Pain Managment

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone.

I am having a problem. It seems that the pain meds that my doctor

has me on are not lasting. He has me on currently on 5/500

hydrocodone where I take two three times a day. But, the thing is

that I have to take more than that to keep my pain level down. I am

taking them about every four hours compared to every six hours that

he is wanting me to take them. And my pain at night has gotten worse

as well. I have started having to take some pain meds in the middle

of the night due to the pain in my spine.

Because of all this, my doctor who gives me a 15 day supply at at

time, the pills don't last the whole 15 days and the last several

days of that time are hellish.

I am concern for several reasons. I am concern that my everyday

pain, not just my flare up pain, is getting worse. Also I am concern

that I am building somewhat of a tolerance.

My mother, sister, and as well as grandmother, all think that he

should at least put me on the 7.5/500 hydros. The other day since I

was out of the pain meds I had to go to the ER because the pain was

unbearable and I could not sleep. They gave me a prescription of the

7.5's and it managed my pain better and I didn't have to take as near

as many, mind you that I was taking two of those at a time.

So I guess I am trying to figure out if I am wrong for wanting my

doctor to up the meds. I have two school age children and a

grandmother that I take care of and they need me to be able to do

that for them.

Should I talk to my doc about doing this?

Thanks for listening,

Barbara