Is your sleep situation solely a result of your back pain? Did you sleep in a more normal fashion before you had chronic back pain. Even if the answer is yes, you should seek a sleep therapist, a doctor who specializes in sleep disorders as there may be another factor involved. It may be that the pain medication is disturbing your sleep cycle - as well as the pain - and there may be an organic issue unrelated to the pain.
No, but I am addicted to educating individuals about the absurdity of our drug laws and the incredible harm they cause. I don't know the sentiment behind your post--whether it was to be a joke, or if you just wanted to say something impulsive. My aunt did have fibromyalgia, and spent a year in pain under those same misconcepts and guilt that she had in perhaps thinking she deserved something to rid her of her pain. She ultimately found a doctor, at my behest, and she is has her life back again. that 1.5 years ago. She still thanks me to this day---and she looks 10 years younger. Is she addicted to oxycontin? I could care less, nor should she. She is living a pain-free life and I would imagine very few can imagine what that is like if you have not suffered in that way.
because I wasn't intending to annoy you. I enjoy reading your posts. It really doesn't matter if if you are addicted. I appreciate your knowledge and openmindedness. I've taken oxy before, but there is a better pharm than that. I was once given a shot of a mysterious drug in hospital. It was the best high I've ever had, and made me go unconscious while they operated on me. It wasn't morphine, which I've had. I encourage you to discover this drug, or if you know what it is, to inform me of its name.
If you told me what your surgery was (you can be general about it....I don't need to know if you had a growth the size of a grapefruit removed from your back or something like that ) and what type of anesthetic you were given (general or local), I can tell you what it was. Many times they give you sodium pentothal when you get a general anesthetic. Often when there is just a local anesthetic given or a nueural block of some sort (like women delivering babies) they will give you demerol, a fairly strong opiate. I have had iv demerol once while in the hospital, and for three days I could just ring the nurse for another several mg in my iv tube....I remember it being an extremely present 3 days--considering I was in a hospital bed for 23.5 hours each of those days. So, yes, I do like opiates, and I also have taken them recreationally (i.e. old prescriptions). [They do a number on hangovers!] But, more importanly, opiates are very potent analgesics that people should have much easier access to and further, they should not feel guilty for trying to attain a pain-free life. Sure, I think Christopher Reeves is an inspiration, and if I was a quadraplegic I would probably read about him daily so I could be inspired and find my strength to keep going when I might want to quit. But there is no choice in that scenario. Plumlazy has a choice...he can feel normal again...he needs to throw away that destructive feeling of guilt, become empowered as to what is possible in the field of pain/analgesia and find the right doctor. Parker