My Husband Has Been in Severe Chronic Pain for Several years.He Is Presently Taking 90mg of Methadone,60 Mg Of
Question by Vette Crazy: My husband has been in severe chronic pain for several years.He is presently taking 90mg of methadone,60 mg of
Lortab,300mg of Neurontin,15mg of Valium,4mg of Zanaflex a day. The Drs. are talking to him about a pain pump or a spinal stimulator. We don’t know which way would be best for him to go. Has anyone out there had either one? What are the pro’s and con’s of either one. My husband is 65 and is desperate to find something to help him. He has so many other health issues,such as kidney failure,heart disease,and has just gone through the most incredible cancer treatment! We were just told that he is cancer free!! M.D. Anderson Rocks!
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Answer by Gov’t Mule
I currently take about the same medications as your husband except for the methadone and have been in a pain management program for years due to a spine injury. From the people I have had contact with they all seem to prefer the pump or just staying on oral meds. I’ve known a few people that have had the stimulator’s and they didn’t have much luck with them.
It really depends on the injury.
I also have experience with methadone. If your husband can get off of it I would strongly urge him to do so. It is a very hard drug on your liver and it is hard to get off of after you’ve been on it awhile. It was the worse pain medication I have taken over the past 10 years. Dr.’s put people on it because I think it is very inexpensive. I would live in pain again before I would take it again
Here are a few links to sites I use for pain management that may be of interest to you husband. Good luck,,,us old guys need it!!!!
http://health.discovery.com/centers/pain/pain.html
http://www.healthatoz.com/healthatoz/Atoz/common/standard/transform.jsp?requestURI=/healthatoz/Atoz/dc/cen/pain/painindex.jsp
http://www.nih.gov/
Answer by grace
Yes! I think Ive heard that product. Actipatch is a new alternative
product for chronic pain. It can be bought thru actipatchonline.com.
There’s no harm in trying..
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