DOWN goes Rush...'fn hypocrite!

[retired]

I'm on Oxycontin right now for my severe back pain due to my many surgeries. It is a time release version. The only reason I'm on it is I had been on the Fentynal Patch, which is synthetic morphenine and 100 times stronger. The dosage ranges from 12.5 to 100 MICROgrams, not milligrams due to its strength.

I was on it for 18 months and it worked, but the side effect, besides constipation, was scratching; just like you when see actors portraying drug addicts do. I'd wake up in morning with blood on my pillow case and scratches on my face, so I told my P.A. I wanted off. Over a period of 4-5 months I was weaned off of them (that prevents withdrawals). He put me on the Oxycontin I'm on now, along with Diladud (also stronger than morphine) for break thru pain. I've elected to get off the Oxycontin for the same reason, as I'm still doing the scratching. I've worn out a pair of gloves doing it and I'm tired of my face looking like a cat attacked it.

I have NEVER taken more than the prescribed amount and have never become addicted to any of the meds I take, tho I have built up a dependency. Within a few weeks, I will be off the Oxycontin and only taking Diladud, which I will now have to double the dosage of (2 to 4mg) for the pain. Hopefully the pain will be controlled and I can stay off of the Oxycontin. If I can't I will have to return to it and live with the scratching.

Last night was so painful that nothing worked and just had to endure it until I fell asleep. Today isn't going well either. But, that's life right.

For those who have no back pain, I envy you. This is why I so adamantly speak out against SOB holsters; I would hate for someone to go thru what I have gone and continue to go thru. What a life, huh.

I feel sorry Limbaugh became addicted due to his pain, but for him to condemn others for the same thing is in fact hypocritical as Delija said.

[einheit 13]

Not t get off topic, but what was your surgery for?? I am supposed to have back surgery, but dunno.......scared to death something wrong will happen. My lower vertabre are shifted 3-5mm (like a buck saw) and they want to "splint" my spine with "rods and draw bolts". The soft cartelidge that is the cushion against the pelvis is just about gone (really painful when they contact each other). They want to put a padded piece of STEEL in its place ........dunno 'bout that! They said down time could be up to a year-barring complications...

[beardman2]

My mother has had several back surgeries for a broken back when she was just out of college (lifting a patient out of a bed). The one I was alive for was scary and took a long time to heal. It was really rough for her. The damn splint (bone not metal) was absorbed by the body so she needs to do it again. She has put it off. She's not sure if its more pain to live with it or go for the surgery again. I think shes leaning toward doing it again though. In the mean time one knee needed to replace and another one is getting there. I feel for you retired. I can't imagine going through what she does on a regular basis.

As for rush. This is all from him going off the air for rehab months ago isn't it?

[Delija]

Originally Posted by beardman2

As for rush. This is all from him going off the air for rehab months ago isn't it?

It does appear so in later reports. When I first saw the story come across Reuters News, it said he had been arrested today at 4 pm. Then I saw the same on MSNBC.com (can't post links to Reuters).

Seems kind of strange he'd be arrested for something that happened so long ago.


Peace,
D.

[beardman2]

looks like it was a plea deal. If I remember correctly the DA etc got these records through questionable legal means. Rush's people have been fighting them over it for a while. Looks like they agreed to treatment and forget about the whole thing in 18 months.

[Captain Ray]

Originally Posted by Delija

It just seems so bizarre in Limbaugh's case though since he's always clamored for jail time for drug abusers.

That is just not true. I have listened to Rush for 15 years.. and I don't recall him ever going on about people with addictions. Law and order.. yes.. but to assume that just because he is a right winger that he has not expressed compassion for those who have this disease is plain wrong.

Sorry to hear about your back einheit and retired.. it would suck to be in pain like that all the time.......... My dad told me when I was young... "Raymond.. two things are going to happen as you grow older... your back will begin to hurt.... and eventually you are going to like country music..."

I'll be damned if he wasn't right again!?!?

Raymond

[retired]

Thanks Ray. And that was funny about the country music. I actually like some of it now that I'm older. Scary.

Einheit, pm sent. Don't want to tie up the thread and bore everyone again with my story.

[Delija]

Originally Posted by Captain Ray

That is just not true. I have listened to Rush for 15 years.. and I don't recall him ever going on about people with addictions. Law and order.. yes.. but to assume that just because he is a right winger that he has not expressed compassion for those who have this disease is plain wrong.

Ray, you may be correct. I don't listen to Limbaugh that often. I have listened to him and I don't recall him specifically saying that all drug abusers should be "put away". But when I put "Rush Limbaugh jail drug abusers" into a Google search, it does come up with plenty of claims that Rush has called for prosecuting people who illegally use drugs. Whether these claims are true or not, I have no way of knowing.

It does, however, seem to "feel" right. No one, not Rush himself, has ever painted him to be a "compassionate conservative" (whatever that is ).


I learned due to my wife's cancer, my brother's back surgery and even my owned fractured vertebrae, that other than it's addictive potential, narcotic drugs, when used as prescribed, are one of the safest drugs known to man. But their abuse has made them almost completely unavailable to people who really need them. People suffer needlessly because others (including some unethical doctors) have given the drugs a major stigma.

When the abusers are high profile like Rush, it seems to effect society that much more severely. Unless you are a cancer patient in South Florida these days, it's virtually impossible to get a prescription for Oxycontin.

Peace,
D.

[Siobhra]

Rush used to go off on recreational drug users. People who started to drugs for the purpose of getting a high. He had compassion for the person who needed drugs for pain and got hooked.

Of all the talk show host I do feel he is not as bad as he is made out to be. He is at least courteous to callers who have a different opinion as long as they are respectful of him. Most of the others are rude or stupid. His real danger is he is smart, very smart. He puts up good arguments for his stand on things. Right or wrong he knows his stuff.

[one-eyed-fatman]

Originally Posted by Siobhra

Rush used to go off on recreational drug users. People who started to drugs for the purpose of getting a high. He had compassion for the person who needed drugs for pain and got hooked.

Of all the talk show host I do feel he is not as bad as he is made out to be. He is at least courteous to callers who have a different opinion as long as they are respectful of him. Most of the others are rude or stupid. His real danger is he is smart, very smart. He puts up good arguments for his stand on things. Right or wrong he knows his stuff.

Ya... he just bought his way out of his dilemma. He just gave the poultry some of 40,000.00 to the judge overseeing his case for the judges personal drug rehab program. Another bought and paid for judge.