old people!!

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hi Shirley,

i am 63, in spite of the fact that i have a back that looks like an 80 year old,

most people take me for being in my 50's. i have struggled with back pain for

30 years and have finally found some relief, am walking taller and feeling

younger. i do not sweat it when people talk about us " old folks " because they

will be there soon enough and find that life is very, very different. and yet,

i would not go back to my 40s for anything, even if i was able to run marathons

and ran 40 miles on my 40th birthday. my body may be a challenge at times now

but i like my crony wisdom, patience, tolerance, compassion, understanding and

the ability to live in the Now.

as for the methadone, as i said, i took for awhile a couple of years ago and had

not problems with it. what works for one person, may not for another and it

probably has nothing to do with age.

Carlene in MT

Re: Methadone and personal pain management

Pain knows no age. Do not judge the 60's as you will soon be there and see that

nothing hurts less at 49 than it does at 60. Why classify pain by age and give

the bad shit to us OLD folks as we are past being useful to society?!

Thanks for that info, now that I am duly informed about pain and age, I can

hardly wait to be 60 so us olddies can be drugged and sit slobbering in a chair

back in the corner. Please be kinder in your thoughts. Old age doesn't begin

at the magic number of 60, but I bet when you were 39 it began at 50. For a

well informed group that was a really bad statement.

Shirley

marypdombrowski <marypdombrowski@...> wrote:

Hi

You know, I've heard that methadone works for some people when every

last other thing has been tried and hasn't done the job. I suppose

that in that situation, you have already ruled out surgery and plan

on taking the methadone for the rest of your life . . . seems mighty

rough for a young person, I agree. Not to mention that new

treatments are always coming along, why make a young person

dependent on methadone and then have them go through withdrawal? I

think they should restrict methadone Rx's to old folks, maybe 60+?

(Sorry if any of you out there take offense at being called " old " !

I'm 49 myself and not getting any younger!)

One of the things I hate the *most* about having a back problem is

the decisions you have to make, every single day, about whether you

should take your pain meds at the same level as yesterday, take more

of them, or take less of them. Day after day after day. Some days

I'm willing to tough it out and skip some. Other days, the least

little extra twinge--boom, I take a pill b/c I can't stand dealing

with it.

Just my personal pet peeve, I guess . . . I don't think anyone

should take a med that makes them feel sick, by the way.

in town, PA