I have Samters but is this part of it also?

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I haven't posted here in awhile other then to say that my Samters seems to be

under control with doses of Singulair, Nasonex, Asmonex, and Loratidien.

In any case, when I was younger I raced motorcycles and manages to break several

bones and have other injuries in the process. Back at that time, I was given the

usual pain meds like Darvon, Dilauded, and a few others. Each of these had

minimal, if any, affect on me, which I figure was just normal at the time.

Recently I had a major eight hour back operation where they inserted titanium

bolts and rods to hold things back together. Apparently when strapping me down

for the operation, they broke a rib on my left side.

When I woke up after the operation, the pain was pretty intense. Besides laying

on my back, which had just been sliced open, I could hardly breath because of

the broken rib. The attending nurse asked my pain level on a scale of one to

ten. I told her that it was an eleven.

She gave me an injection of morphine and said everything would ease off in a

short time. Well, to make a long story shorter, the pain DID NOT decrease. I

told the nurse that the pain was still there and had not decreased at all and

she gave me another injection of morphine. Again, no affect, nothing at all. The

injections did not even make me drowsy. They were monitoring my vitals on a

continuous basis and they could see no change from the meds. The nurse consulted

a doctor and that is when the fun began. I was put on morphine injections every

few hours and they then tried Percocet, Demerol, Oxycodone, and a new pain med

called Nucynta, in addition to the morphine. All of them had the same non-affect

on my pain and they could not believe that my vitals were not changing either.

By now it had been probably eight to ten hours after my operation and the

intense pain had prevented any sleep at all. They then decided to try some

sleeping pills. I don't know the specific type. Again no affect and the

doctors/nurses had trouble with the fact that my vitals were not changing at all

from these meds. Naturally, because of my Samters, anti-inflammatory drugs were

out of the question also. Finally they concluded that for whatever reason, they

did not have any drug that could give me relief and that they had gotten very

close to fatal dose levels. I spent four days in the hospital bed without

getting any sleep that I remember before they sent me home, without a

prescription for pain medications.

The next month of recovery was without a doubt the most uncomfortable time of my

life. I finally started to get a few hours of sleep during the day and

eventually things started to get back to normal.

It has now been about 7 months since my operation and although I do have some

pain, it is getting better and is easily bearable.

My question is.......is this normal? Have other Samter's patients also not had

any affect from pain medications, or sleeping pills? I am trying to find out if

this is part of Samter's symptoms or is this something entirely different and

unrelated.

My doctors are puzzled and, were it not for the evidence from my vitals, I am

not sure that they believed me when I kept telling them they pain was still

present.

I know people are willing to pay big bucks for Oxycodone to feel whatever it is

they feel when they take the drug. To me, I may as well be eating an M & M since

it does nothing for me.

Anyone else have a similar problem?