How to get doctor to put me on my previous med

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went to visit new pain doctor. priorly on 40mg methadone. Doctor puts me on opana er and lyrica. I am so confused. I told her that my present med was fine. i took it in the morning and was fine all day. Had to take no other medicine at all. Now she has me taking opana twice and lyrica 3 times. Neither med is helping my back. and the opana is causing me to have a headache like a nail in my eye. I dont have it unless I take the opana. why can they not just keep me on a med that i have already been on, know works for me and i only have to take once. I feel like a guinea pig. any info:(
 
I am sorry for your headache. I was on OpanaER and I remeraber the first few weeks were kind of rough. I felt like I had morning sickness and I did have headaches on and off. The good news is, those all went away after a few weeks. The bad news, the OpanaER didn't control my pain as well as I had hoped and it caused me to have a bacterial overgrowth in my GI tract.

I don't know anything about methadone, so I am not sure why your doctor switched your meRAB. Did you ask him?

Oh yeah, I am sure you know this, but you need to take the OpanaER regularly. It is a long-acting narcotic that you must take every day on schedule. Something that is unique to OpanaER is that you CANNOT drink alcohol while taking this medication. While it's not a good idea to drink on any pain pill, you really have to be careful on OpanaER. It is a time-released pill and alcohol can cause the pill to be released all at once...causing on overdose and death. Even my pharmacist was not aware of this until I made her do some research on this.

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She seemed to have no problem with me being on the methadone. And I also told her that i liked only having to take medicine once a day. She told me that the opana was a stonger medicine and would probably help me more. which makes no sense because i had no pain on the methadone. none at all. I have severe lurabar disease and a tear in my spine. with the methodone i was back playing with my horses and everything. I have a 6 year old 4year old and 4 month old and now i am having trouble taking care of them. this is not the first time a doctor has done this to me. I am great and they want to switch it up. my husband thinks it is the medicine reps getting them to give a certain kind of medicine. i feel she should have a responsiblity to me and me being able to take care of my kiRAB first.
 
just what i need is GI problem. My ex husband shot me and i have severe facial pain as well. are you still on the opana
 
Wow! You certainly have your hanRAB full with three children. I thought I had it tough with a 2 and 4 yr old at home. I have no family in the area and my husband works long hours, so it's just me most of the time. I have been off of the OpanaER for about 6 weeks now and I have to say, now that I am off of it, I now realize it was helping....but just a tiny bit. I was still in a lot of pain and still could not do things like..sit through a movie, drive in a car for more than 20 minutes...stuff like that. Now I am just on vicodin, and my pain doctor has had to increase my dosage quite a bit. I just had an epidural injection and that has helped a bit. I am now back to being in the same pain I was in while on the OpanaER. But as I said, I am still in considerable pain and feel like my life is going on without me. It is so fustrating being in so much pain all day long. My condition is not going to improve either. I have DDD, stenosis, and permanent nerve damage from 2 large herniated discs. I am considering a spinal cord stimulator and have been told I am a great candidate for it.

Not everyone on the OpanaER has GI issues. I have battled IBS my whole life, and my GI doctor said that the OpanaER has been known to cause problems in people with GI issues. It has taken me six weeks to finally start feeling better in that dept. I am hoping to be able to find another Long Acting medication that will not upset my GI tract.

I also forgot to mention that I was experiencing some pretty bad withdrawal feelings every day and didn't even realize what it was until after I came off the OpanaER. I took mine every 12 hours. 10am and 10pm. Every night around 7pm I would start to feel horrible. Nothing physical, but mentally horrible. I cannot explain it, but I would just feel like PMS times 10,000. I remeraber watching our favorite tv shows with my husband and him asking me why I never laugh anymore. I felt sooooo aggitated and nothing could make me happy. I wanted to scream internally. I also had no desire in the bedroom area (sorry if TMI). It wasn't until I came off the OpanaER that I slowly started feeling better. I talked to my pain psychologist about this and he said I was showing classic signs of withdrawals. He said that medication does not last the full 12 hours..but closer to 8-10. And everyone metabolizes it differently. I am only sharing this with you because I NEVER want to feel that way again. I cannot believe I didn't make the connection to the medication,but I also think it's hard to recognize there is problem when you are experiencing it.

best of luck to you and I hope your pain is controlled soon.
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