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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,424
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,424
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If you have been on that same dosage for 5 years, you have UNDOUBTEDLY become accommodated to it. There is no question that you'd get used to that after all that time. So it's bound to stop being effective. Your doctor should know that. Tell him that it's just not effective anymore, and your pain is either increasing or the dosage isn't adequate anymore. He WILL need to increase the dosage. Just an increase once a day should do it, and your 2nd dose could stay the same, but he needs to do something. 5 years is a long time to be on the same dosage!
So explain it to him if he doesn't "get it." Some doctors really & truly DON'T. Amazing, isn't it?
Best of luck & let us know how you come out. God bless & take care. Hugs, Lee
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recovering alcoholic, sober since 7-29-93;severe depression; 2 open spinal surgeries; severe sciatica since 1986; epidurals; trigger points; myelograms; Rhizotomy; Racz procedure; spinal cord stimulator implant (and later removal); morphine pump trial (didn't work);now inoperable; lumpectomy; radiation; breast cancer survivor; heart attack; fibromyalgia; on disability.
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