Why are pain docs so reluctant to prescribe me with a drug strong enough to help my pain now? for ex. last summer was great-pain-free (oxy)

[travie1973]

[JackieWann]

I know how you feel lm in the same boat ,l know that 35mg morphine patch ,let's me have a good quality of life and live with only a little pain...

But they have taken it down to 25mg because they feel lve been on a high dose for too long

So now lm back to square one ,I go to bed in pain ,wake up through the night in pain and then all day ....

Why do gps do this to us ....

[moggiemay in reply to JackieWann]

Hi Jackie Wann; Sorry about your medication being reduced, What does it say on the box I am wondering if it is Buprenorphine 35mcg. There is no ceiling on the dose of morphine that can be given Write back and tell me more

Love Moggiemay

[Boozybird]

It's bloody ridiculous!

[moggiemay]

Hi Travie you dont say what medication you are on and for what it is prescribed If it was the same as last year I dont see th problem ?? Keep in touch Moggiemay

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I have had the experience of my morphine sulphate getting so high (after complications of surgery), although I have taken it every day at a lower dose for chronic pain, that my opiate receptors be became saturated. It was horrible, I felt so I'll. I couldn't function or eat after 2 pm u til 1 am. I lost a lot of weight and was too I'll to meet friends. This went on about 2 months. If your painkillers aren't working go to a pain clinic. They have an armoury of 300 meds, and procedures to control pain. For me, pulsed radio frequency injections to my hips and spine help enormously and last for 9 months. The procedure is drug free except the local anaesthetic and mild sedation. Different procedures help different people but for me I get from this better sleep and a better quality of life, and can use fewer meds. Good luck! Remember GPs are not trained in chronic pain and tend to use the palliative care model, which is all most of them know, but they shouldn't.

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Dear Moggie May, with respect there is a ceiling on morphine doses for each individual. You take more and you get respiratory depression and stop breathing. Death. My GP called round unexpected at 7am one morning after she gave me a morphine/cyclizine shot to stop a migraine and help the fact I had thrown up my meds. She was worried she had overdosed me so she was checking I was still alive! she hadn't overdosed me, I was fine. She would say and so would I she did nothing wrong

[CWG2210]

My doc started on nefopam, then tramadol and finally morphine for night pain relief. He has started me on 20mg nightly but said I can move up to 30mg if needed. I also take amitriptylineat night 10mg but can move up to 20mg and I also have codiene for day pain but I try to limit to 30mg 3 times Daly. I know I am in early days of management and have asked for pain clinic referall I can only look to the future and think, I will not always be like this. I feel your anguish, how long you been like this Travis?