Re: Chronic Pain Fuels Boom in Opioids/

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i have heard horror stories about those patxhes and to be hinest i lost my

gorgous 52 sister to oxycotin and wearing two fenytl patches she died of

heart failure she also drank with them and never eat she abused them as a

emointal crutch. i hate being on opids cause afte being on them so long they

just dont work long enough i a,m thinking on switching to three oxycotin

and two roxy docone a long tem one and short tem for break thru he doesn't

give me anything for break thru pain

netty

In a message dated 3/15/2012 11:05:20 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

pjkettlejr@... writes:

Netty/Margie

When I was using opiods for pain management (peripheral nerve

degradation, small nerve fiber count at 10% of normal, etc., etc.), we

switched to the patches when the number of oxycodone pills got too high.

The best thing about them is the blood level of Fentanyl (generic name -

duragesic) remains constant. I would then use the oxycodones for

breakthrough pain.

The bad part of my situation was that the narcotics were doing nothing

for the pain directly, but were just dulling my senses. I went through

a six-week in-patient pain program at s Hopkins during which I was

taken off all narcotics. With no narcotics in my systems, the pain

levels were the same as when I was on 150 mcg duragesic patch, 40 mg

oxycodone, and 400 mg Ultram per day.