Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
I am in disbelief I am still alive. In a matter of a month I have gained 14 pounds. It does not help that Roxycodone and Lyrica my pain clinic has me on are both water retention medications so instead of going 12 times number one, I barely make it five times a day. When I told my PCP about weight gain, he said, just cut back on ensures. Ensure has 16 grams of sugar. If chug down three of those, it is 56 grams of sugar. Add to that that I am sweetening chamomile tea with honey, I am drowning myself. He said I am congested and gave me some antihistamine spray. Night after I took it as prescribed I felt like half of my brain was gone, had a huge headache for the most part of the day. Today I managed to gather trash within the condo and clean refrigerator out of the expired goods, which means I am not eating that much either. I figured something out, something very important regarding my wishes for death. I am not ready. But since I figured that out I can start preparing and welcoming it gracefully. I am now in constant pain, no matter the medications they are giving me. There was some commercial on the Facebook to test cellular inflammation and both my written multi question and urine tests came in very high numbers. It pretty much means that my cells are unable to get the nutrients in and the trash out. No wonder garbage is piling up and I gained so much weight in the last month. Pain clinic wants me to do a shot, but I will kindly refuse, will have to call them to cancel. The luck I had for the past 30 years of my life, chances of me getting paralyzed from the shot are high. Considering that my PTSD and anxiety are still on high levels, I am not sure I would be able to withstand being paralyzed.
About a week ago there was a whole phone around cycling between me, pharmacy and pain clinic to get my pain medication filled. I ended up using leftovers of illegally obtained oxycodone and some Norco one of my family members found. It was from five years ago but it did a job of me not going into a withdrawal, but since the rule are tight I ended up in WD end since I was prescribed a week supply of Suboxone, I ended up taking a film after 12 hours of my last dose, as instructed by that online doctor. However, it did send me into a mild precipitated withdrawal, and I ended up going to the emergency room. They just chit chatted with me and told me to stay on Suboxone or go on methadone since I became legal junkie, but that preface does not really matter now, I am a junkie. I have one oxycodone left for today, as I had so much pain this morning that I was popping that like tick tocks only to pull the breaks soon enough so I can take Lyrica and clonazepam. Everything seems pointless without medications. I could observe during withdrawal, when body-mind got rid of most of the opiates how everything in my existence seemed void, deserted and boring. How come that innocent children are being killed on a daily basis, yet here I am, ungrateful and useless, still alive. This is for sure punishment for me being top class asshole and I will live until I fully pay the price.
At the last psych meeting which was over the zoom because I was still shaky from Suboxone uncoupling opiate receptors, I asked my therapist to kill me when she asked what would be helpful. She of course refused. Okay, then repair my body-mind so I can go back to living life I used to have five years ago without pains. I am 47 years old. That is actually not that old and I should not be feeling physically the way I feel. Nobody believes me unless they see me, I look much older, sometimes I even got estimates that I am in my sixties. I do not have majority of my teeth, and I hope I can go to my dentist appointment tomorrow so they can make an assessment, and they can figure out how to pull six remaining rotten to the bone teeth. I have a lot of gray hair and am very unkempt. I take a shower only when I start itching or when the stink of my body is unbearable to me. Next time I go to pain clinic I will be asking for Subutex for maintenance, and it should help with pain for the most part and will also ask for something for breakthrough pain. Lyrica can do only so much, and it is also very addictive. There are tons of horror stories on the internet from people trying to get off of it and having withdrawal symptoms. So, I am hooked on three very addictive substances which habit is hardest to break: opiate, benzodiazepine and nicotine, plus now Lyrica which did not make a list, but I am sure in a few years when trial IV is completed, and FDA gets enough complaints from patients who were taking it and tried getting off of it. Today I took prescribed 150 mg, because I already took three tables of oxycodone so am trying to survive on that. Later on, I might take some Clonidine and then in the evening the last prescribed tablet of oxycodone.
I did find chiropractor and acupuncture office, both in one, probably 20 minutes away from my place, so as soon as I get my disability check I will schedule an appointment and see if they can help realign my spine and help with pinched nerves which send painful sensations down into my lower back and both of my legs. At times it feels like both of them will just burst into thousands of pieces. I just figured out something about this water retention thing. I will start taking 300 mg of Colace (docusate sodium) which works by drawing water from the body into the intestine and garbage to soften it up. Maybe that will help a bit with this uncomfortable feeling of wanting to go number one, but nothing is coming out for minutes, and when It comes out it is not fully released because I still have an urge to urinate. I believe Lyrica is messing me up big time, because ever since I started using it I started having this faster weight gain and higher water retention than when I was only on opiates and benzo, but Lyrica helps mask the painful nerve signals to the brain so I will keep on taking it. Now if I could somehow figure out to add Robaxin to the mix without me being like a pancake for most of the day. It is interesting, that is the only medication that I really feel smashing me down when I take it and it take its synergistic action along with other meds in my system. If I took it now on top of Lyrica and clonazepam, I would feel like somebody applied blunt force to my forehead.
Okay, enough for this day. Not sure when I will write again, but this was helpful in a way, because other sites where I write I am unable to share information like this as taboos arise and people generally still do not understand much about chronic pain and mental health problems.