12/18/2009

I wanted to start a pain journal for myself so I can keep track of my progress with pain management.  So far I have little to none.  Right now I am seeing a pain management doctor.  He had me on percocet 10mg four times a day for the last 8 months about.  I went in on Nov 7 to ask him to please change my meds completely because the percocet does not work for more than two hours at a time.  I don't want to take percocet every two hours.  I just want to take something that will last longer so I can take less.  He then added one percocet a day.  I went back to see him on Dec 7 and again told him I needed to switch meds because the percocet isn't working for me.  I had just taken one an hour before the appointment and was still in a lot of pain.  So much so that my blood pressure was very high.  He told me I was too young to be taking so much narcotics and decided to wean me off of the meds all together then start back with something milder.  He cut me back to three percocet a day for this month.  I have been in so much pain everyday since.  That catches me up  to today.  I took a percocet when I got up this morning.  Of course not even an hour later I was in pain again.  Still, I waited till noon to take the second one.  Same thing again with the pain.  I waited as long as I could to take the third one but by four I couldn't hold out anymore.  Now I have reached my limit for the day.  It is now 7:30 and I've been hurting a good bit since 5:00.  I will go take a hot bath now and try to relax.  Of course the pain will probably keep me from going to sleep at a decent hour and I have to work tomorrow.  The pain I am experiencing is in and around my kidneys.  Both of them.  My right one is sore to touch.  I have constant burning in my bladder.  I drank tons of water today but still the burning.  I plan to print some threads and info from this site and try to stop by the pain doctor on Monday to give him a little something to read since he told me I shouldn't even be hurting in the first place.  Once I go back for my appointment which isn't till Jan 11, I will refer him to this site and hopefully we can get something worked out.  I can only pray he will begin to take this seriously.