Hey guys, check this out! You will laugh your socks off! (well sandals more like it... Not both, that is criminal...)
I went to collect my prescription from the pharmacy earlier, that I have sent from the docs, so it's ready for me when I get there.
The pharmacist handed it over and said "you will need to get another prescription more regularly now because your doctor will only let you have 10 days at a time now.".
"Ah.....," I thought. "He thinks I'm "high risk" now". My doctor has done this before, and I laughed, which confused the pharmacist.
"How many tramadol (strong painkillers) are in that bag?" I asked him with a grin on my face.
"100" said the pharmacist.
Omg I cried for laughing!!!!!!!!!!! The pharmacist didn't get it straight away and I had the bag already lol! I offered it back but I guess he did not want to look "stupid" hahahahaha.
The doctor has done this before, and I'm sure he's not got alzheimers. So what is it then? Has he got a sick sense of humour or are they placebo's? Or is he just "stupid? lol
Hi I take amitriptyline,fluoxetine,nabeumantone,paracetomal,tramadol,ibupofen and have a vitamin b12 injection every 3 months.I thought the doctor I had seen for years was good.She retired last year and I had to go to another doctor in the practice.I saw a new male doctor who just looked at his computer screen and there was no eye contact and very little communication.I now see another female doctor who I wished I had seen years ago.She has done more for me than any of the others in the short time I have been seeing her.I just think its the look of the draw.I also go to chronic fatigue clinic and it is so great that the occupational therapist really listens.It really feels like that someone is listening to me genuinely.It took 10 years to be referred to the clinic !
I do see a Rheumatologist for the FM and she is pretty sure I have Lupus. As far as meds go....wow...
I'm on quite a bit but I have other issues going on too. For FM only I take cymbalta, gabepentin, tramadol ( which does nothing for me ) and Vicodin. For the Lupus I take Plaquinel. For my chronic insomnia I take klonopin and seroquel. I take vitamins and supplements and I take Welbutrin for depression. The klonopin is aslo perscribed for my anxiety disorder...I take prevastating for cholesterol but my blood tests show its in the "normal" range now but my PCP doc is not ready to stop it just yet...I would like to go more to the natural side too....
Heck I would take just about ANYTHING if I KNEW it would WORK!!!
HI I TAKE LEVOTHYROXINE FOR THYROID NAPROXENE 500 2TIMES ADAY TRAMADOL 50MG WHEN NEEDED THE TRHEUMATOLOGIST JUST ADDED AMITRYPTYLINE 10MG AND IM TO SE HIM IN 4 MONTHS THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS MY PRIMARYS GOING TO MONITOR THE DOSAGE UNTIL THEN I WAS TILD YOU SHOULD SEE A DR TO INCREASE IT I LIVE 3HRS FROM MY RHEU ATOGIST SO THE ORUMARY WIKL DO THAT DO FSR NOTHINGS HELP JUST HAVE TO TRY EVERYRHING
I see a FABULOUS male doc. He’s attentive, sympathetic and caring. Evey mo when I go in (here in wa state you have to get a hard copy prescription every mo for narcotics)he remembers our 10-15 minute conversations from the mo. Before. When I say “somethings going on” e addresses it right away. There’s no second guessing what I say and he doesn’t treat/look at me like previous doctors did. You know that look we have all received it at one point or another.
I take 20 mg’s of oxycodone 3x’s a day for “breakthrough” pain, 1 - 75 mcgh Fentanyl Patch every 48-72 hours and 40 mg’s of zanaflex every night at bedtime.
I love Dr. B. He cares about his patients. Like I said he is very caring and such. He also treats Chiropractic and spiritualy. If anyone in Wa, Willing to drive to Tacoma wants his information let me know and I can give you his information.
Hi Punkin, so glad you have a great doc. Did I read right that you take 40 mgof Zanaflex a night? I take 4 and my doc won’t give me more. And he won’t give me a daytime dose and gave me Mobic for days instead. Thanks, MB
Whopps sorry MB, it was 8mg’s at night. 2-4 mg tablets. Tell me this, do you have a hard time with the Zanaflex? When I say this is if you take it, fall asleep or kindof start to doze off and get woken back up do youhahave a heck of a time getting back to sleep? Also, do you ever have trouble with non-sleep sleep (for lack of better terms). And what I mean by this is do you have times where you know your sleeping but yet you can hear everything going on around you but its like your dreaming? It’s really hard to explain but I have a feeling if you do you’ll know what I’m talking about. Kindof like an out of body experience! I love me Zanaflex because its better than that stinking flexeril…
Also, I was only put on it last year and in 5 mo after staring it I lost 75#'s. Did you notice any weightloss with it?
Weight loss? I wish. LOL I also take Ambien at night so I don’t know if it is the Ambien or the Zanaflex but I have “dreams” that turn out to be things that really happened. After I take the meds and before I guess I am good asleep, I will have conversations and do things that I don’t remember or only vaguely remember. It’s all so weird and disconcerting. I didn’t really have these issues before I started the Zanaflex so I don’t know. Not much help, am I?
I sleep eat too. And it is always sweets- ice cream, cookies, etc. I try to make sure I am in bed when I take the Ambien but if I don’t fall asleep right away, then I want to munch.
Pukin, I take amitryptiline for sleep and I get the same thing. I think once we wake up we can't get back to sleep for the second time because the pills made us go into such a deep sleep the first time? But with 40mg of amitryptiline, I sleep right through most nights. Also, I know exactly what you mean about the non-sleep sleep. In fact, and this is embarrassing - I can actually lie there and hear myself snoring!
I also find that when I have dreams they are very intense. And.....I keep dreaming of people who are dead - my relatives and friends. Can't figure that one out. It is starting to scare me.
Jojo, they say violent dreams are because you are overstressed. Make a dream journal. Keep track at night of how stressful your day is and then jot a few lines down about which dreams you do remember if any a all. I did this once and it was soo weird. Every night I had a violent dream the notes I made the night before were high stressed days.
its weird. Have you ever had one or those dream or sleeps where you feel like you are laying on a Bed that’s very very big and you reach out to touch your significant other and you know they are right there but it seems like they are far away on the bed. Lol. Strange.
Hey Jo, I’m not trying to offend you or anything but you and people like you are the reason why it makes it hard for people like Jojo, myself and every person on this message board to difficult if not impossible to obtain the medications that we need. We spent months if not years building relationships and jump through hoops to get our meds and here you are accepting them when you in fact don’t even need them! And regardless if you need them or not you shouldn’t be offering to send along your prescription medications to albeit someone who may need them but is not prescribed them and ya know what it angers me that you even take them to begin with if your just going to give or even sell them.
I have death dreams all the time too. They are us wishing that this grief would come to an end. Maybe you see these people because they are trying to help you stay strong. I do believe in sprit guides and helpers.