I use Fentanyl patches and Oxcycodone for breakthrough pain and despite Fentanyl being almost 100 times stronger than morphine ! My doctor calls me the "man of steel" because I am never drowsy, even when he gave me 250 mg of sodium Amytal nothing I juggled and did card tricks all night, I have a almost complete inversion of alpha and delta waves combined with rare sighted non twenty four, he tells me I have "shattered" the longest continous hours awake, the record used be just over 241 hours before the person coded and resuscitation failed, when I started seeing him he said everybody through his door has read the book on sleep disorders however it's a privledge to be treating one of the Co authors , although we only have 2 in person visits a year because the trip to get to him is very long and hard on me , we do "telemedicine" all the time, I am fortunate with my specialists because the local doctors suck ,but 12 hours on a bus to get to them makes them a little "crazy" because they wish my life was easier with a decent local doctor but that's not in the cards and they know it takes me a week in bed after each trip to just rest and regain what little strength I have, they worry I am going to die in transit just to get decent care, I say it's worth the risk, they are skeptical and really wish the locals would not drop the ball every chance they get, it bothers them that they don't even get called as members of my medical team when things happen to me,it takes me surviving something to have me notify them what happened, we often talk about if this is "first world care" what would "third world care" be ?? The only locals who have not been fired by me are my urologist and colon rectal docs they started my "medical mystery tour" with me and have never given me reason to fire them. Sorry this became somewhat ranting but as I started writing this once again one of the locals is dropping the ball and I had to get busy chewing someone out and doing damage control, such is life I refuse to let it drag me down , this is hard now, imagine if I developed a bad attitude , maybe I should change my screen name to "too stupid to die" will have people calling me "too" or "die" , I have heard some weird names but neither of those is viable.

Misterpain