Posted on 01/31/2017 12:46:34 PM PST by servo1969
But it does help with my decision regarding cleaning my gutters. I’m calling someone experienced to do it.
Wow, that is amazing. Amazing. I take it you asked someone about it after you were well, and were able to tell them how they prayed or that they prayed? Thanks for sharing that.
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I agree.
And since he probably lived around here, did he try everywhere? I was so surprised to be able to get a huge bottle of codeine for my family at a local urgent care. They saw my old bottle which finally went empty after 10 years of use. (The patient was my son with bronchitis who wouldn’t touch the syrup, but they didn’t know that)
I dealt with my girlfriends addiction, her mom’s, her daughter’s, and her niece’s addictions for over 3 years. Opiate addiction. And it was rough. But tolerable.
It became intolerable when meds were cut off, or severely curtailed. You can’t just cut an addict off and not expect consequences. So, I cut loose a woman who I had helped get off opiates with the help of Suboxon. And then get off the Suboxon(which she said was harder than the opiates). I could not deal with the rest of the family and the lying, scamming, cheating, stealing...you name it.
Addicts are not going to just quit. And boy, you should see the people/drugs they replaced the lortabs with. I tried to tell her about her beautiful daughter’s drug problem. But she wouldn’t listen. “She has no money, how can she buy drugs?” Right..........
So, about a mo. after I cut Mom loose daughter lost her kids. Supposed to go to rehab. But a mo. later was in jail. Etc. Etc....Don’t know where she is now.
Sick, Sick, Sick. I feel guilty all the time but I just couldn’t put up with it any longer. I feel very selfish. But I had to do it for my sanity.
I tend to lean Libertarian in some areas, but I don’t buy that drugs of any kind are a ‘victimless’ crime.
Exactly! I do not understand! Why the concern for addiction when the other option is excruciating pain? So what? I have t take BP meds, likely the rest of my life. I guess my body needs them. Isn’t that an addiction of sorts? If, in order to function, these pain meds are necessary, then give them to the patient.
Well, that’s a ‘Duh!’ I’m pretty sure that grinding it up and snorting it isn’t what it says on the prescription bottle. ;)
Agreed.
Oh, yes. I have a bad vertebrae in my lower back. I KNOW that kind of pain!
Dennis Prager, of course, is not a Christian.
That is what they do here and it seems sensible.
The problems is that after extended periods of time on the drugs your system becomes immune to them working and you have to take more for them to work hence the doctors are in a terrible position!!!! If the dosage would continue to work for long periods of time there would not be this problem the patients would be able to get by with the dosage given!!!
“Some of us can take these meds without becoming addicted.”
That’s what I pray for! I’m not for banning it; I’m for better screening by the MD in the first place.
But, people lie. And people who are addicts lie...for a living!
So true. You need to go back to early 1900s and read Oswald Chambers (My Utmost for His Highest) or the 1800s and read Charles Spurgeon (Morning and Evening) for old time preaching on this.
Absolutey true in my case. When the physical therapy finally worked, I "got off" Hydromorphone (slowly under a doctor's advice) with no withdrawal symptoms.
Not at all true.
It was in my case..............
God bless you. I’m 52 and recently diagnosed with RA. My pain isn’t as bad as yours, but has been life changing. I haven’t advanced to serious painkillers, but no OTCs seem to do anything. I just started on the AIP diet, and it has helped reduce the flare ups.
My dad had cancer, but was able to receive good pain management. Addiction is a concern, but there is no reason anyone in this country has to suffer such torture. The war in drugs has ruined so much of our lives. It’s time to stop the charade and restore our freedoms.
I’d rather risk a thousands addicts overdosing than prevent a single person from getting the relief that modern science offers.
It wouldn’t be difficult. After surgeries or accidents, give the patient a very small amount of opiates for their pain. Have them be seen 4 days later and seriously talk with them about their pain levels. In most cases they can be switched to a nonnarcotic or do without pain meds. If they do really need more, and doctors can confirm this by experience and seeing the pain described, then by all means continue the prescription. Keep checking on the patient.
I got a tiny kidney stone once and the urologist thought I was there to scam him for opiates. I guess it happens a lot.
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