Originally Posted by
Anna 
I agree with Dee. There are alternative ways to deal with pain that might work for you, for example, acupuncture, deep tissue massage, physiotherapy. Talk to your dr or a pain specialist about what might work for you.
yeah ive tried acupuncture and physio just aggrivated the pain and ive tried pretty much everything the dr tried me on from gabapentin, amitirptyline, lyrica and lots of opoids.
whats always worked best is cymbalta with oxycodone but i just dont like oxycodone... like what it does but it is at a cost, like towards the end of my last dose/start of new, i feel sick, nervous all the typical withrawal effects so the dr says take more, more frequent.... then your body becomes accustomed to that then what do you do.... take more, more frequent it not a good cycle to be on and i wan't off.
So today was my second day at taking 40mg (instead of the usual 120-150mg) my plan was to do 20mg in the am and another 20mg in the evening when i really felt the need, the withdrawal was so bad that i quickly took another 40mg... so i took 60mg first thing this morning.
Im now in my bed, in pain, first signs of withdrawal wondering do i brave on for the next few days or take my dose.
It seems the dr want me to stay on it and theres no access to a pain specialist w/o a referal. It takes months sometimes years to get a new family dr.
I don't want to be an addict and when i say 'addict' in the sense that I dont want my body 'needing' it. Although my MIND doesnt.