I have not known someone personally but I would think that it might be possible. My questions is have you ever taken something and it help at least a little and if it did I can not see this for you. It seems either that one thing you were talking about I forgot the name but where the pain meds just make the pain worse or something else. I dont know maybe you are expecting to much from the meds you are prescribed and that they will lesson the pain but not take it away. There is a pain chart on here someone posted look up yours and see where it is on it. You may think your meds are stronger then they are.

I know for me my meds is just one in many tools that I do to manage my pain and without one of them all of them are not effective. I dont expect and I am sure you dont either that a vicoden would take care of a OXY pain so under medicated might be a problem. But that opens up so more problems because our pain meds have to match the DX so we cant take OXY super strength for a hurt back with a slight herniated disk or fibro it is just to strong for that type of injury.

I think if you take meds take them and know they are not going to stop the pain only help control the pain do not put all your eggs in one basket and maybe PT will work OR water aerobics or yoga it might take months if not years to find what works best.

Good luck I know sometimes when there are so many possibilities of why it is just more confusing. Keep it simple

i take opiates but at a dose some people say would knock them out, but my mother and i are both opiate resistant. it takes a lot more to affect either of us which isn't great with the suspected drug-seeking activity. it takes more to put us down for surgery, etc. when i had a lung biopsy, they wouldn't believe me and i felt every time the needle went in and the dr. wouldn't believe me and collapsed a lung b/c i was awake and crying. you have to find a dr. who believes you. i don't know if there's a test or just experience, but there must be a gene since it happens with both my mother and i. we were just talking about this last night. good luck, cherry!

I am very resistant to meds, my mother was and my daughter is, my daughter does not have any history with taking meds, but one procedure she went thru, the doctor was having a hard time puting her under, needless to say it was an awfull experience for her and me.
I hope they find out how to help you.
Rhonda

I certainly haven't tried them, all but of the few, it barely touches the pain. I get migraines. On an average day I take about 12 T-3's (codeine) and it just takes an edge off of it and I continue to suffer the monster to the end. That is all I can expect. Morphine was a sugar pill. I don't know what they gave me in the hospital but I think that was sugar too.

My current doctor doesn't want to prescribe anything else since I'm on such a cocktail of preventatives, but I'm seeing a Migraine specialist in November (I count the days) so hopefully he can help before I jump that bridge.

You could be opiate resistant or opiates might not be the right treatment. For example nerve pain is almost never helped by narcotics. If you take enough it will knock you out but it's not really stopping the pain.

My son is opiate resistant. The only thing that has worked for him has been a muscle relaxer and dilauded.

I hope you are able to get some relief soon.

My doctor explained why codeine (T3's) doesn't work on me - he said the liver processes the codeine and turns it into morphine which is what relieves the pain. Some people's liver can't do this and codeine is useless otherwise. IF morphine doesn't work on you then it makes sense T3's aren't going to work either.
Knowing this I can see how there are probably people who cannot process all opiates properly also. But without trying something different its hard to say one is opiate resistant. T3's did nothing for me but now I'm on oxycontin and it is working. Maybe you need to try something different.
Hope you find some relief soon. Hugs and peace,
Lisa

YES!

I get no relief from certain ones, others totally knock me out, and the method of adminstration matters as well.. IV morphine did nothing after my car accident as did whatever the latest and greatest anti nausea med. They had to give me a shot of morphine IM before I was out of pain (the total dose should have knocked me out - it did NOT!)

I wake on the table during surgery (even the very first one!)
I have to tell anesthesia about these things all the time.

If I ever get the chance, I'll talk to my doctor about this. She appears to have reached her limit of knowledge when pain management is concerned, though.

The different sources of my pain seem to aggravating each other. A Reumatologist I used to see told me that the arthritis/stenosis I have in my neck is causing the Fibro to flare horribly. Now I've added the fluid and tendonitis in my shoulder which has caused the same side of my neck to spasm along with it. It hurts so much every day...and I'm still working a little. I have no choice.

I was on increasing doses of Vicodin for a few years as my condition continued to worsen. Morphine attacked my stomach and I couldn't tolerate even a small dose. I tried oxycodone, buit was only 5mg. 4 times a day ad it didn't touch the pain.

Next...50mcg, Duagesic patch which I use now with little difference along with vicodin 10-660. I waited over a week for my script for oxycontin to be accepted by insurance only to find out that it completely shut down my digestive system. It was like everything was paralyzed, I bloated and started vomiting while still in pain.

I can get a brief bit of relief for a very short time with vicodin and the patch until I start working or just moving around too much. It only helps if the pain hasn't started at a high level before I take it.

My doc won't write another script for vicodin until she gets a report from the pain clinic that I went to...once! I called my doc yesterday and never heard back, but there is a script for the patches waiting for me to pick up so I'm going to drive over for that.

I don't really feel like driving a half hour over and back, but I have no choice. I might find that she also wrote a script for the vicodin and they didn't bother to let me know. Guess I'll go find out.

I don't expect to be pain free or even close to it and I use heat, stretching and I WORK. I just want a little more relief than I'm getting which is minimal, at best.

On the road,
Cherry

Opiates did not work for me, most made me vomit & if they didn't, well they did not work anyways. I am not on Lyrica, for nerve pain,& Naproxene, & it seems to be doing the best for me

cherry, i use heat and cold, lidocaine patches which require extra approval, opiates, and now duragesic patches. lisa, that's helpful info. i know muscle relaxers have helped me in the past, but those seem to be as hard to get. i had bad reactions to lyrica and celexa - horrible muscle twitches where i couldn't sleep at all b/c every time i dropped off to sleep i'd wake myself. they have to figure more out. we're not in one big pot.

I drove all the way over to find that the doc hadn't decided whether or not to prescribe the vicodin for me. In the message I had left yesterday, I even said 2 weeks worth would be fine and then we could discuss the plan on my appt. day. She'll be in tomorrow and maybe she'll be done reviewing the pain clinic report. I did find out that she got it, at least.

I'm afraid to go anywhere else without knowing if I'm going to be confident in the doctor. I don't want to jump in, switch my records over and then regret it.

I'm in a pickle, no doubt.

Hugs and thanks for the replies,
Cherry