Before I get started on the rambling...I'd better get off of here. I won't be on much today or this weekend for that matter. I'm not feeling very good lately and am just going to lay in bed. But I had to answer this.
Love and hugs and prayers to all of my sisters in IAS, Tonya
>----- Original Message -----
From: Jenny <jenklow@hotmail.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS <adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 4:06 AM
Subject: Re: Oxycontin...To Sally, Patty, and Tonya
> I just wanted to thank all of you for responding to my post about the
> oxycontin. It really has eased my mind alot! I started taking the
> oxycontin around the beginning of last summer. I took 10mg twice a day.
> My pain management doctor just increased it last visit to 3 times a day.
> I also take Zanaflex 4mg 3 times a day. He prescribed me Sonata 10mg to
> help me sleep at night. It works pretty well but I think I am building
> a resistance to it because it hasn't helped me sleep lately. It could
> be the fact that I have been in more pain the last couple of weeks
> though. I just can't seem to get comfy enough to sleep. ANyway, about
> the oxycontin, when my hubby's friend told him it was derived from
> heroin and considered poor man's heroin, that freaked me out a bit. BUt
> you are right, I am only taking it because I am to the point of getting
> up out of bed, and moving to the couch. Sometimes I get a little more
> active. I went to a movie and to eat with my honey tonight! Thank God
> for good honeys! You were talking about the pain meds making you more
> talkative, well they do that to me too. Ted says that I get alot more
> loveable too. I'm always loveable, but I get even more so when my
> medicines kick in. I think it is because I am tense from the pain and
> when I start feeling better, I go back to the real me. The one thing is
> when I first started taking the Sonata I would start saying crazy
> things. I fell asleep while eating banana chips with tehm half hanging
> out of my mouth. When my kids said something to me about it I told them
> I was saving some for them. Then a few minutes later I sat up and
> looked at my son and said I'm gonna kiss you between them big 'ole brown
> eyes. They said I sounded like a hick truck driver. Well, I am a hick
> so that wasn't too hard. At first I really didn't believe them when
> they told me that I had said that. But I am sure now that I did.
> Sometimes I take Benadryl to help me sleep if the Sonata doesn't work,
> especially when I am having problems with my allergies too. Well I
> guess it was my time to ramble on. Anyway, thank you all for your
> responses.
>
> Love and hugs,
> Jenny
>