In some such cases, the damaged muscles must be removed.ĭr. Or it may have been the result of something called compartment syndrome, where muscles are damaged or die because blood can't get in or out of part of an arm or a leg. Lisa's injury may reflect nerve damage, which doctors say is common in people who misuse opioids.
I didn't want anybody to know I had a drug problem," she says. Lisa never told a nurse or doctor about her injury. My foot, like, slaps the ground when I walk." I think I would have killed it."Īs it is, almost five years after the injury, Lisa says she still limps in some weather, "or I have what I call flabberfoot.
"If she hadn't done that, I don't think I'd be walking on this leg. "She came in and massaged it really, really vigorously," Lisa says. Shots - Health News Rural Colorado's Opioid Connections Might Hold Clues To Better Treatment Lisa's daughter noticed that her mom's right leg had gone white and looked shriveled. Family members checked to make sure she was still breathing. Lisa lay in the same position on the bed, one leg bent under her body, arms folded across her chest, for more than a day. We're not using her last name because she's used illegal drugs and fears going public about that could harm job prospects. I hate the fact that she saw me like that," says Lisa. "My daughter brought me up and put me to bed. That's where Lisa's daughter found her - passed out on the washing machine. The last thing this 46-year-old Somerville, Mass., native remembers is starting to do laundry. "I inadvertently did the methadone cocktail and I went to sleep for like 48 hours," Lisa says, rolling her eyes and coughing out a laugh. The trouble started for Lisa when she took a blood pressure pill and one to control seizures, along with methadone, a drug used to help wean patients off heroin. Nearly five years after an opioid overdose she still limps - possibly because of damage the drug cocktail did to her nerves or muscles. Lisa, a client at the AAC Needle Exchange and Overdose Prevention Program in Cambridge, Mass.
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