Dedicated Dad: Check Your Email

[Jered]

She finally got her "picker" fixed and found herself a real man, huh?

Yep.

[Frankingun]

Let me add something else Mike touched on, just in case anyone missed it before:

Gents: If you're on ANY sort of pain-killer for any length of time, or just find yourself more weak and tired than you used to be, PLEASE ask your Doctor to run a testosterone test.

Mike - literally - saved my life with this advice. Where "normal" was in the range of 250-1100, mine was 54. I was so weak and just plain "sick" that it was all I could do to get out of bed. Though I'm still fighting my Doc to get to where I need to be, I'm a damn-sight better than I was. Now that I can see a way out of this hole I've been in, I've got a grasp on just how sick I WAS. It's not hyperbole when I say it's a miracle I didn't eat my gun.

I've spent the last few days manufacturing a device that allows me to walk - for the first time in years - without pain. With suitable refinement, it may actually allow me to return to work!

Thanks again to everyone - ESPECIALLY Mike - for all you've done for me.

DD

+1!
Right after I torqued my knee, my primary "doc" had me on 12 ibuprofens a day. Wiped me out, no energy whatsoever. The orthopedist had me go on 8 tylenol a day, but that started to make my legs swell.

So yes, if you change your meds, especially to lots of pain meds, and you start to feel like crap - make the doc find out what is wrong!

[Dedicated_Dad]

Apparently it has been known for centuries that opiates have "feminizing effects" on men -- we now know they cause low testosterone in men.

Apparently there was some question as to whether it was the pain, or the pain MEDS that did it -- studies with addicts prove it's the MEDS.

DD