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Old 06-07-2010, 01:20 PM
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Sandel,

I'm very glad to hear you were successfully able to get off of the pain meds you were on. Congrats! Personally, I am on a TON of them and there's nothing I can do about this relentless pain from breaking my neck, severing my nerves in the neck & a brain trauma due to an auto-accident.

I'm just wondering if you'd share with me WHAT you were taking and for how long? More importantly, how did they detox you?

You see, I don't think I'll be off my meds anytime soon, but I wonder how painful the detox process was for you. I tried to reduce my meds, bit my bit with my docs help, and it was unsuccessful due to the unrelenting pain. My surgeon said it HAS TO BE at this high dose due to the severity of the injury. I would like to not be tied down by my dependence on pain medication but I don't have no other options now. 1) Live in dire agony or 2) Live on addictive medication. It's just a crappy situation!!

The injury was 3 & 1/2 years ago ... Really, when (I wonder) can the nerve pain stop punishing me and let up. My surgeon said it may be a lifelong struggle (like the brain trauma).

Have you, Sandel, been down this road for years like me? If anyone else has been ... I'd like to hear your comments, too.

Thanks,

Joe
Hi again Joe.. I think the most important thing is for your pain to be managed before you try detox.. in other words.. I had another pain relief method working for me at the time (being my subcutanious lidocaine infusions), so at least I was mainly dealing with the rebound pain from the morphine at first and my bodys intollerance it helped me as well.

Bob, I just post these research papers to try to be helpful, we are all diffrent and our bodys react diffrently. I do understand that narcotics are helpful for CRPS and some people tollerate them very well, I am glad it is helping you so much my friend and I do not mean to imply that we should not be on narcotics, just that we should be aware of the potentual problems that are there as well..

Peace my friends.
~ Sandra

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