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Pain pump, I have one, how about one for you?
Chronic Pain | Last Active: 18 hours ago | Replies (318)Comment receiving replies
I have been using a pump for about 20 months. First morphine could not feel it then switched to dilaudid still nothing. Previously I had been using Fentanyl patch 25mcg/h and 4 10 mg oxycodone for many years. I get no relief from the dilaudid and I am at 1.39 mg per day after almost a year. Totally unhappy with this doctor. Had a fentanyl patch left over and it was applied and it was a miracle I felt the best I had in the last 10 years, when told doctor he got mad said it was illegal to use fentanyl with dilaudid and he could be thrown in jail, live in CT. Now I am back in hell.
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Sorry to hear this. I was given a spinal injection with dilaudid before I got the pimp to make sure that was the right drug for me. 1.39 mg. is too low. I began at 3.6 and now I'm closer to 4 mg. Plus .9 mgs. that I can give myself in 10 doses over 24 hours, .09 per dose. Find another doctor. I'm not sure if the starting dose is determined by the oral or patch dose we were recieving before the pump. I do know that raising the dose too much can make the pump worse than useless leaving you in more pain than ever. Best wishes.