Risk of Loosing our Pain Management

[Guest guest]

Heidi,

I don't think you are the first one to want to decrease pain med. I hate it

when I call the doctor for more pain meds and the person on the other end (with

no medical education) tells you that you need to start weening off the pain

meds. I recently called my panc doc to get more breakthrough pain meds and the

girl who answered the phone said " what happened to the script that was filled on

07/13/04 " ? The day I called was 07/30/04 and I just got out of the hospital two

days before. When I finally got to speak to the nurse practitioner she said

under no means should I try to ween myself from pain meds at this time. She

said my Panc was still angry from the surgery a week previously.

It's people in doctor offices like above make us question ourselves if we are

drug seakers or not. I know I'm not and I wish I could quit but my doc thinks I

need to keep the same dose or I will end up in the hospital again.

Just be honest with your PM doc and let him know that you tried to do what he

suggested and it didn't work. That you had to use your breakthrough pain more

than usual on the lower dose.

I hope this helps

Patty Duley