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Topic: RE: How does having a severe mental illness affect surgery?
About crushing medication: Yes, according to what I was told, any medicaiton that you can't crush has to be changed. HOWEVER, most medicaitons take a while to get out of your system, and as in my case, you may be able to skip that medication until you are past the phase where you need to crush them. But to be sure, you need to talk to your psychiatrist about it, and you need to ask your surgeon about it as well, so you can know how long you would need to be off it.
Topic: RE: Don't be alone...
Thank you so much for sharing. I have been sober since 11-18-06 and altho not every day is rainbow and butterflies.. I have the courage and will and strength.. to chase them each and everyday. Sure meets laying on the couch sleeping off a hangover.. lol.
take care
Thank you so much for sharing. I have been sober since 11-18-06 and altho not every day is rainbow and butterflies.. I have the courage and will and strength.. to chase them each and everyday. Sure meets laying on the couch sleeping off a hangover.. lol.
take care
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
Topic: ~SPIRITUAL NOT RELIGIOUS~ A DAY AT A TIME
July 12 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
In many respects, the Fellowship of The Program is like a reasonably happy cruise ship or, in time of trouble, like a convoy. But in the long run each of us must chart his or her own course through life. When the seas are smooth, we may become careless. By neglecting Step Ten, we may get out of the habit of of checking our position. If we're mindful of Step Ten, however, then we rarely go so far wrong that we can't make a few corrections and get back on course again. DO I REALIZE THAT REGULAR PRACTICE OF STEP TEN CAN HELP ME DETERMINE WHAT OTHER STEP IS INDICATED TO BRING ME INTO A HAPPIER FRAME OF MIND AND INTO SERENITY?
TODAY I PRAY
May Step Ten be the sextant by which I read my whereabouts at sea, so that I can correct my course, rechart it if I am heading for shallow places. May I keep in mind that, if it weren't for an all-knowing Captain and the vigilance of my fellow crew members, this ship could be adrift and I could easily panic.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
To steer by a steady star.
The 10th Step: Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
Sites for AA, Alanon and Clean & Sober, Not Dead
http://www.aa.org/?Media=PlayFlash
http://www.al-anon.alateen.org/
http://www.cleanandsobernotdead.com/
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
Topic: RE: Addiction/Alcoholism and Physical Pain
Thanks for your sharing your experience.
I have had ulcers before and after my RNY. I did the Celebrex for a few months, and went off of it in the Spring because of pouch pain. I did take some Ultram when I broke my foot, and it helped with the pain, and I did not get high from it, or find it addictive. My rehab therapist had no problem with me taking it.
Since then, my psychiatrist put me on Cymbalta for my depression, hoping it would also deal with my physical pain, which it has helped immensely. I wish he had switched my meds back in October.
I will not take NSAIDS again, after this past winter. Thanks for the reminder.
Hugs,
Trish
I have had ulcers before and after my RNY. I did the Celebrex for a few months, and went off of it in the Spring because of pouch pain. I did take some Ultram when I broke my foot, and it helped with the pain, and I did not get high from it, or find it addictive. My rehab therapist had no problem with me taking it.
Since then, my psychiatrist put me on Cymbalta for my depression, hoping it would also deal with my physical pain, which it has helped immensely. I wish he had switched my meds back in October.
I will not take NSAIDS again, after this past winter. Thanks for the reminder.
Hugs,
Trish
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer
Topic: RE: Don't be alone...
way to go girl!!
two days after my surgery I had a very large bottle of Lortab!! It was talking to me!! I didn't need it so I threw it away!! Addiction is a ***** and has to be first on our list to take care of. With out sobriety we have nothing!!! (Now I have sobriety and a BAND!!!!)
Send me a message if you need to talk.
Big Hugs, Leslie
two days after my surgery I had a very large bottle of Lortab!! It was talking to me!! I didn't need it so I threw it away!! Addiction is a ***** and has to be first on our list to take care of. With out sobriety we have nothing!!! (Now I have sobriety and a BAND!!!!)
