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Wednesday, November, 25, 2009
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I need advise very badly

I have a rare type of Muscular Dystrophy and am in constant pain. I have been taking pain meds for many years but besides my MD/pain, I am having problems with my hair falling out, nervous anxiety, depression really bad, after I eat I get this lump on my neck like a swollen gland and there is more but the real question is:  I have several... Read moreChevron

Have you heard Dr. Krusz that they are not implanting intrathecal pumps anymore at all?

I have a pump in me currently that just has saline in it at the present. I couldnt get used to  either morphine or dilaudid so they put me back on methadone for now. I dont know whether to get that pump taken out of me or just wait and see what happens with all this. I know about the recall, as a matter of fact my pain clinic here did not... Read moreChevron

I had a intrathecal morphine pump put in last November 2007 and I tried dilaudid too and I couldnt

tolerate either one. I was on Methadone for 10 yrs prior to the pump being put in. So after many months of trying and going thru withdrawl from both methadone first, then morphine second, to get on dilaudid and that not working I had to go through withdrawl one more time to get back on the original dosage of methadone I had been on. My question... Read moreChevron

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