Makes those anxious new parents seem positively adorable, doesn’t it?
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I would imagine that all this drug use over time would’ve caused his insomnia, wouldn’t it, or at least made it worse. (It sounds like he’s been doing this since he was a teenager.)
Many of the drugs he’s on can have a rebound effect, even after (or especially after) years of use. It’s like the people trying to get off Afrin; they use it, have great success, but over time the space between needing a dose gets shorter and shorter, until they’re using it all the time and their symptoms are just getting worse and worse.
The mixing of multiple drug classes with alcohol would definitely make the insomnia worse. Something tells me he wasn’t completely up front with his doctors about the extent of his alcohol use.
What you think is your problem, not mine. Accusations of deliberate mis-use of prescription drugs should be either backed up or withdrawn
The OP has been asked and as answered as it is going to get.
Before anyone else offers an “opinion” which charges me with a felony, I will ask this thread be put out of its misery.
But - feel free to take this to the Pit and call me all the names you want.
usedtobe - drug seeking addict with undiagnosed psychiatric problems.
Something tells me you are talking out of your ass and are not qualified to offer an opinion.
Yeah, I’m actually going to believe you when you say you were completely honest about allegedly mixing “Cheap beer (Old Milwaulkee was $1.29 cold)” and “100 proof Stoli” plus Unisoms with your other medications for almost 30 years and your doctors had no problem with it. Uh huh.
Fortunately my problems (and I have some of course) have nothing to do with what I think about your posts and are fairly minor, and the interest I have in this thread has become learning from the other healthcare professionals about dealing with dysfunctional patients with your pathology as a case example.
Your posts are my cites for what I have stated otherwise. It is understood that you believe that your behaviors, your self-medication, and posts have all been completely sane, rational, and appropriate. The rest of us are, to your view of reality, just idiots, and your doctors are servants who should just do what you tell them to do.
I don’t know, I’d probably rather be woken up by creaking steps than have to deal with the stench of piss in the bushes. But that’s just me.
Dude, seriously – I’m not an expert, but one thing I have heard, multiple times, is that sleeping pills can actually contribute to insomnia. If you WERE weaned off of them, eventually you most likely wouldn’t need them, or at least, not all the time, and not nearly as high a dose.
Why do you refuse to take any personal responsibility for the state of your kidneys? You like to portray yourself as a very informed, educated patient, yet you apparently were happy to continue to use the morphine and never even ask about the long term effects it might have on your kidneys. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t consider yourself to be an educated, involved patient but at the same time claim total and utter ignorance of what was happening to you.
Thread from 2014 - DEA clampdown, morphine is cut, and the OP is told in that thread how very, very bad morphine is for CKD. AND is told repeatedly to find a pain management specialist.
Interesting:
So he saw this coming and had decided to stick it out because she was ‘over-generous’ and he didn’t want to desert her.
I think the only “qualification” needed to give such an opinion is literacy.
i called approx 5 local “Pain Practices”.
For some reason, they declined to treat a 67 yr old male with kidney failure and relying on morphine overdoes for pain control. on Medicare.
Referred by hack MD.
Surprising.
The duty to find equivalent treatment lay with her, not me. Her instruction was oral, not a prescription.
Mayhaps you should do a bit of research before challenging.
So I see you’re still alive. At least there’s that.
p.S - 4/22/17 - rebound bradycardia occasioned by Acute Kidney Failure 2/16/17.
Now do I get to be angry?
I do not demand specific meds. I demand relief from OA and lifelong, continuous insomnia.
Given my extreme problems fulfilling these requirements, I DO research and track meds.
I have never demanded continuation of a drug - I require effective relief from symptoms; I tweak meds approx once per yr.
Hey! - this time I got the window bed!
There’s that!
I must retire; bed calls.
Found new more friendly sleeper (marginal at best. surprise.).
Given extreme fatigue, it may work tonight.
Med range plan - leave CA. Tired of fighting for my freedom under a law which is questionable at best. CA 1550 - See!
You were sectioned? Color me surprised (not).
So tell us about your meeting with the lawyer and how your case for medical abandonment is going?