Re: cutting back

I've never actually cut back on medications per se'. I also use the patch,
100ugh every 48 hours. I have tried to go to the 3rd day occasionally and
feel a definite increase of my pain levels each time I do this. It doesn't
really give me a withdrawal feeling, maybe a tiny bit of nausea, but the
pain spikes horrendously. It lets me know I need the amount of medication I
am currently taking to keep my pain at a level that I can tolerate on a
daily basis.


"mr.cin" <mr.cin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have about the same level of pain that I had when I first started taking
medications. I have no reason to believe my condition has advanced
substantially, but I now take a level of medication that CERTAINLY would
have killed me 4 years ago. I am taking the 75mcg patch and need a couple
of vicoprofen about every three days. If I do any actual work ( moving
furniture, digging, etc ), I need about 4-6 vicoprofen a day to handle the
pain. I am 5-10 and weigh 225 pounds. I feel like losing the blubber
and getting better muscle tone will help, but that aside does anybody have
experience with cutting back? I would like to know what sort of schedule
you used, if you went to other non narcotic drugs as you did it. I have
accidentally forgot to change my patch when I was traveling and once or
twice at home. I got so sick, I didn't realize for another 24 hours what
was wrong -- just thought I was dying because the PAIN as such was dwarfed
by the withdrawal symptoms. My pain is in middle back and neck more than
any other area.

Comments??. Email is just a good as back to the group.


thanks



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