dealing with the post surgical pain of a total knee replacement.

[Guest guest]

I may have misrepresented myself. I do have both physical therapists and

visiting nurses coming 3 times a week. Last Friday they comisserated and called

my surgeon for Oxycontin to help my pain. It has not been the miracle I'd hoped.

I would've rather stayed on oxycodone (even if it didn;t last long enought). Now

I need to have my nurse make another suggestion tomorrow. Sigh, I just don't

want to be perceived as a drug seeker.

[Guest guest]

Your pain is too high if you can't get through the needed exercises and therapy

to recover with good results.

If you are seeing a pain management specialist they should be treating your

chronic pain with a extended release opioid with the short acting meds you are

on for the breakthrough. 

Lortab is not meant to treat chronic pain.

Jennette

Ellen wrote:

> 

>So, help me understand. If I am on Lortab, as needed and have oxycodone for

breakthrough pain, am I to understand that I should stay on Lortab all the time?

> But, my pm doc hasn't told me to take the opiods unless I need them.

>

>Is he wrong?

>E

>

[Guest guest]

All,

Oxycontin did not work for me but Oxycodone did. I am on hydromorphone which is

Dilaudid. You have to call you Doctor and

tell him it is not working. Oxycontin IR which is instant release helped me more

but did not help but four to six hours and they had

me taking every eight hours.

Oxycontin is misused by drug seekers as it does not have any fillers in it and

they can melt it down and shot it up. When it has additives, it cannot be melted

down and shot up.

I would ask if you could take it every four to six hours and get something else.

Bennie