Prescription Pain Killers.

[josh_the_hot_boy]

Has anyone else discovered that they are morphine resistant? I've been given full doses of iv morphine with zero effect. Over the counter pain killers have never worked not even a little even when I take the full doses. Vicodin makes me nauseous and has very little effect. I was having some pain in my stomach related to my Ulcerative Colitis tonight so I took Percocet that I was given like 2 months ago right after I was released from the hospital for Ulcerative Colitis. It's 5-325 mg tablets (5 mg of oxyCODONE and 325 of Acetaminophen). That was over 30 minutes ago and there's been no change in my pain. When I go to the hospital they give me Dilaudid. It makes my pain go away but it doesn't make me loopy or make me sleep. No pain medication has ever knocked me out. Tramadol I took once and it didn't like me at all so I never took it again. My mom is the same way Morphine has no effect on her ether.

Does anyone else have these kind of issues? What should I do if I'm ever in pain? I mean I don't want to start popping handfuls of Percocet. People think ether A I'm lying or B I am or was a drug addict nether of which have ever been true. Is their any test or some way I can tell what I'm immune to or what will work the best? At the hospital they gave me Dilaudid and it worked fine. A few days before I was released they switched me to pill form of Percocet and it kind of worked but not really and then when I went home they gave me a prescription for Percocet and it said take one ever 6 hours as needed and I did but it was like I wasn't even taking anything. I never saw any change in my pain levels. Like I said I took a Percocet now like 45 minutes ago and still no changes. Am I going crazy or am I not the only one?

 

[Tjerk12]

I am no doctor, so it would not be proper to give medical advise. However I can give you some material to discuss with your own doctor. The wife of a friend suffers since more than 30 years from the same disease. The extent differs, sometimes worse and sometimes not more than a little handicap. But last year it was worse than ever. She consulted a new specialist and he started a totally new approach. First he decided to stop all medication. Than he asked her if she smoked. She answered yes I do. Smoking is bad, he said, but nicotine is good for your disease. He advised to smoke those electrical cigarettes. No tar, just nicotine. For several month she is doing very well now.
But as I said before, consult your doctor about such an approach. Maybe it is just charlatanism.

 

[josh_the_hot_boy]

I've never smoked a day in my life and I don't plan to start. I just was curious if anyone had run into these kind of issues with pain medications.

 

[josh_the_hot_boy]

Just so you know this time I tried 2 Percocet still 5/325 each and it works better but if I was in serious pain I'd need 3 so that's what I figured out. 1 does nothing and 2 has the pain killing effect (if you disregard the drowsy loopyish effect) of about maximum strength over the counter meds and 3 Percocet is about the same as 1 Percocet for a normal person. So now I know.

 

[loretta]

in my opinion you should go see a pain specialist, if there is none, go to the nearest universtiy hospital or an anestesist.
pain is a very special thing that varies from person to person and you need a special education to cure it correctly, most docs give you higher doses of painkillers which is not the right way to treat this problem.
But what about the cause for your pain? is it treated good? do you get med for that (5-ASA or some)? is it correctly diagnosed (DD morbus crohn - colitis segmentalis)?

 

[josh_the_hot_boy]

99% of the time I'm not in pain it's just when ever I am (flare up from Ulceritive Colitis, any hospital related thing and so on) over the counter meds for headache, mild pain and so forth doesn't work. Viccodin that I've been given before after hospital stuff just makes me nauseous. Last time after the hospital they gave me Percocet 5/325 it takes 2 minimum to notice any change. Like I said most of the time I'm fine no pain but if I ever am over the counter stuff doesn't work and it takes like 2 or 3 prescription pills to notice any change. I just worry that if I ever need surgery or ever need serious relief that the meds they give me won't work and that if I ask for anything stronger they'll just assume I'm a drug addict.

 

[loretta]

drug addiction is a problem with oxycodin, there your docs are right. but as i said, a pain specialist may have an other solution for your problem with standard pain killers, maybe fentanyl or some
and please get the colitis treated correctly - chronic colitis is a high risk of getting cancer and you won't have cut out parts of your colon or worse

 

[josh_the_hot_boy]

I've already taken care of the colitis. I'm seeing a GI Doctor and taking medication.

 

[loretta]

that is good that you see a GI doc. i am always worried that us people don't get right medical treatment because of the us healthcare system where you have to pay everything and not everyone can afford this
this is possibly a prejudiction, but we hear nothing good about the us healthcare system

 

[sunandmoon]

I guess this is best discussed with your doctor.