Hate to Feel
Bluelighter
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- Dec 10, 2011
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Hi all. First time poster, been lurking for awhile now. I have a few questions that I'd like to get some feedback on. (I apologize in advance if I'm violating a forum rule that I am not aware of).
For the past 4 months or so, I have been experiencing lower back pain. Sometime the pain is very severe, at best, it's always sore. I've brought this up to my family doctor and they wanted me to get an MRI. The results came back showing degenerative disc disease in my L4/5. I was immediately referred to a pain management doctor. Before being referred, my family doctor gave me a small script for viocdin 7.5 until I could be seen.
About a week later, I had my first appointment with my pain management doctor. The guy and his PA were both very nice and they took the time to review the results in depth with me. Long story short, I told my PM that the vicodin that I was taking weren't cutting it, so he
prescribed me percocet 10mgs 3 x per day and referred me to physical therapy. I just completed my 2nd week of therapy and it's a little to early to predict if that is going to be the answer. I have my first follow up visit with my PM doctor next week. The percocets definitely help to make the pain more manageable, but I generally double dose when my pain is severe. One 10mg dose just doesn't cut it when I get a "back attack" as I call it.
While I like the perks, I'm not sure if I shouldn't be on something even stronger. I always experieince pain in my lower back to some
degree. I'm either going to ask that I be raised to 4x per day or ask about oxycontin or opana.
Do any of you have lower back issues or have degenerative disc disease? If so, what do you take? Do you think it's too soon to ask my doctor for something stronger? I don't want to come off sounding like a pill seeker - which I'm not. But I would like to take whatever is needed to help me in leading a normal life.
Would an ER be better than an IR? Like I said, I'm always in pain. Sometime it is just more severe than others.
For the past 4 months or so, I have been experiencing lower back pain. Sometime the pain is very severe, at best, it's always sore. I've brought this up to my family doctor and they wanted me to get an MRI. The results came back showing degenerative disc disease in my L4/5. I was immediately referred to a pain management doctor. Before being referred, my family doctor gave me a small script for viocdin 7.5 until I could be seen.
About a week later, I had my first appointment with my pain management doctor. The guy and his PA were both very nice and they took the time to review the results in depth with me. Long story short, I told my PM that the vicodin that I was taking weren't cutting it, so he
prescribed me percocet 10mgs 3 x per day and referred me to physical therapy. I just completed my 2nd week of therapy and it's a little to early to predict if that is going to be the answer. I have my first follow up visit with my PM doctor next week. The percocets definitely help to make the pain more manageable, but I generally double dose when my pain is severe. One 10mg dose just doesn't cut it when I get a "back attack" as I call it.
While I like the perks, I'm not sure if I shouldn't be on something even stronger. I always experieince pain in my lower back to some
degree. I'm either going to ask that I be raised to 4x per day or ask about oxycontin or opana.
Do any of you have lower back issues or have degenerative disc disease? If so, what do you take? Do you think it's too soon to ask my doctor for something stronger? I don't want to come off sounding like a pill seeker - which I'm not. But I would like to take whatever is needed to help me in leading a normal life.
Would an ER be better than an IR? Like I said, I'm always in pain. Sometime it is just more severe than others.
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