I’m not getting the same pain relief as before. Dosage is 13.5 ER 2x times daily.
Has anyone else's pain management doctor gone so far as to suggest that PAS, physician assisted suicide, is "an option" for treating your intractable pain? Since when has this " treatment" been acceptable!?
I've been cut down to only 4 7.5 mg oxy a day. Morphine ex 30mg was 6 days late was already in withdrawing looked up withdrawing symptoms and my body felt softer even with 4 withdrawing symptoms… read more
I just moved here. Am about to get United Healthcare (a Medigap plan). I'm on hydrocodone/ acetaminophen, 3 pills a day plus morphine sulfate ER, 15 mgs. Been taking this amount for 8 years. ( Finally got my Kaiser doctor in CA to add a 4th, but she started a taper when the crap new CDC guidelines came out last year.) I'm so worried a new Dr will try and cut me back even more. My quality of life would be zero, if that happens! Thanks in advance for any recomendations!
I've had no constipation issues. It's calcium supplements that bind me up! I use Sena, an OTC stool softener and/or liposomal vitamin c.
Did anyone else have to sign a contract with their Dr.? I had to sign a promise that I would not accept any controlled substance from any other Dr. Or his service will be terminated.
When I was taken to the ER with a fractured clavicle I had no idea what they were giving me in the IV. I FOUND OUT LATER.
I found out from my family Dr. That CBD drops will affect your urine test and will show up. BE FOREWARNED.
Contracts are malarkey. We are treated worse than injured animals and pets.
Who else, besides me, forgets sometimes all your symptoms or issues when you go to the ER or a specialist and need to write them down in a pocket book to refer to? What other things do you do to remember?
@A MyChronicPainTeam Member I had that happen to me a couple times as well. I got defensive and called out the doctor. Then I reported my situation to a higher authority, needless to say the next time… read more
Because I have a few other conditions, that may be life threatening. I can't get the doctors o focus on my pain.
To be frank I don't care if the other things kill me, if they don't relieve the pain life isn't worth living anyway.
Anyone else had this problem, how did you get the doctors to understand.
Cannabis is the future. May not help everyone but helps me. Bed time I take oil with a small amount of the and 3 times a day I take a half of gummy and cbd with no thc 3 times a day. The hardest part… read more
Hi If I wait for the pain to get severe, I will be going 911 to the ER at the hospital. I know my body enough to know the difference in pain level.
Michele aka mickey
I have been diagnosed with neuropathy but doctors cant find the cause. i am not diabetic. I had thyroid cancer and Hashemotis disease in 1987 and had been quite healthy until 2003 when i collapsed with 2 litres of fluid in my lung later diagnosed as pleurisy. Since then i have been on a merry go round of diagnosis including rheumatoid arthritis (later proved negative) with the latest being alymoidosis. I am waiting to see a neurosurgeon for a nerve biopsy. My symptoms are excruitating pain in… read more
My insurance nor work comp carrier will not cover stem cell treatments yet. I have read that it works well in some people. Still new to the pain community as far as being used as a treatment. Ask… read more
My husband told me that Pres. Trump said he’d like to do away with half of all pain meds use! I’ve been on pain meds off and on from 21 to mid 30’s since I had received approx. 20+ surgeries in that time. Then 20 years ago ruptured L-4 and L-5, L-5 S-1. Pain was unbearable . I’ve been on them straight since then , Oct 21st at 1:10 pm ,1997. You don’t forget the date that changed your life. I’ve been treated like a drug seeker all my life on meds. Once and awhile you’ll find a dr who knows pain… read more
Hey Kiddo, Who is suffering with pain you or your husband??
Think before you answer!!
Michele
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Have never had them...but Dr wants to start treatment.
Steroid injections are not FDA-approved and have been banned in other countries!