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Drugs. Or "Medicines" as my new pain doctor corrects me. Whatever you want to call them, I've been keeping the pharmaceutical companies in business lately. But I've decided to taper off all of my drugs and today was day 1 of no Methadone. I made this decision in part because with the exception of the Methadone, the rest of the drugs did nothing to help my pain (and I was on them for many months) and being on the Methadone will stand in the way of getting accurate diagnostic nerve blocks. I've been on such low dosages of the Methadone now that the pain level is no different. We'll see how I do pain wise (I think there will be no spike whatsoever) but so far nothing has changed except my mind is no longer a bowl filled with mush. In fact, I feel better without all these drugs clogging my body. Since they weren't actually helping with my pain, they were really only causing other problematic side effects. I had doctors telling me conflicting things on this and ultimately I had to go with my gut and stand up to the pain doctor telling me that I was going to do more harm to myself. Do I wish I could be diagnosed and on a ton of Methadone? YES. But I cannot. Once I have a diagnosis, I'll probably be singing a different tune. I just hope that's soon. First call Monday morning is to Hopkins. "Hey guys, remember me? Want to do that nerve block soon?"  |
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