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I personally have multiple reasons for pain... And yes take opiates...No I don't drive but I don't drive due to muscle spasms and pain... Not because my pain reliever makes me high... I don't feel high unless I am hospitalized and given pain killers intravenously... And they are stronger then I am on...
I know there are people out there that abuse medication and unfortionately giving us who need medicine bad names... I personally exercise 4 times a day regularly and on my bad days more often... I cannot fake any of my illness or pain... It is virtually impossible... I have proven documentation of reasons for pain... FM is just a little invisible gift to go along with them...
I cannot believe someone can read this board and write what you have written... So many people desire not to take these meds... So many in such pain that they find they have no choice... I personally couldn't live in my pain day in and day out without them... For without them I am suicidal for the pain is a constant 9-10... and is unbearable... With them my pain is a tolerable 4-5... I live disabled by my illnesses but I don't live disabled because of the pain when it is tolerable...
Give us a break... We are only human... Yes some may fall under the addiction but so many more won't... And it is that so many that we need to take chances for treating... We do understand the risks... But do you understand our pain...
I do deserve tolerable pain with perhaps someday a chance of no pain at all... And all the people who write here deserve the same... Your neighbor deserves the same... And God forbid you feel my pain... You deserve it too...
I have cried because of the guilt that I couldn't play with my children... I have lost part of their lives while other people have taken care of them when I was too ill to do so...{My husband had already walked out...} And cried myself to sleep every night... My children went thru h-ll and high water because of my illness and pain and came out better people because of it... It bonded us closer then I think anything could have...
Re-read some entries and information in this site... Perhaps a little knowledge could go a long way... Be open minded please.. Give us the chance I honestly don't feel you have given us... Leave your so called facts and stereotypes aside... Please...
Jan/DakotaView Thread
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