Why do we try to go without meds?

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There I stood, in front of the old white telephone..only this time it

wouldn't be my HEAD in the terlet..it would be all the pills from my rather

FULL cupboard...the BAD ones would go first..the Methotrexate..or MAYBE the

Pred..hmmm well, maybe the mtx cause it makes me sick,, and its NOT the

miraculous cure I had hoped/expected it to be..I can't get out of bed, the

nausea is so bad...so I had to add anti-nausea drugs to the already long

list of crap ( my fav word)...well, maybe the 'roids should go first..they

make me crazed..it's a roller-coaster ride I don't enjoy at ALL...then

there's the folic acid..well I wont need that if I toss the MTX right?

right...soo that one can go just behind the mtx and as for the pred..hmmm

what if my knees flare up..what will I do..it might be on a weekend and

where will I go to get the knees drained and then a whack of cortisone shot

in???

Well, then there's the pain medication..meslon, and percocet, hmm good

grief...I've heard how awful it can be if you just stop taking all that

morphine and such, withdrawal could be worse than the damned disease....and

then there's the water pills..if I toss those I WILL swell up and be one

edemic woman, wont know where my legs stop and my torso continues....hmmm

well what about the Neurontin..maybe that's one I could toss....but what

if....... alas, I could go on ..but I think you all get mah drift..I betcha

there's a very HIGH number of us whoo have felt the same way...and ended the

same way..playing it safe..it's all we can do..and IF I ever DO decide to do

it, it will not be cold turkey..trust me...lol there I go with the TURKEY

lines again!!!

hang in there y'all

love

Cat

Why do we try to go without meds?

> In a message dated 7/19/01 7:12:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jatw@...

> writes:

>

>

> > So I decide maybe I should just stop taking the meds. I think most of

us

> > have been through this. So don't beat yourself up about it because it

won't

> > help. We certainly have to be careful though.

> >

> >

>

> It is really amazing that I've tried the " stop taking the meds " routine as

> well, thinking that maybe I dont really need them. Well I do. I didn't

know

> that others had tried that too.

>

> Love Carole

>

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> To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you

are!

> Be Kind, Every Person You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle!

> " My ambition is to be a good ancestor " - Herbert Zipper (1997)

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In a message dated 7/19/01 7:12:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jatw@...

writes:

> So I decide maybe I should just stop taking the meds. I think most of us

> have been through this. So don't beat yourself up about it because it won't

> help. We certainly have to be careful though.

>

>

It is really amazing that I've tried the " stop taking the meds " routine as

well, thinking that maybe I dont really need them. Well I do. I didn't know

that others had tried that too.

Love Carole

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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are!

Be Kind, Every Person You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle!

" My ambition is to be a good ancestor " - Herbert Zipper (1997)

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Cat sweety,

Oh yes..been there, almost did that too. Only I was pouring mine in zip-lock

bags to throw in the garbage. (already thinking in my mind, that if things

got

really bad..they could be dug out again! LOL!!) I agree about never stopping

cold turkey. I have tried that with a couple of meds in the past, and in the

end

I paid for it.

I thank you so much for sharing with the rest of us your experiences with

this and

that Cat. You have a way of making " not so good things " sound funny, and we

all need you. Please..never change.

Your friend, Tricia

Why do we try to go without meds?

>

>

> > In a message dated 7/19/01 7:12:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jatw@...

> > writes:

> >

> >

> > > So I decide maybe I should just stop taking the meds. I think most of

> us

> > > have been through this. So don't beat yourself up about it because it

> won't

> > > help. We certainly have to be careful though.

> > >

> > >

> >

> > It is really amazing that I've tried the " stop taking the meds " routine

as

> > well, thinking that maybe I dont really need them. Well I do. I didn't

> know

> > that others had tried that too.

> >

> > Love Carole

> >

> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

> > To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you

> are!

> > Be Kind, Every Person You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle!

> > " My ambition is to be a good ancestor " - Herbert Zipper (1997)

> >

> >

> >

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> It is really amazing that I've tried the " stop taking the meds " routine as

> well, thinking that maybe I dont really need them. Well I do. I didn't

know > that others had tried that too.

>

> Love Carole

I was playing euchre with a friend-of-a-friend several months ago. The guy

is a doctor, and during the conversation we were having he said that all

long term illness patients eventually try that.

I know it's true for every diabetic I have known.

Angie