Chronic Pain Support Group

Physicians and professionalsdefine pain as chronic if it lasts longer than three to six months and is persistent. It's distinct from acute pain that is a direct result of injury or trauma. This support group is dedicated to those suffering from chronic pain. Discuss treatments that have worked for you, find advice for your specific experience, and find support. You're not...

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venting a bit

meganK08
meganK08
Ok so i had my nerve block last thursday and was feeling great i mean. i had, had my cycle all last week and was in horrible terrible pain to the point of taking 2-3 oxycodone a day. then the day of my block i was all this is great no pain!! all weekend i decided that since my pain was coming back a bit i would take it then too. so i was taking 2 a day. Now this week im just not wanting it. I do have a lot of pain still but im just tired of how my family is treating me. My sister said when i visit her in two weeks they are going in the blender!! all my meds!! makes me so mad. then im just mad at myself because im starting school this week and i dont want to be in pain but i dont want to not be able to remember it that well either. the lyrica does that for me wo the oxy. so last night through all the pain i put on two lidocaine patches and tried to sleep had some sleepy tea too. but i woke up all sweaty then cold, i tried to call my dr because he seems to think i can just ta da and stop all meds. i thought it didnt work that way. so i am halfing them and trying no to take them if i do not have too. just lots of anxiety i started crying yesterday when hubby said he would be late. have any of you ever tried to quit your meds even though you still had bad pain? The dr isnt trying to help at all and i feel so alone in this. thanks
deleted_user
deleted_user
awh honey! why haven't you told me all of this? I am here for you! You should know this by now!! Just take it one day at a time...ask about the Tramadol hon, it's better than the narcotics! Loves ya!
deleted_user
deleted_user
I'm sorry that you have to go thru this without much family support. I certainly know that feeling. I just want to give people like your sister a big shake. "put them in the blender".. people who don't have pain have no idea. I'm not one for narcotics either.. but we each have to find our own balance. Don't let people make you feel like you are a junkie for pain meds. Unless you are abusing the way they are percribed. Anyways we all have our own views on this subject. I've got many posts up there stating what I do for pain management... but honey you should not be made to feel and/or you should not make yourself feel like you are weak. It's not as easy as throwing things out the window.. if you change what you do med wise you should do it gradually and you should replace it with something else... do meditaion so that you get better in touch with your body.. research .. knowledge is power. Try guided imagery or self-hypnosis.. don't just throw them out. msg me anytime. Hugs J.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I know you heard this all before, worry about yourself, but if you are feeling really bad about taking the meds, get to a doctor that can help you, withdrawal from them there is meds out there, and i know you are sick of them, but unfortunately we have this burden to deal with, we go on the meds because we are in pain, and when we want to go off we are in pain, you can ask about suboxun and methadone, they are easier to quit then the opiates, from what i heard from people not first hand,
if you think you still need them because of the pain, then wait till you are ready, not your family
deleted_user
deleted_user
I have made several attempts, all ending in failure. I have gone cold turkey, I wouldn't recommend and the weaning off method. Always with my doctors knowing.

At this point I am resigned to living on meds the rest of my life. But so what, when I stopped the meds I had no quality of life. With them I feel more alive.

It isn't enough to be alive, you have to live too.

Don't let people who can never understand place a stigma on what you have to do, to get through the day with some quality of life.

AS for the Lyrica and Neurontin, I had the same problems with short term memory, for my DW Pink it was far worse than mine. It was sad to watch. Neither of us will take that ever again.

I wish you well and god speed.
meganK08
meganK08
I think im going to be taking my meds for a while had a bad experience tonight that i dont want to say on here. But the pain was horrendous and i think i hurt my hubby's feelings but it seems like this is never ending. For right now i dont care what my family thinks i mean i do because i love them but i need to help me right now i will stop the meds and have fun lol with hubby when i know that this nerve block is really going to help. Right now it isnt working and i really regret doing it. i dont know which hurts worse my back or my front got my patches on, took my pain meds and am going to sleep. i hate neuropathy, IUD's, infections and just plain pain
BTM
BTM
Megan-I once flushed all my vicodin down the toilet because I was convinced it wasn't working at all, I was in so much pain, turned out it was helping though and I didn't have the nerve to tell the Dr what I had done so I suffered like a you know what for the next 20 some days! I also felt sick as a dog for about the first two or three days after that since I had been on them for over a year at the time.
I was a real peach to be around during that time let me tell'ya!

I suggest getting a good pain doctor to help you reduce your meds or try another therapy to replace them..sounds easy enough I know but It sounds like you already know good Dr.s are hard to find.

I don't know the source of your pain, but I had d Spinal cord stimulator implanted for my nueropathy and I was able to cut my pain meds almost in half and maintain tolerable levels that let me stay more active--and not be an A-hole so much--

The family factor is hard sometimes. If they can not relate to what you are going through, it is easy for them to focus on the meds as the source of all evil.

It's why places like Daily Strength help us.
People here can relate.

Good luck, let me know how you're doing.