Morphine doesn't work for me. It makes me louder, and the pain smaller, but not enough. And I always turn down more.

Dilaudid is the best bet for me. I've had up to 10mg, but the goal is to give me 6, but all at once. Turns out some doctors think this'll stop me breathing so they hook me up to monitors, and others are willing to leave me alone in the room on all that narcotics with my ride. Still, I'm safe in his hands.

I've been told a number of times that I can't possibly ever have been given more than 2mg in one visit, so my specialist had to put it in my file--doctors were arguing with me over dosage, and that's so not my job. They can argue amongst themselves. Leave the crying lady out of it.

When I broke my wrist (and after the initial pain had gone), it only hurt if I was doing something to it - like trying to take my winter coat off. Otherwise it was fine, but it was bent at a bizarre angle. Although that didn't freak me out the list bit, it did freak the cab driver when I showed it to him. He got it in his head that this was a real emergency, requiring him to go racing down city streets at 60 mph. I was afraid he'd get stopped for speeding, but if that happened I figured I could hold up my wrist to the cop and say, "Lookie!"

Mr. Jane would like y'all to know that getting a tattoo over your tattoo (touchup work) hurts like a motherfucker.

Oh, bummer, I need to do that. I'll pretend it is not true until I experience it for myself.

I think I'm going to have to say I've had 2 UTIs that were worse pain than labor, or breaking my leg by twisting my foot around backwards and then walking on it for two days, or having 2nd degree burns in my crotch. I fear the UTI.

I have a friend who was in the embassy in Kenya when al-Qaeda blew it up, and his face melted. He's alive, and with skin grafts he has a face, but I can't even imagine what that was like.

I think that hurt worse than the migraines do, but it was easier to bear.

because it didn't sneak up on you to give you a brain wedgie, but do it so that you could see it coming? Migraines = evil.

I'm allergic to codeine. Says so on my chart. The one that the drug gods didn't read after Iris was delivered. Granted, the guy who did the epidural was awesome - and an accupuncturist on the side (REALLY good combo) - so the pain didn't really take over until just before they could switch me out to a really interesting and pleasant Demerol/Advil combo. The nurse who told me I had to get up and walk the next morning after surgery - she would have liked Ita's shocky-sticks.

Jilli - can you slip a zero-divide into something, just as, I don't know - proof of concept? Then they'll need more people...

My worst pain was probably when I had an impacted fracture of my shoulder, but I really am a wimp when it comes to pain. I'm usually achy on a regular basis, and I am a baby about any pain on top of that.

ps - absolutely, selfish. What the world needs is an ita army. do they get pointy sticks?

Mr. Jane would like y'all to know that getting a tattoo over your tattoo (touchup work) hurts like a motherfucker.

I think my touchup hurt less than the original (I basically had it coloured in and fleshed out), but that might have been because I knew what to expect. Mostly I was irritable that he brushed my breast a couple times.

The nurse who told me I had to get up and walk the next morning after surgery - she would have liked Ita's shocky-sticks.

Dude, I'd be there for you, chasing her down the hallways waving the knife crackling with current.

ok - one last post and then I'll quiet down... What's on TV tonight?

eta - ita, where were you when I needed you? All I could muster was a lame youmustbekidding.