balloon compression on the right side with marginal success. Now, the TN has flared on the left side....hello, Dilantin, haven't we met before? 
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Kimberly M. Fowler Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. -- Voltaire dx'ed w/Young Onset Parkinson's Disease May 2006 at age 43. Symptomatic since 1997 or earlier. DBS June 22, 2010 dx'ed w/TN on right side 2007. GK x4, last GK 02/2013 |
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