Re:Hard day. Debbie

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In a message dated 8/6/2006 2:59:07 PM Pacific Standard Time,

Hugs-N-Pain writes:

> but she felt

> her quality of life wasn't going to be what it should be...so I made the

> decision to put her to sleep and let her cross the rainbow bridge...amazing

> how attached you can get in less then a month!!!! It broke my heart but knew

> I was doing what was best for her.

Oh Debi, I am so sorry you had to go thru this heart wrenching decision. I

had to make the same choice for one of my dogs last year. The vet said he could

treat her, but there were no guarantees that the outcome would be good. She

had a massive eye infection, and he couldnt tell if it had gotten into the rest

of her body (the brain) or not. He could remove the eye but not guarantee that

she would make a full recovery. She was purebred Peke that my hubby had found

at a gas station, just wandering around, we think someone had left her there.

He named her Peaches. 3 months later, something happened and one of her eyes

got torn, not sure how. But she developed an infection in the eye. Hubby went

to work and I and a couple of friends took Peaches to the vet. I had to call

hubby and let the vet talk to him, actually hubby made the decision. But it was

still. hard. I've done this so much, but it never gets any easier.

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in Washington

Emotionally and Medically screwed up

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In a message dated 8/8/2006 9:20:08 AM Pacific Standard Time,

Hugs-N-Pain writes:

> The hot weather here in sunny cal, is being hell on the patches. Talked

> about that, we did talk about switching to methadone, but gonna hold out a

> bit and

> see what happens.

Don't know if this helps or not, but I been taking Methadone for a little

over a year now. I'm up to 20mgs at a time, 5 times a day. I know it doesn't

sound like alot, but for me, it is. My body takes awhile to get used to the

meth.

just 3 months ago I could only do 10mgs at once. Now my sleep specialist doc

wants to pull me off meth and go with something else, cuz he thinks it's

messing with my sleep. I thought I had Narcolepsy, cuz I couldn't stay awake

during

the day, but the doc says it's probably a lack of decent sleep. That's all

well and good, but it still doesn't help me stay awake during the day!

I really don't want to go thru the BS of finding another drug to keep me out

of pain again. The meth has been doing well, even tho I just increased the

dosage. That's only because I have become tolerant to it.

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in Washington

Emotionally and Medically screwed up

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you take up to 100mgs per day of Methadone??? WOW....My Dr has me

taking 40mgs per day.

Please be very careful cause i have a friend who takes 180mg per day

and now she is hooked on it...she will have to go to a detox in the

hospital to get off of it.

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I agree Rose,

but in my friends case...she has never been addicted to anything and i

really blame this Dr she has cause over a 5yr period he has taken her

up to the 140mgs per day of Methadone and now he refuses to go any

higher....of course her pain is now so bad and her body had gotten

used to the 140mgs.

So for her to ever get her pain under control she will have to detox

from the Methadone and start all over again for it to be effective.

This can only be done in a hopsital for her.

As you said everyone is different.