Dear fellow adhesion sufferers,
I have not posted to this message board since last March because so many
things happened. First of all, I took a leave of absence from my
teaching job to fly across the country to take care of my dying mother.
42 days 24 hours a day, with some help from others but not enough. I
pushed myself too hard, running on adrenaline, and when it was all over
and I returned home, I had to pack up our house. Now I am in complete
physical misery. My husband daughter and I moved this summer from a
place we had lived 16 years, to San Jose, one of the most expensive
cities on earth. I took a job, but the adhesion pain was so intense I
had to resign after 3 days. Please if there is anyoone out there who
can still go to work 40 hours a week, hide their pain from others, do
their job competantly, please respond. I have tried all the things
mentioned except oxycontin of MS contin. Those of you who take that,
are you clear headed enough to work? I am now on celexa for depression,
amytripteline at night, and also Clonazapam twice a day. I sleep a lot,
fitfully, I cannot find a posture or comfort. I definitely have to get
off the clonazapam in order to focus if I ever get a job. THe latest is
I went to a pain clinic, where they took me off vioxx (for arthritis)
because of some new published risk of stroke or heart attack from vioxx.
So now my joints are screaming in pain as well as the adhesions.Sorry to
be so detailed, but I am desperate for suggestions and help. One thing
I found of benefit is water exercises in a pool that is heated to at
least 91. I am going to a pool at the Easter Seals. It is expensive
but worth it. Back to the oxycontin. I am very sensitive to anything
with codeine--those kinds of meds make me very dizzy, in fact
intolerably dizzy. Is oxycontin a codene-based med? Please someone
write back to me, even if to say there is not hope for us to "have a
pain-free day">
Thanks.
Mary LOu