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Jeff L

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posted 11/05/2009, comments (3)

A realistic Oxycodone dosage?

I've got a question - and a complaint - about Oxycodone dosages. I'll have to give you some context here I guess. I had to go onto long-term disability. For many years my primary care has been through the local VA clinic. The VA clinic told me it is their policy to NOT get involved in anything to do with disability claims;... Read more Chevron

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moron are everywhere and one hurt me.

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posted 11/01/2009, comment (1)

kadian and I.R. oxycodone

i know my Kadian is morpheine but is my Oxycodon I.R. really Oxycontin? I have gotten a lot of different answears and remember the stigma back in appalachia about the hillbilly herion oxy. don't want to be on too addictive of a med any thought's?

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posted 10/13/2009, comments (16)

To Catch A Cheater

The envelope read: "Department of Justice: Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement". I opened it with trepidation because this report tells me if someone is cheating on me or not. No one likes to be crossed and doctors are no different. Sure enough, the person that I suspected was in fact getting medications from different doctors, in different towns, from... Read more Chevron

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Jeff L

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posted 10/02/2009, comments (40)

Anyone else driving in their sleep? I'm screwed now...

I’m really screwed now. I got arrested in Michigan after I drove off the road and totaled my truck at 4AM. I was totally uninjured, luckily, and the only thing I hurt, besides my truck, was a ditch and a tree. Unfortunately, I have no memory of the accident or anything leading up to it. I went out for dinner, had a... Read more Chevron

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posted 09/06/2009, comments (2)

Am I missing something? No one is listening!

My pain specialist is not listening. At first he/they were open and willing. Now, for some reason, they seem to be suspicious and uncaring..... almost scared, sometimes. They have insisted- and I MEAN inSISted!!- that I reduce my pain meds. I have been forced to reduce my oral meds by more than 70% over the past two months. Complaints... Read more Chevron

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