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Hysingla ER 80 mg. is worthless

MissIndependent1

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I have been dealing with chronic pain for years. I have degenerative disc disease, 3 herniated discs, facet disease along with lupus. I have been on Norco, Percocet, Fentanyl patches, MS Contin, etc. Ever since Hysingla came out, my doctor jumped on the bandwagon prescribing it.

My problem is it doesn't control my pain well at Allan certainly doesnt last 24 hours. I have had tons of breakthrough pain and my doctor gives me the oh well and sees me for a month follow up to receive this worthless medication. I am currently looking for a new doctor.

In the meantime, what can I do? I see some people have figured out how to break them and take them orally. I am scared to take to much and OD. I do not snort or inject any drug. I just want to have my pain at a controlled level where I can sleep and not be in horrific pain. Any and all help is appreciated.
 
What would that accomplish though even if you did get around the slow release and fixed your pain in a few hours then you'd have extremely low levels and extreme pain
 
What would that accomplish though even if you did get around the slow release and fixed your pain in a few hours then you'd have extremely low levels and extreme pain

I know where you're coming from d1nach,. I'm not sure if you've ever been through bouts of chronic pain before or not, so I'm not gonna make any assumptions, but pain is a strange thing. We often expect things in life to take linear paths. A long-acting Opioid of the same dosage should be enough to control the same amount of pain as a similarly-dosed, similarly-timed short-acting Opiate regimen, but it doesn't always work that way. Folks have definitely complained in the past of long-acting Opioids not working as effectively as short-acting ones.

I've been in the hospital for surgery almost 20 times in my life. I'm not dicksizing here. I just want to let you know I've been through it. I've had experiences where I've had my own pump and I've had experiences where I'm administered Opioids on a timed basis. I can tell you that I would so much rather have 4mg Hydromorphone once in an hour, than 1mg Hydromorphone every hour. It's just how it is. It's like there's a threshold. Your body needs to be exposed to a certain level before you'll actually say "Hey, I'm not in pain anymore". I feel like the lower dosages can be a tease and can ultimately just be aggravating when you're really hurting.

There are methods of defeating the time-release on these pills, but it's not something that we generally field here on these forums. If you're looking for further information, I'd suggest checking out Reddit, among other sources. They always seem to be pretty "with the times" on this shit.
 
I have zero experience with opiates or chronic pain. My only concern is here she isn't in say a hospital. And, if the half-life of hydrocodone is like say for argument sake 4 hours. Basically there will be enormous shifts in levels like 5 fold and that to me I know if I was in severe pain would motivate me to find more opiates elsewhere. Maybe im just a niave 21 year old but what I saw in the hospital was appalling how they consistently under medicated people with severe chronic pain even in people with terminal illnesses because they didn't want to create drug addicts. However, all they seemed to do is create a population of nondrug users with severe pain resorting to heroin, alcohol, and "abuse" of there medications who otherwise never did any drugs or people who can't even walk made to feel like junkies for taking Vicodin as prescribed. I think the bigger problem here is if you have extreme pain breaking the slow release won't address that it you'll still be in what to me sounds like a unacceptable amount of pain for the majority of the day and if your needs continually are not met eventually you may seek relief through nonmedical routes at a great risk to your safety. But I know it's easy to say there is a problem. I just wish I had a solution for you
 
Can you maybe harp on your doctor more? I don't know if explicitly asking for more pain meds is a good idea, but the next time you have a bout of extreme pain, maybe you could call your clinic. They should probably have you on the hysingla plus an IR med for breakthrough pain.

I also think you're doing yourself a big favor by looking for someone new. Don't give up!
 
Can you maybe harp on your doctor more? I don't know if explicitly asking for more pain meds is a good idea, but the next time you have a bout of extreme pain, maybe you could call your clinic. They should probably have you on the hysingla plus an IR med for breakthrough pain.

I also think you're doing yourself a big favor by looking for someone new. Don't give up!

I love your avatar where is that from ? What cartoon ?
 
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