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Pain pump, I have one, how about one for you?
Chronic Pain | Last Active: May 4 11:25am | Replies (319)Comment receiving replies
No regrets here. I had a pain pump put in last November. It has reduced my base level pain by about 20% (from a 3 to a 2.5) and completely eliminated the spikes in pain that felt like electrical shocks. I am still working with my pain management doctor to increase my dosage to get the maximum result.
I have taken a lot of Opioids pills over the last four years for Sciatica, namely Morphine, Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, Dilaudid and Tramadol. I had the best relief from Dilaudid and so that is what is in my lump.
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I would kill (not literally, of course) for a daily pain level of 2 or 3. I just had my pump installed yesterday and set to the lowest possible setting. I had gotten up to a daily level of 7 or 8. Did you have to have your pump readjusted sometime after surgery. I will be going back for my first (and hopefully only) adjustment.
Interesting that you can determine your pain level from a 3 to 2.5
How do you measure your pain levels so accurately, especially when you are taking pain meds ?
For myself, determaining a pain level is a guess when taking anti-inflams & pain meds.
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Thank you. I was on either morphine or dilaudid from 2008-2016. Had to stop while hospitalized with rhabdomylosis, congestive heart failure, double pneumonia and thrush. I don’t remember those 3 weeks in ICU. Then to rehab hospital for another month. This was in another city. By the time I got home the opiod crisis had struck and I couldn’t get back on meds. I have been without anything except the occasional Tramadol which doesn’t help. Went through five pump trials and 3 years of battling insurance and was just about ready to give up when I got approved two weeks ago. Any amount of pain reduction will be a welcomed relief.