The Pain Management Mega Thread v2.0

[illmantos]

Ty it sounds like you really don't have a clue what the lives of people in chronic pain go through. You think we want to be on a ton of meds? That we haven't tried other means of pain relief? Truth be told that sometimes opioids are the only thing that help people live their life. I would love to wake up tomorrow and not be in pain; instead I have to take pain meds daily just to LIVE my life. I would rather die than to go weeks without my pain being reduced; by any means possible, if I couldn't then I would lay in bed all day.

If you can go days/weeks or any extended period of time without a mean of pain relief; then your not a CPP, simple as that.

Poor you, I still have bad pain just because it isn't on the scale of your means, I am unable to get out of the house , pretty much bed ridden. Don't assume you make an ass out of you and me

 

[tricomb]

HazeX, I hope you get some respite from pain and maybe will be able to skip even half a dose tomorrow! :D You're in my thoughts, along with all the other CPPs. Doomed2pain, let's hear an update from you soon. BigDirty01, I wish you the best with quitting your addiction to cancer to let your bone graft heal quicker, and also muvolution, I'm so proud of you for stopping abusing your medications, I'm SOOO close to getting there.

Night all.

illmantos hope ya feel better s00n

 

[illmantos]

Thanks Tri

 

[HaZeX]

Poor you, I still have bad pain just because it isn't on the scale of your means, I am unable to get out of the house , pretty much bed ridden. Don't assume you make an ass out of you and me

What the fuck crawled up your ass? There was nothing in my post that warranted you to respond to me like that.

 

[illmantos]

Ty it sounds like you really don't have a clue what the lives of people in chronic pain go through. You think we want to be on a ton of meds? That we haven't tried other means of pain relief? Truth be told that sometimes opioids are the only thing that help people live their life. I would love to wake up tomorrow and not be in pain; instead I have to take pain meds daily just to LIVE my life. I would rather die than to go weeks without my pain being reduced; by any means possible, if I couldn't then I would lay in bed all day.

It sounded like you were being a smartass.

 

[HaZeX]

Thanks Tricomb....hope everything gets better with you, saw you are having a rough couple of days.

 

[HaZeX]

It sounded like you were being a smartass.

What, no? I was responding to Tylannister....

I live with chronic pain everyday. nothing in my post was meant to put down people in pain

 

[illmantos]

OHH shit i am sorry , I thought you were tylannister. and you said ty I thought you meant thank you to me saying that wasn't very helpful. my apologies.

 

[BiggDirty01]

Woah!!! BD! I can get any benzo prescribed no questions asked, What's it called? What's it indicated for? I'll just do my own research I suppose but please tell me everything you know about it.

Distress related to opiate use? As in to treat constipation? Or diarrhea? Because most of my IBS issues are with diarrhea.

My mom and I have found it very effective for cramps, constipation and related pain to, and nausea (so instead of me taking zofran and some immodium and perhaps something for the pain, I have a pill for all those issues rolled into one + the slight side effects of a benzo)

My mom, who works in the healthcare industry, says this is a very old drug (meaning reliable) but nowadays a doctorr is encouraged by pharmaceutical reps to push expensive, single purpose medications rather than a combination drug.

Hope this helps everyone!

 

[BiggDirty01]

Illmantos, to answer your question pain meds are usually whats prescribed for pain believe it or not. Ppl on this board of course rush to pain meds=narcotics. By pain meds i mean all of em (nsaids, muscle relaxants, ibuprofen, lidocaine patches, opiates, etc.)

Dude, TY, you have 29 fucking posts and have the nerve to come into this thread and start pontificating to people about how they are all 'drug seeking' and haven't pursued non-narcotic options smells of righteous ignorance. You DON'T know us, even if you have read every goddamn page in this thread.

We here on this thread are a compassionate, understanding and supportive group that encourages all kinds of treatment alternatives to narcotics because most of us here aren't 15 years old who doesn't understand the consequences of their actions regarding using narcotic pain relievers. To come in here and start telling people that we need to do this or we need to do that as if, GEE why didn't I think of that! What a pompous asshole.

An apology, a change of attitude and some humble posts are called for if you wan't to join in on OUR thread. Otherwise fuck off, and find somewhere else to spit your GENIOUS thoughts and suggestions. No one in here is better than the other, we show respect even if we disagree and generally don't give a shit what a guy with 25 or whatever posts has to say with an attitude of superiority.

 

[illmantos]

Sorry if I have offended anyone!

Bigdirty can you answer my question? I am a bit OCD about being sure how things play out.

 

[illmantos]

I am having bad spasm's, pins and needles, stabbing pain all over my torso and general pain in my back, like 1 outta 10 it would be a 7 10 being Screaming and zero being nothing. What is generally prescribed for this?

I have Syringomyelia and Tethered Spinal cord syndrome.

