I find with oxy and dilaudid I nodd sometimes but once I get past that Ia wide awake, talkative and rushy. Sorry so many questions, is opana kinda like that though? I just don't want to keep asking my doc for things that aren't working
We've switched my meds and doses sooo many times.
I am also a chronic pain patient and get pretty high powered meds. I think you and me were on these forums a few months ago when we were both asking questions about the patches. I as trying them for the first time and it only took me two days of hell and horror to tell my Dr to switch me back. I am almost positive I had a kind of allergic reaction to mine though.
Anyways, I know the difference between taking pain meds for chronic pain relief and taking them for the relief but still wanting that great noddy, rushy, euphoric feeling. And I'm going to tell you right now that as a CCP you are going to have to make a choice. Do you want consistent pain relief or do you want to get high?
I'm pretty sure that the patches are working on your pain but you think they are junk because you aren't getting any of the warm fuzzy feelings you are used to feeling with other meds. To be honest, if you take your meds for pain relief and relief only, after the first few days, you won't get that feeling from any pain med anymore, but it will still do the job of relieving the pain. It will end up being like taking a Tylenol or some Ibuprofen. It will reduce the pain but it won't get you high. You will still eventually develop a tolerance, but strictly for pain relief, you can be on an opiate for months or even years before it genuinly stops working for the pain and you need to rotate or increase your dose.
Your going through your meds so fast chasing that good feeling and the feeling of being 100% pain free all the time that your tolerance is going up too fast. Your tolerance to being able to achieve 100% pain relief and your tolerance to getting euphoria, not a tolerance to the pain relieving properties.
As a person with chronic pain, you have to come to accept that being 100% pain free is not going to happen. Not if you want any of these meds to work for you in the years to come. I'm not preaching, I also like being completely pain free and feeling all warm and fuzzy. But I also know that I'm going to have to deal with some amount of pain most of the time and I had to make reducing my pain my only goal and decide that feeling okay most of the time was more important than feeling awesome some of the time and feeling like hell the rest of the time because of running out early, building a tolerance, and being mad because I couldn't be 100% pain free.
I will tell you right now that Opana is great for pain relief. It's also one of the best feeling drugs you can get. If you use it right, it will help with the pain and your quality of life will improve. If you insist on chasing that great feeling and being totally pain free, it will be great for a minute, just like all the other meds you have tried. The only difference is that after Opana, like heroin, once you build a tolerance to that, nothing else is ever going to come close to treating your pain. I read somewhere that Opana is 5 times stronger than heroin. I've tried both and I believe it.
And please don't chew those patches. If you do, you are only going to jack your tolerance to that up to so that won't work at all for you at the doses you are supposed to take. And that's if your lucky. If your not lucky, you are going to accidentally OD and end up dead.
