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Maeve

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36. They keep trying to find a 'one response for all' solution

Sat Oct 7, 2017, 04:20 PM

Oct 2017

And that is never going to work. I read down thru this thread before answering because my case is different. And DIFFERENT is the POINT.
I just spent the last week in the hospital (emergency gallbladder removal). I got the pain meds I needed and constant attention; I got meds ahead of time when the pain was peaking and was in and out for a while. When surgery was over, I noticed that the pain meds were giving me funny waking-dreams and asked to get off narcotics asap. They dropped me down and I went home just taking regular tylenol. Some pain, but I'd rather that than scenes behind my eyelids like the crap anti-drug movies they used to show us in school. BUT THAT IS ME. I can't take percoset; one of my nurses said she can't take vicoden--they just don't work for us. Some wouldn't be sitting up without tylenol-3 at least at this point. And I have known folks that would have killed to get the drugs I turned down, either for the pain relief or for the high.
EVERYONE has a different constitution and 'one-size-fits-all' laws just force more suffering. I don't know if there is an answer, but we have to keep trying to working. For all our sakes.

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Not everybody . . . MousePlayingDaffodil Oct 2017 #41

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You must not know much... potone Oct 2017 #53

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True, but I don't understand why they couldn't be more sympathetic. Coventina Oct 2017 #10

There was no excuse for their lack of sympathy. I'm sorry you had to go through that! pnwmom Oct 2017 #15

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Your sis in law has a different problem -- not a staple left in after surgery. n/t pnwmom Oct 2017 #16

This message was self-deleted by its author Maraya1969 Oct 2017 #22

Not at all. With the previous poster (the OP), I was pointing out that continuing pain meds pnwmom Oct 2017 #24

OK I get it now. I'll just delete my post OK? Maraya1969 Oct 2017 #25

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I'm not saying that people with real pain should be denied pain medication. pnwmom Oct 2017 #72

They should do both. Mariana Oct 2017 #75

The only reason they discovered the staple was that they knew she shouldn't have continuing pain. pnwmom Oct 2017 #76

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If they hadn't assumed she was LYING about the pain Mariana Oct 2017 #52

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this, and throw in suicide. nt TheFrenchRazor Oct 2017 #34