Frank I nkow that your the man when it comes to good suggestions anmd things to
practice.
I jst want to know now should i start lessing the dose of the hydrocodone to
get off of it or wait fr someone at a pain clinic to trade for it?
it just seamed odd to me,taking only hydrocodone 5's,small dosage, that i would
be in any addictrion trouble.
taking it twice a day with atavan sure helped the pain in my side but perhaps
something else would too.
living on 26 dollars a day makes prospecting kind of tough.
--- On Fri, 12/31/10, fr...@franksheldon.com <fr...@franksheldon.com> wrote:
From: fr...@franksheldon.com <fr...@franksheldon.com>
Subject: Re: RE [TMIC] OT: REQUEST
To: "john snodgrass" <jcs...@yahoo.com>
Cc: tmic-list@eskimo.com
Date: Friday, December 31, 2010, 11:58 AM
John,
If you've been taking hydrocodone for two years, you probably are "addicted"
(What ever that means) to it.
I would recommend going to a real pain clinic. Find a pain clinic connected to
a large "teaching" hospital- a hospital that is intimately connected to a
medical school. The first clue that you are in the right place will be that
the doctor will have, or will line up, a TEAM consisting of physiotherapist,
occupational therapist, psychologist, maybe a social worker and the doctor and
nurse.
Opiods don't work very well with Central Neuropathic Pain. The combination than
works for most of us is
: Old fashoned anti-depressants like Nortriptyline, anti epileptic medication
like phenobarbitol ( much fewer side effects than neurontin, and less
expensive), and Dextromethorphan. Dextromethorphan is used for stopping a
cough, just like hydrocondone, but it is the same as morphine but right handed.
Woh, Woh, stop right there. So it's the same as morphine which is at least TEN
times as strong as hydrocodone, but is nonaddictive. How does that work??
Look at your hands, count the bones. You will realize that, if you are normal,
you have the same number of bones in each hand, but your hands are different-
you have a right and left hand. Morphine is left handed,and so works well at
stopping some sorts of pain. Dextromethorphan is better at stopping other types
of pain. You take different doses of Dextromethorphan than Morphine. The
maximum dose is 60 mg. twice a day, if you take more you may start having
hallucinations.
You may not know if I'm telling you the truth. I am not sell medication, nor am
I offering salvation through prescription pills. I used to be a family doctor
(M.D.,C.M.)trained at one of the best medical schools in the world ( Not
Caribbean, but Canadian), have had T.M. for ten and a half years. I have looked
for and found some of the best specialists who care for me. I also read the
appropriate medical journals to learn of new techniques before they are even
prescribed- I try to make every physician appointment a teaching event for both
myself and the doctor.
Good Luck on your journey. If I can help, email me.
Frank
