Hi, I have just joined this site and live in the UK.
I have been using Df118 for about 10 years due to wear in my joints in my neck, back and now, my right knee. Had cervical neck fusion in 05 but the lower back and knee now have arthritus in. I also have ME and suffer with fibromyalgia and severe depression. (I am only 50!!!). I was having to use more of the pills as they were not working and was using between 800mg to 1000mg slow release each day - although I was having to crush 300-400 during the day to get some sort of instant pain relief.
Spoke to my doc who said I could go on fentanyl patches with oramorph for breakthrough pain. I started at 12 and now up to a 75 patch and using 300ml of oramorph over 3 days. It doesn't seem to be cutting the pain. I am just feeling absolutely shit (probs because I was told to stop the dfs after 2 days and also stopped my gabapentin at the same time, so was going through withdrawal whilst getting used to the patches)
But I am also getting chronic sweats but feel really cold. I have the shakes, feel dizzy when standing up, my stomach churns and I feel so shit I just want to curl up either in my bed or on the sofa. The last 4 weeks have been hell. Should I stop the patches and go back to the dfs? Is there any other pain meds that are better to be on? I'm scared that I'm fucking up my liver and insides with all these drugs, but I just cannot hack the pain. I am single and don't go out but thankfully have my 22yr old daughter still living with me - but she is going to Uni in September.
I feel so alone and so down...... can anyone offer any advice - please????:
I have been using Df118 for about 10 years due to wear in my joints in my neck, back and now, my right knee. Had cervical neck fusion in 05 but the lower back and knee now have arthritus in. I also have ME and suffer with fibromyalgia and severe depression. (I am only 50!!!). I was having to use more of the pills as they were not working and was using between 800mg to 1000mg slow release each day - although I was having to crush 300-400 during the day to get some sort of instant pain relief.
Spoke to my doc who said I could go on fentanyl patches with oramorph for breakthrough pain. I started at 12 and now up to a 75 patch and using 300ml of oramorph over 3 days. It doesn't seem to be cutting the pain. I am just feeling absolutely shit (probs because I was told to stop the dfs after 2 days and also stopped my gabapentin at the same time, so was going through withdrawal whilst getting used to the patches)
But I am also getting chronic sweats but feel really cold. I have the shakes, feel dizzy when standing up, my stomach churns and I feel so shit I just want to curl up either in my bed or on the sofa. The last 4 weeks have been hell. Should I stop the patches and go back to the dfs? Is there any other pain meds that are better to be on? I'm scared that I'm fucking up my liver and insides with all these drugs, but I just cannot hack the pain. I am single and don't go out but thankfully have my 22yr old daughter still living with me - but she is going to Uni in September.
I feel so alone and so down...... can anyone offer any advice - please????:
