Dear Everyone,
First of all, I would like to thank you in advance for your help and advise.
I'm a 42 yrs old male and live in Queens, New York.
A 1 1/2 year ago ( August 2007), I sufered a major motorcycle accident; my injuries were:
- 5 fractured vertebraes, C4, C5, T7, T8, T9.
- 5 broken ribs.
- broken right wrist in two places.
- fractured pelvis; one fracture on the right side, two fractures on left side.
- punctured right lung.
- dislocated right shoulder.
I was hospitalized for two months and released on a wheel chair that I used for two more months.
At that point, I was treated with Percoced first, then Oxycodone, and Vicodin ES with APAP 7/750, on that order. Then after aproximately 8 months, my care was transferred to my PCP by the Hospital. My PCP then started to get me out of Vicodin after about 2 months due to the narcotic nature of it. And he prescribed up to 8 Tramadol 50mg per day combined with Ibuprofen 600 mg as needed, usually 3 to 4 a day.
At that point, the pain increased but was a little tolerable. ( I am a bit of a tough guy and have high pain tolerance ). So, I dealt with the pain,( aprox 4-5 /10), up to now May 2009.
As of now, May '09 the Tramadol and Ibuprofen no longer help and my pain has increased trememdously to a 8-9/10 level. It is now, specifically localized on the back of my neck and torso section of my back, it then wraps around my ribs, working its way down to my pelvic area where it intensifies even more specially at night and then goes down both of my legs specially my left, it hurts to the point of crying.
I went to my PCP and he prescribed Vicodin 7.5 / 750 again and said that in two weeks he will start a course of anti inflamatory injections.It has been a week and the new meds help ease part of the pain but do not do anything for my left leg and pelvis; this section keeps hurting unbearably. It is a sustained and permanent high pitch pain, for lack of a better term.
My thoughts are beginning to wonder out to a self destructive path. And, I really do not want to dump this on my family, they have suffered enough with this.
I respectfully request your help and advise in any way you can, as I do not have the slightest idea of how to deal with this. In return, I can only offer my immense gratitude and prayers for all of you.
Thank you,