I wasn't, real, way ly CBC, it just was the fact that my meds kept me asleep long enough for my pain meds to have worn off, meaning by the time I woke up, I'd gone more than a day without taking my morphine/oxy, and since I was last around here I've had the former of those increased some, as what I was taking formerly for my joints was helping with the joint pain in my knees, and my left hip is actually a lot better now than it used to be, but I have the bursitis bilaterally. Changed a couple of other things too, like switching from taking ranitidine to its relative cimetidine, both are pretty similar anti acid-reflux drugs, which is the main reason for taking either. Some of the docs gave me a bit of a wide-eyed look when asking for my prescription to be altered, whilst I explained to them my reason for wanting to change from one med to a more or less identical relative of it in most respects, but the idea is to use the cimetidine to block hepatic cytochrome P450 metabolic pathways that normally are responsible for chewing up morphine and its close relatives by tying up the capacity of the two enzymes in question, cyp-p450-2D6 AND CYP-p450-3A4, allowing my pain meds to hang around for much longer. None of the docs I approached knew about that, seemed fairly surprised, wondering who told me how etc. (nobody, it was simple enough to work out)
If only your average NTs understood 'autie, go figure' as the be-all and end-all excuse for so many such things left apparently needing some sort of explanation. If it isn't then it bloody well should be.