Send me a message if you need to talk.
Big Hugs, Leslie
a person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it
HW 274/pre-op 266/NW210/GW160 5' 8"
Topic: RE: Grateful Post..
For today, Saturday, I am grateful for...
My sobriety
My kids
My health
My friends
My family
Even though my husband got laid off on Wednesday, I am grateful that we have insurance for 3 months and 6 months salary...the other guy that got laid off has lung cancer...we have NO problems.
I am just grateful to be at a point in my life where I realize that there is so much to be grateful for!
Susan
My sobriety
My kids
My health
My friends
My family
Even though my husband got laid off on Wednesday, I am grateful that we have insurance for 3 months and 6 months salary...the other guy that got laid off has lung cancer...we have NO problems.
I am just grateful to be at a point in my life where I realize that there is so much to be grateful for!
Susan
Topic: Don't be alone...
I became sober on 4.10.08 and for 90 days I made 90 meetings...I had a sponsor, I stayed sober, I quit going to meetings. Fast forward to last week...I'm in Colorado with my daughter and her softball team and the hotel has a happy hour and there are at least 5 bottles of open wine. For the first time since 4.10.08, I thought "who would know?"....I would know. Long story short, I'm back at meetings, got a new sponsor with almost 31 years of sobriety and a new attitude. I'm ready to do the work now...I wasn't before. It helps that I've been in therapy for almost 4 months so I've been working on issues but now is the time to slay this dragon.
I found that I was isolating myself like I did when I was drinking...well, without wine sitting in front of the TV is just not the way to live anymore! lol. I'm out...I'm looking for a job...I'm with friends and I hear "I love you" every day if not several times a day and to me that's important. More importantly, I am helping others and what a difference that makes.
I wish all of you that are in the same place as me, the bravery, the strength to ask for help because it is out there....those women who have been there for me for 17+ months are my "Earth Angels"...pm me if you need me!
Susan
I found that I was isolating myself like I did when I was drinking...well, without wine sitting in front of the TV is just not the way to live anymore! lol. I'm out...I'm looking for a job...I'm with friends and I hear "I love you" every day if not several times a day and to me that's important. More importantly, I am helping others and what a difference that makes.
I wish all of you that are in the same place as me, the bravery, the strength to ask for help because it is out there....those women who have been there for me for 17+ months are my "Earth Angels"...pm me if you need me!
Susan
Topic: RE: Addiction/Alcoholism and Physical Pain
Don't know if you are still looking for an answer to this, if not, there may come a day in the future that you may need to know again. 
I have the same problem...past opioid addiction but I also have pain from multiple things.....abdominal scar tissue, sciatica from herniated disc, major dental work, etc. You get the picture. I REFUSE to hurt unnecessarily so I also took the occasional NSAID thinking it would be okay as long as I protected my pouch, I always took a Zantac plus my Protonix for GERD. Well last Thanksgiving I almost died from a bleeding ulcer cause by those "occasional" NSAID's, I spent 2 weeks including Thanksgiving in the hospital. I begged my Dr to let me go home and I would come back the next day, his answer was "No Angie, you wont live that long if I let you leave this hospital." My labs were basically nonexistent.
Since Nov 2008, I have been rushed to the ER and admitted for various reasons (twisted intestine a couple of times, most of the time it is for a blockage) anywhere from 6 days to 2 weeks, approx 11 times, with my last admittance being May 2009 (knock on wood I continue to have no further problems)
Please y'all think twice before you take that occasional NSAID, even though people tell you its ok and even your surgeon might tell you "yea its okay as long as you don't take them often"....mine told me the same thing. After I came that close to death he said he would never tell another patient that ever again. I'm not sure who it scared more.
I have been taking Ultracet 3x day everyday since April for my stomach problems caused by the NSAIDS's and I have no problems, it controls my pain and I have no desire to abuse it because I get no "high" from it. I also on occasion stop taking it for a few days just to be sure I won't have any withdrawls from it and I haven't. Ultracet is a combination of 2 meds, Tramadol and Tylenol. Tramadol is sometimes mistakenly classified as an opiate because of its agonist activity at the μ-opioid receptor; however, chemically it is not related to opiates.
