Re: [QUAD-L] neurontin alternative

[Dana Miller]

Which explains my high tolerance to drugs--at least the pain and 'valium' 
types!  :)  The last time I was in the hospital for a skin flap, nmy veins 
were non-existant, so they decided to put a main line in.  The problem, I 
was already in the big sand filled air bed and the docs did not want me 
taken out of it.  Soooo, they tried putting a board under my upper body to 
get it in the proper position to do the needle pushing.  The local did not 
work.  She tried 5 times to get it in my left collar bone area!  Then 2 
times on the right side and once for my jugular!!  By that time I was 
screaming and crying like crazy!  She finally gave up and just walked away. 
A male doc walked by and got involved.  He knew I was not in the physically 
correct position--I needed my whole body to be flat.  They gave me a 
washcloth to wipe/hide my face and pushed the big bed back up to my room. 
The nurses were shocked at the state I was in.

Finally the docs relented and that afternoon they came to tell me they were 
going to try again!  I went nuts!  They put me on a gurney and down I went. 
They assured me it would not hurt this time.  Yeah right!  I laid in the OR 
holding room for quite a while.  Then they did find a vien in my hand to put 
an IV in for some sort of medicine so I would not 'feel' anything.  It took 
5 syringes full of whatever it was before I was numb!  I'm sure my 
adreniline had something to do with it.  And I did not feel a thing!  I 
gabbered constantly tho.  They finally said that if I have any more 
surgeries to just have them automatically put a main line in.  It probably 
will not happen, but I sure willmake some noise about it!  When they say on 
the scale of one to ten with ten being the highest pain--I think I hit a 20!
I puffed up swollen all around my neck and shoulders and ached if someone 
touched those areas for quite a while. 
take care,

Dana
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Liz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Dana Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <quad-list@eskimo.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] neurontin alternative


wow, that's alot of drugs.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dana Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <quad-list@eskimo.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] neurontin alternative

I have taken Methadone for 'several' years after my doc took me off of
perkacet.  I take 2 pills 3 times a day along with half an Aquabid.  It 
is
my understanding the aquabid 'boosts' the methadone just a little. (?)  I
do
not get a buzz like I did with perkacet--actually I just felt 'warmer' 
for
a
couple of hours.  I also take 2 ultracet 4 times a day, alternating it
with
the meth.  I feel no "high" from  either drug and if I stick pretty close
to
schedule, the pain is managed.   Sometimes I will take an extra dose of
ultracet.
I have not tried going off the neurontin since starting the meth.  After
the
bad experiance with the gabitril, I am hesitant.
take care,
Dana
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Stocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <quad-list@eskimo.com>
Cc: <quad-list@eskimo.com>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] neurontin alternative
> Stacy Harim wrote:
>
>> I'm telling ya.  My pain specialist has me on 15mg of methadone a
>> day.  that's not very much as all.  Huge improvement.  It affects the
>> nerve endings to keep the pain away.  I was taking 20mg a day and
>> asked to go down.  I still have slight pain but nothing like before.
>>
>> Stacy
>
> I am also enjoying being free of neurontin, gabatril, etc thru the use
> of methadose (a better name to call it since methadone is always
> connected to junkies.  I take 10 mg 2x/day and am pain free in many
> respects, including neuro pain.
>
> Does anybody get a buzz when taking the meth?  supposedly  it does  not
> get one high
>
> happyeaster,
>
> brian
>