Posted by meow mary on November 6, 2002, at 22:53:19
In reply to Re: p.s. to Mary » meow mary, posted by ShelliR on November 6, 2002, at 19:40:50
Thank you so much for your response. I saw my doctor yesterday. He has prescribed me Oxycodone in the last couple of weeks (in addition to trying to adjust to Lexapro which is not going well) to get through some particularly hard times. He can prescribe it for pain only, which I do have, but understands it is also for depression. However, he says it is too much of a problem to stay with long term, as you have illustrated. Now I'm really worried, because I know I'll have to go off of it, and I think he's nervous about the whole thing as well, which makes me more nervous. He says I'll have to accept the loss of something that is working for me. Ironically, it doesn't work wonders, it just brings me from not getting out of bed to less depressed. I'm trying to stay at a low dosage, but I feel so conflicted about the whole thing. I can't take enough to feel good, and I already feel like I shouldn't be doing it at all. I told him yesterday the whole situation makes me feel like a criminal. I would never have considered this had I not tried almost every other medication available with negligable success and intolerable side effects. My doctor is pretty open considering what I've read, but he is still afraid, and not without reason I guess. Yesterday he said we're dealing with an attorney general who covered Greek statues because they were naked. He says he'll prescribe Bupenorphrine when (if )it does become legal in other than injectable form, but now I'm wary about the tolerance developing from that as well. I do not find coming off the opiates to be easy because of preexisting pain, but I'm glad to hear you say it wasn't hard for you-- even the oxycodone? And you're doing well with the Methadone? The whole thing is really scary. Thanks again.
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