Pain Medication

From: IAS Admin (tracy.joslin@adhesions.org)
Mon Jun 2 20:00:05 2008


From: adhesions@adhesions.org [mailto:adhesions@adhesions.org] On Behalf Of Kelly Murray Sent: Monday, May 26, 2008 6:24 PM Subject: Re: Pain Medication

There are other things your pain doc can add.  I am surprised he hasn't.  Some times anti-depressents and muscle relaxants can help.

Kelly

> Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 14:23:15 -0500
> From: tracy.joslin@adhesions.org
> To: adhesions@mail.obgyn.net
> Subject: Pain Medication
>
> Sender: dgold74@optonline.net (Deborah Goldberger)
> Subject: Pain Medication
>
> I am currently taking 120 mg Oxycontin and 105 mg of Oxycodone per day
> (and that's just the narcotics). I know that there is no "right amount"
> but I was wondering if that seems high, low or about even to what some
> of you have taken or are taking? Even with these meds, I'm still in a
> lot of pain but when I explain that to my pain doc he pretty much just
> ignores me and he will not even seem to consider increasing it. In
> fact, he was decreasing it for awhile until I spoke to him about it and
> was able to convince him to leave the dosage alone. In spite of this
> issue, I do feel like he is trying to look out for my best interests and
> maybe increasing them any more would be dangerous or useless (I don't
> know as he never answers my question of why not). Can anyone give me an
> idea of whether this is a particularly high level and whether I should
> fight harder for an increase? When they were at a higher level
> previously, with a different pain doc, it was the only thing that helped
> the pain at all.
> Thank you so much - I would be lost without all of your help!
> Debbie
>


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