Well Cherry I hope you do OK. Of course I wish you well.

I just talked to Rocco about it and he hope you have a great day too!!

Hugs,
David.

Hugs to you Cherry. Why are you off the patch? (did I miss something?) If you ran out or something, please be careful and cautious with "withdrawal" symptoms.

Support and care your way!

I didn't run out...as a matter of fact, I decided to put one on about an hour ago. When I had my last appt. with the doc I've been seeing for about three years, I told her that I wanted to wean off because it has really caused trouble with my digestive system without being very affective. She was happy with the idea as she hated prescribing narcotics, anyway. It's not really her area of expertise.

I've been trying everything I can think of to change my attitude about this pain. Instead of looking for a cure (realistically, there isn't), I thought sticking to just the Vicodin and adding homeopathic and other holistic possbilities, might be what I needed. My last script was for 5 of the 12 mcg. patches...weaned from 50 to 25 and then 12. I thought I could skip the last two and the doc didn't actually specify.

Apparently I made a bad choice, but now I'm worried about this same thing happening exactly when I start work next week.

Thanks for responding...I'm a working mess today.

Hugs,
Cherry

I'm so sorry you are hurting. Are there other pain triggers happening too like storms? Vicodin doesn't help me and the tylenol was way too much for as long as I was taking it. Maybe your doctor can change you to norco. More pain relief, less tylenol. At least while you are coming off the patches.

Hope you can get through this and have less pain. Hugs, Barbara

I just switched to the clinic I went to for years because te doc I've ben seeing is too far away and never there! I mentioned Norco to her last time and she said she'd never heard of it! Anyway, had my first appt. with a NP yesterday and she couldn't write scripts because, after 2 weeks, the other clinic still hadn't sent my records!!!

This kind of crap is a big reason why I left. I thought I was finally done with not receiving callbacks and being ignored, but I guess it's not over, yet....grrrrr.

Meanwhile, I just want to be able to keep working and feel well enough to enjoy a moment or two of my day.

Still working...one more to go.

Cherry
xoxo

I'm late on here, but I hope your day wasn't too darn hard on you Cherry. I had a dr that wouldn't send my records so I went and got them! He knew I wasn't very happy about it!

You know we all wish you didn't have to work when it creates more pain for you. So I'm sitting here in my bed just thinking what if you went bigger in your business and hired more ppl and you get enough cut back from them that you just have to do appt and bookwork? You wouldn't have to be on your feet and you could still have short hrs! Hmmm I'm dreaming for you. Just don't like you hurting friend.

Best wishes and dreams,
Toni

HMM Irocket had a good Idea. Hope you don't work to hard.
Gentle Hugs.