Not complaining, just questioning: Longterm medication use makes most patients snappish

[Horse with no Name]

57. Agreed. I have had some pretty signficant health issues over the last few years

culminating this past year. There were times I was so horrid I didn't like being around myself....due to the medicine as well as the effects of the medicine on the condition and sometimes just the condition itself.

I feel to a large degree that the majority of my issues are behind me, but on occasion, they do rear their ugly heads.

But I know for a fact from being a nurse....anytime you have head injuries or brain injuries, those will almost always present long-term issues for the person who suffers from them, despite the fact that they might be fully functional otherwise.

With that being said, we have no idea who sits behind these keyboards. I would venture to say that the few DU'ers that I have on my personal FB page are pretty shocked to actually get to know who I am....and I suspect that is the way for many.

I personally recognized that spending a lot of time here, coupled with the illness that I have been going through, wasn't a very good combination so I made myself scarce and will most likely continue to do so.

I am fortunate to interact with Skip outside of DU. It has been a pleasant surprise to see the person on the other side of this anonymous keyboard. I can assure you that he isn't at all what he is being accused of.

This type of medium does not always present the best side of ourselves. That should be something that is taken into consideration into most of our dealings on these types of message boards.