I wondered how many of the rest of you go to a pain clinic.
I thought maybe we could discuss issues relating to treatment and share our thoughts...compare notes and whatnot.
I got in a wreck in 2011 where my old buddy joey, god rest his soul, crashed the car drunk. I was hurt pretty bad.
Then, not to long after that, i unassed the highway at about 80 miles an hour and flipped the van about 5 times. It was me and my wife's first date, believe it or not.
The second wreck was fucking death defying. I still can't believe we're alive.
And then there was the part where my cousin tried to kill me last year. He fucking kicked me in the back while i was passed out on the ground, knowing my back was fucked and wearing steel toed boots, no less.
I got morphine from this asshole dr who accused me of faking the whole thing. I finally got an MRI to shut him up, and he referred me to a pain clinic.
I've since had two rounds of facet blocks.
I have also had two days of microsurgery for a total of 8
rhizotomies .
And good god those things fucking hurt!
The surgery helped some, but my back still hurts.
I am prescribed 6 10 mg hydrocodones a day, which used to seem like a whole lot.
But i've built up a tolerance to them. I go to the dr tomorrow. I feel like i need a stronger medicine now, but it scares the shit out of me.
He likes to prescribe fentanyl patches, but if i get dependent on those, well, the withdrawals are worse than heroin.
Maybe a little more vicodin would work.
I used to love taking vicodin for fun, which adds another level of complication to all of this.
So is anyone else in this boat?