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funma · 10-30-2009, 09:07 AM

Hi,
My name is laura and I have been in the wrong forum for a month or more. I just got recommended to come here yesterday and I find it more along the lines of what I need for support.
I was diagnosed about 3 years ago with trigeminal neuralgia by my dentist. I was in and out of the ER every week in severe pain and the doctors just pinned it on my TMJ. I went and spent all of my savings to go to OHSU (portland Or.) to the number one neurosurgeon. He reccomended I have a MVD (microvascular decompression) to aleviate the "I would rather die pain". I went through it in feb. 07 and it helped my "I would rather die pain" but here I sit left with the constant pain, called type 2 trigeminal neuralgia. I was on vicodin for over a year before my MVD and became tolerant to it, it just wouldnt work as good anymore. From there I went on every other pain med out there and none would work until I came across oxycodone. I was taking 30 mg 3 x day and it only worked for about a month until it started to wear off fast and not help the pain.
Here is where the abuse of my medication started...I started dosing myself every day to what would "help", chewing them up, crushing them, and taking more than I was suppose to.
I did this for about 8 months until my doctor got tired of it and kicked me out as a patient because I was always asking for early refills. So, there my quest began for a new doc to rx me some oxy. I found one and he did things different, he UA'ed me everytime I got the RX and about a month after rx'ing me he stopped because he found marijuana in my UA. I went for over a month in pain, withdrawling and no doctor to help.
I moved and found myself a new doctor and she rx'ed me suboxone for chronic pain. Not because she knew of my abuse but because she only rx'es it for chronic pain.
The suboxone has worked about 50-75% on my pain, the same as oxy did for me. I am taking 16 MG a day.
First of all, I wanted to ask if any of you have TN or if any of you have been rx'ed subs for chronic pain? I hope I have found a good support group! You all seem very nice.
Thanks for reading my post and I hope it didnt confuse you too much. If you have any other questions please feel free to ask me.
Thanks,
Laura

10-30-2009, 09:07 AM	#1 (permalink)
funma Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: oregon Posts: 19	~~trigeminal neuralgia~~ Hi, My name is laura and I have been in the wrong forum for a month or more. I just got recommended to come here yesterday and I find it more along the lines of what I need for support. I was diagnosed about 3 years ago with trigeminal neuralgia by my dentist. I was in and out of the ER every week in severe pain and the doctors just pinned it on my TMJ. I went and spent all of my savings to go to OHSU (portland Or.) to the number one neurosurgeon. He reccomended I have a MVD (microvascular decompression) to aleviate the "I would rather die pain". I went through it in feb. 07 and it helped my "I would rather die pain" but here I sit left with the constant pain, called type 2 trigeminal neuralgia. I was on vicodin for over a year before my MVD and became tolerant to it, it just wouldnt work as good anymore. From there I went on every other pain med out there and none would work until I came across oxycodone. I was taking 30 mg 3 x day and it only worked for about a month until it started to wear off fast and not help the pain. Here is where the abuse of my medication started...I started dosing myself every day to what would "help", chewing them up, crushing them, and taking more than I was suppose to. I did this for about 8 months until my doctor got tired of it and kicked me out as a patient because I was always asking for early refills. So, there my quest began for a new doc to rx me some oxy. I found one and he did things different, he UA'ed me everytime I got the RX and about a month after rx'ing me he stopped because he found marijuana in my UA. I went for over a month in pain, withdrawling and no doctor to help. I moved and found myself a new doctor and she rx'ed me suboxone for chronic pain. Not because she knew of my abuse but because she only rx'es it for chronic pain. The suboxone has worked about 50-75% on my pain, the same as oxy did for me. I am taking 16 MG a day. First of all, I wanted to ask if any of you have TN or if any of you have been rx'ed subs for chronic pain? I hope I have found a good support group! You all seem very nice. Thanks for reading my post and I hope it didnt confuse you too much. If you have any other questions please feel free to ask me. Thanks, Laura