Oh my most recent duh is a big one. For just over a year now, my daily Rx for pain killers has been 6 tabs of 5mg hydrocodone (with 500mg of acetaminophen) - generic for Vicaden, and 3 tabs of Carisoprodol. For two months we traded the Vicaden for Oxycodine, but from the vomiting I lost 16 pounds. Six months ago I was Dx with thyroid cancer - which was followed by surgery and then radiation therapy.

Now, for most of that year, I actually took more like five codone a day so wound up with a significant stockpile in the medicine cabinet.

Then I had radiation therapy - which killed all my abilities to handle pain or my emotions. My husband's ideal is that no matter what it takes, I should not be in pain, especially to the point that I have to just lie in bed. I started to take my pain meds as needed without counting how many I was taking a day...

Fast forward three months to five days ago when I realized that I had just 20 tablets of hydrocodone left, but 14 days before my next refill. I figure that I had been taking 8 or 9 tablets a day to have burned through the extras left in the cabinet.

As it is a controlled substance, it is not like I could go and say I screwed up. So as of five days ago, I went from 8 or 9 tabs a day to ONE. I am in agony from my two herniated discs and crushed vertibrea - pending spinal reconstructive surgery - which was postponed due to the cancer.

My refill should be in the mail today - but let me assure you that coming off the hydrocodone was not fun, even without dealing with the pain I live in.

Jan, I certainly don't think it's stupid at all LOL....I have always loved to dance! I still do it all the time, and most the time I do pay for it. But yes, I think it's worth it. I think I will at least try to dance until I am in a coma...or the grave.

Well here's my latest "I'm that stupid".... although I didn't pay for it, pain-wise, I definitely did EMBARRASSMENT wise. My oldest daughter and I (she is 28) were shopping in a Ross store (a discount type retail store)....we were looking at some cookware on one of the back aisles, and I didn't see any other people around.

So then Michael Jackson's "Beat It" came on the store PA system. I was having a really hard time keeping myself still, because that song has such a dance beat to it....well, my daughter had always been embarrassed by me doing stupid things (like dancing) in public, so I tried hard to restrain myself.....only I couldn't.

I suddenly broke out in a really bad "moon walk" LOL, which requires backing up, of course. I then bumped into something behind me, and started stumbling, like I was drunk....so I turned around and there stood a man with a shopping cart, laughing his head off! Oh boy, was I ever embarrassed! And my daughter literally disappeared!

Anyway, thought y'all might get a laugh from that one.

I wasn't going to stay online but I read this post and it was so funny - Lorilynn's story was hilarious and had me laughing out loud! I always have duh moments - Pretty much everytime I have a "good" pain day I seem to think I'M HEALED and find an all day long activity or project do to.

My most recent "That was stupid" moment involved my numb fingers - I can't feel anything so I don't know "where or what" they are doing sometimes... I was at work and shut my middle finger in the file cabinet! OUCH! It was weird... I felt that just fine~

thanks to all for support and sympathy..
and thanks to those who shared their goofy times..:-) :-) :-) :-)

..sometimes you just have to cry..
..sometimes you just have to laugh..
..amd..sometimes you have to do both at the same time..:-) :-) :-)

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jc

Ah, JC,
Your post made me smile! :D

What a beautiful scene to imagine!
JC, blissfully dancing to a favorite tune. :)

What was the song that got your happy feet dancing?

That is not stupid at all. I know how good that feeling is. Do it a lot when I clean the house and have the music on. Yea, I feel worse but it sure does feel good at the time!

Don Henley's "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" is one that I cannot stand still and listen to. Even walking briskly on the treadmill and when it comes on, I dance to it. Another one is "Walk This Way" remix with Run DMC & Steve Tyler.

You're awesome jc. And you're right! It's worth every bit of ache and pain that comes later! I'm always trying to outmaneuver the pain, lol.