Author: Draper7734

Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 11:22 pm

I hope I remembered your name right. My short-term memory seems to be gone from these drugs. Your reply was very helpful and useful, I will print it out and take it with me to any appointment I am able to get. Right now, I have no idea how much pain I am in-the Tramadol is exacerbating the pain n order to get me to take more, same thing the Hydrocodone did. These drugs have a "mind of their own" and it’s a devious evil mind.

I am actually afraid of and avoiding the pain of withdrawal. I’ve done it twice and it was the most Hellacious experience of my life. It also took me about a month, not three days, maybe because of my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Then each time I went back to the painkillers anyway.

If I could only go back to my 2006 self and warn myself about what I was getting into when I accepted the prescription for Hydrocodone, it would be so different. If only the doctor prescribed OxyContin, even, I would have known what it was and just stopped taking it after a few days. But, I had no idea what Lortab was and my brain was, literally, injured from the car accident. I was in no shape to research it myself.

I’ll never understand why doctors prescribe this stuff knowing their patients will always get addicted and need more and more or go through withdrawal, and in the process suffer so much and lose big chunks of their life. Taking those pills is like swallowing a bit of a curse that grows overtime into a full-blown crisis.