Author: jimmydean

Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:46 pm

Thanks for the quick response.

I forgot to say the surgeon who is doing the knee surgery told me to get pain meds from my addiction specialist… saying he had consulted two of his pain management colleges on the matter (I know I mentioned the consulting but not who he said to get it from)… I’m under the impression they can’t even prescribe opiates, let alone would they.

I’ve sat there and called multiple times, I plan to bring a print out of that article with me – but the doctor outright told me he won’t prescribe over 5mg of percocet – as I reiterate GREAT if it works, but my intuition is it won’t. Other than that… What can I really do? He obviously thinks nothing of my pain – and when I respond to people who have an attitude is such I normally just get angry :/

I would try what you suggested, but I plan to taper to 0 pretty much coming out of this surgery (at this point for me it’s mind over matter, the W/D’s from subs are mild just like a bad cold, no motiviation, but nowhere near the pain of oxy W/D’s) and I’m cooped up in bed anyway