Quote from: 18hammers on Oct 15, 2023, 09:02 PMI have not heard of it, I will check it out though. I had a few Morphine Sulfate pills and a few Cyclobenzaprine to help with the pain. I used them up fast and then only had Tylenol #1 after that. I wish I could have stayed in the hospital for 6 days and been kept in a comma until the swelling stopped, it was that bad. I had no idea skin could stretch so much without bursting. Yes, I can be upright with the help of crutches and hobble around ok now. I know I am lucky, It could have gone much worse.I hope in a few more days I can get around without crutches.
Unfortunately, they won't keep you anaethitized into a comatose state like an anaesthesiologist does during surgery to keep you obliviouus to pain for more than a few hours, a day at the most. You have to be constantly monitored or you can easily be overdosed and never wake up. During my worst 3 months prior to the amputation of my right leg (which had gone septic and they were trying to close the wound) I got 20 mg oral morphine every 4 hours, and when it was really bad, an IV drip of a 5% morphine solution on top of that. That does a good enough job of dulling the pain so it's tolerable, but you are not unconscious.
They sent me home with a bottle of 120 10 mg Percocets, which have 10 mg oxycodone together with 325 mg tylenol as a 1 month supply, 4/day. After a month or so I decided to go cold turkey and stop altogether instead of weening off it, and had a hellacious 2 week long withdrawal. I stayed off pain meds for a couple of years after that, basically just learning to compartmentalize it and live with it, since they make it a real pain in the ass nowadays to renew your narc prescription. Your regular PCP (Primary Care Physician} won't do it, due to licensing and malpractice issues.
After getting sick again with a new case of cellulitis which caused my remaining leg to blow up to the size of the Hindenberg, I got put on oxycodone again at the hospital. After a cuple of months here at the SNIF, the suprvising doctor would not sign off on the order to keep it coming, so now I have to go every month to a Pain Clinic, where I chat with the Pain Doc about where it hurts and the type of pain, and we chit chat about what meds are available and how to juggle them around. Don't take too much Tylenol BTW, it's bad for your liver. Right now I added Lyrica which is a ind of nerve blocker and use 7.5mg Percocets 4X day as well. This is fine at the moment, and I am making no attempt at getting off it. I get a ride once a month to the clinic, the doc signs off on anther order, and they ship up the pills from the corporate pharmacy in the lower 48. Medicare covers the cost, no clue how much the pills cost each month.
Pain really sucks, and nobody ever can really know how bad yours is, because everybody has a different tolerance level for it, and different resistance to pain meds as well. The longer you take narcs, the greater your tolerance gets, so to get the same effect, you need higher doses. When you really need it though in the hospital, as long as you scream bloody murder nonstop for a few hours, eventually a doctor will write an order for some decent narcs. They wanna make sure you are really serious about it and not just taking them for fun. lol.
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