Michelle, my apologies for sounding smug or bossy in my last posting. I was just trying to illustrate there is a pattern there of you not wanting to take meds and then recognizing it's okay.:-) You do sound SO much better, today.

SRS, thanks for sharing what must be a very painful memory.

One thing I noticed at the hospitals here is they are big on taking care of pain. They have a chart they show patients which helps them to identify the level of pain and they treat it. Like Tam said, though, some of the meds can leave one with other pain, esp. constipation and, in my experience, the hospitals were not good about warning about that and how to combat it.

Have a good day, Michelle.