I am glad to meet you. Sorry it has taken me so long to reply to you. Are you a member of the immunesupport group message board for your fibromyalgia? I think it is a great group and they also have a supportive chat room. If you would like to join, just e-mail me and I will tell you how to get there. Thanks for the information you gave me. All you can learn from our ailment's helps a lot. You can e-mail me any time.
God Bless and Take Care!!!
>Candy,
>
>I also have FMS and ARD...and I take 1-2 Vicodin every six hours day in
>and day out. This is not the only drug I take either! If your body needs
>the meds for pain, you can develop a tolerance to them (requiring a
>higher dosage or change of drug) but I can't see how you can get
>addicted, since
>we're not doing it for a 'high' but for pain.
>
>Scan past messages...look for ones from Helen Dynda about tolerance vs.
>addiction.
>
>Hang in there!
>kcmo rose
>
>At Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Candy wrote:
>>
>>I'm so glad to have found this message board. I have had several
>>surgeries for adhesions. I've had one with a colonectomy, and I had a
>>tumor removed from the out side of my stomach. It was 9cm. I had a
>>kidney stone last year, and every since then I have had lower abdominal
>>and flank pain. It has just gotten worse the last couple of months. I
>>have been off work since Feb 21st. I just got finished with a urology
>>consult. I went through all the test's including a C-T scan which
>>showed nothing. Now my internist is sending me to a surgeon today. I
>>don't want another surgery, but can live with this pain either. My doc
>>must thinkthink that I am going to be in pain for a long time because he
>>gave me 100 Vicodine with one refill. It says that I can take 1-2 every
>>6hrs. I tried to stick to one, but it just didn't work. I'm afraid of
>>getting addiced to them. Has anyone been addicted to the drugs you have
>>to take for this pain? I'm really scared about this. I also have
>>fibromyalgia, which is a double whammy!!!!. Thanks for listening to me.
>>It's good to have message boards like this so we can vent. Soft hugs to
>>all!!!
>>
>>--
>>Candy
>>
>--
>If you can't learn to do something well, learn to enjoy doing it
>poorly.
>
-- Candy