I will be celebrating 7 years of clean and soberity time on the 15th of December. Help.

[Honeycoco]

Oh, I am in recovery and work a program with a sponsor, have a home group, go to plenty of meetings and yet I feel like a person that is a hypocrite. I was in an auto accident on December 29, 2006--it's been almost 3yrs. I suffer from pinched nerves, bulging disks and servere total back pain. I have been under a doctor's care for the past 3 years for the fibromyalgia pain and conditions and the spinal pain.--TWO SPECIFIC Practice DOCTORs-- ONe for the fibromyalgia and a Pain Management Doctor for the spinal pain and damages.

I have been on and off Lortab 7.5 500 over the past 3 years. Due to my knowledge that I AM AN ADDICT, I watch my intake of medications. I got done to the point that I stopped the Lortabs all together. ANd found out my pain lessed too.

Conflict is I have been going under spinal procedures--tons of spinal injections --every month the right then the next month the left side. been doing these for two years now with very little help i got 30-45 days pain free on one side the the other and then the first injection stopped working and the pain came back worse than it was when I started to get the injections. I have had somewhere around 36 spinal injections in just my low back--so I would  go back on the Lortab to control the pain.

The biggest problem that made it all change is my doctor performed a radiofrequency surgery in the right side and it work for the most part--then again 45-50 days later there was pain from stressed out muscles in my back and I started to experience charlely horse in my entire spine--from my tailbone to the top of my neck. VERY PAINFUL.

Then my doctor did the radiofrequence surgery on my left side--the dr got some of the pinched nerves and did not get them all. It feels like a cut open ended nerve pain that flows through my low back into my bottom, down my leg -feels like lightening peircing pain. So the Dr said increase the Lortabs 7.5 500, from one three times a day to two pills three times a day. So I did. I have dry mouth, tiredness, black-outs, dizzyness, sweats, cold chills even in a warm room. muscle cramps, muscle spams that have complete control over my legs, arms and entire body--looks like a seizure but I am alert during it. Very painful, I have all the signs of an overdoes. so I am stopping the three times a day of two tablets lortab 7.5 500's. I know this feeling of not having control over my body it really scares me. I am having my daughter take me into the Dr tommorow even though they want to see me  Dec 15th.
I am in extreme amount of pain--and I believe if the medication is doing more harm then good, it is an issue I must address. I have been watched by my teenagers to keep me safe during this time of delerim that I have experienced.

Hope I keep my clean time, I wasn't looking for a high, just pain control. The last radiofrequence surgery was done wrong, my legs are numb all the time and I am not functional.

I will do an update
Honeycoco

[freebird227]

Wow !!! That was some kind of experience, the fact that it Doesn't Feel Good is a good sign....Like sara said be straight with the doctor as to the symptoms you had when the pain med was increased.
I sponsor a few women and I would not see this as a relaspe and would not ask you to give up your clean time. Jest because we are addicts doesn't mean we have to suffer major pain.....Keep your recovery in front of you, always let your sponsor and network of others know exactly whatis going on............One Day At A Time

[dominosarah]

Congrats on your clean time!!!  Keep us posted on what you find out.  Let the doctor know what is happening when you take the meds......Be safe            sara