I need cheap alternative to hydrocodone or suggestions. losing battle.?

Question

I have damage to my back and hip that i'm told cannot be fixed by surgery. I am waiting for social security have no income, parents helping me. ultracet i'm getting through the ppa program. hydrocodone costs $22 dollars with discount card. The pain is not going away. still intense, when i got to doctors office he gives me shot of demerol and somthing else. It helps but hour and half each way plus waiting room wait, for 5 or 6 hours of relife does not balance.

I am on hydrocodone 5/500 1 four times a day. Also ultracet 1 four times a day. Heat pads and ice packs.

Answer 1

I can understand where you are comming from,I retired from
working Air Craft, I month later lower back Pain, I lived in country
I changed shoes.Mattress.no more Levis-and wallet out of back pocket, Pain countinued to worsen.I have always been active,I started walking,but county roads slope both ways-then pain moved into right Hip,Theripst worked on lower back,no help, referred self to Spine clinic the Dr. did the Cortizone shots in spine,at 1000 dollars each.I told Dr. No help.Orthepedic Dr; gave me every pain pill in the book, Next # 5 Laminectey #5 Disc fused,Prior to this there was Sciatic pain running down back of leg and wrapping upon top of leg just above knee,felt like a stinging welder(,Sciatic nerve runs from lower back to foot ) next
Physacal therpy,more pain pills .2 months later ,I asked for Neurosurgen,If you have been evaluted by Orthepedic Dr. ask for
second opinion.Neurosurgen, more p.T. this time in water up to neck and walk ,this allows verterbra to open and align itself.
Second Surgery from stomach side, opened up from groin area to
about belt line on left side,3-4 and 2-3 disc removed metal cages inserted with bone frag. from my Hip. Pain still there
Let me say this I ask for Believers to put Oil on me and ask God to Heal me.I started walking and wading in the inside pool with water up to chin, I started walking more and more always on a flat road,I increased to mile, then 3 miles, I don:t take any heavy
Pain meds now, I can work on cars if I want to,I still try to walk 3 miles daily.I also found that Bigelow Gel on back if I have over done it. You will find this in farm store ,it is for Horses. Hope there is some help in this for you,Long story short God Healed me, it wasn"t instant like I wanted,But I thank Him for it.I will Say this to You ,It is not a losing battle,There are a whole lot of people
with same kind of pain.

Answer 2

You might ask your doctor about Methadone. I took hydrocodone for years and it wasn't working well enough. Plus money was an object for me, also. For most of us that suffer with chronic pain it is as we aren't able to work. Methadone has a longer half life and is generally only taken twice a day, sometimes 3 times a day. I had to start out slow because of side effects such as urinary hesitancy. I started out on 5mg 2x a day, then 3x a day and then upped to 10mg. It worked GREAT. Some say it's only for heroin addicts and it's not good. It is good. It worked great, has little side effects and is cheap. My prescription only cost me $10/mo. I was thrilled!!! I know hydrocodone is relatively cheap but when he put me on OxyContin, that was very expensive, $90/mo and I just couldn't afford that. Maybe try talking to him about Methadone. It's a very common pain management treatment plan these days and for me, it was very effective. I was always afraid to tell anybody I was taking it, though, because I didn't want them thinking I was a heroin addict. Most that hear it assume that because of "methadone clinics" for addicts. I wish you the best of luck. I do understand, I'm 33 and have been in chronic pain for 4 years with no chance of recovery. It's a grim life, that's for sure.

Answer 3

I Need Hydrocodone

Answer 4

No promise but this $20.00 book of explanations, instructions and illustrations has a 75% success rate.
The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook by Davies - Wishing you a pain free future.
I use a chiropractor who is a muscle specialist along with a massage therapist also.

Answer 5

I use a website called justpills.com. They have a list of pain relievers that you can try. Their prices are ok and they have next day shipping. This has been the most reliable website that I have used for my prescriptions. Good luck!

Answer 6

Well he if the pain is that bad then he should up the dose to hydrocodone 10? have you asked for your meds to be upped?

Answer 7

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Answer 8

You need to ask to be referred to a pain management doctor. They will work with you to get you on a pain medicine routine that will help you. Since you have no income and obviously didn't put anything away for a rainy day have your parents keep track of what meds they pay for and then slowly pay them back once you get on disability. For now though see a pain management doc as this is all the deal with is pain.

Answer 9

maybe get off the meds long eough so your tolerance gets adjusted. Do some relaxation techniques.

Answer 10

Millions of Adult Americans are enduring chronic pain that remains under treated or untreated completely, because the War on Drugs has become a War on Doctors. One of the most insidious aspects of the war on drugs interference with medical practice has to do with a device called a "pain contract".
The American Medical Association [AMA] referred me to the American Academy of Pain Management [AAPM]. The AAPM promotes the use of a well thought out and fair document called a pain attestation. The trouble is that no-one uses the pain attestation and instead pain clinics use a patchwork quilt of the quasi legal "pain contracts" that call for outrageous and degrading accommodation by patients under duress of discontinuance of their needed medicine.

