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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Georgia
Posts: 905
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Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Georgia
Posts: 905
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Hey there Gerry :)
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Originally Posted by ger715
Do you feel this patch is giving you enough added pain relief (aside from the arm incident)? Before your post, I had not previously heard of this patch.
It appears the hydro was not potent enough for your pain. Other than the patch and nerve block; has the doctor given you any other med options?
Gerry
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The patch is not giving me enough added pain relief but is helping some. More so than just the hydro alone. Hydro is the only thing I've taken for the SFN since last May until this patch. I guess I didn't realize how new this patch is.
I believe I had become tolerant of the hydro. After 18 months and 4 doctors telling me I needed to see a pain mgmt. specialist I finally gave in. This 5 mcg/hr BuTrans patch is the first thing he started with and told me to use my hydro for the breakthrough pain. We did discuss methadone but that would require an EKG every 6 months and right now I don't need another dr to have to go and see. My husband or daughter have to get off work to drive me now. The dr said he felt like the only thing that might give me the relief I'm looking for is the SCS but I told him that would be a last resort if I agreed to it then. He didn't mention it on this 2nd appointment.
I've just started my 5th patch today. The new 7.5 mcg/hr so I'm hoping it will help a little more.
This is all very confusing to me and sometimes I feel like I have no dang idea what I am doing at all.
I slept most of the day yesterday and didn't do much today except take a shower and then rode 2 houses down to my daughter's for my grandson's 10th Birthday Party. We got there at 2 and by 3:30 I was in some serious pain in my feet. Was very upsetting for me since I didn't do anything to cause this.
Thanks Gerry 
Debi from Georgia
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