Hi. I have a pretty decent opiate tolerance. Unfortunately I was hit by a car and broke my pelvis. Now I am in the hospital and in a semi state of withdrawal because they don't want to give me as much painkillers as my tolerance requires.
I had surgery a couple of days ago and have an epidural. Well I think that might be the only thing keeping me sane but today against my wishes they stopped the epidural so in a couple of hours i will be able to feel my hip again.
How do I interact with the nurses and pain dr without appearing to be drug seeking? I'm not trying to get high. I actually am totally focused on getting better and this is probably a good opportunity once my leg heals to get back on suboxone maintenance. There aren't any available Drs in my town and none that take my insurance. But the surgeon here said that he wanted me to promise not to do any dirty street drugs. He said once I didn't need prescription opiates for pain their referral to a suboxone dr carries weight and I could maybe get in which would be good. This may be a good chance for me.
In the meantime I need to recover so I can walk again. That means I need to figure out this tricky world of pain management.
So far I am on 40mg oxy three times a day. 8mg oral dilaudid which I know doesn't have a good absorbtion rate and if I need it which I do one four mg oral dilaudid every three hours and some mystery fentanyl shot. It took me a while to figure this out tho. I was in mild withdrawal because the started me on less and it's still not that much with my tolerance but it's getting better.
How do I request the as needed medications without looking like a drug seeker? How do I get the dr to increase the dose so when I get home I'm not in too much pain? How do I get the dr to keep me on a high dose for a while instead of trying to taper me off quickly? And lastly I have one more choice to go home with.
The pain dr said I could have a fentanyl patch that lasts three days instead of oxys. This morning not ever having had much fentanyl I said let's stay on oxys. I don't know which is better? Thoughts?
Oh and lastly. Does this sound like large doses? Do I have a high tolerance?
With a large or I don't know how high my tolerance is comparatively but I found that it was so high it became very difficult to transition back to suboxone. That is my goal after the pain stops. Which choice will be easiest to transition to suboxone. If I can make the transition I do very well on suboxone maintenance. I would like my life back. But from somewhat high I'v H use one day I just noticed I had trouble getting back on subs. So hopefully and I think I read people on prescription pain medicine have and easier time and I will also probably be tapering too. Thanks for the help. Sorry about the long thread.
I had surgery a couple of days ago and have an epidural. Well I think that might be the only thing keeping me sane but today against my wishes they stopped the epidural so in a couple of hours i will be able to feel my hip again.
How do I interact with the nurses and pain dr without appearing to be drug seeking? I'm not trying to get high. I actually am totally focused on getting better and this is probably a good opportunity once my leg heals to get back on suboxone maintenance. There aren't any available Drs in my town and none that take my insurance. But the surgeon here said that he wanted me to promise not to do any dirty street drugs. He said once I didn't need prescription opiates for pain their referral to a suboxone dr carries weight and I could maybe get in which would be good. This may be a good chance for me.
In the meantime I need to recover so I can walk again. That means I need to figure out this tricky world of pain management.
So far I am on 40mg oxy three times a day. 8mg oral dilaudid which I know doesn't have a good absorbtion rate and if I need it which I do one four mg oral dilaudid every three hours and some mystery fentanyl shot. It took me a while to figure this out tho. I was in mild withdrawal because the started me on less and it's still not that much with my tolerance but it's getting better.
How do I request the as needed medications without looking like a drug seeker? How do I get the dr to increase the dose so when I get home I'm not in too much pain? How do I get the dr to keep me on a high dose for a while instead of trying to taper me off quickly? And lastly I have one more choice to go home with.
The pain dr said I could have a fentanyl patch that lasts three days instead of oxys. This morning not ever having had much fentanyl I said let's stay on oxys. I don't know which is better? Thoughts?
Oh and lastly. Does this sound like large doses? Do I have a high tolerance?
With a large or I don't know how high my tolerance is comparatively but I found that it was so high it became very difficult to transition back to suboxone. That is my goal after the pain stops. Which choice will be easiest to transition to suboxone. If I can make the transition I do very well on suboxone maintenance. I would like my life back. But from somewhat high I'v H use one day I just noticed I had trouble getting back on subs. So hopefully and I think I read people on prescription pain medicine have and easier time and I will also probably be tapering too. Thanks for the help. Sorry about the long thread.