Hi everyone!
I’m not even sure if this is the right place for this or if this is something I know how to explain succinctly but here goes nothing.
I’ve been a chronic illness patient for almost ten years. I have several diagnoses, almost all pain disorders. I’ve been on opiates for all ten years. But never could get my doctor to go past 10mg 4x/day. Would sometimes take an extra here and there when things got bad. So I recently started at a pain clinic and thought it was my saving grace. Finally an impending quality of life!
The woman I saw at my eval was so kind and compassionate and understanding and saw where I was coming from. She wanted to switch me to buprenorphine and go from there. I was open to trying it. Did my urine test and booked my next appt three weeks out.
That appt was today. Where I got one of the cruelest doctors I’ve ever seen. She explained there’s “no reason” why I should need pain control and she wants an MRI of my spine (Had three. All fine) to prove that I’m fine. And I’m out of my oxycodone. She gave zero fucks about me going cold turkey after 10 years of round the clock meds.
I know this is nothing compared to the dosages I see on here. But I’m in utter agony because *shocker* I’M A CHRONIC PAIN PATIENT WHO NEEDS MEDS.
How can I help myself with this cold turkey drop? I’ll worry about what the next forty years of degenerative pain looks like after.
As a side note: I did have Valium but that’s been taken as well. The only med I currently have that I’ve seen talked about is Lyrica (pregabalin)
I’m not even sure if this is the right place for this or if this is something I know how to explain succinctly but here goes nothing.
I’ve been a chronic illness patient for almost ten years. I have several diagnoses, almost all pain disorders. I’ve been on opiates for all ten years. But never could get my doctor to go past 10mg 4x/day. Would sometimes take an extra here and there when things got bad. So I recently started at a pain clinic and thought it was my saving grace. Finally an impending quality of life!
The woman I saw at my eval was so kind and compassionate and understanding and saw where I was coming from. She wanted to switch me to buprenorphine and go from there. I was open to trying it. Did my urine test and booked my next appt three weeks out.
That appt was today. Where I got one of the cruelest doctors I’ve ever seen. She explained there’s “no reason” why I should need pain control and she wants an MRI of my spine (Had three. All fine) to prove that I’m fine. And I’m out of my oxycodone. She gave zero fucks about me going cold turkey after 10 years of round the clock meds.
I know this is nothing compared to the dosages I see on here. But I’m in utter agony because *shocker* I’M A CHRONIC PAIN PATIENT WHO NEEDS MEDS.
How can I help myself with this cold turkey drop? I’ll worry about what the next forty years of degenerative pain looks like after.
As a side note: I did have Valium but that’s been taken as well. The only med I currently have that I’ve seen talked about is Lyrica (pregabalin)