RecklessEric

I was reading along, hoping you'd say this, AND YOU DID!!

Good for you, BullDog. You're worth too much to take $h!t from people.

Stayingsassy

I hope you’re feeling better after those kidney stones! What in the world did you do to get through them? I hope if the pain was bad, you took the meds. I know it’s a sticky wicket in addiction, but I think as long as they don’t give us refills, and just treat during the episode, well, that’s what they are there for.

Sounds like you have wrestled that food addiction to the ground. Well done. It’s a beast, I tell you. I’ll get it some day.

Know what you mean, alcohol just isn’t a consideration, it’s a nonissue. It’s weird how something that controlled my life is a nonissue. I’d have laughed my head off if someone ever suggested to me that I wouldn’t care about booze anymore.

Hope you’re healed up.

BullDog777

When I got to the ER, I told them I was a recovering drunk and pill head and they went to work on me. They gave me morphine when I was there to keep my vitals down and something to dialate my kidney tubes so the stones would pass easier.

I'm not sure how it is for a woman, but the most painful part for a dude is when the stone is going from the kidney down the tube into the bladder. Fortunately, I was in the ER when that happened. So by the time I left, I was feeling a lot better.

They sent me home with Oxys, but I gave them to my wife and never took any. There was very little pain so I took Ibuprofen. I'm not sure how many of the stones I've passed, but i'm not pi$$ing blood anymore so that's good.

I'm taking it slow...hopefully in a few more days, I'l be back to walking the dog.

Stayingsassy

How many Oxys did they give you? This is how we create drug addicts. You tell them you are a recovering drunk and pill head and they send you home with drugs.

The morphine during is needed. Maybe less than five oxys in case it lingers a bit. But typically that pain passes once the stones do.

You’re strong and on top of your sobriety, so you hand them to the wife and you’re good. Someone else newer in recovery could fall down a giant black hole just with one episode of kidney stones and a bottle of pills.

BullDog777

they gave me 30 and 1 refill. The MRI they took showed 4 or 5 stones on my right and 2 in my left. They weren't big or else I would have had to have surgery while I was there. I think the biggest one was 4mm or so. My wife knows better than I do.

I agree...this could have been a clusterf$Ck for a lot of people. I don't think pill addiction is understood very well in the majority of doctors that aren't addiction specialists.

My pills of choice were always benzos. I didn't like opiates because they made me violently ill every time I took them. Ie: vomiting and horrible stomach issues.

That being said, and as long as it's been, I don't like the way being doped up feels. I was nauseous for days after I got back from the ER and I couldn't crap either. That F'ing sucks. That's from the morphine I got in the ER. I wasn't about to start on the pills after I was so sick from the ER because I know they do the same thing.

So...ibruprofen is where it's at and where it will stay as long as I'm not going into shock from pain.

Everything else is going pretty good. I'm just binge watching Netflix for the next few days. I was working so much before this happened, I was getting burned out. I usually mean to take a day or 2 off and it turns into a week and a half. lol.

Balance is forever elluding me.

Stayingsassy

Binge watching netflix is the bomb. I shall never apologize for it, as long as I’m doing other things too!

Yeah, you were nauseous because they’re supposed to give you senna or dulcolax with that many pain pills, they will stop up anyone, healthy, sick, young or old.

Hope you have evacuated well, good the ibuprofen is working and you are feeling better. I take it there are some stones left so that’s why so many opioids: so you could pass the rest. Still, glad you’re sober enough to see the big picture here.

Grungehead

I know fentanyl has a bad reputation, but for those who need a strong opiate for legitimate reasons but get deathly ill from morphine, fentanyl is a godsend. After my first heart surgery they used morphine and I was so miserable (beyond the normal misery of just having my chest cut open). Imagine how it feels when you just had your sternum sawed in half and then constantly heaving (nothing in system to actually throw up). After my second heart surgery they used fentanyl instead of morphine and the difference was incredible. No nausea, no heaving, more alert, shorter acting so they could dial in the dose better, and got off of it quicker and transitioned to oral pain meds.

If you ever have to go back to the ER for stones again I suggest you tell them you are allergic to morphine and see if they don't give you fentanyl.