Read`the post I just put up a few minutes ago, I was going thru the same thing.

i think you mean cold turky, thats cute cold turnkey. jez your young, if you can get off the pain meds. maybe you should try..

Maybe if you have some meds left, try to wean yourself off. I don't know much about this, I have not gotten to that point yet though I hope to one day.

sorry i meant cold turkey was typing too fast. I decieded to just try taking half of my dose when i have pain then just stopping. The nerve block did not take it all away and im not wanting to tell my hubby that. Even though he is a paramedic he worries so much and yet at times acts like he doesnt care. But thank you guys for all of your advice. Just a sleepless night here bad storms my poor dog keeps jumping on the bed and i wish he would stop my back is still very sore.

Nerve blocks are not a one time thing. I have been going for mine once a week for over a year. They in themselves are not an answer.. it is vital to treat yourself as a whole person.. mind, body and soul.

Well I would have to call him a CREEP if you ask me... he doesnt know what he is doing if he doesnt know something SO simple as weaning someone down or even having the common courtesy to ask if you have what you need to wean off your meds(if thats what he wants you to do) safely.

The only thing I can think of is to look at what you have right now /figure out how much you have total and try to wean down as slow as you have meds for. If you have enough, it shouldnt be too bad because you said sometimes you go for 2 or 3 days without... right?
*If I were you (and I cant give medical advice)I would start with the meds that are the strongest (thats assuming that you have different types -I dont know of course)and switch to less as you go.

Im sorry you have a boob for a DR. and I really hope you have an easy taper on the meds.

Gosh, going thru almost exactly the same thing hoping to get some meds this week. but also seeing a specialist on suboxene which is really not necessarily designed for long term pain meds but have heard it can work. If you cant get any more rx, the following link will help you find a dr that specializes in suboxone which will elimiate most if not all withdrawals from opiates according to what I have read.
http://www.naabt.org/zipcode.cfm?page=/patient_doctor/splash.cfm
I know we dont fit into this box so to speak but if it helps with your pain and has less side effects it might be worth, that is what I'm hoping.
Wishing you the best
Duane

sorry to post 2x but had SI block shot last week also and really did nothing at all, must convince dr to continue other long term treatments with proper meds, hopefully.
well good night and blessings to you

Duane

Oh Im praying this nerve block is the last one for a long while lol. My back is still sore and im curious i must have my hubby look at it in the morning. I dont know if i have four bruises from the injections ( i moved some) or if the permanent marker got in there and now i have a tattoo. grrr That thing hurt so bad and tons of pressure. i did not get a sedative so i was freaking out tensed up wasnt good. My pain was pretty bad today still dealing not only with my back but my pelvic pain with my cycle too. its 100xs worse with the neuropathy i tell ya. i go to the gyn tomorow hopefully some answers. thank you guys but hopefully tomorrow is better and i can start weaning again i hate pain.

The advice is to go slowly. If you take three pills a day now, start taking two for a week. Then drop it to one. If this step is too much, you can get a pill cutter from any pharmacy and take one and a half. Do that for a week, then move down again.

You will want to have Imodium (it has to be Imodium - not anything else). The ingredient in Imodium is an opiate that only binds to the gastrointestinal tract, so it does not provide pain relief, but works as other opiates do to slow down the digestive procress. But, taking the normal dose of this when you are going through withdrawal can help - not only with diarrhea which may happen, but with withdrawal symptoms - it can take a bit of the edge off.


You may want to take a Potassium supplement or eat lots of bananas, which can help the creepy crawly sensation and RLS. If you are a cardiac patient, stick to the bananas not the supplement.

Taking a B-Complex Vitamin can help you deal with any depression that occurs from your system having a lack of the medication. Also B-complex helps you deal with stress in both body and mind. Taking a multi-vitamin can also help, because any deficiency in vitamins can slow your body's creation of endorphins.

Do gentle exercise if you can, because you want to start creating your own endorphins to help deal with pain. When we take opiates, our body stops producing them. So pain seems worse when we first get off of them, because our body doesn't have its normal weaponry to deal with the pain.

Take care,
Laura

Thi is for Blondie and Custom..I was 20 when they did my 1st surgery, 21 when they did my hysterc. (the dumbheads)didn't take the right ovary and tube as it wasn't as infected!!! 2 yrs later I was back in to have that removed! I did get by for a while without pain meds but in 1987 the pain kicked in and all hell broke loose for me..adhesions, endom. and many other chronic pain things..there is not a day I can go with out a pain med and am allergic to so many that there are only a couple I can have, when I hear of pain still going on and doc's pulling patients off of meds..two things go thru my mind..adhesions, and the doc is worried about having a patient on pain meds too long...might I suggest get a second opinion? Would this be to rude or not appropriate...you will do what you wish, I just hate to see anyone who has endo or adhesions have to go thru what I have. PS: I am awaiting word to hear back from the pain center to see if they will "take me" as their patient...I will try anything to ease the horrible pain...Good luck...Granny

this is to granny12, if you read this womans post she wants children, do you know how damangeing most medications are to a fetus? i had to stop all my pain medication cold "turnkey", when i got preganant then when i breast fed for two years, then i felt fine. my daughter is smart, and beautiful. now i;m 52, and i regret to say i have to take medication to function. but if i had to start at such a young age,maybe i wouldn't have my daughter. i understand about gyno problems, being sexually abused as a child. i was just trying to encourgage this person, it does seem sad that a person so young who wants children has to take narcatics. when i was breast feeding the medication they gave me in the hospital went into my daughter, the peditricain asked me if i was on medication, i told him, he said, you have a choice, you can throw out those percocets and breast feed or you can bottle fed her, but you can't do both, so i threw them out, and i beleive nature gives us the strength as woman to care for our children. so that for you granny12.