Blood pressure went back to "normal"

Well, back in May I was referred to a new pain doctor - one who specialized in injection therapy. I had 5 percocets left when I went to see him, and asked for a refill. He said he would write me up for vicodin which was "the same thing". I received minimal, if any pain relief from the vicodin, and that was only if I could take it before pain got bad at all. If the pain was above a 7 I was screwed. The trigger point injections, and the nerve blocks he did, did not work. After round 4, I asked to have my info sent back to my PCP.

Now you have to understand that during these treatments starting in may, my blood pressure had started to slowly go up - to me it seemed directly related to how much pain I was in. On a really bad day it was getting to 140/90, from 120/70ish before that. Anyways - I mentioned the blood pressure thing to my pain doctor and was told that in no way were they related it was just weight gain catching up with me. Well - after 1 week back on the percocet - from my PCP - I went to a appointment yesterday and my BP was at 118/67. It's freaking amazing what having pain medication that actually helps can do! The nurse actually checked it twice, because on my chart it showed a rising BP - notes about possibly starting medication for hypertension - and she said that normally overweight people have high blood pressure.

Anyways the way that I see it - at least thats one thing we can SHOW as medical evidence that we need proper pain treatment. To think that they were discussing 2 different new meds for blood pressure, and all I needed was proper pain control....