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<blockquote data-quote="envisablepuppet" data-source="post: 80699" data-attributes="member: 585"><p>My husband is on pain management. His medications include morphine and vicodin. He has to be on these medications or he can't function at all. He has good days and bad days. He will always be on these medications until they come up with a different alternative for him. For now they allow him to lead an almost normal life as long as he takes many, many breaks and is allowed certain compensations.</p><p></p><p>Right now this is all he can do. There was one other option but we ruled it out because of the dangers and very possible outcome of his being maimed for life. That will probably happen in our future anyway but he will always have to be on the medications. </p><p></p><p>He was injured on his job and was lucky he wasn't killed. This was about three or four years ago. I watch him deteriorate right before my eyes. If the insurance company wouldn't have dragged their feet and did the surgery when they should have this wouldn't have happened. They waited for six months to do surgery on a crushed vertebrae that was still bleeding in his neck so now the main nerve in his neck is slowing dying. In the future he will probably lose his arm and still have the pain.</p><p></p><p>We know a lot of ppl on pain management now and from my experience these medications have a very different effect on different ppl. My husband does mostly pretty good and stays pretty clear headed most of the time. Most of the other ppl we know on lower doses of the same medications don't do well at all. They can not function. They make bad judgements and have complete personality changes. I seriously think it depends on each individual. I pray daily that my husband won't get "disfunctional" like a lot of the other ppl we know. husband worries about this all the time. He needs his medications tweaked but he won't do it until he can no longer manage on the dose he is taking now. He deals with more pain then he needs to but refuses to take more medications because he knows he won't be able to funtion at all.</p><p></p><p>I don't have any advice to offer about your mother but I do have sincere sympathy for her and the other ppl in her life this is affecting. Like I said my husband has good days mostly but the bad days are sooooo bad <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" />.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="envisablepuppet, post: 80699, member: 585"] My husband is on pain management. His medications include morphine and vicodin. He has to be on these medications or he can't function at all. He has good days and bad days. He will always be on these medications until they come up with a different alternative for him. For now they allow him to lead an almost normal life as long as he takes many, many breaks and is allowed certain compensations. Right now this is all he can do. There was one other option but we ruled it out because of the dangers and very possible outcome of his being maimed for life. That will probably happen in our future anyway but he will always have to be on the medications. He was injured on his job and was lucky he wasn't killed. This was about three or four years ago. I watch him deteriorate right before my eyes. If the insurance company wouldn't have dragged their feet and did the surgery when they should have this wouldn't have happened. They waited for six months to do surgery on a crushed vertebrae that was still bleeding in his neck so now the main nerve in his neck is slowing dying. In the future he will probably lose his arm and still have the pain. We know a lot of ppl on pain management now and from my experience these medications have a very different effect on different ppl. My husband does mostly pretty good and stays pretty clear headed most of the time. Most of the other ppl we know on lower doses of the same medications don't do well at all. They can not function. They make bad judgements and have complete personality changes. I seriously think it depends on each individual. I pray daily that my husband won't get "disfunctional" like a lot of the other ppl we know. husband worries about this all the time. He needs his medications tweaked but he won't do it until he can no longer manage on the dose he is taking now. He deals with more pain then he needs to but refuses to take more medications because he knows he won't be able to funtion at all. I don't have any advice to offer about your mother but I do have sincere sympathy for her and the other ppl in her life this is affecting. Like I said my husband has good days mostly but the bad days are sooooo bad :(. [/QUOTE]
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