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I have a Pain pump with Morphine, I'm still in so much Pain
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@alexandercrps In almost three years I have not had any pain relief from my pain pump. It uses hydromorphone after a trial with morphine provided no relief. hydro dropped my pain down to about a 3. I have had the pump checked three times via fluoroscopy. All is well they tell me. As an aside, I had one day of great pain relief about 4 months ago. The next day all the pain was back. I am currently sitting at 3.5 mg/24 hours with six boluses. If I use all six boluses, I seem to experience just a little decrease in pain. Do you know your current pump settings? If your pump is a Medtronic, you can go to the settings on your remote to check them. I wonder if getting the catheter placement by CT is a better option. Thanks for your post. Have a blessed day.
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@heisenberg34
Yes said the hydromorphone got you down to a Pain score of 3, I would love to get to a pain pump score of 3, it would be wonderful
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@heisenberg34 I'm so happy for you and I hope mine goes as well as yours did, I've never been on Hydromorphone very long because they changed the laws in the State I live, pharmacies would not fill my Dilaudid because they said that need to have an extended release and they don't make one so I had to go to morphine instant release and extended release and neither one did anything it was like I was eating a piece of candy did nothing, like when I have my appendix out they gave me a gram of morphine and it did nothing and then they gave me a gram of fentanyl and it did nothing so then they gave me a gram of hydromorphone and it knocked the pain out like crazy, I was also on fentanyl patches for a while until they leave and caused big problems where I ended up in the hospital and it was a new set of doctors and I told him my regular doctor said you can't just take them off it could kill you so he took them right off and said we will give you something different and it should work for you and it did but not to the degree I need it so I'm very hopeful that this other more phone is going to knock out my pain like it did yours thank you for sharing I appreciate it so much Michael