Thank you so much everyone!

I am so glad i found you all! I wanted to say thank you for all your great advice over the last few days.

Shannon: If you have nausea from some of the meds, ask about taking some Zofran w/ your meds. It's an anti-nausea med that worked well for me when I needed morphine, etc. It used to be very $$ but is now available as a generic. The generic name is "ondansetron HCL". It may allow you to try some other meds & not have all those evil side-effects.

They gave it to me thru my IV b4 my fusion surgery & for the 1st time ever, I had no post-op nausea. I also had no side-effects from it.

Good luck!

~Lakeside

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Nov. 06-- Lammy @ L4, removal of spinal cystic tumor @ L4/5(benign)

Thank you Lakeside! unfortunatly, i know all about zolfran...i already take it on an almost daily basis due to chronic nausea from my ulcerative colitis. I usually have a pretty strong stomach when it comes to meds, but morphine has always made me sick...

it is a great anti nausea med!!!! thanks!!!Shannon

hi lisa, hope ur feeling better from surgery! Phenergan works wonders!!! it knocks me out tho, and i am home fulltime w/ two children (4yrs and 11mo), so i have to stick w/ zolfran instead.

if u don't like oxycontin, u should tell them....i debated back and forth wether or not to push the fact that i was not doing well on the opana, but i did tell them and now they seem to finally get it! that stinks that u feel bad on it...i have a feeling now htat oxycontin is my last hope. It made u nauseous and sleepy?? how long did u try it for?

well, thanks for the reply! feel well! shannon

yes gramps, i def. had some anxiety over switching meds! But the proof is in the pudding for sure, that im in more pain now....i thought opana was morphine based?? guess i should do some reading on it...

i did have a hard time agreeing to the switch, especially when i was doing mostly well on the percs....like u said, why change something that works! but, im willing to try whatever they want me to do, i just want to make sure that in the process my pain does not get so bad that i end up back in a wheelchair! I spent 3mo. in a wheelchair when my foot went downhill, and it took a long time to get up and moving again w/ moderate to minimal pain. I find today, that i am headed that way fast, so a change needs to be made soon i think...

would u happen to know what im suppose to do w/ my left over opana? does it go back to my PM since i have a contract w/ them? or do i just flush them when we switch the med?

well, take care gramps! i hope that next wk will bring u some better news! shannon

Hi underthebus,

I'm not sure if you were talking to me or not about the oxycontin and percs. You can take straight oxycodone (percocet) without the tylenol in it. As far as constipation, I find the Sennakot does the trick (it doesn't hurt to eat a few plums /prunes either. Also, nexium causes diareah, so that kind of helps keep things in order when I'm taking opiads.
Take care,

Lisa

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift - that's why they call it the present

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Lisa aka pain

hi underthebus, thanks for the reply! i was taking percs, 5mg 3x a day. i would not mind having a higher dose of the percs since they work well for me (no drowsiness/dizzyness, nausea, headache or constipation). But having been on percs for almost 8yrs now, i think it probally is PAST time to move to a long lasting med that does not have tylanol in it...i just want to find something that works well w/ minimal side effects.

W/ my UC, i have chronic D. The percs never bound me up, but vicodin does, so bad that i have been hospitalized twice for it (possible megacolon due to the vicodin). Thankfully it never was that, but a UCer who becomes constipated who has a MAJOR urgency problem(even when constipated, urgency is a problem), makes for some sever pain. So, i would like to find something that just balances me out.

anyways, hope all is well! shannon