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[wlogan]

Hi all,

I'm new here and I just wanted to know if anyone is a little afraid of asking for diffferent pain meds. Currently I'm taking lyrica and baclofen for spasms. The lyrica does not provide the same kind of pain relief that the hydrocodne did and i have to take so much of it to get any pain relief so it has me very "drugged up". I just have that loopy feeling.

The hydrocodone did not do me like that. I was able to take it get the pain relief that I needed and go on about my day. I'm afraid she is going to think that I either addicted to it (which I'm not) or that I prefer on pain med over another and its simpy the fact that i want something thats going to work so I can get out of bed and back to my regular life. BTW i've been in the wheelchair for 7 years and have had 4 spinal cord surgeries.

[greybeard]

After 7 years and 4 surgeries, you are likely to be more qualified to say what works and what doesn't than your doctor.

Just explain what you want and the reasons why, but if she refuses to recognise your intimate knowledge of your own body, be prepared to get another doctor.

[dangerousdave]

Drugs are Drugs and what suits you is what you should do
What do I
I don't take all these opiate drugs most of you guys take
I have disaplined myself to accept pain - no it aint easy
Those daggers and those throbbins
I take a low dose of codiene to take the edge of it when it flares up during the day
Then of a evening when I'm relaxing - take a vaporised bit of Cannabis
That aids relaxing and helps with sleep
Maybe for me the relaxed muscels takes pressure of the nerves..I don't know
Years ago when I popped those opiates - it drove me mad with hallucinations and tiredness

For me thats the trade off....pain or hallucinate with lethargy

Drugs are Drugs and what suits you is what you should do
LOL

[McTavish]

I agree with GB no one knows your body like yourself. Don,t be afraid to speak up for yourself you know what works and what does not work for you. The doctors are not always right.

[Tetracyclone]

Any good doctor understands that one drug works differently in each person, and that drug sensitivities change over time. So GB's advice is right on.

[edlee]

Michael Jackson,,,, Elvis,,,,both of them knew more about their own bodies than their doctors,,,, right????

You aren't addicted,,,, you just "need" those pills,,, right???

The way I look at it is as long as we aren't selling the stuff they prescribe for us,, or giving it to our friends,, then they should give us anything we want. Of course,, there should be some way to keep our families from suing the doctors over it later,, when we're dead or dying.

Pain is relative,,, noone can compare their own to someone elses,,, but that's what the doctors have to do,,, it's what they go to school for,,, what they intern for. Sure,, you can find another who might give you what you want,,, the above named,, and many others have,, so why not you?? Just don't bitch about a doctor trying to do what he thinks is right.

Am I in pain every day,, all day??? Hell yes. Is it as bad as yours?? How the hell should I know. I just know that I'm avoiding all the heavy stuff as long as I can. Maybe you already have.
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[Tinbasher]

dangerousdave, on Feb 20 2010, 02:54 PM, said:

I have disaplined myself to accept pain - no it aint easy

Well aint you the hero!

Tin

[Scooby Gimp]

Duh?

Codeine is an opiate Mr. discipline. I guess the rest of us are "bad", week, or just lack your strength . Or maybe we just lack your access to cannabis. I'm 30 years post injury and just try to live one day at a time. Your pain and deformity increase as you age with an SCI so I hope can keep the discipline going.

Scooby

Drug dependent: Oxy, baclofen, caffiene, valium, provigil etc...

[dangerousdave]

Codeine is an opiate
Damned right it is.. and if my use of opiates remains at this low level I will be quite happy ta

Well aint you the hero
That I most certainly aint.. we all live a difficult life and I aint no differant

There are more answers to our pain problems then doctors scripts
You just have to find the right ones for you

I've got friends taking opiates and they don't need em.. it's just that pill time.. they are not in pain and that is just a observation as I can't get in thier head
My biggest issue with opiates is they make me hallucinate and make me lethargic.. so I sought another solution

[slyd]

FUGGIT

Whatever makes you feel better than you do without them!! - a bit of the ol' mary jane helps with some aspects, but other drugs are necessary for other things.

Whatever strokes your cat !

[dangerousdave]

It's hard to be Good, when you're born to be Bad !

It's easy to be bad when you are surrounded by a herd of good hypocrits

[Tetracyclone]

Children, be nice.

[dangerousdave]

With a name like Dangerous
Nice is difficult

[Scooby Gimp]

The DEA has our country's physician's paranoid to provide compassionate care. My doc just fired me as a patient after 10 years of writing my CII prescriptions. What? I was ticked but what can you say to the man in the white coat? "It is a liability issue," he said. Great. Thanks for caring.


Scoob.

[edlee]

Did you find a new "prescriber" yet? Pretty obvious he thought you were being over medicated,, and was afraid of the repercussions to his practice,,, and his license to practice.

Every body has heard about the doctors of the "rich and famous" who got in a lot of trouble for writing scripts fo drugs their patients demanded. They continued to write them because they were making a lot of money from those R&Fs. You, on the other hand, aren't making him enough money to take the chance.

I guess it comes down to,, how much pain are we supposed to endure,,, and who decides how much pain we're in...???

Tough questions,,, for the doctor,, and for each of us. Or,, as one of the sargeants in basic training used to say " A little pain never hurt anybody". I guess you had to be there...
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[Scooby Gimp]

It felt like starting over but I found a compassionate D.O. I was turned away by several physicians who had been practicing medicine 30 plus years. They must have grown jaded. My D.O. has only been a doc for 5 years and was more up to date on pain management for SCIs. She was cool about reefer in my pee test and only asked I not fill my scripts early or obtain opiates from other doctors. She even corrected a misdiagnosis. I was told my rib pain was intercostal neuralgia by docs who diagnosed me from across the room. My D.O. Felt my rib and said I had costochondritis. Too bad I had already let the prior doc give me six worthless nerve block injections. I'm happy my old doc forced me to find a more informed hands on physician-- but it was a difficult doctor shopping, or hunting, process.

Scoob

[mellowgator]

Scooby Gimp, on Feb 21 2010, 12:34 AM, said:

Duh?

Codeine is an opiate Mr. discipline. I guess the rest of us are "bad", week, or just lack your strength . Or maybe we just lack your access to cannabis. I'm 30 years post injury and just try to live one day at a time. Your pain and deformity increase as you age with an SCI so I hope can keep the discipline going.

Scooby

Drug dependent: Oxy, baclofen, caffiene, valium, provigil etc...

scooby, i've got every addiction that you have! except i must have a coca cola in my hand 24/7. and i smoke. we're all going to hell!

[dangerousdave]

scooby, i've got every addiction that you have! except i must have a coca cola in my hand 24/7. and i smoke. we're all going to hell!

I have it on good authority that -
Heaven doesn't want me
Hells afraid I'll take over
So it looks like Lovely Bones colorful limbo land for me

[Lucky]

I just kept changing dr to dr till i found one who listens.
I take Oxycontin 180mgs, Pregnabalin 100mgs, Oramorph 15mls, Dizepam 10mgs, Oxactin 40mgs, Asacol 800mgs plus movicol & microlax to counter the opiates. I couuln't take my meds (which i'm comfortable ish with) without the mirical Movicol.

Don't ask..... don't get!!

[StillFingers]

dangerousdave, on 21 February 2010 - 02:29 PM, said:

With a name like Dangerous
Nice is difficult

Actually DD no it's not, like all of us it's choice.