Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Old Remedies

      Okay, "Take OTC painkillers and pursue normal activities" didn't work.  "Spend fourteen hours relaxing in bed" didn't work, either.

      I'm going to have to get cleaned up, go to doc-in-a-box and explain very carefully that I am not in any way interested in stronger pain pills,* I just want to know what's gone wrong with my back or whatever, and what I can do about it other than sweeping the pain under the rug.

      This is not a prospect that fills me with delight.
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* At one time, back when the medical profession was handing out mild opioids pretty freely, I had a problem with chronic pain and an open prescription for a widely-abused pain pill.  I'd like to tell you that I am so strong-willed that they didn't hook me, or that taking them for actual pain is an absolute bar to addiction, but the truth is, they stopped me up so bad that I had give 'em up and would only consider using that family of drugs again if it was a matter of life or death -- and I'd have to think it over first even then.
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4 comments:

  1. Cop CarApril 13, 2023 at 7:26 AM

    When she gave me a script for opioids 25 years ago, my primary care physician told me to buy OTC Senna and to be sure to take it. I can't imagine that you weren't advised on how to avoid/mitigate the known problem with opioids. (As I only took 3 of the opioid pills, I did not really test out the effectiveness of the Senna.)

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  2. Mike VApril 13, 2023 at 8:22 AM

    I hope it is muscular and not structural. Muscular can heal with rest and maybe even a good massage. Structural can lead to surgery and the results I've seen in other is so uneven that it would be my absolute last resort. And as you said, even then I'd have to think long and hard. Prayers for a swift recovery.

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  3. Roberta XApril 13, 2023 at 12:11 PM

    Cop Car: I do not remember having been so advised. I did eventually take steps, but it gave me a lasting aversion to that entire family of medications.

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  4. Cop CarApril 13, 2023 at 5:02 PM

    Glad you are finding some relief, at least. Hope your pharmacy comes through and that you get entirely better pronto.

    If you don't remember being so advised, you probably weren't. You aren't as forgetful as some of us are.

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