Chronic Pain Support Group
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Hi all i have tried all pain meds and the only help i get for my diabetic neuropathy is oxycodone 30mg 3 times a day with methadone 10mg 2 pills twice a day. anybody else have any dosing info, maybe more of the methadone, only the oxy which i hate is helping. also my feet are fine its the pain from my knees to my ankles. i am on this 3 years now and on my 3rd try with lyrica, i am running out of life i cant take it much more
I'm sorry the SCS didn't work for you. It works great for some (like me and Keeska) but doesn't for others. Although it may have been the way the doc put it in. But if it didn't help your pain, and made it worse, than there's really no reason to try it again.
I agree with trying Fentanyl patches. I've never been on them, but they seem to work well for many people. Unfortunately, opiods don't really help neuropathic pain. 'They may take the edge off but they don't really help it much I take opiods for fibro and lupus pain along with the SCS for my RSD pain. Sometimes the RSD pain breaks through the SCS and the opiods help a bit but I usually just ride it out.
I hope you can find something to help you
Sandy
When a patient has titrated up to a *high* dose of Methadone (clearly mark is nowhere near) it can 'block" ( maybe bad choice of word ) the effects of a break through medication. Maybe "hinder" or prevent the effectiveness of the break through ( oxy) is a better description.
The best thing for nerve pain is nutrition and exercise. Pain meds just dull the brains ability to register the pain.
Not sure what you can do to "get off" them since diabetic neuropathy tends to be a rather permanent condition. I would think you would want to find a treatment plan that would control symptoms so you can exercise and function withint the parameters of the over all health conditions. Kinda like trying to learn to eat sugar despite having a disease process that prohibits its consumption. I don't try to eat gluten hoping that one day my broken body will get used to it is waht I mean. We are stuck with some things that we have to control the best we can. It is my understanding that diabetic problems can cause healing issues too. So it seems like you would want to control the symptoms with the smallest amount of medications combined with a program of exercise and adequate nutrition as the best course.