Re: Noise and motor vehicles ...

"Jason James" <at@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> If you have periods where your pain is beyond the relievers you now use,

> and
> codeine is a good PK for mild to moderate pain, you need an appraisel by
a
> pain clinic. These places are only really interested in devices
(external
> and internal nerve stimulators) and injections of anaesthesia at or near

> the
> painful site.

I've been there and done that, and unfortunately it's not a long term fix.

There's also the problem of the more injections you have the less
effective 
they become, and you can permanently damage nerves with over use.

I've had 6 thus far in the lower back, and that's about it they reckon.

> Beyond that they give up and may recommend Oxycodone in SR
> form (2 tabs a day with an extra for "breakthru pain"). Morphine has 
> fallen
> from grace even in SR form (MSContin) according to nursing staff at the
> Sydney hosp I was at last year,.."it's too addictive". They prefer to
use
> Fentanyl or OxyContin a slow release (1 twice a day) big hitter. If you 
> are
> having trouble, it's a long journey to get proper relief,
> unfortunately,..unless half your head is split open or you have cancer.

Yeah, you need a terminal illness to get anything really effective.

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Regards,
Noddy.