I have had severe knee pain since I was ten years old.I was hit by a truck as a pedestrian in 1990 at ten years old,and the doctors did 6 major knee sugeries trying to fix it,in which the pain in it got just got worse I was prescribed to take at home lortabs and percocets for several years.Then at 18 they said they thought I was getting addicted to them and they quit prescribing me pain pills,ecept darvacet,which did nothing forthe pain.I started doing street drugs when they cut me off.I took heroin mainly,because it eased my pain and Iiked it.I felt like I had no choice but to take heroin.I never shared needles though.
Well,i was hit by a truck again November 22,2002.I have been prescribed morphine ever since.But they raised the morphine levelsa few times.But I have been on the same milligrams of it for about four years now,which is 3 hundred milligrams of time released morphine to take every day, taking it as
prescribed doesn't help the pain at all.I have to take 600 milligrams of mophine at one time every other day,and that helps me a little.I can't live a happy like this,being in terrible pain and feeling terrible on the days I skip taking the morphine.That is why I want to see another pain management asap.My current pain management I know is a liar,because for one thing when I asked him about 3 years ago,what 300 milligrams of morphine to take every day is equal to in a fentanyl patch he told me that it would be at least 100 or 110 and that he would have to look it up in his charts to see exactly what it is. when,I last seen him,he showed me
me in his computer that being prescribed 300 milligrams of morphine a day is equal to only 75 micrograms of a fentanyl patch.I believe he definately made that file up on his computer.They're giving me the option ofgetting prescribe the 75 microgram patch and taking me off the morphine completely.I can only bear the pain to walk a little with a cane on the days I take my morphine,and try my hardest to sleep on the days I have to skip taking my morphine,which is every other day.I know I will never have a happy life like this.I DO HAVE VERY SEVERE PAIN.Of course I am addicted to opiates though,without a choice.They will not give a nee repalement,and all they will do is fuse my right leg with a rod.I have heard of 3 people that had this done with their leg and they had alot more pain after the leg fusion and one of them even had the hurt the hurt leg removed,which now he doesn't have bad pain any more,except he does have what I think is called phantom pain,where you feel like your hurt leg is still there sometimes.Please somebody tell me what 300 milligrams of morphine to take every day is equal to in fentanyl patches?I really need to know this if I want to live a happy life.My right leg is very messed up for the rest of my life,unless they ever give me a knee replacement.I know I am physically addicted to strong opiates.But I have to be in order to stand the pain at all.God BLESS YOU ALL,AND THANK YOU FOR READING THIS LETTER,
Derek