I feel exactly like you. I'd rather be active then lay around in pain. Sometimes quality beats quanity. I have blood work every 6 mos. I'd love to be here to watch my granddaughter go to college, marry, etc. But I'm not giving up on walks thru the park, movies, zoo, etc. Dianna
I have the same miserable symptoms and take the same pills as John. Two oxy's a day help a great deal with spasms as well. When the pain breaks through, I supplement them with a percocet. I'm probably decimating my liver, but I'm wagering the liver will last as long as the rest of me. After 41 years, I'm about shot anyway. -----Original Message----- From: lwillis821 <[email protected]> To: quad-list <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 4:23 pm Subject: Fwd: [QUAD-L] Pain I have the same miserable symptoms and take the same pills as John. Two oxy's a day help a great deal with spasms as well. When the pain breaks through, I supplement them with a percocet. I'm probably decimating my liver, but I'm wagering the liver will last as long as the rest of me. After 41 years, I'm about shot anyway. Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: Resent-From: [email protected] From: "John S." <[email protected]> Date: August 15, 2012 2:59:39 PM EDT To: Danny Hearn <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Pain Reply-To: "John S." <[email protected]> 20mg time release twice a day. without it I sweat and shake and spasm violently. After 20 years or around there, even normal quads have bone density equal to chalk. In the early years, often quads are encouraged to do dangerous stretching and spend hours "excersising". This wears out joints and fractures bones that simply turn into an outragious form of aurthritis. It would save us a lot of pain if folks understood we were different, PT's are the worst offenders. BW, john From: Danny Hearn <[email protected]> To: John S. <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 2:28 PM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Pain John, my doc said it was best for me to keep the pain med in my system------so I take oxy every day--Do you too?? If I don't take any my spasms and pain gets bad. Thanks, Dan H. From: John S. <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, August 15, 2012 1:20:58 PM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Pain I take the damn vicodin. I also take time release oxy's and valium. I dont get a buzz from it but I dont feel so much joint pain. BW, john From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 11:55 AM Subject: [QUAD-L] Pain Hi all. I haven't been on this list that long, I was on it a long time ago but I haven't been up to date until about a month ago. So I have missed any discussions about dealing with chronic pain. I have been disabled for 31 yrs. I have only been in pain for about a year. It is in my neck, upper back and shooting into my left arm. I have tried chiropractic adjustments but he doesn't want to make me worse so he actually told me that I should stop. I had a cortisone shot in my neck but it did not help. So I have tried naproxin, tramadol and vicodin. The vicodin is the only medication that helps. I don't want to take it for the rest of my life because I know it isn't safe. My question is what do all of you do for pain? Thanks. Meredith
