12.31.2007

Middle of the night angst

I am in so much fucking pain. It's less than two weeks shy of a year, and it hurts. It hurts a lot. The drugs aren't enough. We're going to have to up the fentanyl. My doc is looking into which tricyclic to have compounded as a topical, and I may start Lyrica. Right now, 3:00 in the damn morning, I am in so much pain I can't sleep. Damn it, damn it, damn it.

2 comments:

Lora said...

I've been having a terrible time lately too. Maybe it's the stress of the season? Who knows.
Hope it makes you feel better that someone else is up all night too.
Happy new year

Kate said...

Happy New Year, Lora. Have you figured out what's increasing your difficulty yet? My issue seems to be that narcotics have simply stopped being very effective. Upping the fentanyl to 50 mcg/hr did exactly nothing useful, but it did make me act and feel like I had ADD and narcolepsy.