[Sabertooth]

I wonder who will be the first poster here to say, "OK, I was wrong last week when I said the media was lying -- so he IS addicted to painkillers."

Well, I didn't say the media was lying, I thought they were blowing things our of proportion, and that if he was dependent on painkillers, it was probably the result of his cochlear implant surgery.

Looks like I got the wrong surgery.

It remains to be seen, now, if the painkillers contributed to his hearing loss, and what parts of what we've read in the press are distortions, or not.

[Registered]

"I first started taking prescription painkillers some years ago when my doctor prescribed them to treat post surgical pain following spinal surgery"

I thought Rush only had a Pilonidal Cyst? Did he have back surgery in addition to that?

[Registered]

http://www.pedisurg.com/PtEduc/Pilonidal_Cyst.htm

I thought the cyst was the reason he wasn't drafted? Am I thinking this stuff up? LOL. Never knew about any other surgeries.

[ClaireSolt]

Too bad Rush is such a prisoner of alopathic medicine. He says he is not a victim, but he is IMO. It's too bad that his success has given him the "best" doctors.

He needs to consider a paradigm shift toward holistic medicine and address the causes of chemical and metabolic imbalances, but he won't get a chance to do this while he is locked up in a treatment facility. I don't expect his enthusiasm for a prescription drug benefit in Medicare to increase any time soon.