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Post by patngin on Nov 9, 2014 21:37:07 GMT -5
Well I thought I would check in. Everything on my diet is going well somedays better than others. More stress, have been on pretty heavy pain meds since my amputations in 07, I got a letter today that my doctor is retiring and I don't know what I am going to do. I don't think my heart can go through the withdrawals and I am just hoping I can get in to see him before he goes. I didn't realize he was that old but he started the practice that he is in 32 years ago. I am just hoping he can recommend a doc that will keep giving me my meds. You don't just stop 7 years of opiates in one day. I don't mind trying to get off them but I know it will limit my mobility greatly. I have arthritis in all my joints, my hips ache so bad at night on the last night before my new fentanyl patch I can't sleep, I have a titanium rod in one hip and my shoulder still hurts from when I broke the 2 of them. I can't find out anything till tomorrow. Just got the letter on of course Saturday. VA is going to do another CT on my lungs. But other than that I feel pretty good today.
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Post by newyorkbitch on Nov 9, 2014 21:56:36 GMT -5
Perhaps you should speak to the VA about seeing a chronic pain management person.
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Post by patngin on Nov 10, 2014 16:14:16 GMT -5
That might be an idea but I know that the VA is trying not to prescribe opiates but I have been on Fenatanyl and Hydrocodone exactly the same amount for over 7 years. I got an appointment with my doc and hoping that the other doc in the clinic would agree to keeping me on them but doctors are really weird about prescribing things that work. Now they have rescheduled Hydrocodone making it a class 2 narcotic so it is harder to get. My doctor knew how much pain I was in without them and believed that these prescriptions since they do work were better than being crippled and being able to live a somewhat normal like was mor important then all the stuff about prescribing them. If the other doc won't I am considering asking the VA if they would put me through rehab which is done through other drugs and gradually reducing them. I would probably have to use a cane or a walker but I would be off the dreaded prescriptions. Or I could get heroin, not an option but have heard of people doing that. Not for me. It sucks. I have never abused them and my Rx is exactly what it started out at over 7 years ago. I have never tried to get extras or anything else like abusers do.There are stronger things but most of them are time release which doesn't work for us.
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