Thanks for you feed back! I have also tried the patches, but was not pleased the outcome.
While I'm no doctor, I do suffer from bone one bone pain in several of my joints, so I can definitely relate o the pain that you're suffering from. I had my right shoulder replaced a little over two years ago.
I've had the Euflexxa injections done in one of my knees, but unfortunately, did not receive much, if any, kind of relief from it. Prior to my ortho surgeon injecting my knee, I asked him if it was possible to have the same injections done in my other joints. He told me at that time (about a year ago), that, while the Euflexxa may provide some relief from the pain, etc., it had not been approved for use in any other joints other than the knee. Therefore, insurance more than likely would not cover any of the cost - and even with insurance, the cost of the injection was already quite high!
I would be very leary of purchasing ANY type of medication from an online provider - you will never know for sure what you are getting and in some cases, it is illegal.
You mentioned that the oral medications have become less and less effective - that is very common and normal - the longer we are on narcotic medications, the more we build up a tolerance for that medication and therefore, it doesn't work as well as it once did. There are many other medications you could possibly try, however, that may give you good pain control. Have you ever disccused the fentayl patch with your doctor? If you haven't, you may want to consider talkign to him about it. While it's astrong medication, because it is in patch form as opposed to oral form, it tends to be easier on the stomach than oral meds. It also gives you round the clock pain control. Many chronic pain sufferers also take a short acting pain med for breakthrough pain, but I've heard of many thad have found with the patch that they need much less of that breakthrough pain than they did when they were taking long acting pain meds with teh short acting ones.
Obviously, you and your doctor at the only ones who can make the treatment decision - I just wanted to let you know that I had previously checked into getting the Euflexxa injection in joints other than what it has been approved for and also to give you some (hopefully) useful information regarding pain meds that you might be able to try.
I wish you the best of luck!