Re: Fentanyl

[Guest guest]

I don't feel that people in pain take pain meds to get high at all.

I do know people do do that is if they don't have pain and it is used

recreationally but people in pain need the meds. Hugs

[Guest guest]

When it rains it pours (and not talking about the weather).

I went to the oral surgeon on Tuesday, having stopped at Dr. Hashmi's office

first to have my jaw blocked.

The blocks worked as far as I never felt any of the marcaine shots from the

surgeon. The very first thing she did was cut open all my bottom gums, then she

went to pull the first of 5 bottom teeth

<took 12 last month>, the tooth came out but one root wouldn't come out.

As she dug deeper, she found a tumor the size of a golf ball in my jawbone. It

didn't show and I had never felt it. The other extractions went routinely. She

did some bone grafting and finally closed me up.

That first night It looked as if I was going to bleed to death, two doubled

over towels and the blood still made it down to the pillow. I woke at 4 am in

agony and my entire right shoulder and upper arm were crimson with blood.

The next day she had me back, cut the sutures out and reclosed everything, same

thing the next night only this time, massive blood clots.

I am going back today as the left side of my face is so swollen I can't open

the eye, plus am still in major pain. Dr. Hashmi had me come off my nalbuphine

injectable so I could take demerol or vicodin, thankfully as I am needing them

so much.

Still waiting on the pathology about the tumor.

Follow up, today the surgeon once again cut out the sutures and re did them

double the amount today. Then I saw Dr. Hashmi who has me back on the drags

patch plus fentyl lollipops plus a super strong topical painkiller, used for

minor hospital procedures.

I look like I lost a battel, swollen doesn't even cover it, not to mention all

the bruising.

PFD's (Pain Free Days) to all,

LizM

[Guest guest]

You are right. I never felt what those who have abused narcotics

even recreationaly describe. I just felt pain slowly becoming dull

and more tolerable depending on the drug I was using. Less than

1% of pain paitents become addicts. Even people who had alcolol and substance

problems in the past do not become drug addcits again -- in most cases.

It is hard to explain that addiction and dependancy are two very

different things. Part of the probelsm s the myths that have grown

around narcotics.

It will take a lot of education and hard work to educate people

on opiods and the fact that they are not as addictive as once

belived.

Rick

wrote:

I don't feel that people in pain take pain meds to get high at all.

I do know people do do that if they don't have pain and it is

used recreationally, but people in pain need the meds.