At Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Rick wrote:
>
>Nubain Searched this word and found nothing in the database. So I
>wanted to throw out what happened today and also ask a question. I
>thought it might be interesting to those that are not getting pain
>relief.
>
>My wife's pain has not been releived in the slighest in weeks. She has
>had 24/7 pain and only a day and half releif when she tried Xanax. But
>that was short lived. Don't know why.
>
>NO pain medication gives her any releif. We have used and overused
>Vicoden, Percocet, Fetanyl (Actiq) lollypops and currently on 200mg
>Kadian (MS Contin). She does not even get the slightest edge off of her
>pain. She can't take the pain anymore. Her doctors have given up on
>her. Tonight I called a housecall doctor. We had asked for a Demerol
>shot to give her a few hours peace. When he got here, he felt giving
>her Demerol would be a waste since these types of drugs have had no
>effect on her. Instead, he injected Nubain. 15 minutes later, she was
>laughing, ( not seen in a month), eating, (not seen in a month )and in
>no pain.(not seen in a month. From what the doctor told me, he gave her
>a different class of pain relief. This makes me think that in some
>women that are not getting releif from the standard pain medicines,
>might find some releif in another class.
>
>>From what I have learned of Nubain in the last few hours, I would highly
>recommend no one even think of this as a long term pain releif.
>Apparently it is highly addictive and will destroy one's life. For my
>wife I don't worry becasue she is soon to leave for surgery.
>
>But, what I take away from this expeirence that might help others, is
>maybe the area's of the brain where the adhesions are causing pain, can
>be helped by a different Class/type of drug.
>
>I hope I have not bored anyone with my lengthy story, I just can't
>beleive the amount of pain women are expeirencing with this illness. If
>this helps one person, that makes me feel great. Usually I don't have
>time to write such a long email, but wife is sleeping like a baby for
>once.