<oxy4gd@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1163268464.302922.134030@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... >I have three blown discs and have been diagnosied with degenerated back > disc. I take 170 mg oxycontin a day. Plus three mg of zanaz a day. and > 1000 mg of soma a day. I am still in severe pain every morning when I > wake up. I am in a pain clinic and my doctor gives me anything I ask > for. He has seen my MRI so he knows I am real. I have had three back > sugreruies already and I am only 35. I am a district manager for a > major company and work 50 hours a week. Do i need a stronger dose or > maybe a middle of the night wake up just to take a dose. Please anyone > with advice get back to me. Also how does anyone feel about a memory > foam mattress would this possibily help? > Have you tried kratom as an alternative pain relief strategy? It really works for many people, check the internet sites. Sorry to hear about your pain, i have bad disks too but nothing like that. -GaryJ

I used to eat the fentatyl patches and get all f'd up. You could go out in the middle of winter in a T-shirt and be fine. However when I stopped taking them, I didn't sleep for 5 straight days, not one wink of sleep. It was the most dramatic withdraw effects I have ever gone through, I will never take them again... adam