 

[Doomed2pain]

I know hun im in the uk too it sucks. I cant get the meds i need due to the govt deeming most meds too expensive. I hope you manage to find somw rekief soon, I have been un this state for nearly 3 years and I am sfill struggling ro get any relief from my meds

I really can't be doing with any more Diaz, it's taken me more than a year get finally get off it after giving up the booze, the amount I would be prescribed wouldn't do much with the level of tolerance I would still be carrying anyhow, I never really found it much of a muscle relaxant anyway, apart from when I was unconscious

MST has been a weird one, I had a fair not of IV morphine and oramorph in hospital, then came out to MST Continuous at 60-80mgs a day, I had little to no opiate tolerance. It was OK for a bit but it seemed to turn on me and I had sweating, malaise and nausea so I switched down to 30/500 codeine and APAP, mostly minus the APAP.

I'm taking both now and tolerating the MST, probably just needed a bit of tolerance, it's working OK there isn't much in the way of choice in the UK, I can't take Tramadol as I'm on an SNRI.

 

[*samsonite*]

Hello my pain inflicted friends. Didn't get to check in yesterday. I did ok during the day and was able to do some grocery shopping. By nighttime however, I was riddled with spasms and pain. Only have my flexeril for spasms right now so I didn't sleep a wink. Thursday can't come fast enough!

Hope all is well with you guys. Or at least as well as can be expected. There is no "get well soon" for us unfortunately. Good to see some new people in here.

Hey Blue! Taper is still going well and I am even down to 3 tramadol a day and 40mg oxy so I don't run out. It is painful but it's keeping me out of w/ds.

Edit: Wow just went thru recent posts and I'll just apologize for the asshole since he won't do it himself. I'm sorry he side tracked our thread and was a dick. United we stand CPPs!

 

[Noise]

Ty, ask any chronic pain patient what they would rather have....


.....The potent narcotics they DEPEND on or a pain free life. Junkie or not, they're going to go with a pain free life. You need a fucking reality check, man. You think all of these people on opiates that actually need them (not the ones just blowing their doctors for a script) have tried other avenues of relieving their pain? Nine times out of ten, opiates of any kind, are usually never the first line of treatment. For acute pain? Yes, sometimes narcotics are involved, but for CHRONIC pain... No. There's so much more to it. Maybe you should do some research, and find some shit out on your own.

Or maybe someone should kick you in the spine with steal-toed boots on, and deny you opiate medication, and you know... try other things, first.

Edit: illmantos, nobody here can tell you how it's going to pan out, honestly man. The only way we could possibly tell you accurately, is if your doctor signed up and posted about what you're going to get before you even walk into his office. No two cases are ever the same, even if the diagnosis is the same, the treatment isn't always going to be.

Example: My grandmother and my uncle both have DDD (degenerative disk disease) which is painful. In some more then others. Now, my grandma is almost 80, so the pain is a little harder for her to handle, obviously. Because not only does she have DDD, but she also suffers from osteoporosis. So basically, she's in a lot of pain. & she's scripted very heavily.

Not my uncle, he's in his late 30's, and while he's still in pain, he doesn't take any narcotics for it. At least, not yet anyways. He does some injections and some accupuncture, and goes on about his day.

Same diagnosis, different treatments, ya know?

I wish you all the luck in the world though. But remember, just be honest with your doctor about the pain your in. Don't exaggerate it just to get better meds, or a higher dose of meds. & you might wonder why I'm saying that, and it's because... if you're going to be a life-long CPP, you don't want to start at the top of the opiate ladder, do you? Fuck no, cause then you've got no where else to go, except for invasive pain pumps implanted in you, or more surgeries that might not even fix anything. You may require more, or stronger dosages now, because you said you just had surgery.... but when you're not dealing with the pain of surgery, if it's possible, lower your dose.

If you can get by on 40MG of hydrocodone a day, do it man. So that way, you have a lot of room left to grow in the treatment of your pain later down the life, if it's needed. But don't rely solely on the narcotics, man. Do whatever you can to help treat your pain. Be proactive in getting the best quality of life that you can. Do therapy, nutrition, exercise (but don't overdo it and hurt yourself.) Just be as proactive as you can be in your treatment, man. It'll help, I promise.

Damn, I got kind of carried away there, my bad.

 

[TyLannister]

A) Oh Woes me, i only have "25 posts".....what a fun world to live in where respect is earned by the number of posts you have on a drug website. Aim High.

B) Ive had 13+ surgeries, including emergency surg after college bowl game. No more no less pain than anyone else here. Where did i say you rushed to narcotics??? I guess the problem with a forum that only sits and talks about drugs is addicts tend to get pretty defensive if you mention an idea that doesnt involve drugs. I was being 100% serious, pain pathways get very screwy, some of the doses i see are just absurd and not even hospice patients receive that much, let alone that much on top of a bunch of other crap.


