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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 334587" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>Marg, for the last five years of his like, husband was only able to function if he used strong painkillers...morphine and Oxycontin.</p><p></p><p>He was very lucky with his pain mgmt team as they kept him properly medicated. There's a balance between being too drugged to function and being able to function.</p><p></p><p>The only thing he had to do for the last couple of years was to give up driving because his medications made him dizzy.</p><p></p><p>We did notice that there was a period of sedation from the medications before he got used to the effects. And, yes, his medications were increased a few times over the years. At the end he was on Fentanyl, which is something like 80x as strong as morphine.</p><p></p><p>And yet, a dose that would've laid me out cold and likely killed me, was tolerated. He was not an addict. He was dependent on his pain medications and in fact. used to complain about how he wished they would come out with a pain medication that was effective, but didn't have any sedation effects.</p><p></p><p>Me? I accidentally took one of his painkillers (when I went to proper dispensers) and wound up in the ER. I ODed on a dose that didn't effect husband beyond pain management.</p><p></p><p>The one thing he did have to do was submit to periodic urine tests to make certain he was taking his painkillers as prescribed (as opposed to selling them or something), and he had to learn to overcome his stubborness and take medications as soon as he started to hurt as opposed to waiting until he was in agony.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 334587, member: 1963"] Marg, for the last five years of his like, husband was only able to function if he used strong painkillers...morphine and Oxycontin. He was very lucky with his pain mgmt team as they kept him properly medicated. There's a balance between being too drugged to function and being able to function. The only thing he had to do for the last couple of years was to give up driving because his medications made him dizzy. We did notice that there was a period of sedation from the medications before he got used to the effects. And, yes, his medications were increased a few times over the years. At the end he was on Fentanyl, which is something like 80x as strong as morphine. And yet, a dose that would've laid me out cold and likely killed me, was tolerated. He was not an addict. He was dependent on his pain medications and in fact. used to complain about how he wished they would come out with a pain medication that was effective, but didn't have any sedation effects. Me? I accidentally took one of his painkillers (when I went to proper dispensers) and wound up in the ER. I ODed on a dose that didn't effect husband beyond pain management. The one thing he did have to do was submit to periodic urine tests to make certain he was taking his painkillers as prescribed (as opposed to selling them or something), and he had to learn to overcome his stubborness and take medications as soon as he started to hurt as opposed to waiting until he was in agony. [/QUOTE]
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