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One thing I forgot to mention about the pain pump. Drugs delivered into the spine by the pain pump, are 300 times more effective than drugs that you eat. That's what my doc says I'm not sure it's true but I would certainly buy into the idea that it's a hundred to 200 times more effective maybe three hundred times when you first start. Something to think about.

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If you had a bad reaction to a drug, will you get the same reaction with the pump with the same meds in it?

It,'ll be the same med right I would think you would the pump would,by make any difference

most of an oral Med is absorbed by your digestive system and never gets around to treating your pain. This is why drug addicts want to crush up there pills and snort them or dissolve them in water and inject them. Having the drugs leak directly onto your spine by the pain pump is even more effective than an intravenous injection and according to my doctor is 300 times more effective. I don't know if the number should really be as high as 300 I don't feel like I'm getting a thousand mg of Dilaudid every day but it is definitely way more effective than eating pills even if it's the same Med. There are other medications delivered by pain pumps such as methadone and morphine. my doc says they sometimes have to experiment and see which Med is right for which person, Dilaudid just seems to be the right one for me.

Not necessarily but I would start with a different drug just to be safe. if your bad reaction was the first time you tried the drug that's pretty normal for most narcotics. Especially if you're bad reaction was stomach discomfort or vomiting. that's a side effect that usually doesn't repeat itself although it can.