BigG
Ex-Bluelighter
Well the doctors went well. She acknowledged that I appeared to be having insurmountable problems with the fentanyl patches and conjectured that I was possibly allergic to the glue in them or something. She offered me the choice of either 120mg/day or MST or 80mg/day of oxycontin. I chose the oxy as oral morphine has such a poor BA. She said it was totally up to me as to what speed I taper and was actually really nice to me.
I had worried myself sick over nothing. I had visions or her cutting me off or sending me to a drug and alcohol place to taper on methadone or bupe or something (which I would have turned down). I just explained that I didn't want to be on pain meds but the hospital had felt that CTing of such a large dose of fentanyl would be too dangerous given my current state of health and that they had a duty of care to help me. I guess she could have been a total arsehole about it if she had wanted to but luckily for me she wasnt....
Happy days (almost)....
I had worried myself sick over nothing. I had visions or her cutting me off or sending me to a drug and alcohol place to taper on methadone or bupe or something (which I would have turned down). I just explained that I didn't want to be on pain meds but the hospital had felt that CTing of such a large dose of fentanyl would be too dangerous given my current state of health and that they had a duty of care to help me. I guess she could have been a total arsehole about it if she had wanted to but luckily for me she wasnt....
Happy days (almost)....
