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Thank you George’s wife and loriesco….Your comments are inspiring and oh so true.
I feel I should offer one caveat. I too found great comfort and the ability to function with opioids. However, after relying on them for about two years, with the need to titrate upwards, I have found the digestion issues overwhelming. Already blessed with IBS and GERD, I can no longer tolerate the daily stomach cramps. Knowing what to eat and when is impossible to predict. So, with my doctor’s support, I am weaning off the oxycodone. When I am off it completely I’m hoping the doctor (PCP) and I can find a substitute that doesn’t have the digestive side effects. Tylenol and NSAIDs barely touch the pain.
In my case it’s lower back pain. Next week I’m having the M.I.L.D. procedure for stenosis. In the future I plan to try radio frequency ablation (RFA) for the arthritic pain.
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@jackiet you should have no digestive problems with the opioids themselves. What I think might be your problem is the lactose in the pills. Are you lactose intolerant by any chance? People forget to check the ingredients of their medicine. The white pill oxycodone gives me a stomach ache, which is rectified by taking a Lactaid pill. Everyone thinks that cheap medicines are so great. I just find that cheap medicines bring a lot of ingredients that we can’t tolerate in our older age one of them being lactose the other being gluten. There’s a white pill oxycodone a pink pill oxycodone (I tolerate those very well) and there is the Percocet, which I mainly have used for 25 years and have no digestive problems. Sometimes when the pharmacies change brands, it causes a problem and I always find that the problem is in the ingredients which are overlooked by the cheap proliferation of medicine these days. I hope that helps you PS you could also have a condition called SIBO small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, which requires a targeted antibiotic called Xifaxan. Periodically I have to take that and then I can go back to being a somewhat normal person and just taking the Lactaid pills. I hope that helps you.
@jackiet I had great results with RFA! What it resolved for me was the referred pain that was caused by the stenosis. I couldn’t sleep at night and my thighs would just ache nonstop and it stopped that pain for 15 years. I don’t think it resolves lower back pain so much as it does wonders on referred pain. Also one should know there are two types: one type is called heat and the other is called pulse. The pulse did nothing for me. Only the heat works for me. Be sure to discuss that with your doctor.
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Sorry you have so much discomfort, and best of luck with your upcoming procedure.
Since you are exploring RFA, have you read the posts by others who have tried that? Some people don't experience much relief with that while others do. It didn't work for my husband, who suffers from lower back pain even after two spinal fusion surgeries. (He can't take oral opiods, so he uses pain strips that I place under his tongue. He also tried prescription pain medication administered through patches but he didn't like the patches.)
Sendidng you prayers,
'George's Wife