Journal Entry for February 22, 2008
February 22, 2008 11:43am
I have just been through about 8 days of the worse pain and fatigue that I have had in a long time. Yesterday, the horses got out, in fixing the …
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I was a school teacher and principal for 27 years until I had to finally stop working as a result of lyme.
I was a school teacher and principal for 27 years until I had to finally stop working as a result of lyme.
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Journal Entry for February 9, 2008
February 9, 2008 12:30pm
On Ash Wednesday I began a juice fast as a part of my Lent observance. Also began reading Purpose Driven Life, which takes 40 days, just like …
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Fatigue, muscle pain, brain fog began 8 years ago. Progressively got worse. Was misdiagnosed with MS for 6 years. This Sept., diagnosed with lyme, western blot. Had to stop working in 2000. Currently receiving treatment at fibro/fatigue in Pittsburg, Pa. driving all the way up from mts. of NC
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- Amoxicillin Not Working
- nightmare
- Doxycycline Working / Worked
- major intestinal trouble
- Methadone Working / Worked
- I took Methadose for 33 months during the time that I was misdiagnosed with MS (recently found lyme was the real problem). The Methadose provided the most relief I had found in years but after having to gradually increase the mgs, my personality began changing, drastically, for the worse. I decided I was going to have to stop the Methadose. I went to a detox center in Fla. I can honestly say the withdrawal was the most painful experience of my life, if fact, most Drs. will agree that withdrawal from Methadose for a person who has taken a similar dosage (75 mg) for 33 months is one of the most excruciating experiences that a person will ever encounter, at least for some people, not all. I would just say,, please, please, be very careful. Methadose, while providing excellent relief, can become a demon; and I wouldn't want anyone to have to go through the experience that I had. I literally prayed for days, wanting to die (22 days to be exact). I would also never encourage anyone to go off cold turkey, as I did; even though I was in a clinic and they provided other meds that were supposed to lessen the severity of the withdrawal; they didn't, as in "none". So, please be very careful, believe me I understand the need for relief; I would have taken anything, literally anything, at times, in seeking relief from the pain that turned out to be lyme disease, of which I am currently being treated, and I have moved down from oxycontin 155 mg/day, to taking percocet and a patch. Sometimes, I still long for the relief that Methadone can provide, but I know what would eventually happen, and I don't thing I could live through another episode like the previous. Good Luck, I only replied because I care, and I feel an obligation to let people know the possible hell they could experience, Dr. Phillip J. Elliott
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