I was prescribed Prednisone along with an H2 Blocker and an Antih...

I want to just take a moment and share with you what I have been going through for the last 14.5 years. This way, you will better understand how and why I have ended up taking both celebrex and prednisONE, 5mg...<<<>>>!!!!!!! It has not been an easy journey 4 me, & like you "sigh", have never had an adverse affect from any of the meds that I have taken in my over 56yrs of life. Not to say that I haven't found myself running out of 120 hydroco/apap5-500MG per month up until 12/11/2007 in less than two weeks. Not to mention the additional 30 hydroco/apap5-750mg one's I would get from a different doctor 40 miles apart. Yet the pharmacies were located in the same small town. Not to mention the other meds that I was receiving from two different dr's. whom knew nothing of the other. <(*o*)> This started out as being a choice by me, feeling that at least I would get almost 1/2 month pain free. Then the sacrafice in my mine was worth it!!!!! OR was it????? a lesson that was 2 B learned, but for maney, I hope these few choice words will stop U B 4 U 2 fall victim of these choices. Something that I did not know, but think god I found out before it was to late 4 me. Now I find that I have an up hill climb before I will have recovered from my self help methods almost cost my lovely wife of almost 15yrs., and my two lovely daughters, (10yrs & 13) from maybe being to enjoy their dad and hubby fefore it 2 was to late for even me. U C of all the meds I was taking, I did not know why I was always seen with at least a 64oz cup, full of soda, where I would be, work, home etc etc etc.... When I ended up in the hospital last December, I had arrived at a point to where I would be talking to you, and in the middle of a sentence, I would forget what I was talking about, and would be completely confused about what I had just been talking about. Well finally after all of the abuse my system had taken over the many years, the reason I had arrived at that point of my confused life, was put simply to me, so that even I could understand what had happened. In just six simple words that was put to me in the hosp. bed was this "SALT FOLLOWS THE PATH OF WATER" ((((((what did you just say)))))? Now something that I haven't told you yet, is that for 3 days & 2 nights, I was watched over at the hospital, and allowed only a small portion of fluids for each 24hrs. The mininum sodium you can have in your system is 130, ave. 138 & I was at 125.....
The doctor that I had been seeing since approx March of 1992 told me that I had high blood pressure, that I had to quit consuming salt in my diet. He also told me that stir fry dinners were high in sodium and I was to watch my intake of sodium, as it was causing me to have high blood pressure.
(153/91) good example don't U agree????? That's not the good part yet! Now from the point of my release on the afternoon of 12/13/2007, it has been a daily struggle to deal with this small problem that I brought on myself. Mostly due to now full blown drug addiction to pain meds. big surprise there huh!. Not only that, but now this drug, after not having taken it for a period of time, will now only work if I take it for the first 2 to 3 DAYS only. Now this brings me up to the part of having just been released from the hosp., but now I am taking 20mg of Kadian, along with 30/500mg of HYDROCO. One a day only for the spill over pain, not covered by the morphine (Kadian) oooops how did I end up there????? Well this worked up until 9/7/2008. Which was the first day that I quit cold turkey, taking any pain meds at all. Now with the struggles that I have shared with you thus far, You can see that I am already fighting two things that are very much real to me. PAIN - SODIUM in balance, not to mention the damage that has already occured to both me and my family, from taking MORPHINE/20mg to now my 2nd day of taking both celebrex and yes prednisone/5mg. And if i am right, you 2 r doing your homework, this is what happened between my doctor and I. He looks at me and asks me what is it that I want him to do. My reply was I do not know, that is why I have came 2 c him. He asked me if I had tried any anti-inflamatory meds, and suggested I take celebrex. My reply was that I have in the past, to no avail. I then said that I wanted to try the very lowest dosage of prednisone. He then said fine, but that he wanted me to take both celebrex and this prednosONE at the same time. (*%&^%(*) yal thats what I thought. Well to say the least, on top of battling the withdrawals from said morphine, while taking a salt supplement, gabapentin/300mg, lisinopril/20mg for high blood pressure, now I am trying to find a fix 4 this fix I now find myself to be in. On top of that, it even gets better, if you can believe that. The only way that I can now even get a good nights sleep, I have to now depend on AMBIEN/10mg and amitriptylin. Now I find myself now at a cross road in my life. #1) prednisone has one slight side affect that I just read today, it actively shuts down the immune system, meaning that for me to even come in contact with someone who may have nothing but a mere cold, that in and of itself could cost me my LIFE. DEAD STIFF, NO MATTER HOW YOU WANT TO FRAZE IT. IT-IS-NOW-A-MATTER-OF-LIFE-OR-DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes I want my life back, yes the pain is very real, yes it would have all been worth it, IF, but one thing that I have shared with you, that might STOP you from falling into a situation that can quickly run amuck 4 U. If you find just one thing that will send you running from this very bad choice. Then for me then, this part of my life will have been worth it. If you make the wrong choice at this stage of your struggle, it could and will be the last bad choice that you could have possibly made.
A TRUELY MATTER OF LIFE OR BREATH.
I am not a member of this google location, I would be greatful to hear from any one of you that has somehow found through my struggles but that one thing, please, let me know. I will be following this report.

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