Comments on: I Take Drugs

By: JD

JD — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:45:38 +0000

old hippie Gemma: YAY! I love your attitude, you old hippie! Thanks so much for stopping by. Yes, drugs, Bikram, and also Rolfing have all kept me from pretty much giving up, so I am grateful for them all. But especially the drugs. KIDDING! No, I’m not. But yeah, I don’t think a lot of people really understand the type of pain involved here. And I hope they never do. A good attitude helps, as well, and it sounds like you have that in spades. Best of luck to you, and thanks again for writing.

By: old hippie Gemma

old hippie Gemma — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:41:24 +0000

Hey JD:
I saw you mention in one of your blogs that you had herniated discs. I too have five ruptured lumbar discs. The pain is freakin’ excruciating unless I am on drugs (legal like yours). Of course you and I will probably have to have surgery at some point but my Neurosurgeon told me to try to hold off as long as is humanly possible. The recovery from spinal fusion is almost a freakin’ year. There are many judgmental people out there who think we should “suck it up” but I’d like to see them feel the kind of pain we have 24/7 for even a second! Who’s the big guy then, I ask? It’s great that you are doing Bikram Yoga because that happens to be the ONLY thing other than morphine and vicodin that helps me at all. I’m glad you are not afraid to blog about stuff like this; there are alot of us out there who don’t give a CRAP whether we are “dependent” on pills; I’m upright, aint I? Big whoop.

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:37:53 +0000

There are so many negative side effects that I stay as far away from them as possible.
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By: Buy Multivitamins

Buy Multivitamins — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:13:14 +0000

I get horrible headachs and my doctor has given me medication and it is not working. Do you have any advice on certain medications I could take or anything natural that may help?

By: JD

JD — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:59:21 +0000

Diana: I’m sorry to hear you’re a pill-head, too. The image (thanks for asking) is more or less mine. It belongs to my husband’s graphic arts collection. I’ve never had to credit the source, so feel free to use it. It’s a fun one, isn’t it! Good luck with your own giant pill bottle!

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:50:30 +0000

Heya, JD…

I too have to take a boatload of meds. Ain’t it fun? Seriously, though, I sure can empathize ’cause I’m there. Five meds for illness “x”. three for illness “y”, and so forth and so on.

I sure hope you don’t mind my linking to the woman/pill bottle image at the top of this post. It fit today’s blog perfectly. (If it is not your image, please let me know whose it is so I can get an OK from him/her.) Thanks mucho.

Diana

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By: Kris

Kris — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:19:49 +0000

Thanks for the good work guys,i am glad to see finally what you have been working on all these months

By: Stephanie Barr

Stephanie Barr — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:25:34 +0000

Glad you're doing this for me. I take as few pills as I can get away with and I've had a dozen prescriptions for vicodin I've never taken. Of course, after the botched epidural when my youngest was born, I would have HAPPILY taken one then for the five day spinal headache. But, this one and only time, no one gave me a prescription. Stephanie Barr's last blog post..What do you know about tin whiskers?

By: mlm

mlm — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:03:27 +0000

The ad was for Southwest Airlines. They had a whole campaign based on hilarious ads like that…