Please let me know if this helps u or anyone else
Please let me know if this helps u or anyone else
I would twitch base ... get on suboxone for 14 days ( whatever mg u need ). Then day 15 ,start to taper .5 a day or two worst case. And get off. Get a massage every day or other and go in jacuzzi once a day shower twice and heat pads where pain is ...... and day 16 get some gabapentin and soma and maybe Ativan ..... and forsure trazadone a lot of it 100mg-200mg to sleep . Slowly get off subs this way and beat the withdrawals as much as you can with soma and Advil ONLY AT THE END 40th day............god bless . ............
OR. YOU STAY ON SUBS FOR 3-4 years. But ...... Then switch back to your reg pain killers OR DILOUDID /OPANA ER fifth year and THEN stay on diloudid or opana er. Lil bit of soma/Advil (mixture) ;) Then after one whole year ....... try switching to the 15 day quit mechanisms with subs and all the other withdrawal meds. And do what I said
Hi new friend! So, I can relate to you. I broke my back 8 years ago. Was using Vicodin for the first couple of years. Than, I was switched over to Norco for the last couple of years. When I would run out of my pain pills, I would use the fentanyl patch. I believe it was the 75 mg? Second strongest pain patch? It was never prescribed to me. I found someone who had them and use them. The first day(after it would kick it) I felt amazing!!!! Seriously, I was super mom and had so much energy. Second day, was ok.. Third day, terrible!!!!! Withdrawals came like no other. I was also very scared that I would have an accidental overdose. You don't want to mess around with those things. I couldn't even drive while I was on it. I made my hubby drive me wherever. If I were you, I would get off of them and wean off of your pain pills. See how ur body feels with lowering your dose.
It sounds like you are at the end of the opiate road . The opiates sooner or later(usually sooner) end up not working anymore and then they start causing more pain than the condition they were originally prescribed for. Have you read any information about opiod induced hyperalgesia ? When I broke my arm really bad a few years ago the pain never went away until AFTER I got off of the opiates. I am an addict though .I took them and other opiates for the relief of mental stress and to avoid my feelings of depression and anxiety.
Do you take them for that reason also ??? THAT was a very important question If you could enter a rehab that also works with pain patients and get dried out and then get a baseline level of your real pain in a month or so after discontinuing the opiates,that would be optimal. Many people find that the pain wasn't nearly as bad as they thought it was once your body starts producing it's natural endorphins to Kill ain naturally .There are also many other non medicine based ways of controlling pain. Fentanyl is pretty much the strongest opiod out there so I doubt you can go to any other opiate at this point and get any substantial pain control. Sorry you are going through all of this.There are many many people here that can help you through this and some have back problems just like yours or worse and they have learned to deal with it and function and live well without the pills patches etc. Sunday can be slow on here but Hang in there friend
Fentanyl is pretty strong from my knowledge. Not sure if you can get much stronger. I tried them a couple years ago but I was looking to get high off it and cutting them open then sucking them dry. Did it for a couple days and wanted nothing to do with them after that. Are you going to a pain mgmt. Dr.? Your on a lot of meds. Morphine and Fentanyl seems pretty dangerous. I know there was a study a while back about Fentynal and the high death rate from people using it. Have you tried Dilaudid for the pain? I suffer from DDD with herniated disks in my lower back and since coming off the meds Im able to keep the pain down with OTC pain relievers. At least make it tolerable. I dont know, Fentanyl is pretty scary to me. Talk to your Dr. I was put on methadone for pain mgmt but I wound up abusing that as well so Im not a good candidate for pain meds. Are you abusing any of the meds? Taking more then prescribed? The morphine/fentanyl mix just seems to much.
I cannot imagin what you're going through - but I wanted you to know that someone on this forum will amswer soon.
It seems like you are on a lot of meds & may need to go to a rehab place to detox.
Hang in there . . .somone will get back to you!!