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Old 12-11-2012, 11:07 AM #1
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Morphine is, for the most part, not very affective against rsd. I use methadone with other pain meds, and after being on morphine, oxy, fentanyl (just to name the narcotics) methadone has worked the best. Even at the low dose I am on now, works better than 100+ a day of morphine sulfate/kadian.
That is just my experiences and many others feel the same.
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Old 12-23-2012, 01:44 AM #2
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I don't think any medication can make you pain free for a long period of time. Your system seems to get used to them, or at least that is my experience. Try alternative methods??? drcandy
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Just curious.......I see where people are taking a variety of meds and say they are helped with their pain. They even have breakthrough meds. Wow/1
Ufortunately I have been on over 30 pain meds at highest doses with no relief. Just curious - do they completely eliminate your pain so you can function normally or do they just make it more tolerable and ramp the level down?
Also, I have no side effects from any meds. I recently took up to 400 mg of topamax with no relief as usual. My dr. would not go any higher. Then I heard another person say they take 1200 a day.
There is a test I learned about on this forum -p450 that tells if your system needs more meds than the normal person. I am hoping to get that test. Then maybe the doctors will allow me to take higher dosages.
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At times I am pain free, but it is rare. I am taking nucynta for 2 months and getting more relief than other drugs, FYI. Opana did nothing for me. Each of us are different.
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The lowest I've been is 8. The worst 9. I've tried gabapentin, amitryptaline, fentanyl, codeine, morphine and regular painkillers such as paracetamol and ibruprofen but nothin seems to help me. The doctor said that the fentanyl would make me pain free bit really hasn't done much apart from make me ridiculously sleepy! But drugs that don't work on one patient may work perfectly on another, that's just the way these things are...
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