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TheGentleD0M 55M
2947 posts
1/17/2017 2:57 pm
۩ ... Pain ... ۩


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Four times in my life I have been seductively invited to a world of serious drug addiction. The most stylish of these periods was when as a I dated an aristocratic TV reporter who had unlimited access to really fine cocaine. I've always liked my nose. I'm glad I still have it.

Two of the other times were strictly medicinal, but no less serious. One was when I was 12 years of age and diagnosed with a degenerative bone condition, first in my knees, then apparently everywhere. Multiple doctors wanted to put me on an experimental drug regimen, one of which I conscented to. The withdraw from that was an ordeal I will not soon forget. Happily, a little later, as I started to enter the dark world, I was interviewed by a mega-cleared physician who looked for all accounts to be a friendly, southern-speaking country doctor. He knew of my history (though I'm not sure he knew about my TV reporter), and he warned me about what pain medicines (even then) can do to your liver. "I don't know what you are doing now," he said, pulling one of my X-Rays out of a manilla folder and holding it up to the light above him, "but you passed your drug test, so keep doing it."

The other medical backstory is migraines. Everyone wants to put you on preventative therapy. But, yunno, say I plan to live til I'm 90 -- I'm going to be on these things for over 75 years (first migraine = 5th grade)? Really? Long-term effects? What are they?

I offer all this to say I am very leary of pain medication. Yet I do get headaches. Just got over a cluster of them. And in my mind last night, as the one still would not go away, I catalogued my recent past and determined I had not taken any pain meds - OTC meds - since Sunday morning. That's over 24 hours. So that green-lighted me in my mind to maybe ... if I wanted to ... just try ... But I didn't, and I feel fine today.


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Other pain comments may be left below.

This is a sincere poll. I'd truly like to know what 1000s of people think about this, and how they think about it. I'd appreciate your consideration and "click".

Thanks for reading.


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So, when you have headache, or after being in the "Righteousness Position" (where is that from?) back ache, or after putting someone in that position, backache, or pain in your hip, or your hands, or your shoulders, or those lovely creations called knees; do you ...


tgd





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-- first try to brave it out and take nothing
-- first consider the last time it happened
-- first consider the last pain med you took and consider what to rotate toward
-- always have a favorite "go to" pain med that you always hold in reserve
-- automatically take a pain med with no worries because it is an "over the counter" product and therefore presumably
-- regularly take a prescription pain med
-- have a selection of more than one prescription pain med that you use


TheGentleD0M 55M
4082 posts
1/17/2017 3:05 pm

Painfully Probing!

Rarely has a poll been more poignant.
--- The Breitbart News Network


Thanks for visiting.


tgd


TheGentleD0M 55M
4082 posts
1/17/2017 6:39 pm

    Quoting  :

My father was an Anesthesiologist, and was the man to go to in the tri-state area (Philadelphia, Delaware, Southern New Jersey) for nerve blocks. If you haven't already, research the amazing story of Bruce Lee and his back.

Thanks for visiting.


tgd


TheGentleD0M 55M
4082 posts
1/17/2017 6:42 pm

Early returns:
With 4 votes in, I am surprised that 3 of them voted the "brave it out" option. Very surprised.


We now return to your regular programming.


tgd


asianat2008 69M
3955 posts
1/18/2017 12:33 am

Nice sharing for the cause of humanity. Thanks a lot.

Self-respect is the corner-stone of virtues.


TheGentleD0M 55M
4082 posts
1/18/2017 3:22 am

    Quoting bergen_bd:
    I look upon any drug-use as a token of weakness.

    To me weakness is the very last thing I'd want to show for myself. I may make mistakes, but never ever will I let myself be weak. I am a man for Christs sake!

    I usually keep a pack (20-pack) of normal painkillers in my bathroom. (500mg's of Paracet or Ibumetin). Sometiomes when I have high fever or backpain I may use one or two, during the day. But usually I have to flush half of it down the toilet because their date has expired before I got to use them, and then get a new pack.

    When I cut my hand on a circular saw a few years back, and had to take a few stitches, they provided me with some stronger tablets. Never used them. Flushed them a year after. My thought was, who needs this? What kind of pussy would need this extra powerful stuff for this kind of minor incident? (I went to work the next day)

    Other drugs than that - never!

    Pain is most of all a mental issue. Therefore pain is interpreted differently. Some reacts highly, some not so much. Some reacts highly but withstand the pains for the period they lasts, while some very easily seek some kind of relief. Even for the slightest symptoms. My logic tells me that we ARE different, react differently. But my primary reaction is that desperate relief by drugs is a sign of weakness.
As I mentioned above, my father was a highly esteemed Anesthesiologist, and I must have heard a 100 times at the dinner table how everyone has a different pain threshold. Some people do need Schedule II pain management, though certainly far fewer than have prescriptions.

But I appreciate your response, as it did provide contrast to my own impulses.

Thanks for visiting.


tgd


TheGentleD0M 55M
4082 posts
1/18/2017 3:24 am

    Quoting asianat2008:
    Nice sharing for the cause of humanity. Thanks a lot.
What a gracious comment.
All the best to you.

Thanks for visiting.


tgd


TheGentleD0M 55M
4082 posts
1/18/2017 3:29 am

Early returns:
With 7 votes in, "brave it out" continues to lead. Very surprising. If you are reading this, and haven't voted, be advised the vote is 100% anonymous, so you can be honest.

We now return to your regular programming.


tgd


TheGentleD0M 55M
4082 posts
1/18/2017 5:49 pm

    Quoting  :

When the spirit declines, the flesh grows hungry.
All the best to you and your family.

