How to avoid addiction while on pain management?

[LectronicStim]

Hey,

I would say what you are feeling is very normal. Your brain is finally catching up to the lack of the drug. Hang in there and hopefully you will get your script before it gets any worse. Major fits of depression come with the territory and that in turn will sap every last drop of energy you have right out of you. When do you get your new patches?

 

[bluedom]

Tomorrow.

My spine pain shot up last night and I fell down as a result and lost consciousness where they gave me pain killers in the ER and a few acute meds which should tide me over until tomorrow.

Your description is kind of how I feel, but no crushing anxiety (which is how I experienced it last time).

[Edit: Well, I have been using them for 2 days now and I feel great of course, just like "normal". Time to be more careful next time.]

 

[bluedom]

So you know, just as I got my refill, I felt I was "done" with my WD and I was feeling "normal" again (this could be deceptive since I kept feeling this way and through the 1 week I was off I think I was psychologically getting worse at least, with the depression).

I need to learn to sleep through a night, which I am unable to recently. I feel tired and am sleeping at the keyboard when I type at times. It's like my body's too tired to sleep.

The one thing about patches is that there's a slow release of the drug in the skin reservoir so it's probably more smooth than with pills. BUT the flip side I think is that the patch gave a CONSTANT level of drug and not having that is definitely causing some issues for the body to be without. I don't know of a way around it short of an even slower taper? It's that last leap, going from a low dose to nothing which think is the problem. My doctor thinks I could switch back to an IR but I'm pretty sure I dont have the discpline to do that properly either.