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| Dr. Whitworth , Please I need an honest DR.s help, please sir. Dr. Whitworth , Please I need an honest DR.s help, please sir.
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Posted by James T. on March 08, 2000 at 02:01:52: Dr. Whitworth, you seem to be a very good man that knows his work and cares about it please advise me on this matter. In my family a high tolernce for meds that contain narcotics was to run in my mothers family and has caused many problems in family members like me that have it terribly and has even caused a death of my cousin at 10 years old when he went in to the er after a bad accident. They gave him morphine enough that in normal people or children would have made hin invinceable to pain and they started a painful precedure and the pain was so intense his little heart went into such fast pounding that it litteraly blew its self out the pain caused such trauma to his tiny body. It has skipped a few members in the family but i have it the worst all. When i went in for back surgery I came out of the anestesia so fast they didnt even get me to my room nor had they even hooked up the pain machine. After the first 24 hours the hospital pharmacist had to come to my room to actually see who it was who was going through the largest doses of demeral they had ever seen at Barrows in Phoenix. They were so worried about the toxicity that they took me off the demeral and gave me 2 lousy percocet every 3 -4 hours after having fusion and bone taken from my hip. After 2 failed surgeries i know see a pain mgmt dr and my high tolerance is documented going back to 1968 when i broke my wrist three times. The pain is an 8 24/7 and the dr has me on 2 100 duragesic patches every 3 days, 90mg of methodone a day, 160 mgs of oxycontin every 8 hours,and oxyfast 20mg every 8 hours for breakthrugh pain. It puts a dent in it but not enough to get me off my crutches to be a little active, when ive raised the oxycontin myself to 4 or 6 80mg tabs of oxycontin 3 times a day I actually put down the crutches and went to a movie with my baby girl and my wife and went to dinner and actually had a good time for the first times in 6 years but the dr wont raise the dose of the prescription because of toxicity and he said it wouldnt help anyway and said if i need to go higher i should get a pump but he and i know that wouldnt solve my problem because the spine is the least of the problem its the middle , upper and lower back along with the legs and feet. I spoke to a dr in virginia who is well known in this country and he said fi i could get to virginia he would increase what ever med he needed to ease my suffering, what is your opinion, what would you do for me if i lived in your state sir.
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