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Rylanjase52
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Im gonna give a little background info but if you don?t want to read that and just want to read my questions skip this paragraph and the questions are at the bottom.
I?m severely chronically sick and was on IV dilaudid but with the government making the manufactures cut back on how much they make by over 40% there?s a major shortage with even some hospitals not being able to get it and those that do have it have very little so I can?t get it anymore they even called the surrounding cities and no one could get it for me. My body doesn?t absorb much orally, it absorbs a tiny bit but even if I take 16mg orally it wasn?t helping but my pain management is prescribing it orally anyway and told me to keep taking it to hopefully help at least somewhat with the withdrawal since I was taking IV for 3 years and all of sudden had to try and wean on a 12 day supply which is no where near enough but the pills weren?t doing anything so I got desperate and I did research and decided I could IV it if I mix it with saline and filter it so I?ve been doing that but this month I ran out of pills 2 days early but I do have some of the liquid hydromorphone left over from a while back when we tried it hoping my body might absorb it better than a pill.
I?ve already injected it once and it worked, I?m injecting into a line so I?m not sticking myself. Is this a really bad idea? Is it worse than injecting the pills? Is there anything I should do to the liquid before injecting it? I?ll only be doing it a few times today just to hold me over until my appointment in the morning where I?ll get a refill for the pills and I?ll go back to doing the pills the way I?ve been doing it the past 2 months.
I?m severely chronically sick and was on IV dilaudid but with the government making the manufactures cut back on how much they make by over 40% there?s a major shortage with even some hospitals not being able to get it and those that do have it have very little so I can?t get it anymore they even called the surrounding cities and no one could get it for me. My body doesn?t absorb much orally, it absorbs a tiny bit but even if I take 16mg orally it wasn?t helping but my pain management is prescribing it orally anyway and told me to keep taking it to hopefully help at least somewhat with the withdrawal since I was taking IV for 3 years and all of sudden had to try and wean on a 12 day supply which is no where near enough but the pills weren?t doing anything so I got desperate and I did research and decided I could IV it if I mix it with saline and filter it so I?ve been doing that but this month I ran out of pills 2 days early but I do have some of the liquid hydromorphone left over from a while back when we tried it hoping my body might absorb it better than a pill.
I?ve already injected it once and it worked, I?m injecting into a line so I?m not sticking myself. Is this a really bad idea? Is it worse than injecting the pills? Is there anything I should do to the liquid before injecting it? I?ll only be doing it a few times today just to hold me over until my appointment in the morning where I?ll get a refill for the pills and I?ll go back to doing the pills the way I?ve been doing it the past 2 months.