I'll call the pain doc here in town, hopefully I can get in without a referral.

The BuTrans patch is long term, I don't normally need something over many days (yet) but might work as it's not going through my gut. But I'm not sure if it's good for breakthrough pain (like what happened on Sunday). And it's still a dependent type drug. I'm very wary about opiates because when they gave me Percocet in the hospital my body became addicted really quickly on a low dose. But I will keep the BuTrans in mind when talking to the doc.