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I have been on Oxycontin for 3 years. I am not stupid, I did not ask the doc to keep increasing my meds, I would decide to stop taking them for a two week on and two week off if I could. I am in chronic pain,my life has been altered to the degree I cannot walk without assistance any distance. I do walk into a store that has carts to push. Two back surgeries, the type of back that just keeps getting worse, had I not had the surgery I think I could have controlled the pain with Vicodan and Advil. But the doc. said I had to have the surgery. then the 2nd one did me in.It is a reputable doc who has done many surgeries, my opinion he wanted the money because this is when they discovered surgery was making things worse more than better. I blame that doc for me being in the pain I am in and for having to take the medicine. Now they want to treat me like a junkie off the street. I am so angry with this subject because of the reputation it gives you. If you have no choice then what?? I should have been given other options before the 1st surgery and I was not. Now they change the OC to OP and I became extremely ill over it. To the point I could not eat or drink or sleep. My stomach hurt sooo bad and everyday I got worse and worse. I felt like I was poisioning myself. The FDA approved this?? I want the people who approved it to take it!!!!!

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Sara, the problem with surgery is the scar tissue it can create. There's Minimally Invasive spine surgery these days and it's the only way to do it if it has to be done. Surgery is no guarantee for a fix. If the nerve has been damaged in any way causing blood flow through the nerve itself to be disrupted you will sense that pain forever. Scar tissue rubbing on nerves from surgeries or procedures can be as bad or worse as the initial condition.

Steroid IV have to be used sparingly due to the damage they can cause from long term heavy usage. I can't have them in the area of the infection because of all the scar tissue, the IV solutions press the scar tissue into my nerves causing to much pain. I've never known anyone with moderate to severe pain having an IV that lasted longer than 6-8 weeks with a permanent condition. There's all sorts of things that can cause back pain and or leg pain too. Diagnostics have gotten better over the years. Pain mapping is a newer procedure their doing at high end clinics to find the actual cause/location of the pain source. Then they can better treat the cause of the pain.

Any doctor that wants to do surgery without first exhausting all conservative routes unless there's direct evidence of a major defect, get up and run away before they make you worse. It took me several years to get use to the big narcotics without them making me sick to my stomach, I tried medical grade pot and it didn't help my pain that much, but it did makeme very paranoid. I take 80mg oxycontin twice a day with 30mg Roxicodone 4 times a day for breakthrough pain. I never feel high, I just hurt less. If you're actually in enough pain you don't feel high off of synthetic opiates. When my pain gets really bad 200mg demerol & 100mg of Phenergan IV doesn't even feel like I had those put into me. What I can tell you is to get as educated as you can about your own personal injury and ALL available treatment options. Search all over the internet and your own location(where you live) as to what is available in your area. We're talking about YOUR LIFE, take charge of your own care and don't let anyone talk you into something your not comfortable with.

I would have rather lived with my herniated disc, than go through what I have for the last 25 years since the infection I got from the surgery. But with Minimally Invasive spine surgeries these days your risk is greatly reduced from infections & alot of scar tissue. Don't let me scare you away from what you may need done to get your life back, just make educated decisions about your own needs. Because you can't put the genie back in the bottle once you've been cut on... If you were in Texas Dallas-Fort Worth area I would highly recommend the Texas Back Institute or Minimally Invasive Spine Care to give you the best outcome. Go online read about these 2 places and find something comparable in your area. These places surgery is absolutely they last thing they want to do to anyone, but if you should need surgery their some of the best spine surgeons in the world! When it comes to your own health you don't want someone whose supposedly qualified, you want the BEST!

Hope this helps some, just remember it's a duty to yourself to get educated about your own personal situation and take charge of your own care. If you don't like what's being done get a second or third opinion from someone YOU choose! Hopefully you don't have Obamacare or you're already screwed... If you have any questions just ask them here from the reply option and they send me an email about the reply. Have a good day and learn everything you can about your condition and ALL available treatment options, nothing is etched in stone and what works for someone else may not work for you...

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Mark- thank you very much. I really appreciate you sharing the detail.

Which plan did you buy?

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I'm disabled from what the infection did, so I'm on Medicare. The hospital's and surgeon's insurance companies have to pay for anything pertaining to what the infection did. If I was on Obamacare I'd be in the poor house from deductibles, co-pays and the 15% surcharge tax on durable medical goods.
None of my doctors accept Obamacare, so I'd really be screwed because their all the highend specialists. My family doctor a board certified Internal Medicine doctor won't accept it either. Having specialized medical problems on Obamacare is a certifiable nightmare for alot of people. I feel sorry for them. They could have just passed a single law to stop insurance companies from discriminating on pre-existing conditions, instead of messing it up for them like it is now...

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I agree my rumeatologist put me the op, even after being off of it for a week, my stomach won't quit hurting. These doctors need to research these medications before they prescribe them to there patients. I never askèd for the oxy contin, she gave it with percocets 10 3.25 using the percocets as break through. I was also on fentanyl 25 micros it worked wonders but came off during bathing, so she discontinued that and left me with just the percocets. If someone ever tells you a dr is a good dr. That's bulls***. I'm going back to the nice dr I left and stay there. My knees hurt more now than they have in a long time and all I have for pain are the percocets. Rumeatologist quit managing my pain now, won't put me back on the fentanyl patch.

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Bulls***. Many back surgeries are unsuccessful. How is it the patient’s fault? If a surgery makes someone worse it is not their fault for tying to get better.

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