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I'm on oxycodone.. I have Lupus and Fibromyalgia.. I'm still in horrid pain...? |
I was diagnosed with Lupus(SLE) this year and Fibromyalgia a few years ago, but believe it all started after a bout of very serious(hospitalized because of spleen and liver) mono when I was 17yrs old. I have been on percocet 10/325 every 4-6 hour max 4 day for the last 4 YEARS.. recently it got switched to 20 mg of oxycontin twice a day with oxycontin IR 5mg also twice a day... problem is it's still not working and I'm sitting here typing with tears running down my cheeks... I put a call into my doctor..no call back yet... It's full body agony.. I can't take this anymore...I don't know how to tell my doc I need more meds or different, or something... I have tried yoga, nerve blocks, operations, therapy, etc... in the past few years... nothing works, I have three children who need me and all I want to do is curl up in a ball and die... I don't know what to do anymore... Can anyone advise? My prayers are with you i know how tough that is my mother had fibromayalgia since we were little kids..and most of the time she did curl up in a ball and cry all day. She found excercise to be the only help...even though it is very difiicult todo in so much pain.. Dont do more pills, that is what she did and she was in a cloudy haze for 3-4years. I am 23 now and she has gotten better but she has not put forth the effort to fight it she fully could, but anyways good luck.i know it is hard. As far as meds go "pain patches" and morphine suckers work best for her and they dont make her all loopy Unfortunately, for now you may have to be admitted to get your pain under control. There are other options for pain management. Fentanyl patches are a good option. You wear it for 3 days and then put a new one on. They could give you something to take orally for breakthrough pain as well. drug researcher E-mail immediately. shadowsn@hotmail.com put 'FM' in the subject line. I know of something that can help. What you should do rather than getting the dose to oxycodone upped because it is a physically addicting narcotic, you should lick and wipe the time release coating off of the 20mg pills and snort it. I know this may seem a little bad but what this will actually do is bypass your stomach and you will get about 40% of the drug into your blood stream rather than the 15-20% that you get when swallowing. I would suggest that you continue to take the IR orally. Keep in mind that this is a physically addicting narcotic and your tolarance to the drug will increase over time. Actually when snorting the time release pill you may want to start out only doing half of it and if you are still in much pain do the whole of it. What Sio S is telling you is VERY dangerous. I would advise EXTREME caution before snorting oxy. Now, you need some help from a pain management specialist. If you don't know one, get on the Internet and search for one in your zip or close by. Demand an appointment tomorrow. You sound like I feel some days. Thankfully, I have a good support network of family and friends. That is IMPORTANT. Don't give up. Don't give in. Many of us are living with FMS. We can stick together and keep living. |
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