We Do Recover

[MajestyJo]

When your doctor prescribes and you don't abuse it by taking too many, none at all, or not the hours your are suppose to, are you using? My doctor was my supplier for years and in today, I am very hesitant about taking anything and yet if I don't I have trouble living with the chronic pain of my arthritis. I have to watch the thinking behind it. i.e. Oh a pill would go down good now! If I take a pill, I can go to bed and that is back using my bed and a drug as an escape. When I had the problems with migraines for the first 7 years of recovery, many people figured I shouldn't have claimed being sober. I didn't want the medication. I took it to maintain my sanity. I thought I was going to go completely insane with the pain.

Having just come off two medications that my doctor prescribed, this struck home with me. Today, I also told him that the medication was too strong and that my pharmacist suggested that I only take 1/2 pill at bedtime. It is really important for me to have a good relationship with them both. The pharmacist is the person who knows all the inter-action and the side affections of the medication and how they all interact, and that includes my vitamins, inhalers, and creams like Voltaren.

Why take a narcotic for the neuropathy in my feet when it doesn't help take away the pain. This was reinforced tonight. I couldn't sleep and because I had a head ache and my feet hurt so much that I couldn't sleep, I decided to take a Tyenol 3 (prescribed by my doctor for my chronic pain and can take every 8 hours, but I refuse to use them that often), and half an hour later, I am kicking myself, even though the head ache has eased, the pain in my feet is still there. I ended up doing a meditation with my Runes (got the breakthrough and Spiritual Warrior card), did accupressure on my feet, asked for what I needed, ended up I came on line, and the pain has gone away, and then I could go to sleep.