Date:   2/2/2009 11:56:19 AM ( 15 y ago)
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Telma wrote: "I can't add much more to what unyquity and scott760 have told you. When I originally became ill I was prescribed Amytrip to keep me at work but as the effects wore off the doctor kept increasing the dose, then added painkillers and in the end I was drugged up to the eyeballs with antidepressants and morphine. This cocktail doesn't allow one to think straight but one day I decided to dump the lot. Guess what? I felt better taking nothing. (After I got through the withdrawl)

Part of the game of Workers Comp this constant shoved toward antidepressants. I am down from 100mgs to 15mgs now. I figure I will be off the Ami in two days. The Lyrica for the nerve pain, well, I don't know whatelse to do. So much nerve pain (nerve damage and scar tissue)...anyway....I haven't read what the other folk have read, but it is sweet that ya have found some peace...or maybe a ton of peace, even sweeter. I have no doubt that the gallbladder/calcified Gallstones began from use of meds, or maybe from the severe, violent withdrawl I went through in the hospital. I was takin' a lot of Actiq (80% stronger than morphine) to fight massive neck and head pain. Time came from detox (plus 9 years of being medicated had passed too). I was told by one doctor that 2400mcgs of Actiq is enough to kill little boy. I don't know. I was taking 24,000mcgs of Actiq a day. To me, it was better than being in constant pain, or havin' to visit the local ER.

So the detox program I enter was at a well known hospital, not a "drug" treatment center. The program director interviewed me and records that I had no drug addiction qualities. Still, it was time to try detox. I say detox, because as I was told, it was just an experiment to see if the meds had built up on my brain and causing more pain than really is. I was to be given some medication from Europe that allows the one in detox not to have to go through violent withdrawls. If you desire, search what Actiq is and you will have deeper sense of what exactly I was taking and how just going off of it was just a possibility. The med from Europe didn't work. Oi, the tremendous, violent withdrawl the lasted for many hours. I kicked the walls with full force over and over. I pounded the walls, or whatever was around (fortunately not another patient) with my fist. I screamed so loudly. All that I've just mention regarding the detox, was not suppose to occur. I'm stopping here. I have prepare for doctor's visit and P.T..

Thank you for responding. Much blessings to ya....

I will later ask you what you mean by the "flare-ups" and respond to below portion later.

"Then I had a stoke of luck and was sent on a 4 week residential pain management course. On this course I was told has to manage the pain through relaxation, eating well, graded exercise, and good psychology. They told me on this course that Amytrip cause the gallbladder to fail and that it's better not to take drugs if you manage it. I later read on a drug information sheet that this could be a side effect to long term use.

I liver flushed very enthusiastically and now my insides are just fine. I still have the chronic pain but that's all. Life is manageable even when I have a flare-up."

 

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