Posted by maryhelen on July 15, 2003, at 18:36:17
In reply to Need Names of Drugs Like Fentanyl, posted by juanantoniod on July 11, 2003, at 15:12:20
I am stunned at the amount of pain relievers you have tried with no results. I have taken such high doses that I used to think it would kill a horse.
When I first started taking a drug called fironal for my migraines, it took years for me to realize it was also helping my depression, and years to know again that I had become addicted and needed more and more. Eventually, when Glaxo came out with Imitrex, I could have gone and given everything I had to thank them. The migraine would go in 20 minutes, along with the naseau. I took it by injecting it in my thigh muscle by needle, because I could not keep the pills down. I had never given myself a needle before and it did not scare me one bit. I would have stuck it in my eye to get relief. Migraines solved but addiction problem still there.
I tell you this for a reason. I became addicted to all of the pills you mention percs, oxycontin, tylenol 3's, morphine, any such pain meds, even before I even took them. They all helped with the depression, but I needed more and more. I had developed degenerative disc disease, osteoarthritis, and osteoporsis and needed them for the pain, but more and more to get effect. However, I was introduced by a family member to Dilaudid. I also took it by needle without any worry. I ended up loving that drug. Never felt better in my life. Had looked it up in a prescription drug book and they listed it as with all the other pain anaelgesics. I ended up having to go to a substance abuse program. It wasn't until the day before I went, while watching a TV program on Elvis Presley's drug use, that Dilaudid was the last drug he was using and that it is 9 times more powerful than morphine and is used for patients in the later stages of cancer. I was stunned. I was taking 4 needles a day, and it was costing me a fortune. The depression that following all of these drugs, if I couldn't get them was bad, but the depression that followed when withdrawing from Dilaudid is something I have never experienced before, and how I did not commit suicide, I do not know. I took myself to hospital knowing that I would be certified. My family member, just died of an overdose of Dilaudid, one month ago.
If none of these drugs help you with pain, I doubt any others similiar will.
Perhaps the suggestion of others to try different types of medications would be prudent.
Just sharing my experience. I know everyone is different. I am still just a moment away, every day, from wanting and getting these drugs, knowing my depression would be gone.
maryhelen
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