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Current Medication Medication Reactions

Round and Round, Up and Down, Highs and Lows.

I don’t know if it was just the bad timing of my son being taken into hospital causing a lack of sleep (and an increase in stress), but switching back to tablets again caused massive problems for me today. I felt like a complete jibbering wreck when I got home from the hospital at 10.30am […]

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Current Medication Medication

Ripping the Patches Off

Sheesh, Fentanyl patches eh? Will be a lot better than pills right? Less side effects they say? You’ll have less problems? Try pulling the other one.  Two days into the patch and I ripped the damn thing off. I have not fell as ill as I did Sunday morning for a long time. Stomach pains, […]

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Current Medication Medication

Starting on Fentanyl Patches

Image via Wikipedia Ever since moving back from the US I have always resisted narcotic based medications. After my last operation, I’d been placed on Oxycontin and Oxynorm, but I have been having a bucket load of complications with those. So today I started on Fentanyl Patches and we’ll see what happens. Personally, I don’t […]

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History My Story

Another whining moaning hypochondriac? So Just What is Acute Pain?

Whining and moaning? Yes, maybe.
Hypochondriac? No. I prefer to say “misunderstood”.
I’ve have though decided to do something about it since it recently occurred to me that I don’t have a choice. I was literally going crazy with all that was going on in my life as my wife (also known locally here as ‘the angel’), will verify.

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General

First of Many

The first post…