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Has anyone had an Intrathecal Pain Pump w Morphine Removed?
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@rockon79 Thank you for sharing your experience. I hope to not have to go through what I’m experiencing for weeks,
Let alone months. I have seen improvements to my appetite, bowel movements, runny nose, sneezing and enhanced smell. Very minor improvement in restlessness as I was able to lay down and sleep for twenty minutes the first time after two sleepless nights. But the restlessness is very fickle. One minute I’m feeling like, ah, I can sit down. Then a second later I’m popping up out of my chair because I absolutely cannot sit still. It’s like we trade one problem (pain) for another (the reality of extended opioid use). Did your doctor put you on Butrans patches to do the final weaning? That’s what my pain management doctor said we’d do. Unfortunately I don’t see him until Tuesday morning. Getting off the intrathecal low dose is significantly harder than I expected.
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@toddmpeterson After the pump removal the doctor that managed my pain pump sent me home with 20 15 mg morphine tablets which was woefully inadequate to deal with that type of withdrawal. He either didn't know or care -which I resent. He certainly didn't discuss Butrans patches or anything like that. I have heard of methadone as a step down to ease opiate withdrawal and it is an agonist as is Buprenorphine although much stronger. They are both prescription narcotics and will create a dependency (therefore more tapering off from yet another narcotic-after a while some of us just have to "man up" and deal with it if we want to be truly free-that's what I had to do anyways). Be careful not to trade one dependency for another although many in the medical field feel that these two are less harmful than the morphine and the like (not). BTW your last sentence is absolutely correct-I wish you well.