Frustration and Ultram

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Hi Everyone:

Thanks to all who responded and shared encouraging words.

Today was another bad day. I saw the post on duragesic patch, and

sort of got excited because I thought perhaps they could up that.

The post mentioned 75 mg patches. As it turns out, I'm on the 100 mg

patch, changing them every three days. I've found that in addition

to that, I average 6 percecet tablets a day in addition to the

patch. Still the pain finds a way to break through. It is like all

of a sudden I get spasms in my stomach and it hurts to a high degree

for 10 to 15 minutes before it subsides.

There are times that I stretched the patch to 4 days, and I found the

pain gets worse on the 4th day.

This week I had limited myself on the percecet tablets. It was

painful but I made it through. I may try to cut them down on my own,

at least for now while I am searching for a new, additional job.

In my last post I mentioned the pain clinic. Ultram is what they

tried to put me on. I told them that even long before I had

pancreatitus I had been put on ultram for chronic head aches after a

concussion. It had bad effects on me and they wouldn't listen. They

were just wanting to get me off the morphine drip I was on.

They went a head and did that and the pain went through the roof.

I am curious. Has anyone prior to getting pancreatitis been on any

steroid treatments?

I had a skull fracture and lost hearing. In an effort to try and

help that the doctors had me on big doses of steriods.

Since then I developed type II diabetes. I learned that when people

have transplant surgeries, they are given high doses of steriods and

most of them develope Type II diabetes. I am curious if there is a

connection to pancreatitus, as well?

-Bob