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[Don]

I'm looking for opinions,
I'm a walker incomplete L1 para,no bowel or bladder control. I work as a facility service manager. I work with lot of pain hips knees & ankels besides the burning feeling from the waist down.
I'm been on Oxcontin for 8yrs. I've just been moved up on pain meds 30mg three times aday. This only lowers my pain to a 3 or 4 on pain scale. I have had the (E.R's oxcontin) but give them back to the Dr. because if I get completely out of pain I do stuff I should be doing in the first place. Like hard manual work and walking or standing to long. I have a chair but only use it like in the Mall or stuff like that.
should I go on disabilty? The Dr. ask if I'm ready everytime I'm in her office.
Does anyone here still work with taking this much pain meds. And should I give up working? My accident happen in 1989 I went back to work 18 months later. Thats how long it took me to learn how to walk again.

I know I'm asking alot! Everyone is differant. Thats why I'm asking!
No Wrong Anwser Here. Just Opinions!
Thanks So Much!
Don

P.S. You can give out! But you can't give up!

[juless]

Don

Hi as you may already know you build up a tolerance to Oxycontin and I have seen people take Oxycontin 80 twice a day, so 30 three times a day is not a huge amount and about giving up working, like you said there is no right answers but besides money there are advantages to working, exercise, socializing, keeping your mind busy. I think working is a good idea if you like it if you don't like it yeah give it up life is too short to do stuff you don't like.

Good luck with your decision, you may want to take an extended vacation and then go back, could you do that?

juless

[brackman22]

I have incredible pain right now. I take 160mg oxy 3/day. At that level I had to put school on hold (going for masters in counseling and social psychology). Just could not focus enough on lectures and with readings. We are going to try mixing some morphine into my baclofen pump to try and lower my oral meds. At 80mg 3/per day I was fine. Eveyone is different. You'll know when it's too much. Just be honest with yourself.

BRETT

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Don, on Jan 15 2007, 02:07 PM, said:

I'm looking for opinions,
I'm a walker incomplete L1 para,no bowel or bladder control. I work as a facility service manager. I work with lot of pain hips knees & ankels besides the burning feeling from the waist down.
I'm been on Oxcontin for 8yrs. I've just been moved up on pain meds 30mg three times aday. This only lowers my pain to a 3 or 4 on pain scale. I have had the (E.R's oxcontin) but give them back to the Dr. because if I get completely out of pain I do stuff I should be doing in the first place. Like hard manual work and walking or standing to long. I have a chair but only use it like in the Mall or stuff like that.
should I go on disabilty? The Dr. ask if I'm ready everytime I'm in her office.
Does anyone here still work with taking this much pain meds. And should I give up working? My accident happen in 1989 I went back to work 18 months later. Thats how long it took me to learn how to walk again.

I know I'm asking alot! Everyone is differant. Thats why I'm asking!
No Wrong Anwser Here. Just Opinions!
Thanks So Much!
Don

P.S. You can give out! But you can't give up!

I've been injured 18 months and I continue to work part time as a computer programmer. I find my pain meds (mostly anti-epileptics and muscle relaxers -- no narcotics) make it quite difficult for me to do my job with the required level of concentration. I have considered quitting and just living on disability but then the Winter comes and suddenly I'm left with nothing but TV and the Internet. Programming in no way completes my live but it is a connection with the AB world that I'm not quite ready to give up. So as long as the company allows me to work, I'll write a few lines of code.

I guess I would ask, can you give up that connection?

[AZ_PTA]

My father has Chronic pain in his back, has had it for years. He worked a hard manuel labor job, because he wasn't qualified to do anything else and by the time his back got so bad he was to old to consider quitting, going to another less laborous job. He is now up to 140mg of E.R oxycontin twice a day, with percocet to control break through pain. I would say he worked too long and put his body through too much. If he was able too, he should have quit years ago. My advice to you is to listen to your body. If you think your current job is becoming to much for you, look for something else. Don't give up working, just think about changing. Maybe go on disablity to hold the wolf from the door and get a job that you can enjoy. To me with what my father takes as pain meds, you what you take doesn't seem like very much. But if you are consistanly having to raise the amount of pain meds, maybe it is your body saying I've had too much. But only you can decide. As I said earlier, I would keep working but maybe decide to switch the way I am working or where I am working to see if that made a difference.