Does anyone suffer from chronic pain or serious illness?

Did you take accutane?

 

I went through the Accutane regimene and it was tough. Tired and depressed. But I knew through the pain and fog that I had to fix this problem, Cystic acne.
I remember walking to my cube at work one day and almost sitting down beofre I realized it was not my cubie...you get spaced out sometimes.
I did take about 90% of what the Doc prescribed, at a certain point I already saw results and just didn't feel like taking them anymore.

it solved my problem like 98%. which is incredible. Worth the pain? yes. For me anyway. My treatment was almost 15 or more years ago and I have no health problems I think from doing it.
Just keep an eye on your depression if you have any. And suicidal thoughts are a big red flag.

 

Thank goodness I never did. I was one time prescribed a back acne cream. I wore a shirt after applying it and it bleached the shirt in less than 30 minutes. From then on I refused to take any acne medicine. If that stuff was powerful enough to bleach my shirt, I can't imagine what it was doing with my skin. My acne phased out 8 years later just by me getting older.

 

The bleaching of your shirt is not surprising considering most acne creams contain Hydrogen peroxide. Accutane has nothing to do with Peroxide though, its an oral medication.
Anyway I asked because some people are linking Accutane with Higher incidence of Crohn's disease. But I dont think its considered "officially proven".
It is possible that it does not really causes it but rather makes it worse. Accutane is very harsh for your digestive system and for your liver.

Glad your acne went away by itself, don't know how old you are but im 31 and mine shows no signs of wanting to go away. Im actually having a pretty bad breakout right now. My derm wants to put me on Accutane but Im cold about the idea of taking this scary drug. I tried every other prescription stuff and so far nothing worked.

 

I'm sorry to hear MaxWar about the bad luck. It's tough having acne, I remember being very self conscious about it in school. Sometimes I wouldn't show up to plans that I intended to go to just because my break out was that bad on my face. I'm not too much younger than you at 28. My worst was in middle school where it flat out just hurt on my face and back all the time. In high school it was the occasional break out, and by college it was pretty much done. I still have some scars on my back to tell you the volume I had.

As for Accutane, I never suggest taking medical advice from the internet, but... I'm with you on not taking accutane. I'm not sure the risks out weigh the benefits. As someone who has Crohns, I wouldn't risk anything that would increase your chance with that disease alone. (In addition to the other accutane complications that can occur) My whole daily schedule with Crohns literally teeters on edge with the disease. One bad food, one bad stressor, or just an out of the blue flare up, and boom I'm ill to my stomach for 1-3 months just hoping to get by.

It's good to see that people actually know about the disease here. 5-6 years ago I would tell people about my Crohn's and no one would have a clue what it was. I'm luckily not at a stage yet where I would need any sort of surgery. (knock on wood) I've been doing fairly well with occasional stomach steroid shots (I know, ouch, but it's worth it.) and my daily medication that suppresses my immune system. Diet has arguably been the biggest factor though. I've had this so long I know which foods are safe and which one's aren't. That and better stress control keep the magnitude of the illness down. For example if I eat crap, and am really stressed, if I get a flare up illness/pain wise will be 9 out of 10. However, if I eat my safe foods, and have little to no stress, that same flare up with be a 4 out of 10 illness/pain wise.

 

ATOS, the company behind disability allowance tests and what have you think "Cerebral Palsy" can improve.

 

Unbelievable.....

 

I have a friend who suffers from it. She cannot drink alcohol at all and get this, she can't have sex either as the pain extends down beyond her abdomen making it uncomfortable for her.

She's very very pretty and 28 years old, has had many boyfriends but all of her relationships fail due to that. Sad really.

The pain is constant for her, she has just gotten used to dealing with it every day.

Horrible disease.

As for myself, aside from bouts of depression and a nicotine dependence I'm forever fighting (but close to break through) I'm pretty healthy if a little underweight.

 

That is outrageous, she's picked some real loser men.I'd pick love over sex any time.

 

Easy to say that but think about it if it were you with this issue, going out to bars and clubs etc how many of those people you meet are going to want a sexless relationship? Not as many as you'd idealistically want to think.

