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??? I thought I'd come to the wrong forum here! Are we an online pharmacy discussion board now, lol?
Well seen you're in the US - here the drugs are dihydrocodeine rather than vicodin, but the same scenario exists, ie doctors are so frightened of anything with the possibility of addiction they'll let you suffer pain. Not my GP, but I must have one in a million. I suffer from rheumatoid arthritis and get unrestricted access to dhc, which is a hydrocodone based drug.
Well, it's not a pharmacy board, but from time to time things come up. I know of the drug you're on, it's not the exact same but very very similar. I haven't ever seen it in the US so I think it may be either something not given out to often, or possibly not at all.
Heh, almost everyone in my family has RA to the point that I worry about their livers. Dr's don't give out anything useful so they generally are stuck with ibuprofin based stuff like Motrin which of course kills your insides slowly or one of my Aunts who thinks Aspirin is safe....
I already have symptoms of Carpal tunnel and RA and I'm only 24. I know a keyboard and mouse isn't exactly helping, but seriously no one gives up hobbies because they might get hurt or biking and snow boarding sports wouldn't exist.
I don't know your age but I'm thinking you're a lot older than me or a Dr would most likely have given you anti inflammitory meds which usually have me in the ER being monitored for breathing problems while they try to get my skin to go back to a normal color heh.
And of course, making your probably non existent problem of internal bleeding a real one lol. Gotta love the safety standards of medicine these days. If it might kill you, it's OK as long as no one abuses it for a high, but if it's safe as Tylenol and some people say they kinda like the feeling, bang, no more for anyone unless they're dying.
Only had to make that trip a few times before they finally put it in my file that I can't touch those.
There are only two Drs I've seen who generally will help if they know you're not faking it. They don't just hand out whatever you want but they will at least give you something so you can walk without hobbling.
Anyway, as I said this topic has come up a few times and generally as long as it doesn't get out of hand there isn't much of a problem unless some SxE dork comes on to whine about it.
Sometimes hackerss want to "right" a received "wrong". For instance Half Life 2 and Steam. Steam being a network created by Valve and Half Life 2 a game created by the same. These things replaced Half Life and it's l337 multilayer game mods like TFC (Team Fortress Classic) with newer bloated and tighter controlled server versions. But most importantly it replaced WON, the World Opponent Network with Steam. This created havoc in the universe of about 4000 game servers. FREE game servers. So hackers united in due cause and hacked the protocols to create the next best thing... WON2.
All rejoiced and ate cup cakes.
I like cup cakes. It's an "I;m still fat even though I dropped like 40 pounds" thing. :)
Gore, I'm no doubt a lot older than you, but not quite in my dotage, and certainly not too old for NSAIDs. FYI, I take methotrexate for the RA, which is a very toxic drug, used in chemotherapy. It's an immunosuppressant, since RA is basically an immune disease, ie it's your immune system gone haywire and attacking its own joints. I also take lodine, a prescription only NSAID, which is sustained release and I have something to protect my stomach from the side effects you mentioned.
Other than that I take gabapentin which is actually an anti convulscent, a new drug which has been found to have pain relieving properties, ie it changes the way your body perceives pain, also acting as a mood stabiliser, reducing the likelihood of feeling depressed through being in constant unremitting pain. When things get too bad, I also take steroids or have local steroid injections into my wrists.
Good God how do you handle the needles? I got the shot into my knee once and the Dr didn't freeze it right so I felt the whole thing. The next day I was in the ER bright red like the Kool aid man being treated for a bad allergic reaction and adding a new anti inflammitory to the list of no no drugs heh. Would'nt be so bad if they would have listened but I guess it takes me almost not breathing at all to make them understand.
I can't imagine the stomache cramps from what you listed. I get horrid stomache cramps from just about every one of the NSAIDs they've tried me on, which is all of them heh. That doesn't include the bright red skin and not normal breathing either.
Well, steroid injections aren't pleasant - they go in with local anaesthetic, but it's still trying to get a large amount of liquid into a space too small to contain it basically. However, they work like magic and when I'm in that much pain, I'll take it.
The stuff I take to protect my stomach allows me to tolerate the NSAIDs very well - it cuts down on stomach acid which is what causes ulcers etc from the anti inflammatories. Without it I would suffer, as I've had a stomach ulcer once caused by some anti inflammatory called Naproxin I think it was.
LOL, now we are turning into an online pharmacy board :D
Actually... the last time I went out and maliciously "hacked" something... It was cause I was broke and wanted a sandwich.
I once told phishphreek that I wanted to own the automated ticket machine at the local theater. I had no intent of destroying, I only wished to force my "36739" digits onto each ticket. 36739 is 9x by the way for those who know anything about fones.
I had a friend who aspired to put a snippet of his signature onto a space shuttle, so his code could go to outerspace. Nothing destructive, just something that lives on I suppose; almost purpose in a private sort of satisfaction. To be able to say, "I made this happen, even though it was not supposed to function that way."
It is what it is, and it never was anything destructive.
What did you do, kick the hell out of a vending machine? :DQuote:
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