Guest guest Posted May 1, 2007 Report Share Posted May 1, 2007 My husband is addicted to Excedrin. I use to try to make him stop taking them because of the liver issues but he won't listen to me. He takes about 9 Excedrins a day. I have known him for 7 years and married for 5. He has taken and abused Excedrins this whole time. When we first married I made him go to the doctor because he said it was headaches he was treating with Excedrin. That doctor said it was OK for him to take them!! He gets all freaky if he runs out of Excedrins. Not too long ago, he had a HUGE wart cut off of his leg, Imean, that thing was huge...it took me 4 years to get him to have that nasty ugly thing removed, I mean that thing was huge, ugly and gross..I made him wear a BIG band aid if he got near me!! I use to have to scrub the tub out big time because I was afraid of catching his nasty wart virus germs!! Well, the dummy went to work after having that wart removed and cut down into his knee. The next morning he comes home and he had nasty greasy work rags and plastic trash bags around his knee under his pants trying to stop the bleeding. He had blood all over him! I asked him, what the heck? He did not want to lose over time by leaving work so he tried to hid his blood and bleeding from co-workers who would had freaked out had they known, it was streaming down his leg into his boots...his boots were soaked of blood inside!...he was close to passing out! he looked like he had been shot several times!!!! I called his doctor, even though he told me not to. I had to sneak in the other room to call. Nurse talked to my husband and said for him to come in ASAP. Husband yelled at me but that's OK..he can yell. I took him to the doctor and he said my husband lost way too much blood...they could not understand why. I told the nurse it was because of those Excedrins he was addicted to!! She said my husband told them he did not take anything!! I flat told on him and they even tried to tell him not to take Excedrins but he still won't listen! Here is what amazes me about my husband, he lived in the mold house and it did not hurt him. He abuses his body big time in so many ways. He never had any issues from the mold as I did. He rarely gets sick, well, except for headaches caused from his Excedrin addiction. Why is it some people tend to have a body of steel and then there are us who are so wimpy to the point that a normal odor can cause us much breathing distress??? As far as Tylenol, I can't even take one because my heart starts pounding and I start shaking all over!!! What makes us sensitive people so different??? Talking about people not believing us about our illness, my husband always tells me it would been hard for him to had believed me had he not lived with me and seen how I can suddenly fall ill without notice. He hears my coughing, wheezing and etc..he knows my stomach is a mess...he notices I may look better one day and not so good the next...he has seen me go through multiple infections and losing my back teeth... and all of the symptoms....there were times when we were in the mold house I would sleep 21 hours a day and he would have a hard time waking me. He use to come home from work in the middle of the day to make sure I was still alive. One thing, he had a hard time understanding was how smells hurt me. Back in the early spring, he caught the flu. Smells bothered him during that time. Now he says he understands how much sicker I can get from odors so he is more careful with items that give off odor. I guess it is because when he asked what I felt when I was sick awhile back, I told him it was like having a constant flu or virus! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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