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I ask as someone that fell off a mountain during a blizzard, lost a kidney and a spleen and fractured verts, and doesn't do pain meds except for OTC aspirin.
It hurts. All of the time. Night and day.
If you have a solution, share it. Because I HATE the fuzzy brain that opiates cause.
/johnny
I am not a doctor, and certainly not a pain management specialist, but I doubt there are any great solutions for you. But opiates over the long term make things worse. Have you tried tinge units? I think some pain specialists use methadone as a base drug. Its long half life provides a better baseline pain management profile for maintaining sufficient blood serum level when used in conjunction with shorter half life opiates. This lowers the fuzzy headedness of which you speak while maintaining a pain relief threshold and slowing the tolerance build-up that creates addiction. If you are an addict and seek the high this option can be lethal as you are elevating opiate blood serum level without the high. Adding sufficient short half life opiates to achieve the high can be fatal.
I would suggest you try acupuncture.
I also suggest, in my not a medicinal authority opinion, that you research herbal treatments. It is easy to find LEGAL herbs, usually referred to as ethnobotanicals, on the internet. These sites are nothing like the virtual pharmacies with their questionable instant diagnoses and high prices.
I wish I could name the site where I receive my perfectly legal ______, but I don't want to advertise on FR. It is a natural, unprocessed, unadulterated powder that originates in SE Asia. I take it for its anti-anxiety effects, but it is also helps me manage pain.
Again, this is a non-authoritative suggestion only. You do the research. There is plenty of literature on this and other herbal remedies. Just do a general search on 'ethnobotanicals'.
I wish you success in managing your pain.
ARFAR