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[Maltese Cat]

ClaraTaylor, on 14 November 2011 - 06:12 PM, said:

Quitting is when you give up on life and stay in bed all day, wave good bye to your hopes and dreams. When you wont even try to make yourself a drink or meal. When you only wash because people remind you too.

What you're doing now. That's living.

what she said

[isobar]

Baclofen ceases muscle tone which a spasm is , you're six months into your injury so things are still working themselves out. You're doing a lot of good things to help your body , you're no quitter keep up all you're doing and use the baclofen for now if it may help ......... later in life you may not need the meds. Besides your dosage will be adjusted as needed. Remember today isn't forever. Keep at it.

[wheeliebear75]

You're no more a quitter for using Baclofen than the rest of us are for using our pain meds or someone else is for using anti-allergy meds.

[darryl]

Interesting comments, and all valid considering the injury time-lines. Me, I'm the 'old guy', never took a pill except for 5mg of Valium per day to keep the spaz away, which 'they' started me on in 1971 because there wasn't anything else, not even velcro! Tearing the rotators in 2006 and onset of peripheral neuropathy in 2008 has however, kept me dependent on numerous oipiods for pain and the ITB for severe spasm, however I am independent still after 40+ years. Sometimes the 'laces get too hard to tie' and to keep your shoes on you switch to velcro, that's not giving in or forgetting how to tie a knot, it's simply accommodating a need so you can keep on going.
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