Just like the name.......Sick and Tired!

[sikntired]

Hello everyone.
I have been reading this message board for about 6 months now, (i know! a very long time to do nothing) All of your stories sound just like me or very close to it.
I started like alot of you with a surgery. I have a neuromuscular disease called myasthenia gravis so, the surgery I had (7 years ago) to try to improve my symptoms was the same incision and recovery time as open heart surgery. I was only 30 years old at the time and had never even taken a pain pill! To say the least......that is when my hell started. Since then, I have had two more surgeries, one for the myasthenia, and another for a pinched nerve in my shoulder. All of the surgeries were unsucessful, but I am doing well with my muscle disease as it is under control with prednisone, but the pain in my shoulder, arm and ribs from the pinched nerve drives my CRAZY!
I take about 10 -12 10/650 lorcet a day. I know this is killing my liver and I need to do something about it. If I run out of pills before my meds are due to be filled I cannot even function! The doctor does not prescribe me this many pills a day anyway, I just take my husbands script too! He has back problems and does not take any of the meds he is prescribed so......it works out for me. It works out to be the worst for me! I know that.
I have heard so many of you talk about this suboxone....I would love to have something to get me off these &^$@!@%*(( pills! But, at the moment, I have no health insurance because there is a two year waiting period once you get on disability for Medicare. And they say I "make too much with my disability check" to get any other kind of help. Is this medicine expensive? I guess that is my main question. What is the cost of suboxone?
I want you all out there to know that your stories have inspired me to change what I have known for a long time needed to be changed. I wish each and every one of you the best. I know it sounds bad but it is so good to know that I am not the only one out there that cannot imagine getting out of bed and taking care of my two kids without pills!...kids ages are 16 years and 18 months! yes, that is right...not a typo!
Oh and one more thing I need to put in on here even though I know this is not a "air all your problems board" LOL. Even though that husband that I mentioned earlier does not take his script....He is soon to be my ex-husband because I just found out where all of our money is going! He is smoking CRACK! Now....how am I going to handle all of this? So sorry to dump on all of you.

Thanks for listening,
sikntired.

sherry wilkes

[DrHadjian]

I can so relate to your situation. Since 1987 I have diagnosed with PCOS, mulitple-level Degenerative Disc Disease with disc herniations, drug-induced lupus, Fibromyalgia and Cancer (twice). I have had to take numerous medications and many a times I just get sick AND tired of all of the pills. Many days I take more pills than I ingest food. By the time I turned 30 the Orthopedic Surgeon said I had a back of a 70-something year old man. (I'm not a man.)

I, too, am currently married, however in the process of a divorce. Not only has my estranged spouse not been supportive, he too has his own problems with drugs, alcohol and mental problems for which he will not get help. The stresses of this marriage has litterally torn me down physically. I exsist with pain every single day.

I have never had a problem with any withdrawals from any of the painkillers because I haven't found one yet that worked enough for me to continue taking it for very long. My fear is liver damage due to the medications.

There is one thought that keeps me striving for something better. THe thought that somewhere out there, there is always going to be someone worse off than me.

Keep striving for better.

~Bren~

quote:Originally posted by sikntired

Hello everyone.
I have been reading this message board for about 6 months now, (i know! a very long time to do nothing) All of your stories sound just like me or very close to it.
I started like alot of you with a surgery. I have a neuromuscular disease called myasthenia gravis so, the surgery I had (7 years ago) to try to improve my symptoms was the same incision and recovery time as open heart surgery. I was only 30 years old at the time and had never even taken a pain pill! To say the least......that is when my hell started. Since then, I have had two more surgeries, one for the myasthenia, and another for a pinched nerve in my shoulder. All of the surgeries were unsucessful, but I am doing well with my muscle disease as it is under control with prednisone, but the pain in my shoulder, arm and ribs from the pinched nerve drives my CRAZY!
I take about 10 -12 10/650 lorcet a day. I know this is killing my liver and I need to do something about it. If I run out of pills before my meds are due to be filled I cannot even function! The doctor does not prescribe me this many pills a day anyway, I just take my husbands script too! He has back problems and does not take any of the meds he is prescribed so......it works out for me. It works out to be the worst for me! I know that.
I have heard so many of you talk about this suboxone....I would love to have something to get me off these &^$@!@%*(( pills! But, at the moment, I have no health insurance because there is a two year waiting period once you get on disability for Medicare. And they say I "make too much with my disability check" to get any other kind of help. Is this medicine expensive? I guess that is my main question. What is the cost of suboxone?
I want you all out there to know that your stories have inspired me to change what I have known for a long time needed to be changed. I wish each and every one of you the best. I know it sounds bad but it is so good to know that I am not the only one out there that cannot imagine getting out of bed and taking care of my two kids without pills!...kids ages are 16 years and 18 months! yes, that is right...not a typo!
Oh and one more thing I need to put in on here even though I know this is not a "air all your problems board" LOL. Even though that husband that I mentioned earlier does not take his script....He is soon to be my ex-husband because I just found out where all of our money is going! He is smoking CRACK! Now....how am I going to handle all of this? So sorry to dump on all of you.

Thanks for listening,
sikntired.

sherry wilkes

[EasyMeds]

You're going to hear something that I say quite often - when you are in that much pain and take that much hydro, you first see if your dr will change to 10/325 to help your liver.

Second is you might think about supplementing with Tramadol. This will help you stretch our your hydro script and are relatively inexpensice - can be ordered for as low as $82 for 180. This may get you through until you have some other options open up for you particularly in light of probably loosing your husband's script.

Best Wishes!!!

Paul
www.EasyMeds2005.net