Pain meds in and out patient

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Original Date: Sat Jun 7, 2003 6:54pm

Keri,

I also wear a duragesic patch, and use Percocet 10/325 once every

four hours as needed, for breakthrough pain. It appears that you have

built up a tolerance for the Loratabs. I have heard that when someone

builds up a tolerance for one particular pain med, they can switch

to another with a similar dosage and the new med will work to cover

the pain. I've never had to try this, but if this is true, you

should talk to your doctor about switching you to another med.

Hopefully someone will verify that this is possible. I've been

satisfied with the Percocet, but it does only cover me for about four

hours, and when I was having serious attacks, I did have to increase

the dosage sometimes. The only pain I get now is from my pseudocysts,

and the nature of that pain is very different from the pancreatitis

pain.

I don't know if this has helped any, so I hope someone else can come

up with some experienced feedback.

With hope and prayers,

Heidi

Heidi H. Griffeth

South Carolina

SE Regional Representative

PAI, Intl.

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not

be substituted for professional medical consultation.

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Demerol and Morphine no longer ease the pain when I go to hospital.

Doctors put me on Dilaudid and over time now need 4mg every 4 hours

for pain. When I had surgery, I was given amounts that some doctors

say is unbelievable and I still felt like I had surgery with no pain

killers afterwards.

I have actually been pain free for almost 3 weeks and in that time I

took myself off everything. I didn't sleep for 5 days, and know that

I have a dependency and will need to go through something similar

every time I end up back in hospital. I told my husband how bad I

felt in myself to be addicted to pain medicine, but as my mother and

husband both told me, it is a dependency my body needs at times to

get me over the attacks.

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Kero,

Oh, someone else like me! When I had my heart surgery I had

to have a double dose of anesthesia (luckily I warned them

about this) and I still woke up before someone on a normal

dosage. When I go in for pancreatitis, my doctor gives me a

pain shot every 2-3 hours the main pain med is 100mg demerol

and every other shot is to be fentanyl from now on as I have

a problem with the demerol building up in my system and

causing muscle spasms. I'm not sure how much is due to my

weight, but I'm 190 and I'm 5' 3 1/2' tall. The problem with

the anesthesia is something that has built up in me over the

years. When I was still having ERCPs done, they had to be

very careful and watch me because I had a tendency to wake

up in the middle of the procedure (I'm now pretty much

phobic about having ERCPs now).

Kimber

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Kimber

Vallejo, CA

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