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Pain and discouragement

Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Sep 17, 2019 | Replies (59)
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@kimspr3

Hi, I hope you will be able to stay on the Medication seeing that it helps. My drug Stim. is my pump. I made a mistake, When I had the Stimulator it was in Ambulatory Same Day not a hospital. Even here in NJ, I'm 70 miles from NYC very few Doctors do Pain Pumps. I don't know why? I travel 2 hrs 1 way to have the pump filled once a month. Not bad. For me, I need the pump but I don't want to take pills also anymore taking a toll. May I suggest before procedures that may be offered to you try a little research about it. I wish I had done that.

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Jim, Volunteer Mentor | @jimhd | Sep 17, 2019

@kimspr3 I had an appointment last week with my pain specialist. He didn't explain why the local doctors quit doing pump implants, but I gather that they had problems with them. I told him that I saw online a list of a few doctors who do them, but they're all over in the Willamette valley, 3 hours from where I live. The pain doctor discouraged getting a pump. I'm not interested in driving 3 hours each way for a refill every month. It would be expensive because I wouldn't want to do the round trip in one day. That means a night in a motel and several restaurant meals.

I know that I take a lot of pills every day - for neuropathy pain, arthritis, allergies, reflux, svt, anxiety plus various vitamins. I told my PCP this afternoon that if imipramine actually does treat my neuropathy pain, I would try backing off morphine. But for now I'll stick with the morphine. I stopped taking it a couple of years ago, and after two weeks I knew that it truly was reducing the pain. So I do what I need to.

Jim

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