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I need some advice on chronic diarrhea and prescription addiction, please?
I'm very concerned for my mother. I'll start at the beginning, so bare with me....She hurt herself years back on the job, by breaking both of her arms at the same time. This put her out of work for a long time, and she eventually got laid off anyway when her plant closed, so she has never worked since. This started the pain pill addiction, when she was given hydrocodine for the pain. This was at least 5 years ago. Since then, she has become completely useless. She doesn't even TRY anymore. She is CONSTANTLY going to the doctor for anything and everything that ails her. She probably has close to 20 prescriptions for everything from high blood pressure, to anti depressants, to cholesterol pills, diabetes meds, other types of pain meds for headaches, backaches, knee pains, etc.... The list goes on She also takes about 4 tylenols a day, different herbal supplements, vitamins maybe?No joke, in her daily pill divider, she probably takes about 13 pills in the morning and about 15 pills at night. She has absolutely given up on trying to do anything for herself. She barely takes showers or washes her hair. Doesn't do any housework. Just spends most of her time sleeping or sitting in front of the television all day. She's gone to many different doctors over the years. The ones that tell her to just lose weight or exercise more make her angry, so she'll just keeping going to different doctors until she finds the one that'll just give her pills instead. My mother is not even 50 yet and already has more " wrong" with her and takes more prescriptions than all of my grandparents put together Recently, about three week back, she's started having chronic diarrhea. It comes on involuntarily and she usually doesn't make it to the bathroom in time. She's already had lab tests run and been to her regular doctor twice, because the first round of meds he gave her didn't do anything. She's been on the new meds since last Friday and is still sick. She can't even leave the house for fear of not being near the bathroom.She hasn't had any solid food in these 3 weeks, just water, broth, and recently Activia yogurt, he told her to try. Anything else goes right back through her extremely fast. At the last visit, her doctor told her if these meds didn't fix it, she'd have to go see a specialist, because there was nothing more he could do for her.She's getting extremely thin, super fast. Her face is getting sunk in and she's looking very gaunt. We're about to have to take her to a specialist and see what they say. When she goes to this specialist, should I make her take a list of EVERYTHING she is and has taken recently as well? All of her meds have GOT to be having an effect on her and weakening her immune system. I try to make her see this, but she just absolutely does not want to hear it. Is there anybody I could go to that could talk to her about her meds and convince her that she DOES have a problem? She won't listen to me anymore or my Dad. She thinks we're just picking at her, but we really mean it Also, is there anything I can get for her to try to keep nutrients in her body for now? LIke pediasure or something? Would that upset her system more, or at least help her from looking so gaunt?Any advice is welcome, and I do thank you in advance I'm just really worried about her and I don't know what to do for her anymore.....

How can I find the link and watch A&E's old episode of Intervention In-Depth prescription addiction?
I have tried and tried to find this and it is not on A& E's website anymore and it is almost impossible to find....didn't know if anyone out there had any idea on how i could watch it.

Why worry about prescription addiction?
I have moderate to severe knee and back pain. I am a waitress, and it is necessary to take medication so I can get through my shift usually 7 hours on my feet . I am prescribed vicodin however only 5mg 500 with the maximum dose not to exceed more than 2 tablets a day. I have to take 2 every 4 hours just to make it through work. My doctor won't prescribe me a higher dose or more pills because she is affraid I will become addicted. Some people take pills every day to keep their heart, blood pressure, diabetes,...etc. regulated. So what if I have to take something for my pain to be relieved so I can get though work. Can anyone recommend an alternative to the vicodin. She has prescribed 50mg. of Ultram to reduce my vicodin intake however, it just doesn't help, the same goes for advil or aleve.

How can you kick a prescription addiction without having withdrawals?
I take ambien at night, lortab and adipex during the day. I would really like to get off of these prescriptions without having withdrawals. I have been taking the ambien and adipex for probably 10years now. I really need to get off of these and any advice would be greatly appreciated. I started having pains in my shoulder is the reason for the pain pills but I have been on those now for prob 6 months.

How long does it take a person to get over a prescription addiction?
I'm talking pain meds like Opanas, hydros, methadone, and phentnyl patches in no specific order but fairly regularly over eight months to a year to a guy about 200lbs give or take