@illmantos You said you were in pain and asked whats usually prescribed for being in pain. Narcotic or not the answers still pretty god damn obvious.

 

[Doomed2pain]

Trust me, I went ct off my meds for 4 months only used non narcotics, by the time I went back on them I was in that bad of a flare up my condition spread to my left leg and therefore bed bound most days and never able to walk again and that was because I tried to manage my pain without opoids. so dont bother judging before you know peoples stories

 

[tricomb]

Most if not all of us CPP have already explored and/or (I'm my case) continue to explore nonmedication options. It's very very shitty that my doctors have such an influence in the medication aspect as I'm drastically under prescribed in regards to opioids but I try to make do. I do various nonmed options including but not limited to dietary changes, exercise within reason, hydrotherapy, TENS unit, for my pain conditions there is no physical therapy.

Do y'all know what living hell I went through before making the decision to go back on narcotics? I had to drop out of college because my quality of life was so low all I could think about was getting on the freeway going as fast as I can and driving into a pillar so that no one else would get hurt when I finally made I stop. And even after resuming narcotics I took breaks again and dedicacted myself to nonmedication options which had me basically bedridden.

With nonstop physical pain, some of us already have fragile minds, and they begin to go. Slowly at first but then increasing at an alarming rate until your institutionalized. And then, maybe then, when your loved ones pick you up when you're discharged, maybe then they too will stop calling me a junkie for relying on a medication with stigma. Unfortunately I still am judged, not only by those who love or know me, but also by random people on bluelight who think I haven't tried my personal best to make the best of my situation, because this is "a drug website".

You say you've seen me mention medications before, I don't know what your referring to, I'm prescribed half a dozen things, the only medication I take with regularity is my oxycodone. What I consume in one day, plenty of people I know consume twelve times a day as breakthrough medication.

Not that my consumption is any of your business, but since you made it your business I felt like I was supposed to go on the record with a statement.

 

[illmantos]

Ty, ask any chronic pain patient what they would rather have....


.....The potent narcotics they DEPEND on or a pain free life. Junkie or not, they're going to go with a pain free life. You need a fucking reality check, man. You think all of these people on opiates that actually need them (not the ones just blowing their doctors for a script) have tried other avenues of relieving their pain? Nine times out of ten, opiates of any kind, are usually never the first line of treatment. For acute pain? Yes, sometimes narcotics are involved, but for CHRONIC pain... No. There's so much more to it. Maybe you should do some research, and find some shit out on your own.

Or maybe someone should kick you in the spine with steal-toed boots on, and deny you opiate medication, and you know... try other things, first.

Edit: illmantos, nobody here can tell you how it's going to pan out, honestly man. The only way we could possibly tell you accurately, is if your doctor signed up and posted about what you're going to get before you even walk into his office. No two cases are ever the same, even if the diagnosis is the same, the treatment isn't always going to be.

Example: My grandmother and my uncle both have DDD (degenerative disk disease) which is painful. In some more then others. Now, my grandma is almost 80, so the pain is a little harder for her to handle, obviously. Because not only does she have DDD, but she also suffers from osteoporosis. So basically, she's in a lot of pain. & she's scripted very heavily.

Not my uncle, he's in his late 30's, and while he's still in pain, he doesn't take any narcotics for it. At least, not yet anyways. He does some injections and some accupuncture, and goes on about his day.

Same diagnosis, different treatments, ya know?

I wish you all the luck in the world though. But remember, just be honest with your doctor about the pain your in. Don't exaggerate it just to get better meds, or a higher dose of meds. & you might wonder why I'm saying that, and it's because... if you're going to be a life-long CPP, you don't want to start at the top of the opiate ladder, do you? Fuck no, cause then you've got no where else to go, except for invasive pain pumps implanted in you, or more surgeries that might not even fix anything. You may require more, or stronger dosages now, because you said you just had surgery.... but when you're not dealing with the pain of surgery, if it's possible, lower your dose.

If you can get by on 40MG of hydrocodone a day, do it man. So that way, you have a lot of room left to grow in the treatment of your pain later down the life, if it's needed. But don't rely solely on the narcotics, man. Do whatever you can to help treat your pain. Be proactive in getting the best quality of life that you can. Do therapy, nutrition, exercise (but don't overdo it and hurt yourself.) Just be as proactive as you can be in your treatment, man. It'll help, I promise.

Damn, I got kind of carried away there, my bad.

Didn't get get carried away at all was very informative, much appreciated. and as to TyLannister , you don't know us. Ignorant to assume.

 

[BiggDirty01]

Sorry if I have offended anyone!

Bigdirty can you answer my question? I am a bit OCD about being sure how things play out.

Sorry illmantos, I am not sure what the question was? Can you repost or just PM me and I'll happily get back to you as soon as I can.