Only simple fact and zero self-flagellation in recalling Vicodin prescriptions from dentists. I did not realize I was becoming addicted to it but the Mystery Lady did. If not for the alert from her, it's conceivable my life would have turned out differently. This was back in the nineties, maybe earlier.
Dentists really do give them away as a door prize and the pills really do not work. The effect Vicodin had on me was agitation, insomnia, and constipation. However, there is a bizarre addictiveness which obviously has nothing to do with those symptoms but it comes anyway. Vicodin is incredibly dangerous in this regard and, for many, that's where the problems start.
After the last big bike crash, they loaded me up with pain medications for months and months on end and this was heavyweight stuff. However, I did not find that addictive and I'm about 90% sure the medication was Tilox which I believe has codeine but I'm not sure of which narcotic.
The point of mentioning that is I don't take any pain medication ever except aspirin. There is no need to describe pain levels because the regulars have seen the bike crashes and the aftermath is going to hurt. However, pain medication has never been the answer for me unless it was so blinding as to make me non-functional. It is not that way now and, mercifully, the mind doesn't let us remember pain we have felt previously.
There's no need for another scribe on the dangers of prescription drugs and the purpose behind this one is the specific statement to confirm I do not use them while advising others to avoid them nor do I use them once in a while on the sly.
Some of you do this now as you carry monster pain but you know you have to suck it up and put some Jedi 'listen to the Force' to it or you can't stay strong.
There probably isn't much to add to that either as many of you who know the need to do that and already know the way and, just as with me, it breaks your hearts like mine to see people getting addicted and destroyed by pain meds and where they lead.
It's not only physical pain and we won't get poetic on whether emotional pain is worse than physical pain, it's pain and it sucks. The answer for many is the same and that's to drown it. No-one can tell me about that pain either as Cat is ten thousand kilometers from here as, for some, being star-crossed is destiny. I know also you have your own pain and the ones reading this probably are not trying to drown it or you would be flat on your back with your paws in the air somewhere.
There's so much pain in the world and a good many of you are Empaths or you would not be here. Your pain is the pain of the world and the rockheads will patronize you for that but the feeling does not go away, that only gives contempt for rockheads.
If you understood that then you will understand my own situation sucks and any worsening of that brings only one thing: "The End of the World in Fort Worth" must be finished. Any kind of pain med guarantees it will never get completed and that's not acceptable.
Note: any rant regarding VA does not mean lack of action. I walked out of there last time with a promise of an appt to see a dermatologist about skin cancer. That did not come but I will be in Dallas on Tuesday for a different doctor and that will get me to where I need to be to push it. Trying to do anything with VA over the phone is a horror and it's not their fault, they just don't have the money. Don't think for a millisecond the blog is all I do.
Dentists really do give them away as a door prize and the pills really do not work. The effect Vicodin had on me was agitation, insomnia, and constipation. However, there is a bizarre addictiveness which obviously has nothing to do with those symptoms but it comes anyway. Vicodin is incredibly dangerous in this regard and, for many, that's where the problems start.
After the last big bike crash, they loaded me up with pain medications for months and months on end and this was heavyweight stuff. However, I did not find that addictive and I'm about 90% sure the medication was Tilox which I believe has codeine but I'm not sure of which narcotic.
The point of mentioning that is I don't take any pain medication ever except aspirin. There is no need to describe pain levels because the regulars have seen the bike crashes and the aftermath is going to hurt. However, pain medication has never been the answer for me unless it was so blinding as to make me non-functional. It is not that way now and, mercifully, the mind doesn't let us remember pain we have felt previously.
There's no need for another scribe on the dangers of prescription drugs and the purpose behind this one is the specific statement to confirm I do not use them while advising others to avoid them nor do I use them once in a while on the sly.
Some of you do this now as you carry monster pain but you know you have to suck it up and put some Jedi 'listen to the Force' to it or you can't stay strong.
There probably isn't much to add to that either as many of you who know the need to do that and already know the way and, just as with me, it breaks your hearts like mine to see people getting addicted and destroyed by pain meds and where they lead.
It's not only physical pain and we won't get poetic on whether emotional pain is worse than physical pain, it's pain and it sucks. The answer for many is the same and that's to drown it. No-one can tell me about that pain either as Cat is ten thousand kilometers from here as, for some, being star-crossed is destiny. I know also you have your own pain and the ones reading this probably are not trying to drown it or you would be flat on your back with your paws in the air somewhere.
There's so much pain in the world and a good many of you are Empaths or you would not be here. Your pain is the pain of the world and the rockheads will patronize you for that but the feeling does not go away, that only gives contempt for rockheads.
If you understood that then you will understand my own situation sucks and any worsening of that brings only one thing: "The End of the World in Fort Worth" must be finished. Any kind of pain med guarantees it will never get completed and that's not acceptable.
Note: any rant regarding VA does not mean lack of action. I walked out of there last time with a promise of an appt to see a dermatologist about skin cancer. That did not come but I will be in Dallas on Tuesday for a different doctor and that will get me to where I need to be to push it. Trying to do anything with VA over the phone is a horror and it's not their fault, they just don't have the money. Don't think for a millisecond the blog is all I do.
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