Painkillers or paindullers?

stickywicket

Well, I seem to have started more than I bargained for here. Lots of questions. To take one thing at a time:

Claire, I don’t think it’s a matter of ‘painkillers v giving in’. I don’t feel I’ve ever given in to RA tho’ I have, and do, concede the odd battle.

Skezier – the matter of ‘not frightening newbies’ is a serious one. I think I’m always as gentle as possible with them (if not with the rest of you ) but I do feel strongly that this has to be a place for all. Those who are in desperate pain should feel free to ‘tell it like it is’ whether they’re new or ‘old’. Otherwise we give a skewed picture. I tend to emphasise the good bits but we can’t permanently write out the really shift stuff. We can truthfully say it’s much less likely to happen now to the newly diagnosed but we can’t say it won’t/doesn’t.

As for what has to be given up and if newbies should be told. Well, no-one told me anything (though they might have told my Mum). No-one stopped me doing anything much. Well, my Mum & Dad were always stopping me doing things anyway so nothing changed there :roll: . Then I went to uni & could do what I liked. And did. I just drifted into giving stuff up in my own sweet time. Playing the piano came first and was one of the toughest but I couldn’t bear the noise I made when my fingers wouldn’t stretch to the right notes. You adapt. And take up other things. I believe very strongly that one of our strongest weapons is a flexible attitude.

Hileena1111

Hi
My opinion on it.....sorry I'm coming in on this late.
Painkillers for me.....OK I know they dont kill the pain, they take the edge of it {or mine anyway}
Paindullers seems such a pessismistic view.
I never get rid of pain but I cope the best I can......and have hope {not hope that arthur will disappear} but hope that I will lead a reasonably happy life doing the things i can do and working around the things I cant do.
I agree.....I dont want to be drugged and not able to do the things I can do.....like driving....I would be lost without my car or the ability to drive it. I was on dihydrocodeine at one stage......that was dreadful....no way could i drive or function properly so I think i must have been on those for about 4 days before I binned them
Hey DD....how did Daisy get a flat battery......must unusual for our little micras no matter how long they sit. I keep forgetting I havent got mine now ....got this pixo {nissan} but dont like it as much as my old micra
Sorry off topic
Love
Hilena

dreamdaisy

Oh Hileena, I thnk Daisy is imitating her mistress. :sad: We're both currently drained of anything resembling power or energy.

I don't think that the term 'dullers' is pessimistic, it's realistic. 'Painkillers' is a fib (as I discovered as I went from paracetamol to 8/500 cocos, to 30/500, to the 50mg trammies to the 100mg slow-release trammies to the oromorph) and still the pain was only ever dulled. I remember the good old days when a couple of paracetamol shifted a headache, but now? Mind you, in those days I had little idea of what actually consituted pain. As it never goes I prefer to live with it 'cos I know where I am, I hate the idea of it all disappearing but then coming back - oh the disappointment of that.

Despair? I can handle despair, I can't handle the hope. (John Cleese) DD

traluvie

Now i would say paindullers.
The only reason being is the tablets i take dull the pain, never actually kill the pain..xx