mountainmom's Journal

I am not doing very well pain wise right now.

I think the Dr.'s are trying to kill me! lol.

Not really, but in all seriousness they put me on morphine sulfate extended release tablets- MS Contin, and I didn't realize it had sulfur in the carrying agents for the morphine. I never thought about it as it was a sulfur based antibiotic that I reacted so badly to years ago. I guess it has just a tiny amount, but I am allergic to sulfur. Anyway, the Dr.s missed that,(that there was sulfur in the pain pills, they knew I was alergic to sulfur)  and when I brought up it felt like an allergic reaction to the ms contin they reviewed it and found out I never should have been given it. My current dr repeated 3 times in one session that she didn't review it because she didn't perscribe it, I came to her already on it. But each month I saw her I was getting worse and worse, etc, so she upped the amount of morphine! Which upped the amount of sulfur I was taking. I reacted that first time to the sulfur antibiotic by swelling and joint pain in my hands and feet, all over pain in the muscles, vomitting, fever and way high blood pressure. The dr immedately took me off of it. So it's been about 24 hours without it, and I chose to go to Norco pain pills because I know I don't react to those. However it is not near the strength of pain killers I was on, and I will have much increased pain as well as withdrawl symptoms, so I still probably won't feel up to chatting for a while longer.

Not doing very well today at all. I may have to go to oxycontin or percosets, but am hoping not to go there. I am however choosing to do this, as the dr offered a different stronger pain pill but I decided to try this first. I am so tempted to just bare the pain, get off all opoids and see how I feel without it. With the RSD probably not the wisest course of action per my husband and doctor, when I went undertreated for the pain I had dangerously high blood pressure in response to the pain. Geez, I just can't win right now with this shit!

So far I have had allergic reactions to the neurontin, cymbalta, one other antidepressant don't remember it's name, and now the MS Contin. Great! And apparently I react in a way is unuasual, and not normal, making it hard to tell if its RSD or an allergic reaction.

So I am slidding backwards on pain management, my body is in massive pain, and I have no idea if I made the right choice or not. The Dr said to just call and she'll give me stronger, but how do I know if I can take them, since I have never needed that strong before in my life? Seems like my body is reacting to everything new!

Anyway, I'd better stop or I'll start ranting about Dr.'s, which won't be helpful in any way....

Please keep me in your prayers! I need all the help right now I can get, by the time they came to their " oppinion" of allergic reaction, I can barely use my legs, left leg is almost paralized, lower back in bad shape and internal organs stopping working... Now I wonder what will come back, what is permanetly damaged from their oversite that I'm allergic to sulfur? God I want to have this happen to them sometimes so they would pay more attention before messing with peoples lives!