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Go into the garden and scrape like a dog does on the carpet,or get some cheap carpet samples and do the same.

and it's an opiate. Be very careful with it.

     Co-coldamol 30/500 is also an opiate. I'm on 2 x 4 times a day.

     I'm aware they are addictive so I've cut it down to just 1 tab twice a day and fill in the gaps with plain paracetamol.

     After 3 days of max dose I could feel they are addictive.

     I'd love to be on max dose but I'm concerned about the addiction. 

     The hosp Dr said when the Co-col is used up just take paracetamol thereafter, so I'm also trying to make them last longer.

     How it all happened later, I need a break (pun not intended) right now.

     

Chronic pain is awful and makes life a misery,especially when its cause restricts normal body movement and pain starts in places you did not know exists.
Good humour helps and you have that in bundles.As the old saying goes,I didn't not know whether to laugh or cry.

I was going to get a repeat prescription of Co-codamol today but after reading about addiction to it (possible after 3 days use) I'm not gonna.

If I was still at work I'd bring home a couple of bottles of Entonox (gas & air, laughing gas), that'd sort it.

Me and my partner at work had a spell of using that, we swapped bottles with other ambulances so no one would notice our usage.

They warned us at training school but of course that makes you curious. We did laugh, literally.

Fisch asked how I broke my arm (or words to that effect), so here it is.

I was sitting at the computer desk (I sort of live there),

I stretched to the left to open the drawer where I keep my snacks (fruit pastels on this occasion), instead of rolling my chair to the drawer

I stretched (thinking I shouldn't stretch), chair tipped over so I'm now sitting on the floor with the seat cushion under my arse (very strange how that worked out).

I couldn't get up straight away (no strength and in shock), I got the chair upright and pulled myself half way up on that, chair rolled away and I went flying and head butted the

sofa about 8 feet away. Now laying flat on the floor face down and arm ending up somewhere where it shouldn't.

Absolute agony and unable to move with thoughts of being there for days.

It was absolutely frightening and excruciating pain to the extreme.

It was also agony writing all this. The times it went ////////////////////// or ................... or  tttttttttttttttt and such like (left handed).

And rest. Cuppa tea time.

Heah Baso  This one you can't buy prescription only Zapain 30mg/500 Tablets It's Codeine Phosphate/Paracetamol, don't take with anything else, have to be older than 12 so your safe. Ask your Dr for it, it is addictive mainly because it knocks you out at bed time, you'll sleep like a baby pain free. maximum 8 in 24hour period, took the pain out of my knees went out like a light. NHS phone you up after while to see if you're still alive

I forgot to mention, I've had about 4 hallucinations with Co-codamol.

An extra arm appeared fully stretched out on top of the slinged one twice and something small moved half an inch sideways in my drawer.

Something else moved but I can't remember, also about half an inch.

The extra arm was a sight I'll never forget but although being shocked I knew straight away it was the drugs. It was very clear, as clear as the real arm.

I had a similar injury on the last day before the summer holidays in 1957.The last lesson was PT which I loved,I jumped for the rope from the beam and missed it landing on my elbow.Horrific pain and spent the first two weeks of the school holiday in hospital and having two operations.Sadly my mum was in the next ward with a terminal illness and in those days children were not allowed in certain wards(I was 12)the arm never properly healed and can still be bothersome.