Sarojini
11-29-2005, 04:38 AM
I had it AGAIN last night and this morning, believe it or not. This time it was my pain doc's fault, for which she profusely apologized a million times this morning when I got in to see her at 7:30 .... however it still annoys me that this is the 3rd time this year I have had to endure withdrawal symptoms.
Anyway, the issue is that my appointment got screwed up because of Thanksgiving, which meant my scripts also got screwed up, and I ran out of meds yesterday. Last night actually. I was surprised the withdrawal came so fast, to be honest -- I was on 60 mg MS-Contin 2x a day with Percocet for breakthrough, and I took the last Contin at like 5pm last night. By 4 a.m. this morning, I was dreaming I was being stabbed and awoke to the worst bladder pain of my life. As time wore on and it passed the 12 hour mark when the MS-Contin began really flowing out of my system, I got diarrhea and vomiting like, immediately! It was rather scary.
LUCKILY, I had a pain clinic appointment at 7:30 a.m. today. Hubby had to drive because I was WAY too out of it and sick. We had to stop a billion times at bathrooms so I could pee, poop, vomit, or all three. I even (embarrassingly) threw up in the parking lot at the pain clinic. :rolleyes: It just happened when I moved around getting out of the car :( Thankfully it was early and there was hardly anyone there to witness me barfing in the lot with my hubby holding my hair.
Anyway, my pain doc saw me immediately, thankfully, because I was a mess and in a TON of pain too, and my blood pressure was something horrible like 150/98, which is HIGH for me especially since I'm on alpha-blockers as well. As I said, she apologized soooooo much and got me set up with new scripts. She put me back on the 30mg MS-Contin 3x a day regimen at my request because I felt it kept a more constant blood concentration and while the total dose was lower, I actually had less pain on that regimen because my levels were even. She finally increased my breakthrough meds, too, since I always run out like 5 days before the pain appointments.
Hubby asked about Neurontin and drugs like that and we talked about it -- pain doc said she had patients literally forgetting where they lived and getting in accidents and not knowing what happened on that stuff!!! So, she put me on Lyrica for fibro pain and hopefully to help with IC too.
Finally, we got to Walgreens to fill my scripts (I'm still running to their bathroom at this point) and they got them ready RIGHT away (God bless that pharmacist) and I just stood there in the waiting area and swallowed all three pills (MS-Contin, Percocet, and Lyrica) all at once, feeling like a total addict, and then Hubby drove us home. I went straight to my bed and passed out on it for 1.5 hours; he apparently had sympathy diarrhea and also had a nap.
*sigh*
It was really a hellish morning which has forced me to take a day off from work. But the good thing is, I feel better now. No more withdrawal symptoms, of course, and the Lyrica is rather interesting -- I took 75mg 2 hours ago and while I can still feel a dull echo of earlier pain in my bladder, I have ABSOLUTELY NO fibro pain for the first time in 2 whole months. I am slightly lightheaded, but not so bad yet -- it's more of a peaceful feeling. We'll see if it gets worse. I think I could drive, but I'm not going to try because it is just POURING with rain ... not a good time to try driving on a new med!!!
I am supposed to experiment on myself to find a good dose of Lyrica. Pain doc said, "You're a scientist, play with it and report back to me next time what you found out." I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that statement... although scientists in the 1700s used to use themselves as guinea pigs all the time and drink all sorts of nasty old crap they mixed up. LOL. :lmao: It's amazing how advanced yet backwards medicine has become -- we do clinical trials which only leave us with a guess as to what to prescribe, and patients still become guinea pigs even though the trials were supposed to prevent that....
Anyway, the issue is that my appointment got screwed up because of Thanksgiving, which meant my scripts also got screwed up, and I ran out of meds yesterday. Last night actually. I was surprised the withdrawal came so fast, to be honest -- I was on 60 mg MS-Contin 2x a day with Percocet for breakthrough, and I took the last Contin at like 5pm last night. By 4 a.m. this morning, I was dreaming I was being stabbed and awoke to the worst bladder pain of my life. As time wore on and it passed the 12 hour mark when the MS-Contin began really flowing out of my system, I got diarrhea and vomiting like, immediately! It was rather scary.
LUCKILY, I had a pain clinic appointment at 7:30 a.m. today. Hubby had to drive because I was WAY too out of it and sick. We had to stop a billion times at bathrooms so I could pee, poop, vomit, or all three. I even (embarrassingly) threw up in the parking lot at the pain clinic. :rolleyes: It just happened when I moved around getting out of the car :( Thankfully it was early and there was hardly anyone there to witness me barfing in the lot with my hubby holding my hair.
Anyway, my pain doc saw me immediately, thankfully, because I was a mess and in a TON of pain too, and my blood pressure was something horrible like 150/98, which is HIGH for me especially since I'm on alpha-blockers as well. As I said, she apologized soooooo much and got me set up with new scripts. She put me back on the 30mg MS-Contin 3x a day regimen at my request because I felt it kept a more constant blood concentration and while the total dose was lower, I actually had less pain on that regimen because my levels were even. She finally increased my breakthrough meds, too, since I always run out like 5 days before the pain appointments.
Hubby asked about Neurontin and drugs like that and we talked about it -- pain doc said she had patients literally forgetting where they lived and getting in accidents and not knowing what happened on that stuff!!! So, she put me on Lyrica for fibro pain and hopefully to help with IC too.
Finally, we got to Walgreens to fill my scripts (I'm still running to their bathroom at this point) and they got them ready RIGHT away (God bless that pharmacist) and I just stood there in the waiting area and swallowed all three pills (MS-Contin, Percocet, and Lyrica) all at once, feeling like a total addict, and then Hubby drove us home. I went straight to my bed and passed out on it for 1.5 hours; he apparently had sympathy diarrhea and also had a nap.
*sigh*
It was really a hellish morning which has forced me to take a day off from work. But the good thing is, I feel better now. No more withdrawal symptoms, of course, and the Lyrica is rather interesting -- I took 75mg 2 hours ago and while I can still feel a dull echo of earlier pain in my bladder, I have ABSOLUTELY NO fibro pain for the first time in 2 whole months. I am slightly lightheaded, but not so bad yet -- it's more of a peaceful feeling. We'll see if it gets worse. I think I could drive, but I'm not going to try because it is just POURING with rain ... not a good time to try driving on a new med!!!
I am supposed to experiment on myself to find a good dose of Lyrica. Pain doc said, "You're a scientist, play with it and report back to me next time what you found out." I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that statement... although scientists in the 1700s used to use themselves as guinea pigs all the time and drink all sorts of nasty old crap they mixed up. LOL. :lmao: It's amazing how advanced yet backwards medicine has become -- we do clinical trials which only leave us with a guess as to what to prescribe, and patients still become guinea pigs even though the trials were supposed to prevent that....