Kosability: Chronic Pain: Dark Journey

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Wednesday May 09, 2012 · 2:00 PM PDT

2012/05/09 · 14:00

My initial diagnosis of fibromyalgia came about 7 years ago and came hand in hand with a number of old spinal injuries that had turned chronic. When pain first invaded my life my initial reaction was to get rid of it. By any means. So I walked around in an opioid stupor for at least a year or so. Oh yes, I was and am on Lyrica. My journey took a wrong turn when I was put on Cymbalta way back in the beginning. It took at least 2 years for me to realize that the constant sickness, jangled nerves, severe sweats that would last for days, weakness and even horrid nightmares were due to the Cymbalta, so I tried to stop the drug on my own. Who knew that a mood drug ("...depression hurts, Cymbalta can help") could have such terrible side effects and even worse withdrawl? I don't even know what it did for the fibro pain; all I knew was that the 'devil drug' had to go. After suffering for months trying to come off of Cymbalta I finally begged the Dr for Lexapro, which I never had an aversion for.

After dumping the Cymbalta and giving my body enough time to get over that whole episode it was time to take stock of meds (less is more) and the pain. It was time to decide that some opioids were going to be necessary to control the spinal issues and I have the Lyrica for the fibro. Even with all of that, my pain levels are barely manageable. My Rheumatologist told me that Lyrica alone probably won't completely control the fibro, and she was right; it hasn't. So I was left at the end of my med journey and left with chronic everyday knock 'em out pain.

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What's the best way to deal with chronic pain?

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What's the best way to deal with chronic pain?

Gimme those opioids and keep 'em coming

8 votes

Research and ask for new meds like Cymbalta

3 votes

Try alternative medicine techniques

6 votes

Stay on the couch, reducing physical activity

1 vote

Increasing physical activity, taking charge to prevent atrophy

12 votes

Pie

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Limbaugh, Robertson suffer Gasbag Projection Disorder

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Thursday January 21, 2010 · 7:26 AM PST

2010/01/21 · 07:26

Haiti. I, like many millions of others on our planet have looked at/watched/read everything I could on Haiti. Even the stuff that has dire warnings like 'if you look at this stuff your eyes may burn out of your head'. I'd like to think that many if not most adults in the US are looking too. Judging by the monetary response, most people are very moved by the abject suffering.

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Tuesday October 13, 2009 · 8:07 AM PDT

2009/10/13 · 08:07

This weekend on Alternet, Jonathan L. Walton penned an incredible piece on Racism Rising in the current ugly underbelly of the GOP, "Why Conservatives Are Really Afraid of a Black President". The article sees their racism less as about Obama's Blackness, but more about their Whiteness. Why do they rant and rail against Obama, accusing him of every 'ism their fevered brains could muster? Simple:

The president reminds Glenn Beck, and those who identify with his white neo-nationalism, of the lie of their own professed superiority.

Now I don't profess to have any clue on this subject. I'm a middle aged white woman just trying to understand all the ugly coming from the right. It bothers me. It niggles at me that my own conservative brother is in denial about the true nature of the right who 'protest too much'. I find it difficult to understand the mindset of their racism, and this article brought it into clear focus for me. If I can understand it, well, it's a darn good article and well worth your time.

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Friday December 22, 2006 · 7:20 AM PST

2006/12/22 · 07:20

The T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas (on the outskirts of Austin, Texas) is a private detention facility operated by Corrections Corporation of America. It and a smaller center in Pennsylvania are the only two facilities in the country that are authorized to hold non-Mexican immigrant families and children on noncriminal charges.

That's right, we are now imprisoning children, forcing them to wear jail uniforms and identity badges. Land of the Free.

Not to worry, though. The imprisoned children do get instruction daily; if you count one hour of English as actual instruction. They also get, out the goodness of Chertoff's black heart, one half hour of recreational activity, indoors, daily.

Even infants have to wear identity badges. Home of the Brave.

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Tuesday February 07, 2006 · 9:53 AM PST

2006/02/07 · 09:53

When the most recent unemployment numbers came out they had an aroma about them that spoke of being over cooked. While apathy still reigns in a vast number of Americans on such things as appointing extremists to the Supreme Court, or allowing Bush to wiretap our phones, the public remains realisticly pessimistic about the economy. I found those numbers that said that unemployment has dropped sounded like a lot of bull so I started poking around.

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Ted Kennedy's Health Care Plan

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Wednesday February 01, 2006 · 6:51 AM PST

2006/02/01 · 06:51

"MEDICARE FOR ALL" WILL SAVE BILLIONS AND GIVE ALL AMERICANS THE CARE THEY NEED

Washington, DC: Today, as President Bush focuses on health care in his State of the Union address after ignoring it for five years, Senator Kennedy will put forward real health care reform that would give quality affordable health care for all Americans. America's health care system is the most economically inefficient in the industrial world. Kennedy's plan would fix our fractured system of care, by extending Medicare to all Americans, from birth to the end of life, while allowing any American who wishes to stay in their current employer-sponsored plan to do so. Under Kennedy's bill, employers can tailor their health plans to provide additional services to their employees that wrap around Medicare coverage.