The pain contract makes it clear that you aren't to be trusted like a regular patient. You must submit to routine urine drug testing for illegal drugs. You must never ask for additional office visits. You must never need more medicine. You must get better; failure to improve will result in removal from treatment. I have called a dozen or so doctors from across the country about the use of pain contracts. Those in favor of them said they were necessary to protect the doctor. Some see the contract as similar to a consent form that you sign before surgery.
Doctors opposed to the contracts felt they negated the doctor patient relationship and replaced the Hippocratic oath with a law enforcement oath.

The best way I can describe the problem is, in 2001, the United States Department of Justice unleashed a torrent of criminal prosecutions against physicians and called this crackdown the “Oxycontin Action Plan.” All over the United States conscientious physicians have been prosecuted, jailed, or have lost their licenses to practice medicine. The DEA in order to quell prescription drug abuse, has begun prosecuting the very small percentage of doctors who actually participated in the illegal dissemination of prescription drugs, along with those honest doctors that may have failed to recognize the difference between, a patient with chronic pain and a drug addict lying to obtain narcotics. Doctors are also being held liable it seems, for the misuse of prescription pain medication by patients, even after the doctor warns the patient of the potentially deadly consequences. Doctors have had to sacrifice patient rapport, trust and confidentiality with presenting their chronic pain patients with an agreement form that serves as many functions as the ‘names’ it has been referred to, to sign or remain untreated.

With the advent of the Pain Treatment Contract, I prefer to call it Blackmail Drug Testing; common sense would indicate that something is wrong. Primarily, the document serves as a detailed “Informed Consent” Agreement; it doubles as a waiver of applicable rights and protections of privacy and due process, i.e. a waiver of Fourth Amendment rights and protections against unreasonable search and seizures, granting permission to perform a “Drug Test”. In my particular case, the test is non custodial and does not observe rights and protections, the Lab Tech responded to me “that’s only for employees (of the VA)”.

The idea that a patient with chronic pain must prove truth and innocence to a doctor to receive medication and/or healthcare and sign a waiver, the patient is not signing of their own volition does not sound ethical and forcing a patient to sign a contract under duress of withholding medicine violates a huge list of human and civil rights such as Constitutional rights, section 504 of the ADA, Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR, 1966).

·A physician shall, while caring for a patient, regard responsibility to the patient as paramount.
·A physician shall respect the law and also recognize a responsibility to seek changes in those requirements, which are contrary to the best interests of the patient.
·A physician shall support access to medical care for all people. - Principles of Medical Ethics are standards of conduct, which define the essentials of honorable behavior for a physician. Adopted by the American Medical Association House of Delegates June 17, 2001.

The agreement policy is creating an adversarial relationship between patients and physicians where the doctors feel the need to resort to contracts instead of working cooperatively with patients and patients no longer trust the doctors sufficiently to be candid and honest. As a military veteran I thought, with the additional Federal Regulations of Rights and Protections that I have, the VA could not implement a policy that appears to be in direct conflict with CFR Title 38 Part V Chapter 73 Subchapter III

§ 7333. Nondiscrimination against alcohol and drug abusers and persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus

(a) Veterans eligible for treatment under chapter 17 of this title who are alcohol or drug abusers or who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus shall not be discriminated against in admission or treatment by any Department health-care facility solely because of their alcohol or drug abuse or dependency or because of their viral infection.
(b) The Secretary shall prescribe regulations for the enforcement of this section. Such regulations, with respect to the admission and treatment of such veterans who are alcohol or drug abusers, shall be prescribed in accordance with section 7334 of this title.

However, new VA guidelines appear to be allowing the Blackmail Drug Testing Policy.

"The ethical obligation to manage pain and relieve the patient's suffering is at the core of a health care professional's commitment."
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR)

The Pain Relief Act, and similar statutory and administrative responses, can minimize the fear of legal penalty for effective treatment of patients in pain. The Act identifies pain control as a priority for State Health Policy, and allows pain control to join drug control as an expressed policy of the State.

Blackmail Drug Testing is fast becoming a tool to deprive citizens and veterans of healthcare benefits and services, justified by being ‘sold’ to the public as part of the War on Drugs. A person can go to jail for permitting a dog to suffer in pain, yet we are allowing people, to suffer with chronic pain for refusing to sign a waiver? Or failing to pass a drug test, that also has no custody or control protections in place?

Blackmail Drug Testing has no place in a free and democratic America. Allow me propose a “We the People” Contract Agreement, whereas “Drug Testing” is a ‘mandatory’ routine procedure for ALL Federal, State and Local Employees of “We the People” from the President on down, and then publish the results for dissemination, if they don’t want to sign it, they are denied employment with “We the People”.
If you would like to know what it would look like, enclosed is what’s being forced on me.

“I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know.” - Hippocratic oath