Here are some related articles for you. There is a great debate over weather or not people with past drug dependencies should take Ultracet so I am speaking from my own personal experience of course and am in no way saying you will have the exact same result that I have.
Best of Luck to you!!
Angela in Mississippi
39 years young
Lap RNY Jan 26, 2003
Dr Michael King
230/120
Only problem's have been my stupidity using NSAID's
Here are those articles....
I have the same problem...past opioid addiction but I also have pain from multiple things.....abdominal scar tissue, sciatica from herniated disc, major dental work, etc. You get the picture. I REFUSE to hurt unnecessarily so I also took the occasional NSAID thinking it would be okay as long as I protected my pouch, I always took a Zantac plus my Protonix for GERD. Well last Thanksgiving I almost died from a bleeding ulcer cause by those "occasional" NSAID's, I spent 2 weeks including Thanksgiving in the hospital. I begged my Dr to let me go home and I would come back the next day, his answer was "No Angie, you wont live that long if I let you leave this hospital." My labs were basically nonexistent.
Since Nov 2008, I have been rushed to the ER and admitted for various reasons (twisted intestine a couple of times, most of the time it is for a blockage) anywhere from 6 days to 2 weeks, approx 11 times, with my last admittance being May 2009 (knock on wood I continue to have no further problems)
Please y'all think twice before you take that occasional NSAID, even though people tell you its ok and even your surgeon might tell you "yea its okay as long as you don't take them often"....mine told me the same thing. After I came that close to death he said he would never tell another patient that ever again. I'm not sure who it scared more.
I have been taking Ultracet 3x day everyday since April for my stomach problems caused by the NSAIDS's and I have no problems, it controls my pain and I have no desire to abuse it because I get no "high" from it. I also on occasion stop taking it for a few days just to be sure I won't have any withdrawls from it and I haven't. Ultracet is a combination of 2 meds, Tramadol and Tylenol. Tramadol is sometimes mistakenly classified as an opiate because of its agonist activity at the μ-opioid receptor; however, chemically it is not related to opiates.
Here are some related articles for you. There is a great debate over weather or not people with past drug dependencies should take Ultracet so I am speaking from my own personal experience of course and am in no way saying you will have the exact same result that I have.
Best of Luck to you!!
Angela in Mississippi
39 years young
Lap RNY Jan 26, 2003
Dr Michael King
230/120
Only problem's have been my stupidity using NSAID's
Here are those articles....
1. The use of tramadol for acute heroin withdrawal has been compared to clonidine. The preliminary study indicates that tramadol is more effective in managing withdrawal than clonidine, and may be especially useful in outpatient detoxification.
2. Tramadol's chemical structure is quite different from those of opiates. Topic: RE: Adderal XR
I didn't take take Adderall preop. I had the Lap RNY on Jan 26 2003 and I started Adderall 10mg 3x day in 2005. Took it for about a year then stopped. I was put back on it about 8 months ago but given XR 30 mg QD which gave me HORRIBLE headaches so we went back to Adderall 10mg 3x day and I'm doing great!!
Good Luck to you!!
Hugs!!
Angela in Mississippi
Dr Michael King Oxford, Ms
Lap RNY Jan 28 2003
230/120
Good Luck to you!!
Hugs!!
Angela in Mississippi
Dr Michael King Oxford, Ms
Lap RNY Jan 28 2003
230/120
Topic: RE: My DAD is making things worse....
NO PROB YOU NEED TO VENT SO ANY TIME YOU NEED SUPPORT YOU LOOK FOR ALL OF US HERE WE WILL SUPPORT YOU BECAUSE WE ALL NEED SUPPORT AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER GOOD LUCK AND BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND LOVE YOURSELF AND ABOVE ALL SMILE IT MAKES YOUR DAY GO BETTER 
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