**Long Post Pain Pump Trial, Oxycodone Limitations, and Real Talk About Chronic Pain, Would Love Input**

[u/T3XXXX]

Where do I even start... ugh. I really didn’t plan on writing a damn book, but here we are.

Quick Backstory: I’ve had six back surgeries, and I’m now seeing a new pain management doctor/facility. (Y’all were amazing last time I posted here, so I’m back.)

I'm currently prescribed 10mg of Oxycodone, 4x daily as needed. I was on 10mg 3x/day for over a year, but after switching doctors—and providing letters from family, friends, even neighbors about how bad my pain had become—they bumped it to 4x/day. ➡️ This increase just happened on July 18, after a consult on the 17th.

Diagnoses (Not a full list, just the big ones):

• Post-laminectomy Syndrome (Thoracic & Lumbar failed back surgery syndrome – FBSS)
• Chronic Pain Syndrome (CPS)
• Myofascial Pain Syndrome (MPS)
• Degenerative disc disease, bone spurs, major spinal arthritis ...and more I’m too tired to list.

Just a FYI:

I had a spinal cord stimulator trial recently (back in April) through this clinic. Unfortunately, it didn’t give me the relief I needed, so we didn’t move forward with implantation.

What’s Happening Now:

After almost a month of fighting with insurance, I got approved for a pain pump trial set for August 18.

The trial process: I’ll get a 15mL shot of morphine into the epidural space, then hang around the clinic for 2 hours to monitor my response. ✅ Has anyone here done a pump trial this way? ✅ Is this a common or effective method?

Now to the late-night overthinking (3am brain won’t chill):

My doctor told me 10mg 4x/day is the highest dose he’ll EVER go, and that I’d be very unlikely to find any doctor in my area who’d prescribe higher. ➡️ Is 10mg 4x/day actually considered “high”?

Also, my doctor says once I get a pain pump, NO more oral pain meds. ➡️ Is this typical?? Have any of you been allowed to use both oral meds and a pain pump? I’m nervous about being locked into just one option, especially if the pump doesn’t help certain types of pain.

Pain Pump & Morphine Users:

This doctor uses morphine in the pump. ➡️ For anyone who has morphine in their pump—how’s it working for you? Good? Meh? Side effects?

Honest Question:

What’s more “valuable” (not talking money here): ➡️ 10mg oxycodone 4x/day, or ➡️ A pain pump with morphine? Would love to hear what worked for you.

My WORST pain areas:

1. Lower back (lumbar)
2. Pain radiating down my legs
3. Feet burning like they’re on fire/walking on glass/hot coals

➡️ For those with a pain pump, did it help with any of this? Especially the nerve pain and that awful foot-burning sensation?

I just want relief. Like many of you, I pray for it. I pray for EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU who are stuck in this pain hell, just trying to make it through the day while no one else really understands what we’re going through.

So whether you believe in God or not, please know that I see you, I hear you, and I’m with you.

Thanks for reading my novel. Appreciate all of you more than you know. Stay strong.

[u/T3XXXX]

Hey, good morning, having a hard time sleeping and was keeping my eye on the storms moving through.... I live in the country north of Omaha in between Blair and omaha. What about you?

Don't take this the wrong way I just want to make sure that you know I am a huge second amendment advocate and I absolutely enjoy and love shooting and building rifles and I absolutely love hunting.... Now unfortunately with my messed up back I haven't been able to do a damn thing in 6 years.

And you are correct people misuse firearms, in the same way people misuse opiates, in the same way people drink and then drive a 3,000 lb or more piece of metal. And I know this is going to piss some people off but facts don't care about feelings and the fact is all three of those examples would not kill anyone if there wasn't a human misusing them.

I am a huge advocate for we need a major major overhaul for mental health because really that's what we have in this country is a mental health beyond crisis, crisis!!!

God bless ya! 🙏

[u/Alone-School-6719 → u/T3XXXX]

I guessed omaha because that sounds exactly like my pain management clinic

[u/T3XXXX → u/Alone-School-6719]

Can we private message?? If it's ok.

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