would Oxycontin alleviate MOSTof my severe chronic pain the same way Methadone does? Y drs don't use
Legally, I cannot be prescribed Methadone for the chronic pain of degenerative disk disease and upper neck problems, @ least not in Mass.-the state where I NEED 2 move for inheritence reasons-and I need to find a pain manager drug from Mt. where I have been on that Methadone therapy combined with Lyrica for a bothched right arm nerve surgery done in March 08 to top it all off. So...any ideas on other drugs/medications which WOULD be allowed in both states for all of the above conditions? Oh, and last but not least- I am a recovering alchoholic wih 5 yrs sobriety other than the little jaunt out of a Mass. Mental Hospital from which I left A.M.A. for legal reasons again-the Drs. could not let me stay in a "freecare Hospital" if I was not considered mentally ill. Once they had forced me into and thru a full out no-help withdrawal from several psychiatric drugs(Benzodiazapenes) as well as the not legal as pain management in the state of Mass. opiat-Methadone-I had to go--back to Montana was the ONLY available option-in the interrum I DID drink alchohol for the pain relief only...thank God I HATE the stuff-but I NEVER AGAIN want to even attempt such a thing!!! IT DID NOT GO WELL AT ALL EITHER...So is oxycontin the next strongest or type of drug I would need??? PLEASE HELP ME!!!
Oxycontin would probably help you a lot more than Methadone ever would.
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Oxycontin would be better than methadone, but fentanyl transdermal would be better for the pain and may make the doctor feel more secure since it would be more obvious if you were to abuse of divert it. I'm not saying you would--I'm saying your history makes a doctor worry about this and a patch you change every 3 days and get only 10 of a month seems harder to abuse or divert. As a pain patient who has used methadone, oxycontin, and fentanyl tranasdermal I can also say it's by far the most effective for my pain and causes me the fewest side effects, esp. CNS side effects that are why people abuse opoids in the first place. Oxycodone was second and I did not find methadone to be very effective at all. This may be a good thing if you find a better pain relief with less risk.
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I did not read to the bottom as to the WHY you drank after you became sober or I would not have posted above. While I very much sympathize with your pain-alcohol is a shitty pain killer and you could have gotten better pain relief with OTC naproxen (Aleve) than drinking again, and I have serious doubts about you being unsupervised with any narcotic. You could also usually have gotten a single dose of a strong pain med in an emergency room if the pain was especially bad. People on this board pretty much don't have pain that alcohol would help AT ALL in amounts that would not result in immediate death.
I don't think it is illegal for pain clinics to use methadone in Massachusetts, the controversy is over it's use to ease withdrawl. I suggest you TRY to find a pain clinic in Massechusetts that will prescribe to you if you pick up your doses daily and do random drug testing. Random drug testing is usually required at pain clinics anyway, in any state, but pain clinics often refuse to treat addicts and former addicts, which is what an alcoholic is--an alcohol addict.