Patches and pain meds.

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Hi Everyone!

Thanks Heidi for the responses to my posts, and to Debs too, and

everyone else.

I am going to talk to my doctor about upping the dosage on the

duragesic patch.

The job I applied for will require a drug screen, and that is why I

had been trying to cut down to see if I could handle the pain.

I am not sure if asking for the morphine would be right in my case

because the demerol seemed to work better for me in the hospital than

the morphine. Even when I was on the morphine pills, they didn't

seem to help unless I took more than what was prescribed. I am going

to bring the printouts of the posts to show the doctor. I am

beginning to feel like I am being viewed as a junkie or something

when I tell them I am in serious pain and the stuff they have me on

doesn't cover it.

Debs, what is the fast release morphine you were talking about? I

think the morphine didn't help much for breakthrough pain because it

was time released.

The ultram really caused stomach problems for me, even before I was

told I had pancreatitis. I couldn't convince the pain clinic doctors

of that. They seemed to have one goal in mind, and that was getting

me off the other pain meds, and not really helping me.

I have also asked for valium, because it is so difficult not to snap

at my kids when I am in pain, and they are acting like " kids. " It is

not fair to them, and it is not me. I have a lot of patience with my

kids, and to hear me raise my voice is very out of character.

The doctor gave me something, which I can't remember what the name of

it is right now.. one of those new meds, that have to be in your

system for a couple of weeks before they really start to work. Tried

it for two months and no improvement, just poorer.

I raised the question about steriods before because I had been pretty

healthy until I had a skull fracture and they put on a lot of

steriods. Then out of the blue I got diabetes. 11 kids in my family

and no history of it anywhere. A nurse told me about the connection

of steriod use with transplant patients and diabetes. I am curious

if there might also be a connection with steriods and pancreatitis.

Mine is caused by high triglycerides, which I am told is rare.