Oh boy. I'm not on Medicare yet, but have private insurance. My entire body occasionally goes into spasms so much that I can't sit, stand, kneel, or lay down without being in pain. You guessed it, I just shift from position to position from minute to minute. I usually take hydrocodone along with an anti-spasmodic and hope for the best till things settle down. I know somewhat what you're going through. This is what I was afraid of with this 'new and improved' war and drugs; it's going to totally screw people who need pain meds! When you're in that much pain, something is needed right that minute, not next week, not another trip to the docs, but meds on hand! A**holes!!
@libertybele My pain is like yours except I can't move any part of my body without crushing pain in my back, so I don't move at all. I know how you feel when this happens - you want to be knocked out because the pain is unbearable - on a scale of 1-10, the pain is a 15. Both of us take the same meds, hydrocodone and anti-spasm pills. Along with the three pills (two hydrocodone, one anti-spasm), I drank a Corona beer - anything to dull the pain. I never feel any effects in my brain, feeling woozy, etc., due to taking the pills and an alcoholic drink. The time before this time, when this happened, I drank a half bottle of wine with the pills, until Bob took the wine away from me. I didn't take more pain pills than prescribed at one time, but I can see how people could do that to try to stop the pain. The pain prescription is two every six hours and the anti-spasm is one every 8 hours.
