Posted on 05/09/2020 6:20:42 PM PDT by Viking2002
“would welcome something stronger than Gabapentin to keep it from flaring up.”
If doctors were decent, honorable people, you would be receiving it.
Problem with gabapentin is that you develop a tolerance for it. Which kind of sucks.
Never heard that either. I’ve been taking it for decades. Good grief!
It’s all in the timing.
I empathized with your attitude re: your ex.
Even if I had to help someone die, I’d still be reluctant to consult my ex in her area of expertise...
Man, I am sorry to hear about all the health problems you and your family are having.
I will say a prayer for you guys.
Yeah, but any treatment is preferable to no treatment at all when it comes to pain management. I supplement my Gabapentin with naproxen a couple times a day. Right now, as I type this, the toes on my left foot feel as though they’re receiving a steady, low amp electric shock, like putting your tongue on a half-dead nine volt battery, and the nerve running up behind my ankle is throbbing, so another Gabapentin and two Alleve just got washed down with my wine. Sometimes that ankle is so bad, you can hover your hand an inch over it and feel the heat radiating off of it.
‘Shell Answer Man’.....have not heard that in a while!
Believe me, I get that 1000%
Someone close to me is getting to that demarcation line, and she is trying like hell to modulate her dose.
Well, her flying around the apartment on her broom was marginally tolerable, but when she literally started chucking dishware at me, I decided it was time to pack up my suitcase and make for greener pastures. The current missus has had the patience of a saint with me for the last 22 years and, like a fine wine, I’ve mellowed with age, so we’ve become soulmates - the best part of a marriage. Given the general condition each of us are in, we figure sooner or later one of us is going to be spoon-feeding the other a lunch of applesauce at Shady Acres and wiping the drool off their chin. *chuckle*
I think I carbon-dated myself with that one. LOL
Neither Tramadol nor Gapapentin provide me any relief. The only things that treat my pain are opiates.
Not available to me legally, and with dependents in the house I’m not going to become entangled with criminals.
It’s a lucky thing I have my hate and my rage to see me through.
Well, good luck to her. It’s hard to put into words what some of us have to endure sometimes. If you try to explain it to a normal, healthy person, they can sympathize, but not empathize. We were all healthy once; losing that is something only a kindred spirit can wrap their mind around.
Hey, sometimes hate and rage are all you need. Cuts through all the peripheral crap and focuses the mind. You’re not gonna focus on your body’s aches and pains when you’re so livid, you wanna pinch someone’s head off and use their neck for a toilet. LOL
One foot after the other. What else can you do?
I just watched Admiral MacRaven’s speech. I wish somebody would give a speech like that for geezers.
Which speech? The UTex commencement speech?
Right.
I watched that in it’s entirety a couple of weeks ago. That was breathtaking.
Back in my childhood in little Winston, ga, used to have a neighbor named Leonard Alexander. He had a small farm , bees, and arthritis in his hands that rendered them useles at times. Draw them up like a claw.
When he had a flare up, he would go to his bee hive, conjure up some bees on his hand, and get them to sting his hands. Dont know how, he was magic with them bees. He never wore any gear working them hives, and got them to do whatever he wanted. But those bee stings were the only effective medicine for his hands. And it worked great.
Leonard also concocted the best cold/cough medicine there was, and said it was the saving grace for his family in Atlanta during Spanish flu outbreak.
It was a hot toddy boiled in a pot with the shavings of the inside meat of sweetgum bark(analgesic like aspirin), spearmint leaves, shot of corn likker, honey and lemon.
Gotta boil it good. Breath in the steam while it boils then drink it.
I aint bought nyquil in years.
While modern medicine does have its place, nature does provide a healthier alternative for many ailments.
The inside shavings of sweetgum bark is the best aspirin/advil painkiller there is, and the only damn thing the tree is good for.
My maternal grandmother, Ruby Carson, descendant of Kit Carson and a princess from the wolf clan, had a wealth of natural remedies she tried to pass down but us grandkids forgot most of them.
I only live about 90 minutes from Winston. If you got good uses for those damned sweetgum trees, share it. Between them and the yellow pines in our yard, it looks like the bottom of a horse stall littered with baby porcupines in the fall around here.
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