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PostPosted: May 7, 2005 1:53 PM    Post subject: Smoking dreams, craves, hernia pain Reply with quote

I guess everybody knows I'm in fierce pain since I've left it all over the boards, but I haven't said this part. I posted again on my thread on the Wellness Board.

I'm having smoking dreams again. They are so comforting, and I seem to seek them out in sleep, and when I smoke in my dream, I am pain-free and so easy and comfortable and happy. It's like a a little slice of heaven to be without the hideous pain, but it is always accompanied by the smoke! Now I know this for a lie, but the trouble is that then I think of it in the daytime, and start to wonder if it would help. Just a little I wonder. Would it? I know I am supposed to think about lung cancer and stuff like that, but this pain is so bad, I cannot think beyond it.

What I hope even more, is that some of you might have info or know or anyone who has had this operation. On the hernia message board I found, I did not want to read it, because it was only people with complications which are so horrible that to even comtemplate such a thing is too terribe. And only 3 to 7 per cent of people ever have complications. Do you know anyone who had this done?

Londa, what happened toyour father? I knowyour hubby recovered right away with no problem--not like me.

Well, it's back to bed. I can only stay up a few minutes. My well-toned body is mush. My side is constantly on fire. I am now going to have to take compazine on top of these other drugs, because of the nausea, which is stemming from the pain, so said my doc.

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PostPosted: May 7, 2005 6:03 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

sorry to hear your recovery isn't going as smoothly as you'd like, margaret - as i think i mentioned, my sister had a hernia operation when she was an infant, and there were no complications from it; other than her, i don't know anybody that's ever had this operation.

of course, you realize that smoking would not help this in any way, right? i think you might be having those thoughts because it seems easier to hide from the pain (even if you have to hide behind the smokescreen again) than to face it. i wish i could give you some good advice about what to do about the pain, but i can give you some about what not to do about it:

don't smoke.
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PostPosted: May 7, 2005 6:54 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Margaret, my father was in pain but he was okay. I am so sorry that your recovery is so painful. Is there anyone there that can give you a massage? Have you tried Yoga breathing for the pain?

God be with you tonight. You are in my thoughts!

Love, Londa
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PostPosted: May 8, 2005 11:45 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Kevin and Londa.

Kevin, I much appreciate that you took the time to figure that out for me--which it seems that you did! And I was, indeed, trying so hard to get away from the pain that I was even (in dreams, anyway) willing to get behind the smokescreen again. It annoys me to have this pain/smoke connection, but at least I got rid of the thoughts in the day time, I'm pretty sure. I think it is was an attempt to go back to a "pain-free" time and that happened to include smoking. Actually, I'm well aware that this would make me sicker, cause more scar tissue, and other bad things. At night I still dream some. It's weird. Now that I forbade myself to dream about them, I dream that I am with someone else who smokes! (Gosh, still trying in dreams.) But at least, they are just dreams. And I did get myself to the Hernia Discussion Message Board, and some nice people there have given some good support. I wouldn't have done that, Kevin, if you hadn't helped me see that I was not facing the fact of being in the pain. Thank you.

Londa, how long did it last, your father's pain? Do you remember?
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PostPosted: May 10, 2005 6:02 PM    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi margaret!

I am so sorry to hear you are having a tough recovery! Sad

I don't know much about the subject..But i just wanted to send you some love and prayers, i hope you feel better soon.

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