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Originally Posted by Marella
Just a note on pain meds: I've been on Oxycontin for about 2 weeks now for my hernia pain. Wow, that's strong stuff. I take only at night so that I can sleep otherwise the pain wakes me constantly. My first night I was so dizzy and nauseous for the entire night and the next day. The second night I took half a pill, as well as the next three nights and the Oxy halfves did their job. Suddenly, that half a pill didn't do what it was doing. I took a whole Oxy. After 4 days of use, that dizziness and nausea vanished. Yep, I got used to the pill, and so did my body. I'm terrified of narcotics, even legal ones. Last night I slept w/o an Oxy, just to try it. I slept 6 hours instead of 10, but I slept. Now I'm going to see of the pain level is as high as it was before I started with these meds.
As for not eating on narcotics... yep, my appetite has been cut drastically, but my weight loss is still nominal. I have to force myself to eat.
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That's the beast of oxycontin. Your body gets used to it and you need more and more for it to have any affect. I've been taking it since October 2006 now, and it's definitely not my idea of a fun time, but neither is the overwhelming fibromyalgia pain that causes me to start having panic attacks. I go back and forth with upping my dose and then all the way back down, detoxing for a week, I'm reminded of the non medicated pain, and go back to oxy. Going in a circle this way is the only way I know how to control it, because I
refuse to just keep going up to a couple hundred mgs a day. 80mg a day is as high as I've gone, and I don't wanna get like that again. I hover around 10-30mg a day now, 1-2 hrs of exercise, 64 ozs water, and 800-1000 cals and I have pain most of my waking hours.. but nothing like the pain I have with no oxy at all. It never gets me high or removes the pain completely like it did in the beginning, but it gives me a couple hours of manageable pain so I can get my exercise done.
To be specific, I dropped the oxycontin and take oxynorm (same thing but all at once instead of spread out) so I can specifically have 2 hours a day where I can get stuff done. My morning breakfast and workout and my evening dinner and walk. It's all the time in between that I sit here trying not to cry. Gotta keep pushing and
never give up.
Edit: Is your fibro targetted to a couple spots or all over? Mine started in my legs and now it's my whole body. All 18 pressure points. Some days I get "lucky" and the pressure points in my arms and neck give me a rest.