need-a-life
Greenlighter
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- Jan 27, 2013
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Hi, I'm new here but I appreciate the solid no BS advice I have recived so far.
I go through 600 mg a month of hydormorph over a 10 day period for a very real chronic medical condition. My problem is that once I get them, I take them all, in increasing dosages until they are gone. Usually about 10 days. Stopping once I start seems to not be an option anymore. That leaves me occasionally going to the ER for IV morphhine or dilaudid to cover the rest of the month. Not a good thing. I've accidently taken too much before, it kind of creeps up on you. Once I woke up on the bathroom floor, not knowing how I got there and there was a FULL tub of hot water that I had somehow started and stopped. If I had entered the tub I have no doubt I would have become a statistic. I'm one lucky girl there.
I know (or maybe not) that rehab or a 12 step program will go for complete elimination of the dilaudid. I actually do need it a few times a month for pain. I had a MRI last week just to make sure it was not progressing to pancreatic CA. No results yet. I'm sure it will be the same results as usual but they are just checking for worst case scenario.
My question.... is it possible to do some sort of harm reduction and through whatever means, be able to have the narcs but only get to a place where I use them for physical pain rather than mental anguish. Life just seems rosier on narcotics.. duh.. I know..you got to come down sometime and life is still there.
Any ideas or am I going to have to possibly stick with multiple ER visits for pain control They really hate that but tough! . I'm in Canada so thankfully I'm not running up any bills doing that.
Thanks
I go through 600 mg a month of hydormorph over a 10 day period for a very real chronic medical condition. My problem is that once I get them, I take them all, in increasing dosages until they are gone. Usually about 10 days. Stopping once I start seems to not be an option anymore. That leaves me occasionally going to the ER for IV morphhine or dilaudid to cover the rest of the month. Not a good thing. I've accidently taken too much before, it kind of creeps up on you. Once I woke up on the bathroom floor, not knowing how I got there and there was a FULL tub of hot water that I had somehow started and stopped. If I had entered the tub I have no doubt I would have become a statistic. I'm one lucky girl there.
I know (or maybe not) that rehab or a 12 step program will go for complete elimination of the dilaudid. I actually do need it a few times a month for pain. I had a MRI last week just to make sure it was not progressing to pancreatic CA. No results yet. I'm sure it will be the same results as usual but they are just checking for worst case scenario.
My question.... is it possible to do some sort of harm reduction and through whatever means, be able to have the narcs but only get to a place where I use them for physical pain rather than mental anguish. Life just seems rosier on narcotics.. duh.. I know..you got to come down sometime and life is still there.
Any ideas or am I going to have to possibly stick with multiple ER visits for pain control They really hate that but tough! . I'm in Canada so thankfully I'm not running up any bills doing that.
Thanks
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