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madokie

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20. I live with pain 24/7

Sun Dec 18, 2016, 05:24 AM

Dec 2016

afraid to ask the doctor if I could go to a 10 from the 7.5 I'm taking now. That I've been taking for 10 plus years now. I don't take 5 pills a day or sell any, I take a pill every 6 hours as prescribed. The high that some gets from Hydrocodone was gone 10 years ago and it is not part of the why of my taking my meds. No one that I know even suspects that I take a pill every 6 hours as needed due to the fact I never take two pills at a time to get high. I simply take one pill to stave off some of this pain so I can go through my day half assed feeling like a human and not a wretched old man with a hydrocodone prescription.

I pretty much gave up my future for this country all for a lie, 'gotta stop 'em over there before they get over here.' Remember that one, well I sure do.
As I look back I came home a mess and in a lot of ways I'm still a mess today but I get by. About drank my self to death self medicating and not knowing what the hell that was all about but I know now it was to forget, mostly.

Anyway McCamy that is a well written piece you shared with me, with us. Now I hope its ok if I share it with a few others in my life.

Peace

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Working While Poor and In Pain in the United States [View all] McCamy Taylor Dec 2016 OP

Recommended. Very well written. guillaumeb Dec 2016 #1

Fortunately for me, my incidences of recurrence of back pain virtually stopped a few years ago. stevenleser Dec 2016 #2

Mr. dixie is getting adequate pain meds for his broken back dixiegrrrrl Dec 2016 #6

Pain is horrible. I'll be blind in both eyes eventually, but that still seems better than... Buckeye_Democrat Dec 2016 #3

Two words for everyone who reads this. PatrickforO Dec 2016 #4

And in the meantime? nt stevenleser Dec 2016 #5

Suffering for all in pain. MissB Dec 2016 #8

In the meantime? PatrickforO Dec 2016 #21

Once again, and in the meantime? nt stevenleser Dec 2016 #22

As a severe chronic pain sufferer, thank you. Kittycow Dec 2016 #7

McCamy Taylor, may your heart be blessed forever! raging moderate Dec 2016 #9

Thank you for this Warpy Dec 2016 #10

Our healthcare industry loves getting all that gravy money! dubyadiprecession Dec 2016 #11

Thank you sooooo much! kag Dec 2016 #12

Greed And More Greed Is The Issue colsohlibgal Dec 2016 #13

The fact that we give people pain medication that gives them more pain is purely diabolical. n/t TygrBright Dec 2016 #14

And this is how half of supposed drug "abusers" are made. Lyric Dec 2016 #15

The stigma gets in the way of effective treatment loyalsister Dec 2016 #18

Well said zippythepinhead Dec 2016 #16

Spot on; i am there myself, and it's a constant struggle to get any kind of pain meds. it's BS. nt TheFrenchRazor Dec 2016 #17

And earlier this year the problem became a whole lot worse, as moonscape Dec 2016 #19

I live with pain 24/7 madokie Dec 2016 #20