Methadone, Soma and Valium, A cocktail for disaster. The poor young man from Alabama had no idea just what he was dealing with. I have 6 empty discs and the surgery that has been suggested for 15 years now is full disc replacement. The recovery time is one year, the chance to never walk again is 7%.
What do I do to stay active? I take pain killers and muscle relaxers. I have tried to not take these pain relievers but doing anything at all brings tears to my eyes. My injuries started when I was a +2 handicap and headed to the PGA tour.
For me I would never take Methadone because it builds up in your system. What this means is when you take 2 then 2 more it doubles up in your system to act as 8 pills. What Methadone also does is slow your breathing.
Valium also slows you down and slows your breathing, this is not for pain as much as anxiety. Add soma to the mix and you get knocked out and your breathing slows to a stop.
A doctor knows what the interaction can do to you and I would be shocked if these drugs were given to him by a doctor.
I am in pain 24 hours a day and for me the opiets keep me awake and the soma allows me to sleep. It is also very easy to build a tolerance to these pain killers. When I first started taking these drugs, I though what a godsend. One day I ran out of a script and got a huge wake up call. It had been months on these drugs and when I didn't have any I did not know what was happening. I could not sleep and I was sweating and did not know why I could not sleep.
Withdrawl is what I was going thru and It was no fun at all. After 3 days of this I went to the hospital and they gave me a couple of things that knocked me out I was so grateful after 3 days of hell. I was thanking everyone.
These kids in College who are in pain from 2 a days and odd injuries. Will lead to taking drugs which needs to be watched by a doctor. The wrong mix will kill anyone, no matter how tough a kid in college thinks he or she is.
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