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    Morning NiN53!

        You know.....I have done this very thing! Wrote some pretty legthy articles only to loose them at the last moment. Grrrr!

         Well, .....I found that if I highlight and copy it, my aggravation was a lot less if I lost it all. Just highlight your work and click your right mouse button and click copy every once in a while. If you loose it, you can then repost and hit paste. Another thing I have done in the past is to write your post out on Word or a similar program. You can proof read it right there and make corrections...then again copy and paste into the topic you desire.

      I'm thinking that maybe you should look into having your Dr, put you on an Extended Release Medication, and then using an IR med for BT. This may well indeed give you a chance to save up a few BT med's when you get in a tight spot. I'm thinking mrsm123 or straydog wrote a pretty good reply to a member here recently about this. It was spot on!

      Hopefully one of them will have a good reply for you on this. I just now myself got my med's adjusted properly and am able to use the BT med's in this fashion, thus I now have a few left over for a rainy day.

      Many of the members find that when they call in a refill, their Dr is out of the office for one reason or another and it can cause problems when you only have enough for the day of the refill due date.

     Good luck! If you need more help about saving your work, just holler. One of the other members or Moderators will be happy to help you.

     SE

 

 

 Thank u for your response, i take 60mg. ms contin which are extended release, then percocet for bt.  In the past say yeas r 2000 until maybe 2004 i was really having problems making the meds last.  At some point during this time i decided to stop taking all narcotic meds i then went through the worst nightmare of my life, that being withdrawal, i wished i was dead it was so awful.  After 1 month of that i went back on meds, at that time i was taking methadone 10mg 5xday.  The one thing that came out of that was to make sure i never ran out again.I even went to NA meetings, but since the theme is total abstinacse i was so out of place being told the pain i was feeling was maybe in my head, no harm to NA but i do have mri s to prove it is not my head.  With cp suffers it is a very fine line between taking the meds to improve quality of life or addiction.  When i was on methadone, i made about 2 visits to er for different things, as soon as i mentioned what meds i was taking everybody started looking for my arms u know inside like the elbow area and in between my toes for needle marks, of which i have none. Methadone was the best medicine for pain i have ever taken but the stigma of being on methadone was getting more difficult every year, the doctor i had before the doc i have now refused to prescribe thats when i wass forced to take what he offered which was 60mg ms contin 3xday. and the percocet for bt pain, methadone is not expensive like the other narcotics med out there,  one of the best things about this whole process is through medicare i have great prescription coverage.

I forgot one other medicine i take is for my fybro. it is neurontin 300 mgs 3x day. This i found to be very effective in helping with fybro.

NiNi53 congrats on entering the computer age, lol!!! Oh, I can remember when I first got a computer at work. It sat in my office for one year untouched-never turned it on, lol. I still used my old word processor and was the last one to start on the computer at the office. I took a lot of ribbing over that. I was terrified of the crazy thing, now its like what did we do without them. When they finally converted our bookkeeping over to the computer I had to learn how to use the computer. Most people I know are self taught and once you get over the fear of them its great. My daughter use to say to me, mom all you do is just hit the buttons, it is not going to eat you, lol.

Something you may need to consider if you see you are running short and it keeps happening then it may be time to either increase your pain medication or be placed on something different to help control your pain. That is a pretty good indicator your current medications are no longer being effective on your pain. You may have a great relationship with your dr but if he see's a pattern begin to develop with you running short, you are risking being fired by him as a patient and being kicked to the curb. With all of the hype these days over drugs that is a very real possibility. These drs are running scared when it comes to pain medications. That is another little stigma attached to CP patients. I think now that REMS is in place with pain mgt we will see all drs that are prescribing narcotics have their patients sign Contracts. My PM dr did not do this, she did not believe in them, however Jan 1 of this year because of REMS she got a dr friend to give her a copy of the standard Contract and all of us signed one to go in our charts.

You are so right about Methadone being a good pain reliever for some people. However, it is not for everyone as we all know when it comes to medication. It is a what I call a last resort type of medication to go on because of the stigma placed on a person that is on it for pain control. Some people are not responsible enough to be on a medication like Methadone because of the half life issues with it and the chance of over-dosing. It is not one of those that you can take an extra pill for pain because a person runs the risk of not waking up again. Some pain medications if taken more than prescribed will not have any effect on the pain too and then an extra pill was taken for nothing.

It is so hard to find good drs these days that is for sure. Take care.