'Trash'
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OMG, erin, I'm so glad you got to sleep and so sorry for the amount of medication it took to get you there!
My boss is gone for the rest of the day. Productivity ceases.... NOW. Not that I was very productive to begin with.
Hmmm, need to work on a packing list to expedite my departure this evening.
I could never abuse my medication (and it's fairly hardcore). Codeine makes me fall asleep. Ultram made me throw up and gave me incredible headaches. Most narcotic painkillers just make me ill. I was lucky the pain clinic stumbled on one that actually works for me without too many side effects, but there are still enough of them that I couldn't do too much with it, recreationally speaking. (I could sell them at a decent price, though. Heh.)
Shir, it was nice to chat about French verbs with you this evening.
erin, I'm really glad to hear you got some sleep at last! Hope that continues.
Many sympathies to Scrappy's co-worker.
On the medication issue, half a Xanax calms me down within about 20-30 minutes. I was told to take two whole Xanax to relax me for the last cortisone injection into my back. Didn't help much during the injection itself, but afterward, I slept the whole afternoon.
Scrappy, my sympathies to your coworker. How awful.
Today is one of those days where I really wish Liv still took an afternoon nap.
Oh, Scrappy, that's terrible.
And erin, I wonder if pain management has caught up to what pain medication can actually achieve. It seems to be so hard to get professionals to buy into shit, even to work out what works.
Oral narcotics don't do much for me. The amount I have to get IV means they usually hook me up to oxygen and have me on various monitors--if they actually believe my specialists and give me that much anyway, which can be a battle.
So no addiction for me, although my pain requires pretty regular medication. Just less than before. In between, I need Ambien to sleep through the pain. Luckily I don't seem to get the side effects anymore, although they were pretty wild and wacky there for a while.
I was told to take two whole Xanax to relax me for the last cortisone injection into my back.
Oh, yeah, and I've taken Valium when I've had to get my eye zapped (not Lasik, long story) but it didn't do what it was supposed to do, which is calm me down and reduce my nausea enough to keep me from almost fainting.
Oh Scrappy, that is awful and very sad. Much ~ma her way to get through this.
Scrappy, how awful. One of my coworkers had a 1.3 baby this fall and life is just so terrifyingly fragile at that stage.
I had Valium before my LASIK. I could totally get used to it.
I had Valium both times before they did icky stuff to my eye. The Valium was about as fun as the eye thing was not....