Pain what to do need advice please

I have chronic pain as most of you know. I stop seeing my pain Dr. cause I needed my feet operated on. So the foot Dr was dispensing them. He can only give them for so long before he sends you to a pain Dr. I already have a spinal cord stimulator. I finally learned how to manage my pain with it. But lately it just take the edge off me. With all the pt going on trying to re learn everything. That has to do with my motor skills and balance it's hard. And also foot pt on top of that. I work my hardest at everything I do. I take the help from others. I live with 5 men way out number. So when it comes to my lotions they have to apply it on me when hubby is not home. So everybody has seen me lol. With all the pt going on my back and foot get annoyed. Because the foot dr took me off the pain meds. So all i have for now is my implant. The advice I need what are the pros and cons of addictive meds I've taken them before like opana all opana did for was higher than a b itch, fetinol patches and others. All i'm thinking is a pain meds that will take the edge off. I handle pain pretty good. Was wondering and asking what works for you.

Is this nerve pain, or just regular pain? Where is the pain coming from? Is it from the feet? Need more information. It depends on the KIND of pain, and where the pain is.

Back pain mostly upper back. Had three back surgery's already. up by the shoulder. Sometimes feels like a monster and over 10 sometimes. Nerve damage mostly

I am on 200ug/h fentinol patches for the migraines....it's a really high dose, but it's the only dose that completely controlled the pain without any feeling high or any bad side effects.....I've been on this same high dose since 2003.....almost 9 years now without any problems or need to raise the dosage.

I really like the patches because I don't have the ups & downs that I did with pills or even the actiq....which was fentinal in a lollypop form......it was good for about 4-6 hours & the migrain pain was right back....with the patches I don't get any of that....it's just constant relief....even if I go over the 72 hours by a bit......did start the withdrawal one time when almost 12 hours over & need to be right on time if not a little early when it's in the heat of the summer because of the absorption level....but never get any high feeling from it....have always functioned like normal......it was the first time I felt like a normal human from around 1995 when the migraines started.

Initially I kept ending up in the ER & it would take 200mg of demoral to even touch the migraine pain....they were claiming I was drug seeking...lol....just pain relief thank you....as soon as they got the pain under control, I never had to go back to the ER once.

I can't take morphine or dilauded (sp?) any morphine or morphine derivitive makes me ITCH to bad it drives me crazy. The initial neurologist I had that was trying to treat my migraines put me in the hospital for a week treatment with DHA IV....but he was giving me morphine instead of the demoral & I went out of the hospital itching so bad & still in pain.

I know with the fentynal patches, if you don't get the right dose, it doesn't work....but sometimes you have to work it up to the level that works.....most pain specialist weren't willing to prescribe the high dose I am on......lost one pain specialist because he told me to try the higher dose because I had some extra patches (my husband was there & heard him say that)....next time I went in, he denied ever saying it & said he wouldn't treat me & to find another pain specialist. Found one from UCLA med school & he was awesome......then found another one here around where I live & it took us about a year to start to trust each other, but have been going to him for almost 4 1/2 years now & he's WONDERFUL.....& willing to work with me through some difficult times when the manufacture of the fentynal patches was stopped by the DEA because of a faulty batch & faulty manufacturing that was found.....that was a difficult time....but he helped me through it along with my pharmacise who has become a good friend & found out he was actually also a neighbor & now we even go to the same church.

For nerve pain, I'm on Topamax 400mg, twice a day, plus Lyrica 75mg twice a day. For pain I'm on Opana ER 40mg twice a day. I'm also on Cymbalta 65mg twice a day (it has pain relief properties in it but i use it for depression) Plus I'm on Abilify 2mg.

When I was on Lyrica before, it did NOTHING -- but when we combined it with Opana, WOW -- it sure did work then!!!! Plus using it with Topamax helps too! i have absolutely NO more pain! None. The only trouble is, these don't last as long as they should. I wish i could take them 3 times a day, but i can't.

I am amazed tho at the pain relief because for 26 years i've been looking for relief and had NONE. Now I have TOTAL, and it's wonderful!!! Ask your doc about it. I can't believe it! Hugs, Lee

Opana not for me That drug sent me into withdraws.

if you're TAKING a drug, how can it send you into WITHDRAWALS? iT'S IMPOSSIBLE.

Withdrawals happens when you STOP taking all narcotic drugs without tapering off (also happens with some AD's & benzo's). That's just a fact of how those kind of drugs act. Dr's are able to minimize the withdrawal effect....but like my pain specialist says.....withdrawal won't kill you....it just feels horrible.

My pain specialist explained the terms regarding the use of narcotics.

Everyone who uses narcotics for pain relief become DEPENDENT on them.....that means that when you stop taking them suddenly without tapering off, they cause the body to deal with the withdrawal symptoms.

Being Dependent on a med doesn't mean you are ADDICTED.

Being ADDICTED means that you want increasingly higher doses for the FEELING YOU GET FROM THE MED that goes beyond pain relief. You end up seeking the high, or the relaxed feeling, or whatever other feeling you may get from taking the drug. My pain specialist told me that when you are given the right dose that takes care of the pain then you don't end up getting any sensation other than the pain relief & that's exactly what I have experienced.....it's like I can just function like an absolutely NORMAL person again.

Building up a TOLERANCE doesn't mean you are ADDICTED either....it just means that your body had built up to the point where you need to have a higher dose in order to get the pain relief that you originally received from the drug (without the desire of getting high off the drug or getting some feeling other than pain relief which is what defined ADDICTION).

Know the terminology in dealing with narcotics can be such a problem because so many people don't know the proper terminology that is used is actually dealing with these types of drugs & will end up wrongly saying they are addicted when they are only dependent or when they have become tolerant to the level they were taking.

It's always important to help us understand our situation better when we know the appropriate terminology that's used by the professionals that are treating us.

I have chronic nerve pain in my upper back..c-6 and c-7 discs. The bulging discs are putting pressure on the nerve and sending shooting pain up my arm, and my upper back.
The pain meds only take the edge off, they DO NOT take away the pain completely, an never will, only surgery may help, and that is not a guarantee...
Sorry to hear about your pain issues @avoice ...i wish u luck and finding a regime that works for you

Distraction. Anything you can do to put your attention someplace other than where it hurts, will help.

it may sound silly but video games are great for this. they have probably saved my life on more than one occasion.

meds? you pretty much have to accept that you are going to have to learn to live with a certain amount of pain.
they won't take it all away.
and if they do, there will be a cost for it you may not want to pay.
what I did was back off my meds as far as I could. use as little as possible. when it go bad, I'd raise it untill i could handle it again.
just cut back slowly.