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Originally Posted by Stagebear  Well, perhaps better to be labeled a junkie than be labeled with a toe tag in the morgue...
However, that said, whether or not you feel labeled, you have to tell your docs. Keeping that avenue open, at least for me, would spell disaster.
And I also have chronic pain and am a cancer survivor. You wanna hear sucky? I can't even take ibuprofen b/c I am on blood thinners. But it is what it is and I am where I am because of my own bad decisions.
So, again, tell someone. Going at this alone is not easy. |
Ok, I'll give ya that, Bear, I don't want to end up dead - at least not yet.
I gotta do something. I'm trying to work up the cajones to call my NP today and skirt around the issue until she figures it out (she knows me a little too well now) and then admit nothing. No really though, I am trying to work myself up to talk to her about it. I can't talk to my pain guy about it, at least not yet. He would stop prescribing immediately if he knew what I was doing with it.
Glad to hear that you beat the cancer. How long have you been cancer-free? That does suck that you can't even take ib, what about tylenol? What do you do for your pain?
I did tell someone... all y'all. Its a start.