I'm seeking a new way to recover. I have been here before but since than my email that I had before was compromised as well as my PC.. So I had to start fresh on so many things. The only thing that I haven't had to change for a few 24hrs is my clean time. However, I wonder sometimes if I shouldn't change that as well.
I have many mental illness, mainly diagnosed as a manic depressant. About a week ago, I had my brother in law take me to the ER. I suffer from COPD in the later stages. I had a bad spell last winter I was coughing up like a bright lime green color from within my insides. I was on a 80mg dose of prednisone and was than after a long winter last year my tendon in the back of your foot. Well I was walking toward my kitchen and I felt a snap and I could just feel it crushing as I went towards the floor. There was nothing I could do. My foot was so big for so long. Sores all over my leg. Than the right one went having the same thing. I knew that this was going to take a lot longer to heal from. Well anyway, when I got to the ER they put on what is a C-pap or something like that but the lady said it was like the next step away from a ventilator that they would shove down your throut this one was a mask that pushes air in and out.
My blood pressure and my heart is beating so fast. I have been taking Vicodine for a lot of years for the pain in my left knee, back, and the dose over the last 5 years of this has come from taking a 5mg dose 4 times daily and now it is 20mg dose 4 times daily. I also have a bad liver amongst other things. I was talking with the Doctor in ER and she said I had something on my legs I can't remember what it is but it started with a M. She said does your doctor know? I said yes he said that it looks OK Now that it will always remain that way. Well, that last Saturday night my Doctor was on call for himself I checked in at noon. At 2:15pm he hadn't even shown up, they wouldn't give me my medications and I had the HOPS card in my wallet on dosage etc. So I checked myself out. I scheduled a appointment to see the Doctor for Wednesday. I apologized to him for checking myself out and than I was telling him how I had called my Sister and asked her if God forgives us for the things we do wrong. She said, Yes as long as we ask him too. When I told him that, The Doctor said to me, "Well God might forgive you, but some of us taxpayers might not be so forgiving to have a 5-6 Thousand dollar evaluation to know that you have COPD and that your white blood count is extremely high." I didn't say anything to him, but I am a smoker and was down to 7 cigs a day. Since that day, I have been smoking a pack a day again trying to cut back but it just seems as if I have no desire now to even try. I am a manic depressant, Anxiety Disorder, PTSD, Bi-Polar among other things. It really hurt me when he said that my life isn't worth saving and my heart is beating about 140-160 beats a minute still and he never gave me any medication to lesson that.
So yeah I am seeking help. I have been home bound due to my health issues for 5-6 years now but I don't understand why I am not getting better just worse. So I have become more irritable than I have for a very long time. I think that my time is about up anyway which I accept that. I just don't know what to do. I need fellowship. This board has been around forever, I wish it was more active. anyway. Thanks for listening to me.
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Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all will be granted unto thee
Many many addicts have their addiction stories rooted in chronic pain.
I don't know how to respond to that.
There are some on this board who have found a way to reconcile taking meds for chronic pain
and still work a program....I hope you find a way