Re: Hi Everyone!

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>I don't know if

> I should mention this to my doctor or leave well-enough alone. He

> might refuse to treat me at all if I start asking for stronger meds.

I definitely wouldn't mention you took someone else's pain meds. That's a

no no to begin with and since it's pain meds, it might be taken the wrong

way even more. Perhaps you should express the idea that morphine isn't

working so well, are there other options? Good luck with everything.

Darcy

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From: " Merritt " <clmerritt@...

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>I don't know if

> I should mention this to my doctor or leave well-enough alone. He

> might refuse to treat me at all if I start asking for stronger meds.

>>I definitely wouldn't mention you took someone else's pain meds.

That's a

no no to begin with and since it's pain meds, it might be taken the wrong

way even more..

I agree with Darcy- if you say you are sharing meds with others, you are

in the soup even though it was for the right reason the Doc will see it

as a red flag. Perhaps if you go to the GP and say " I take ZZZ my friend

used to take it but she now takes XXX and I was wondering, since it has

worked so much better for her than ZZZ, if I could try a short course of

XXX to see if it is better for me, too, since she has the same problem? "

That way you are also making your point for what you want to try. The

only problem with going and saying that the morphine isn't working well

is that he might discount all opiates then you are in trouble, or he

might try something other than the Oxycontin. If you want Oxycontin, you

need to ask for it.

Bethann