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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3510 on: September 05, 2012, 01:27:41 PM »
Need something to calm down my bloody hip.
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3511 on: September 05, 2012, 01:37:21 PM »
yes
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3512 on: September 05, 2012, 04:49:46 PM »
That reminded me odeon, I need to take my anti-inflammatories.
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3513 on: September 05, 2012, 11:24:26 PM »
I took mine, this morning.
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3514 on: September 06, 2012, 10:28:34 AM »
Nope! Don't think the innards could take it righ now.
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3515 on: September 06, 2012, 11:22:24 AM »
Yep, and the innards are NOT happy!  :zombiefuck:
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3516 on: September 06, 2012, 05:09:28 PM »
You seen anybody about it yet odeon? Not that it will make it any less painful, but you have my sympathies on that. I know too well what its like. I'm ok...ish, during the day. Well..no...am I sodding hell, but I can force myself to bear it, as long as I don't have to go on long walks, into town etc. At night is the worst, I need to stick a couple of pillows between my knees to serve as padding.

Which reminds me, I need to go see my own doc tomorrow, which means waking up at about 8am, else I'll run out of oxy on sunday, which would be a right cunt, especially as almost no pharmacies are open to get OTC pain meds (cough syrups actually, the only OTC opioids sold AS analgesics are in combination with paracetamol, and at such a low dose per unit I consider it borderline subclinical, even in somebody who has never used painkillers before, having no tolerance whatsoever. But the cough syrups are a bit of an OTC anachronism I suspect, although wrongly so, at least that leaves something that can be done without having to go, begging bowl in hand to a dr)

I hate that whole royal clusterfuck of inconvenience. I like my regular 'personal' GP. He knows what he is doing, and won't fuck me over, and he is one that I can actually talk to , while trying to figure out the best way to deal with anything needing sorting, but there is another I sometimes have to see, and I feel really uncomfortable around her,no matter why I'm there. Not to mention would possibly have killed me, had I been another patient that didn't have a good working knowledge of medicine. Tried rx'ing me co-amoxiclav once, immediately after being told of a possible anaphylactic reaction to penicillins and (untested...staying that way!) other beta-lactam antibiotics.

Thats the sort of basic error that should be getting stamped on, HARD, in med school, before anybody gets killed over it happening to an actual patient.


And another one, who I REALLY cannot fucking stand, a real bitch TBH. Went ages back, she was the old witch with appointments left, so go figure.

At the time, I was on painkillers, clonidine, two benzos and chlormethiazole. Wasn't on oxy at the time, but a different one. I'd been on them long enough to make damn sure suddenly stopping would have been dangerous. Opioid withdrawal won't kill a healthy person, it has happened, but in the prison population that I'm aware of, where a guy coming off something or other was left to starve to death, being unable to eat, but benzos/chlormethiazole, after long enough, that could certainly kill someone, or leave them brain damaged. I know of someone in the US, for instance who stroked out after suddenly being cut off 'cold turkey', and is pretty lucky to have survived after being abruptly cut off a huge fucking dose of clonazepam without any attempt to taper him.

He got left in a wheelchair for a while AFAIK.

As soon as this idiot asked what I did for a living, and found out I had no work, she told me I would be 'happier if all these meds are stopped'. I wonder if being spesh had anything to do with that. Lucky for me, again, it was my own common sense not to be taking the benzos/heminevrin daily that saved my arse. Still went through hell getting left without the rest of my meds for the rest of the day, and night. My regular doc was fuming when I told him.
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3517 on: September 06, 2012, 11:26:42 PM »
apparently madmick/JB didn't
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3518 on: September 06, 2012, 11:29:29 PM »
You seen anybody about it yet odeon? Not that it will make it any less painful, but you have my sympathies on that. I know too well what its like. I'm ok...ish, during the day. Well..no...am I sodding hell, but I can force myself to bear it, as long as I don't have to go on long walks, into town etc. At night is the worst, I need to stick a couple of pillows between my knees to serve as padding.

No, I haven't. There have been too many doctor's appointments lately, with my eyes and everything, and I keep putting it off. And then it's better, all of a sudden, and I don't even think about it for a while.

There's always the cane. :zoinks:

Problem is, I never understood how people can get used to a cane. It helps but my hand hurts after using it for a while. So what House does may look cool but his hand's got to hurt like hell.
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3519 on: September 07, 2012, 10:15:35 PM »
About to take my evening meds and go to the bed ball.  Night to all.
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3520 on: September 08, 2012, 12:20:54 AM »
Not yet.
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3521 on: September 08, 2012, 05:20:41 AM »
I took my night ones early as I had dinner early.
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3522 on: September 08, 2012, 07:25:32 AM »
Lol, I have been  compared to House quite a few times. Same first name (although I usually go by Lestat), walk with a cane, and I like my opioids :P

 as well as a pretty good knowledge of medicine, neurophysiology, molecular biology, as well as exotic/unusual and/or rare diseases. And very unconventional.
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3523 on: September 08, 2012, 10:35:32 AM »
Lol, I have been  compared to House quite a few times. Same first name (although I usually go by Lestat), walk with a cane, and I like my opioids :P

 as well as a pretty good knowledge of medicine, neurophysiology, molecular biology, as well as exotic/unusual and/or rare diseases. And very unconventional.

I just do the cane and the non-PC comments, not the opioids.  :P
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Re: Did you take your meds today?
« Reply #3524 on: September 08, 2012, 11:26:40 AM »
Lol, I have been  compared to House quite a few times. Same first name (although I usually go by Lestat), walk with a cane, and I like my opioids :P

 as well as a pretty good knowledge of medicine, neurophysiology, molecular biology, as well as exotic/unusual and/or rare diseases. And very unconventional.

As an aside, the PR has been complaining off and on about her mouth itching.  We thought/think her lactose intolerance may have turned into a milk allergy.  I looked up "itching mouth" on the Internet.  One site has 216 diseases it can be associated with.  Makes the possibility of a milk allergy a lot more comforting, even if a little dangerous.  Right now Benadryl handles it. 
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