Billye:

I'll make is simple for ya!!!

Pain stinks!!! No doubt about that.

It also changes your personality and makes you go from a loving, sweet person, that you probably are, to a grouch. Can't help it. That's what happens to people when they are in pain.

AND YOU ARE IN PAIN!!!!!! Not some headachy, little elbow, arm achy, kind of pain!

YOU ARE IN PAIN!!!!

The kind that needs to be addressed.

So get crackin!!! Go to the doctor, and start on a dose that you can live with.

You have no idea if you can be maintained on this dose or if you will someday need to increase it. I've read on these boards where many people have stayed on that one dose and they have had their lives back.

Just remember that pain meds DO affect the digestive tract.

And if you are on pain meds, eat more fibre and have some Dulcolax in the house.

It's a lousy subject to touch upon, I know, but Alan lived with it for a few years when he was on the fentanyl patch, and believe me, when you have your pain taken away, you can LIVE!!

You deserve to be happy and to be pain -free.

We love you.