Pain medication

[Outpatient]

I was wondering What pain medication (if any) you are on and how much you are taking a day/month. I my self am on percocet and it seems to be working OK. However it seems that I have to take more and more of it these day to get the same pain relief. I know you can build up a tolerance to it or maybe it is the time of year (cold and wet out in Washington State)

 

[Xeekk]

I have used that and told my doc I wanted to alternate with something else. I would get Norco (Hydrocodone) then Percocet later....

I'm not on pain med now, but that was what I did - you will gain tolerance to these meds which also is a part of developing addiction (dependence).

** I'm not a doctor or pharmacist **

 

[carey]

i take percocet for the pain. i now have to take up to 4 a day because of my tolerance. i miss the days when i only needed one a day. waiting for the remicade to start working so i can detox from these pills. been taking them every day for a year now.

 

[Xeekk]

i take percocet for the pain. i now have to take up to 4 a day because of my tolerance. i miss the days when i only needed one a day. waiting for the remicade to start working so i can detox from these pills. been taking them every day for a year now.

Just keep in mind, although the detox from these types of meds is not as serious or difficult as from benzos (anxiety medicines like Valium, Ativan, etc.), it's still quite difficult and uncomfortable.

 

[ekay03]

My doctor gave my tramadol for pain for adhesion and hernai pain. day 4 I think.... And that is the problem. This stuff make me feel weird. anf fuzzy and I cant think. And it make me sooo sleepy. I call the doc and he say " That is weird" He is a good and caring man and I know he is trying to help me. He had me on hydrocodone and that did not leave me fuzzy like tramadol.
Wow, as I type this I am realizing I must sound like a drug addict.
Anyways He now says stop the tramadol and take 2 hydocodone a day. But he told me before to take thee a day and I was. He filled hydro scrip of 60 on march 9 and now I am out and I said I will take 2 a day but I have none. I ask to refill the 60 and he said @ 2 a day 60 should last a month. I should have said "that is true, but you just now told me to only take 2 a day. I was taking as proscribed and am now out. He says he will fill the 60 when it has been a month. So basically he has retroactively changed my dose and now perhaps in his eyes it looks like I have been taking to many. I dont know if my vent even makes sense to anybody but me.
And here is where me and the doc left it. He said he will loook over my records and call me back this afternoon. I will spend the rest of the day trying to sleep the tramadol off Back to the addict thin. I googled it and I do not fit the criteria of drug addict, but I do fit the description for pseudoaddiction. I dont want to be a pseudoaddict. Wow, I am fuzzy and frustrated.
Thanks for listening.