Doctors claim oxycodone exacerbates pain but nothing else helps

Tolerance matters. However, I don't think I've ever heard anyone ever complain that Oxycontin made pain worse and can't understand that unless she's having an issue with constipation from it. I wonder how they plan to take her off of her medicines? That's concerning me most of all.

Patients experience withdrawals from buprenorphine. Buprenorphine can cause respiratory depression and lower blood pressure alone and with particular medications and with alcohol. I appreciate your viewpoint on the higher doses but I would not say buprenorphine is extremely safe pain medication.

Have they ruled out chronic pancreatic? That seems the most obvious cause of the pain given her frequent bouts of acute pancreatitis. A gastroenterologist should be able to answer

Suggest following the guidance of the prescribing doctor.

I have chronic pain and a handful of conditions. I get frequent headaches and one of the neurologist I saw said that the Suboxone I am on for chronic pain and the ibuprofen I take is causing me "rebound headaches" and that I need to get off the Suboxone for her to prescribe any medication that would help the chronic migraines. She did refer me to a pain clinic. I get trigger pt injections in my neck back and butt along with Botox for migraines. I have tried to get off the Suboxone but my psoratic arthritis, osteoarthritis in my knees, chronic neck and back pain along with TMJ gets too painful. I have had stomach pains ( usually stabbing pain in abdomen under left side under ribs) for years. Ibuprofen caused gastritis. Only thing that helped with stomach pain was increasing my Zoloft to 100mg after all the tests came back clear for my stomach problems Also miralax twice a day every day helped too.
Hopefully that helped some. You sound like a good friend and she's lucky to have you and your support!

How does suboxone make you feel. I’m concerned about being drowsy from it? Have you ever taken OxyCodone?
If so how do they compare with pain control?
I too have a multitude of chronic pain conditions. Spine/ graves/ diabetes
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Look forward to hearing from you.

I read report by doctors in last year and they were laughing at idea of painkillers causing more pain, I agree with those doctors.

Yes, I have been told the same thing and in my experience of having to deal with what I call "fire pain" since '06, all my many pain clinic docs are incorrect, imo. The main problem going on in cases like this is that the docs will not prescribe more adequate pain meds because of all the drug abusers and now the Feds won't let the docs properly help all of us suffering with severe chronic pain unless your a dying cancer patient. I'll call this and say this is my opinion, but I know it to be true, imo.
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There are so many treatments for chronic pain that are natural and effective that doctors will never tell you about because they don't know about them. A key one is addressing the mind/body connection because stress and unresolved trauma is a key factor in chronic pain and chronic illness, both as a cause and as a factor in keeping it going however it started. There are also herbal and nutritional therapies, electrical stimulation therapies, biofeedback, neurofeedback, hands on therapies including acupuncture, massage, physical therapy and chiropractic, medical marijuana and kratom, pulsed electromagnetic field therapy, red/infrared light therapy and even more. Learn about these therapies at http://www.paintreatmentdirectory.com.

It's interesting that we are all so different in our susceptibility to medications. After my first knee replacement (which had also been my first surgery), they gave me morphine, but I just kept passing out with the pain. The morphine did not help my pain one bit. The strange thing is, that codeine ended up being the pain medication that allowed me to even be upright and conscious. Apparently codeine becomes morphine in your system. Strange. But after not being able to even be awake and conscious, it was the codeine that allowed me to function. A nurse was looking at me sideways when I came to, and she was so excited. She literally exclaimed, "Oh thank God - codeine works for you!" Since then, of course, that has been the only medication that deals with severe pain for me. But an internal medicine doc suggested that it was the cause of my stomach problems and constipation. One thing I have found that helps with that now is celery!!!! Not only does it help clear my system, it's also a natural anti-inflammatory!!! If I eat two or three celery stalks (I try to find organic, and usually can) per day, my system seems to work just fine. Good luck!!!!