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I've been feelt iting better since the hainstallation of a morphine pain pump. Still in the "adjusting period", where I go in every two weeks to get it amped up a notch. At this point, there are some decent days and still some less than stellar days. But, at least I am able to get back to doing a lot of the things that I was previously not able to do. There is a button on the remote that allows me to give myself a temporary boost of meds. I may try this today, because I have a lot more pain than usual. It may be a result of working outside yesterday on my deck for a number of hours.
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I am updating my post regarding my pain pump. Since June of 2023 the pump has not given me an ounce of pain mitigation. Not sure what happened to give me a couple of days of decent pain relief, but has not happened since. And I have had it readjusted more times than I can remember. Also tried adding an anesthetic, but that actuall felt worse. At it highest output I felt like a zombie with many weird side effects. I am in the process of having it decreased to the point where I can have it removed. I have also lost about twenty pounds, so the pump just kind of sits on the front of my belly, jiggling around like a stale bagel.
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I am guessing you are not from Pa? Years of pain from sports injury to car accidents- our state has a rule! No pain meds given out to those who havnt really used them before, to those who have - rather than help dosage, they lowered the standards, our pain management clinics are injection based cures or left to our pcp’s who shouldnt have than burden since its not there expertise. Its pathetic! I hope the DEA IS READING THIS! Open your clinics if you want to be in charge. People cant even pt because our medicine was taken away! Most people i know who really need pain medicine cant get it, are left to basically drink alcohol, or whatever means they can to cope with it, and try working to survive! Do you think this is rite? Pa - a mess!