Re: Is there anyone who can still work?

From: Sally Grigg (LostCst@mcn.org)
Sat Dec 7 18:02:58 2002


At Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Mary Lou wrote: >
>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
>
>--
>Mary Lou (desperate)
>

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Mary Lou, probably others have responded to you by now, but I read your email and just had to write. Yes, oxycontin is codeine based and if you are allergic or sensitive to codeine then I guess it is not for you. I took it and worked long and hard, but everyone is different. I live in California and yes, it is expensive, but hopefully, you can make friends or at least learn to love the nature opportunities and, I know, with adhesions, its hard to get out of bed. I'm so sorry you have to go through this. Love, Sally

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