This morning (it's 0004 Hours) is a milestone for my new pain med therapy - and I am a little nervous about it.

It has been about 5 days exactly since the first application of the "7 day" Butrans patch. Over the last 24 hours I got to the point where I was leaning towards my last few Norco about every 6 hours, which is obviously too much. I inspected the Butrans patch on me and realized it was fairly worn and poorly attached. Whether the decreasing analgesia is a result...

Earlier this week I had my second full appointment with my PM (excluding the consult visit 5 years ago). It went extremely well I must say.

It started with a UA after signing in. This is the second UA I have had with him; the first time I had taken Norco and Xanax within 12 hours of the appointment, so I assume I was positive for both. I have a somewhat recent script from my previous doc for Norco, but my Xanax script is several years old. The lab tech asked what meds I was on, and...