Turbojezzus
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So to start I suppose I will tell everyone how everything started. [BTW long time reader (love the site!), first time poster]
So several years ago after many MRIs and X-rays and etc, it was confirmed that I have four herniated disks (3 lumbar and one cervical) and four bulging disks (two lumbar and two cervical). If you are interested in how this happened it all started with joining the varsity wresting team my freshman year of HS. I was six feet tall and weighed 96 pounds.(It was a pretty funny thing to look at! It's okay to laugh.) During that year of wrestling I was benching at least 150 pounds if not more every day at the gym and even broke two ribs at a wrestling match, which apparently never healed right because they are now displaced. I also feel that it is necessary to state that back and neck problems run in my family. The next year is when I started noticing pain in my back and neck, and ever since then the pain has been getting progressively worse.
Eventually I could not take the pain anymore so I decided to see a pain management doctor, the first thing the doctor put me on was perc 5. (up to this point I had never taken painkillers or any type of drug in my life except for antidepressants because at the time I wanted to kill myself) These percocets had absolutely no effect on me what so ever!! (even after tripling up!) So the doctor came to the conclusion that I am Naturally Opioid Tolerant! (How fucked up is that?) After that I was put on a mixture of fentanyl patches 50 mcg/hr to be changed every 72 hours and perc 7.5 for breakthrough. For the first few weeks this seemed to take the edge off so I was able to function at around 50%. It wasn't long until the full force of the pain came back, and that it when I started to chew or suck on the gel inside the patches, this seemed to work great for a bit. Eventually my dose was upped to 50 mcg/hr every 48 hrs (thats 15 patches a month), and the perc 7.5, but this time I was also given a special ketamine compound topical cream. Finally the pain was bearable and I felt like my old self!
Eventually I was taken off of all narcotics, and not because the reason you think! They did not show up in my urine test because my older brother started stealing from me. After that the doctor had me on Suboxone which was okay at first, but to be honest I hated taking them because they gave me headaches and the taste was so bad for me. So since then I have been in constant pain every day.
I have also tried muscle relaxers (Soma 350mg), but even after taking three of them nothing happens. And the same thing seemed to happen with yay, and it was not a bad batch because everyone else I was with said it was great, but for me 1.5g and nothing! (Only done yay twice before) Even trigger point injections, facet blockers, epidurals, and radio-frequency did not work for me. I have also tried dilaudid, xanax, focalin, and adderal, but had no affect on me. And even after snorting 90mg of roxi nothing happened at all. Absolutely no effect.
My questions are:
1. Does anyone know why no drug at all works on me?
2. Does anyone have any ideas of what I should do for the pain?
3. Is there a certain drug that I should try? (Weed is out of the question due to a promise I made to my late grandfather that I intend to keep)
Sorry for making this so long, but any help at all will be greatly appreciated!
Thank you
So several years ago after many MRIs and X-rays and etc, it was confirmed that I have four herniated disks (3 lumbar and one cervical) and four bulging disks (two lumbar and two cervical). If you are interested in how this happened it all started with joining the varsity wresting team my freshman year of HS. I was six feet tall and weighed 96 pounds.(It was a pretty funny thing to look at! It's okay to laugh.) During that year of wrestling I was benching at least 150 pounds if not more every day at the gym and even broke two ribs at a wrestling match, which apparently never healed right because they are now displaced. I also feel that it is necessary to state that back and neck problems run in my family. The next year is when I started noticing pain in my back and neck, and ever since then the pain has been getting progressively worse.
Eventually I could not take the pain anymore so I decided to see a pain management doctor, the first thing the doctor put me on was perc 5. (up to this point I had never taken painkillers or any type of drug in my life except for antidepressants because at the time I wanted to kill myself) These percocets had absolutely no effect on me what so ever!! (even after tripling up!) So the doctor came to the conclusion that I am Naturally Opioid Tolerant! (How fucked up is that?) After that I was put on a mixture of fentanyl patches 50 mcg/hr to be changed every 72 hours and perc 7.5 for breakthrough. For the first few weeks this seemed to take the edge off so I was able to function at around 50%. It wasn't long until the full force of the pain came back, and that it when I started to chew or suck on the gel inside the patches, this seemed to work great for a bit. Eventually my dose was upped to 50 mcg/hr every 48 hrs (thats 15 patches a month), and the perc 7.5, but this time I was also given a special ketamine compound topical cream. Finally the pain was bearable and I felt like my old self!
Eventually I was taken off of all narcotics, and not because the reason you think! They did not show up in my urine test because my older brother started stealing from me. After that the doctor had me on Suboxone which was okay at first, but to be honest I hated taking them because they gave me headaches and the taste was so bad for me. So since then I have been in constant pain every day.
I have also tried muscle relaxers (Soma 350mg), but even after taking three of them nothing happens. And the same thing seemed to happen with yay, and it was not a bad batch because everyone else I was with said it was great, but for me 1.5g and nothing! (Only done yay twice before) Even trigger point injections, facet blockers, epidurals, and radio-frequency did not work for me. I have also tried dilaudid, xanax, focalin, and adderal, but had no affect on me. And even after snorting 90mg of roxi nothing happened at all. Absolutely no effect.
My questions are:
1. Does anyone know why no drug at all works on me?
2. Does anyone have any ideas of what I should do for the pain?
3. Is there a certain drug that I should try? (Weed is out of the question due to a promise I made to my late grandfather that I intend to keep)
Sorry for making this so long, but any help at all will be greatly appreciated!
Thank you