Thanks for visiting.


tgd


TheGentleD0M 55M
4082 posts
1/19/2017 10:50 pm

    Quoting  :

Old GrandDad or Maker's Mark?

Thanks for visiting.


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TheGentleD0M 55M
4082 posts
1/19/2017 10:51 pm

    Quoting  :

I hope your pain profile gets smaller as time passes.

Thanks for visiting.


tgd


TheGentleD0M 55M
4082 posts
1/19/2017 10:56 pm

Early returns:
With 16 votes in, brave it out still leads with 10 while automatically sits at second with only 3. Very surprising in a population so keyed to physical stimulus.


We now return to your local programming.


tgd


TheGentleD0M 55M
4082 posts
1/21/2017 7:38 am

More returns:
20 votes cast and brave it out expands its lead. So surprising. (BIO=11, AUTO=3, everyone else 2 or 1).

We now return to your local programming.

Thanks for visiting.


tgd


cd4useoncam 58T
3 posts
1/21/2017 4:08 pm

hi i can sympothise with folk on long time meds as the misses has just got over breast cancer and i was getting concerned with the amount and frequency she was popping painkillers but all good know they all stopped so no worrying know thanks for posting this topic very poignant.
all the best.


TheGentleD0M 55M
4082 posts
1/22/2017 3:15 am

    Quoting cd4useoncam:
    hi i can sympothise with folk on long time meds as the misses has just got over breast cancer and i was getting concerned with the amount and frequency she was popping painkillers but all good know they all stopped so no worrying know thanks for posting this topic very poignant.
    all the best.
I hope health normalcy soon makes a long term commitment to both your lives.

Thanks for visiting.


tgd


TheGentleD0M 55M
4082 posts
1/22/2017 3:25 am

    Quoting  :

So much to be said on migraines, but here is one noteworthy thing I've found.

Magnesium helps regulate vascular behavior. Lots of people know this, and they take Mg as a supplement. But one supplement - Magnesium Oxide - is only absorbed at a 4% rate. So if you do your research and find your body might need 800 mgs of Mg a day, and you take 4 200 mg tablets a day, you are really only getting THIRTY-TWO mgs of Mg from that supplementation. Magnesium Oxide: useless as a supplement.

But also the most common.

Thanks for visiting.


tgd


TheGentleD0M 55M
4082 posts
1/22/2017 3:30 am

More returns:
23 votes in, and brave it out is running away from the pack with 13 votes, as AUTO continues to lumber along in 2nd with only 3 votes. I did not expect these results.


We now return to your regular programming.


tgd


aHedonist 51M
7510 posts
1/26/2017 9:29 am

I'm supposed to be on "pain management" - which is to say, they dont really know whats wrong, they dont really know how to fix it, here's a script for some painkllers and if you do something and it hurts dont do it again.

I've hurt every minute of every day for the last 6 years - It's just a matter of how bad. And I've been pretty much of the painkillers and right off the prescription ones that actually work for the last 5 of them.

I'd like to tell you it's because I'm tough, or that I found some obscure holistic pain relief method. But I didnt.
I'd like to tell you that I changed my lifestyle to suit my injures so I dont have to hurt all the time. I did - but it still hurts anyway.
I'd like to say I dont know that I feel the pain because I'm too busy concentrating on the alternate pain relief you stuck in the next post up. I can't.

Simple fucking truth is I'm scared. Not of the painkillers, not of the side effects that I might get in 40 years. Not of being addicted to the things. What I'm scared of is that if I take them all the time they'll loose efficacy, that my body will get used to working in a doped up haze and the pain will win through, and that when I take on of those little blue pills for serious relief that I wont just float off on a sea of dreamlessness.


TheGentleD0M 55M
4082 posts
1/27/2017 1:52 pm

    Quoting aHedonist:
    I'm supposed to be on "pain management" - which is to say, they dont really know whats wrong, they dont really know how to fix it, here's a script for some painkllers and if you do something and it hurts dont do it again.

    I've hurt every minute of every day for the last 6 years - It's just a matter of how bad. And I've been pretty much of the painkillers and right off the prescription ones that actually work for the last 5 of them.

    I'd like to tell you it's because I'm tough, or that I found some obscure holistic pain relief method. But I didnt.
    I'd like to tell you that I changed my lifestyle to suit my injures so I dont have to hurt all the time. I did - but it still hurts anyway.
    I'd like to say I dont know that I feel the pain because I'm too busy concentrating on the alternate pain relief you stuck in the next post up. I can't.

    Simple fucking truth is I'm scared. Not of the painkillers, not of the side effects that I might get in 40 years. Not of being addicted to the things. What I'm scared of is that if I take them all the time they'll loose efficacy, that my body will get used to working in a doped up haze and the pain will win through, and that when I take on of those little blue pills for serious relief that I wont just float off on a sea of dreamlessness.
Dude, when I hear something like this, it makes me feel silly for bringing up my own condition which has, for many years, been manageable. I truly wish you the best. On the bright side, your core philosophy is one I 100% agree with and practice daily: if I take pain meds now, what the hell happens when the pain gets really bad and my previous use has made my body immune to their effects?

Thanks for visiting.


tgd


TheGentleD0M 55M
4082 posts
1/29/2017 2:36 am

More returns:
With 28 votes in, restraint continues here. AUTO is now tied with first consider, both sitting at 3 votes; while brave it out has run away from the field with 16 votes. With every visit, and snapshot, my surprise at this does not diminish.

We now return to your regular programming.


tgd


TheGentleD0M 55M
4082 posts
2/21/2017 4:34 pm

    Quoting  :

Be grateful for it.

Thanks for visiting.


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