ADVICE I BEG OF YOU - Pain Management Message Board

backdraft · 01-26-2003, 09:52 PM

I need help. I suffer from chronic severe pain from wide spread tumors in which I am being treated with ms-contin and ms-IR. It is not providing pain relief. I notice no change in my pain intensity. Now I used to go to the hospital for short term help, but my PM doc told me I am no longer to go to the hospital. They said it was self-medication. But sometimes the pain is SOOO BAD I am screaming and crying. What should I do?. I'm in pain but I feel I cant go to the hospital for relief. I'm fairly positive that a good shot of 60mg toradol would decrease the attacks. But I would get in trouble with the pm. I'm sooo trapped and I feel alone...I dont like the morphine it makes me sick and constipated. I know Ill be in pain all my life, but I dont want to be on morphine all my life. I just want pain relief. Does fentanyl have lesser nausea?....Anyone who can help....

also anyone on toradol please tell me out the tab form works.

Neckbone · 01-29-2003, 09:59 AM

Call you PM doctor and tell him what's going on. If he dosen't help you get some relief go to the ER and start looking for a PM doctor that gives a crap, they are out there but hard to find. It's just outrageous that your having to go through this.

Sorry but I cannot help you on the meds. I take Oxycontin & Oxycodone IR and it does pretty good for me but I'm looking to change meds. The abuse of oxycontin has become so bad that those that use it as it was intended are scrutinized beyond belief, I don't think it will be around much longer. It's also expensive, about $500 per month, the drug company is making billions a year for a patent not on the drug, but it's easily defeated time release matrix.

I wish you the best of luck.

karloff · 02-02-2003, 02:19 AM

Backdraft, Fentanyl is appox. 20 times stronger than the MScontin and MSir your on now. Doctors are more apt to prescribe Fentanyl for pain now because it comes in patch form so it is hard to abuse. I think Fentanyl would give you much pain relief! The next step is you asking your doctor! Good Luck!!

backdraft · 02-02-2003, 08:48 PM

Thanks, Yes fentanyl would be a good thing to try. Its actually 900 time stronger than morphine. The doc was going to try that but they wanted to try MS first. It works but Igotta take quite abit to decrease pain levels.

hopefully duragesic would be our next step. Im sick of all the pills.

karloff · 02-03-2003, 01:29 PM

Backdraft, 900 times stronger? Come on...your pulling Karloff's leg....aren't you? So if your taking 60mgs of MSir you would have to take almost 60,000 mgs to equal fentanyl's power?