 

I am diagnosed with rheumatoid polyarthritis

 

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Man that sucks.

 

Alcohol? Guess we should go back to prohibition. if you're against mind altering substance that are considered as medicines, then that must include Xanax, Vicodin, adderall, and ssri's.
you must be disappointed in every state then. Prescription meds are the worst things to be dependent on. Just because its made in a lab and you get it from a doctor doesn't make it safe. A little weed never hurt anybody. I got out of high school a few years ago damn near everyone smokes weed. The people taking prescription meds are the ones that go out, buy heroin, and kill themselves.

The key is moderation. The only thing that should go into your body on a daily basis is food and water.

(sorry for the grammar, this iPhone is driving me nuts)

 

I ate too much cake for lunch. It was good cake, would I do it again? Probably.

 

I like cake.

 

The type of man she needs won't be going to a bar or club to pick up women, unfortunately it seems the type of man that she wants does.

We've not adapted well to living happily in modern times, instant attraction has always been a luxury but in the past people would get together for various other reasons (survival mainly). Women can now afford to wait for the rich, confident, handsome, powerful man to sweep them off their feet. While the guy who would make them happy is not attractive to them at all.

 

http://youtu.be/jou2eKN9W6k?t=6m52s

This. If she's looking in bars, regardless of her condition, she's most likely to just find drunk twats who want to get in her pants.

Oh, regarding what you said about sending Special Delivery, I agree with you... in fact, I think I did send that one Special Delivery. However, under normal circumstances, I wouldn't do it. Why? Because it costs £6.22 for up to 100g. Basic rate ESA is £71.70 a week... £56.80 if you're under 25. Would you want to spend about 10% of your weekly income on sending a letter? Sure, it's OK to do once or twice... but you have to fill out the initial form, then write saying you're appealing the decision, then fill out another form, then keep writing because they aren't responding/mess up... not to mention having to send a sick note every 1-3 months.

Generally speaking, if it's totally critical, I'll use Special Delivery. If it's important but could be a "this is your mistake, put it right", I'll use Recorded Delivery. The most important thing to remember is that you're sending it to a forwarding address and it'll take about a week to get to the right department, and you'll probably have to chase it with a phone call to see that they've got it... which, of course, doesn't go through to the right department and they have to phone you back within the next 48 hours...

 

It seems I'm quite lucky compared to some here!

In 2005, I was involved in a work accident involving an out of control forklift truck, a wheelbarrow, cement bags, and a pillar.

After a few surgical procedures, from my initial complete lack of mobility in my right side and constant "popping" of bone and fraying of tendons that scraped against the damaged fragments, I now have up to 65% of movement back in my right arm and shoulder and am able to carry weights of up to 10kg. The pain has subsided a little, but my right leg and hip took extensive damage, and left me with osteo-athritis, and no kneecap or cartilege whatsoever in my right leg. Pain can range from a little bit warm and uncomfortable with one or two dislocations a day (the grinding of bone-on-bone heats up and causes an unpleasant hot sensation that no icepack can cool off, meaning it's uncomfy in the summer), to burning hot agony with inflammation and swelling that leaves me unable to move my leg at all and constantly sub-luxing hundreds of times throughout the day.

I try not to take medication, as I don't want to become addicted to it, but sometimes the pain is so bad I take 4x600mg Ibuprofen and 4x500mg paracetamol 3 times a day, just so I can ease the pain off enough to fall asleep. I refuse to take anything stronger.

It could have ended up being much, much worse. I have the doctors to thank for my improvements, and my physiotherapist of 8 years who has shown me how to work around my physical limitations and maintain a relatively normal life.

 

I kinda want to say "Why the hell are you making yourself suffer pain for?" but then again whenever I've been taking something stronger than paracetamol it's only been for short periods of time so I've not had the opportunity. It all boils down to what sort of personality you have and whether you have good friends around you who can spot when 'pain relief' turns into an addiction. One solution is to give your stronger meds to a friend/neighbour and get them to dish them out to you. Sounds silly but I totally get where you are coming from on this. Had a wee problem with sleeping pills a little while ago (oops) and now I can't really trust myself to have anything strong around.