In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
Options
Pain Clinic Update
dav1965
Member Posts: 26,543 ✭✭✭
When i went to the pain clinic i was worried about how things were going to go. I have heard several bad things about them. My doctor asked me to go so i went.
I was taking 30mg of morphine 2 times a day. 1 in the morning and 1 in the night. I was taking 6 oxycodones 10mg a day.
Now i take 60mg of morphine in the mourning and 30mg at night. She cut my oxycodone from 180 10mg a month to 90 15mg a month.
I get a shot every 3 months of kenalog in the hip from my family doctor.
The pain clinic gives me shots where i hurt the worst. Wens my doctor asked where i was hurting the most and i told her neck pain shooting into the bottom of my head she gave me 2 shots no problem. Plus something just for pain.
The first time i went i did have to take a drug test but that was no big deal. I do not drink or do drugs so thats no big deal.
Overall i give the pain clinic an A+. So glad that i went.
I was taking 30mg of morphine 2 times a day. 1 in the morning and 1 in the night. I was taking 6 oxycodones 10mg a day.
Now i take 60mg of morphine in the mourning and 30mg at night. She cut my oxycodone from 180 10mg a month to 90 15mg a month.
I get a shot every 3 months of kenalog in the hip from my family doctor.
The pain clinic gives me shots where i hurt the worst. Wens my doctor asked where i was hurting the most and i told her neck pain shooting into the bottom of my head she gave me 2 shots no problem. Plus something just for pain.
The first time i went i did have to take a drug test but that was no big deal. I do not drink or do drugs so thats no big deal.
Overall i give the pain clinic an A+. So glad that i went.
Comments
I will admit they did change my medicine around they gave me more morphine 30 and they cut my oxycodone from 180 to 90. I was skeptical about it but it did work.
I have to go every month for a doctors appointment which is a bummer. With my family doctor i go every 3 months and just go to the reception area to get my prescriptions in between.
Every time i go to the pain clinic she will give me a shot to help with pain. Yesterday when i went she asked where i was hurting the most and she gave me 2 shots in my lower back on each side of my spine. The time before that i had shooting pain in my neck and she gave me 2 shots in my head.
Plus she has given me shots in my knees. I am glad i went just wish i went sooner.
I have a question: If you use a pharmacy that you have not gone to before do they give you funny looks when you get pain killers that strong.
Reason I am asking is my vet made gave me a prescription for painkillers for my dog Dusty when he was dying of cancer. I went to fill it and they looked at me and treated me like I was a dope fiend. I told them to call my vet it was for my dog. They did to verify it. I go a little PO'ed.
I tried to get the VA to take me but i was denied because i make to much money. I did not want to go to their doctors but i wanted to use their pharmacy. My medicine cost 250 a month.
I live close to a small town and have used that pharmacy for 15 years or so. They all know me and i have never had any problems.
They know what i went through and the problems i am still having. I ask Al the pharmacist sometimes if their is a drug that will help me and have brought the suggestions to my doctor a few times.
I do not mind getting suggestions to make my life and pain better.