I had a lot of pain the first 4 months. I just wanted to die so the
pain would stop. I was getting morphine injects and taking a "pain
cocktail". Around the 5th month I wasn't feeling the pain the same
way. I remember telling the doctors that I didn't think I needed the
pain cocktail because I wasn't feeling the pain the way I was.
Besides it made me kind of sleepy all the time. The doctors told me I
wasn't feeling the pain because I was on the pain cocktail and I
needed to continue it. I did for a few days and then started refusing
to take it. I felt some pain but nothing that a few Tylenol couldn't
take care of. Eventually that pain went away too.
The trade-off to not feeling pain, I never had any other recovery.
It's been 18 years and I'm still paralyzed from the neck down and
dependent on a ventilator to breathe.
At 08:34 AM 3/9/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am always surprised and admittably envious to hear of a TMer who
does have pain. I always ask myself how this is can be
possible. I know we are all different, but this is one
difference I really don't understand.
Patti - Michigan
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Jim Lubin
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http://makoa.org/jim
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