While doing a search yesterday, I accidentally came across this article in the American Chronicle and was floored. How come we haven't heard a peep about this? Read More

Gonzales's Memo: Even MORE Power for Bush

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Wednesday January 25, 2006 · 5:03 PM PST

2006/01/25 · 17:03

Recently Attorney General Gonzales released a 42 page legal memo to defend Bush's domestic spying program. It seems as if he included a memo that says that Bush doesn't need the Patriot act to continue enhanced surveillance techniques against any terror suspects in the US. Turns out he already had that authority from Congress' OK to use force.

Who knew?

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Oops! US trained Iraqi Death Squads now Iranian tools

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Tuesday December 13, 2005 · 9:51 AM PST

2005/12/13 · 09:51

The Bush legacy is one that just keeps on giving... or handing out punishment, depending on your point of view. There have been some pretty well documented accusations that Bush has quietly set up militias in Iraq to deal with the insurgency, a la El Salvador in the 80's. These government militias are death squads, plain and simple, funded, trained and equipped by the US. The plan was supposedly that these militias could go in and brutally root out members of the insurgency by the hundreds where they live and operate. The fact that this technique often misses the mark and hits innocent Iraqis is obviously an acceptable glitch to US planners. Government militias pick up hapless Sunnis, whisk them away to be tortured, and hundreds then turn up dead in Iraqi rivers, alleys, and countryside. These troops trained by the US use electric shock, skin their victims alive and use electric drills, among other lovely techniques. Read More

The Squeeze is on

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Monday August 29, 2005 · 7:15 AM PDT

2005/08/29 · 07:15

August has not been good to Republicans. Poll numbers are lower than dirt, protestors are dogging Bush like fleas on an old dog and that flushing sound you hear is Iraq's Constitution being trashed by sectarian fighting. Iran, however, loves the fact that another Islamic state is being born.

So what do you suppose Congress will be up to upon their return from summer vacations? How about this for starters:

Critical Votes Loom For Hill Republicans
Party to Set Cuts to Entitlement Spending

By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 28, 2005; A04

Lawmakers are drafting proposals that would cut billions of dollars from the growth of Medicaid, slice into student loans just as students return to college, pare back food stamps and trim farm price supports in the midst of a midwestern drought.

[emphasis mine]

Sigh... here we go again.
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Stealth Extremism: Roberts the Federalist

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Wednesday July 27, 2005 · 11:07 AM PDT

2005/07/27 · 11:07

Is he or isn't he? Only his secret cohorts know for sure. Roberts' non-denial denial of belonging to the Federalist Society bodes ill for the health of our judiciary once he's ensconced on the Supreme Court of the United States. Democracy Now! did an interview with John Ross, the man who uncovered Roberts' membership and involvement with the Federalists. I didn't know anything about the Federalists, but what I learned in the last day or so has frightened me to my core. Read More

Timing Devices Found, Unexploded Bombs Rumoured

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Thursday July 07, 2005 · 9:37 PM PDT

2005/07/07 · 21:37

In what appears to be the first major break in the London terrorist attacks, U.S. authorities tell ABC News that police in London have recovered key parts of the timing devices that set off the bombs, suggesting they were planted in packages or bags and left behind.

There also are reports that police may have discovered two unexploded bombs as they sifted through the wreckage of the four bombs that did go off. At least several dozen people were killed in the attacks, and hundreds of others were injured while traveling on subways and a double-decker bus. Scotland Yard has denied finding undetonated explosive devices in the wreckage.

The authorities believe that all four bombs were detonated by timing devices. Read More

Civil War in Iraq State Sponsored?

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Wednesday June 15, 2005 · 10:41 AM PDT

2005/06/15 · 10:41

In a June 10 Iraq Dispatch, Dahr Jamail reports that at a June 9 conference in Baghdad, the head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq , Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, announced not only gratitude to the Badr militia, but officially gave them a place in Iraqi security.

The Badr Organization (formerly known as the Badr Brigade) was formed by al-Hakim's brother in the `80's to fight Saddam Hussein. It has long since received funding and other "support" from Iran.

While civilians in Fallujah, Mosul, Ramadi, Baquba, Baghdad, Haditha and other cities in Iraq continue to complain of being beaten, looted and humiliated by the members of the Iraqi Army who are members of both the Badr Organization and Kurdish Peshmerga, these militias now have the overt backing of the interim Iraqi "government."

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