Posted by shelliR on March 14, 2002, at 0:21:08
In reply to Re: sidetrack from Addiction » shelliR, posted by Lorraine on March 12, 2002, at 10:09:07
Hi Lorraine,
Thanks for any and all advice.
I may look into pain centers, although I think I found a new pdoc who will proscribe bupe, but I think I
don’t want to start the intranasal stuff so I will continue to get it off the internet until it becomes FDA approved here. If I
can get documentation that he can proscribe it for pain now; just not for detox, I could probably get it overseas a lot cheaper with a script.
What is with these pdocs <mine and reese's> thinking they can't proscribe it for pain?I am interested to receive a copy of an article my father is sending me about pain, because it has a list of reputable pain centers throughout the country, including one at NIH.
It's so hard to differentiate everything. hormones, possible viruses, etc. And then I think well nardil and lacimtal helped last year (the year before?, until I decided (maybe foolishly) that I couldn't tolerate the weight gain/water retention. So I am trying lamictal again. Do you go for the root cause, or do you medicate the symptoms by using a mood stabilizer, AD, or whatever?
Life is short <at this age, anyway> and I haven't started that route getting all the tests, etc. One reason that I couldn't go further along that route (like the Hedaya route) was that I've already been tested by an osteopath, and he found that I'm allergic to everything-wheat, dairy, sugar and all sugar substitutes, actually almost everything I normally eat. I'm a vegetarian, so I can't, for instance, fill myself up with a lot of free-roaming, antibiotic free chicken. I was having a hard time finding anything to eat--I don't love vegetables and fruit was out.
What are you doing about food restrictions?
If I didn't believe that I'll have to go up on dose eventually, and if I felt that everyone wasn't treating me like a criminal, the buprenorphine is great. I don't hurt and I don't feel drugged. (Actually sometimes I wish I did feel drugged; what I went through would maybe feel less confusing and awful.) It also gets rid of all my premenstual pain, nausea and depression.
Anyway, I do think the cause vs. the treatment is important. Most people on this board who have FMS or CFS, seem to be in a lot of pain and that may also lead them to opiates. So does the diagnosis really matter? On the other hand, I admire the systematic way you've gone about looking for an answer, as well as treatment, for your fatigue and depression.
So is provigal still front and center?
Let me know how you're doing,
Shelli
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