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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 156009" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>Timer, </p><p> </p><p>A day described in your home could be a day in ours most days. I remember when DF started on Methadone. He's been on it 5 years now and without it can't manage and will go undoubtedly to a morphine pump. He's gained weight due to his inability to exercise due to the doctors NOT giving him high enough or correct doses of LTPM (long term pain medication/mgmt) with the weight gain due to inability to exercise his knees are now buckling and causing him more problems than his back. His depression was at an all time high. </p><p> </p><p>I did manage to get him into our family therapist and it helped him gain perspective on managing pain. We tried hypno therapy too, and I don't know if all those years of celebrating made him immune or negative to mind over pain. We were seeking out an accupuncturist but at 150 an hour / for a 45 minute hour? And the need to continually return over and over it wasn't an option. Our medicine cabinet used to boast some vitamin C, and a razor or two, some benadryl for the sniffles and took on quite a life of it's own. Had we gone black market we probably could have financed the five years it took Social Security to determine he was disabled instead of going into financial ruin and selling off our possessions. </p><p> </p><p>By the time the doctors had worked their way UP the narcotic pain ladder we were broke, fat, depressed, and still in major pain. And anyone who has to take care of a person in chronic pain knows why I said WE and not him. You suffer too, just a different type of pain. </p><p> </p><p>He takes 6 tabs of Methadone a day and Tegretol (i know it's a T pill) to sleep. He's tried taking less Methadone, but it doesn't work and he ends up in spasms and we go to the ER for many shots of morphine and deladud coctail as he can stand before he is out of pain. </p><p> </p><p>His frustration with himself is second only to his decision to take his pills on schedule, suffer from "the dumb" as he calls it because Methadone will get you out of pain, but he often remarks he wonders if it's because he forgets he's in pain or if it blocks neural transmitters? Often he forgets day to day things, but being able to move around and loose 12 lbs this last month and actually bend has been a tremendous boost to his wanting to be active and go and do to loose weight. </p><p> </p><p>I've become a master at - OH BOY I'M WHIPPED let's take a break - when I'm not really so that he doesn't over do and doesn't feel like he's less of a help to me. </p><p> </p><p>Hugs for your day - and if you've found something that works - GO FOR IT and live your life =a day at a time, out of pain as you can.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 156009, member: 4964"] Timer, A day described in your home could be a day in ours most days. I remember when DF started on Methadone. He's been on it 5 years now and without it can't manage and will go undoubtedly to a morphine pump. He's gained weight due to his inability to exercise due to the doctors NOT giving him high enough or correct doses of LTPM (long term pain medication/mgmt) with the weight gain due to inability to exercise his knees are now buckling and causing him more problems than his back. His depression was at an all time high. I did manage to get him into our family therapist and it helped him gain perspective on managing pain. We tried hypno therapy too, and I don't know if all those years of celebrating made him immune or negative to mind over pain. We were seeking out an accupuncturist but at 150 an hour / for a 45 minute hour? And the need to continually return over and over it wasn't an option. Our medicine cabinet used to boast some vitamin C, and a razor or two, some benadryl for the sniffles and took on quite a life of it's own. Had we gone black market we probably could have financed the five years it took Social Security to determine he was disabled instead of going into financial ruin and selling off our possessions. By the time the doctors had worked their way UP the narcotic pain ladder we were broke, fat, depressed, and still in major pain. And anyone who has to take care of a person in chronic pain knows why I said WE and not him. You suffer too, just a different type of pain. He takes 6 tabs of Methadone a day and Tegretol (i know it's a T pill) to sleep. He's tried taking less Methadone, but it doesn't work and he ends up in spasms and we go to the ER for many shots of morphine and deladud coctail as he can stand before he is out of pain. His frustration with himself is second only to his decision to take his pills on schedule, suffer from "the dumb" as he calls it because Methadone will get you out of pain, but he often remarks he wonders if it's because he forgets he's in pain or if it blocks neural transmitters? Often he forgets day to day things, but being able to move around and loose 12 lbs this last month and actually bend has been a tremendous boost to his wanting to be active and go and do to loose weight. I've become a master at - OH BOY I'M WHIPPED let's take a break - when I'm not really so that he doesn't over do and doesn't feel like he's less of a help to me. Hugs for your day - and if you've found something that works - GO FOR IT and live your life =a day at a time, out of pain as you can. [/QUOTE]
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