Re: Is there anyone who can still work?
From: Candy (pikepixie@maplenet.net)
Sat Dec 7 19:04:09 2002
At Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Sally Grigg wrote:
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>At Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Mary Lou wrote:
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>>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
>>
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>>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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Can they do surgery for you? I had surgery for adhesions last April and now I'm going in for another surgery on Dec 18th. My internal med doc said that he knows this woman that had to have three surgeries in six months. I am working 40hr work days at a light duty factory. I use to be a medical assistant in a doctor's office, but I also have fibromyalgia and I couldn't keep up the pace. I have a sit down job now. I take two 50mg tab's of Ultram every four hrs while I'm working and I take 10mg of Oxycotin after I get home. Some days it helps and some it doesn't. Today is Sat and I took the oxycotin at 11:00a.m. and I just now at 6:30 p.m. had to take an Ultram. I am in bed most of the time. I know how you are feeling and all that you are going through. My heart goes out to you. It feels like we have no quality of life doesn't it. Can you apply for disability? I am going to see what this surgery does for me and if it doesn't help, I'm going to see if I can't go on disability. Good luck to you and let me know how you are doing. We have to stick together.
Candy B.