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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 520071" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="color: #0000cd"><span style="font-size: 10px">Wow, Janet, you sure do know your pain relievers! The oxycodone I'm on is immediate release and it's only 5mg tabs. I can take one or two. Dr wants me to cut back to HALF a tab during the day as needed and one or two at night. She wants me to rely mostly on Tylenol or Advil (since I'm taking celebrex however, I cannot take advil). She will not do extended release. Her office called me back yesterday and renewed the script for the oxcodone and the robaxin for one last time. They can't decide what to taper me down to next for pain since I am so sensitive to vicodin/percocet, codeine and tramadol. It may be there is no other alternative. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000cd"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000cd"><span style="font-size: 10px">I have a call into my reg dr this morning though and I want to meet with her about the possibility of having lymes as well as pain management because I just don't think my ortho doctor is all that savvy about long term pain management, Know what I mean?? It's like they are GREAT surgeons and immediate follow up care, but then they drop the ball. I feel like it's been a horrid guessing game part of the time. At my last appointment she honestly said to me, "Okay so we will see you in 6 weeks. Unless you don't feel like coming in, so in that case make an appointment for January - the one year anniversary" and then proceeded to caution me about infections and getting an antibiotic immediately if I get an infection of any kind. In the hallway, as I'm leaving. You'd think if it was of such importance, she would have told me about that in the office. My reg Dr is great and I trust her - she's not warm and fuzzy, but she knows her stuff, so I think I'm going to transition to her from here on out. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000cd"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0000cd"><span style="font-size: 10px">And Janet (Jody you too!), the knee is getting better - I probably have a lower pain tolerance than I did before the surgery since being on so many pain medications (that's typical). I wouldn't sign up to have my other knee done just yet, but I am glad I had this done. The logical side of my brain, as opposed to the whiney wishy washy side, can recognize that the pain I was experiencing for years is gone and that the existing pain will eventually go away. So there is hope - don't let my whining discourage you!!</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 520071, member: 2211"] [COLOR=#0000cd][SIZE=2]Wow, Janet, you sure do know your pain relievers! The oxycodone I'm on is immediate release and it's only 5mg tabs. I can take one or two. Dr wants me to cut back to HALF a tab during the day as needed and one or two at night. She wants me to rely mostly on Tylenol or Advil (since I'm taking celebrex however, I cannot take advil). She will not do extended release. Her office called me back yesterday and renewed the script for the oxcodone and the robaxin for one last time. They can't decide what to taper me down to next for pain since I am so sensitive to vicodin/percocet, codeine and tramadol. It may be there is no other alternative. I have a call into my reg dr this morning though and I want to meet with her about the possibility of having lymes as well as pain management because I just don't think my ortho doctor is all that savvy about long term pain management, Know what I mean?? It's like they are GREAT surgeons and immediate follow up care, but then they drop the ball. I feel like it's been a horrid guessing game part of the time. At my last appointment she honestly said to me, "Okay so we will see you in 6 weeks. Unless you don't feel like coming in, so in that case make an appointment for January - the one year anniversary" and then proceeded to caution me about infections and getting an antibiotic immediately if I get an infection of any kind. In the hallway, as I'm leaving. You'd think if it was of such importance, she would have told me about that in the office. My reg Dr is great and I trust her - she's not warm and fuzzy, but she knows her stuff, so I think I'm going to transition to her from here on out. And Janet (Jody you too!), the knee is getting better - I probably have a lower pain tolerance than I did before the surgery since being on so many pain medications (that's typical). I wouldn't sign up to have my other knee done just yet, but I am glad I had this done. The logical side of my brain, as opposed to the whiney wishy washy side, can recognize that the pain I was experiencing for years is gone and that the existing pain will eventually go away. So there is hope - don't let my whining discourage you!![/SIZE][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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