http://physical-therapists.org/2010/02/what-kind-of-pain-medication-would-be-a-good-step-up-from-ultram/ a guide to physical therapy on the web Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:52:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://physical-therapists.org/2010/02/what-kind-of-pain-medication-would-be-a-good-step-up-from-ultram/comment-page-1/#comment-3954 DynoDiKk Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:53:40 +0000 http://physical-therapists.org/2010/02/what-kind-of-pain-medication-would-be-a-good-step-up-from-ultram/#comment-3954 You need to be off that Ultram Period! It is a shitty drug! Type in Ultram sucks on Google. Tootsie, no one is calling you a junkie. Hydrocodone would be the next logical choice. And or morphine, believe it or not morphine should be used before the hydro even in a long term situation, and time release morphine. If you can tolerate it! Hydro hits harder. Ultram is the worse drug in the world to be on, read this article I wrote on it. http://www.helium.com/items/1125105-sabbathmusic-and-dynodikk-on-ultram You need to be off that Ultram Period! It is a shitty drug! Type in Ultram sucks on Google.
Tootsie, no one is calling you a junkie. Hydrocodone would be the next logical choice. And or morphine, believe it or not morphine should be used before the hydro even in a long term situation, and time release morphine. If you can tolerate it! Hydro hits harder.
Ultram is the worse drug in the world to be on, read this article I wrote on it.
http://www.helium.com/items/1125105-sabbathmusic-and-dynodikk-on-ultram

]]> http://physical-therapists.org/2010/02/what-kind-of-pain-medication-would-be-a-good-step-up-from-ultram/comment-page-1/#comment-3953 justinfr Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:56:41 +0000 http://physical-therapists.org/2010/02/what-kind-of-pain-medication-would-be-a-good-step-up-from-ultram/#comment-3953 The next step up could probably be codeine or hydrocodone. Just tell your doctor that lately you've been in a lot more pain and that you have had to severely limit your activities and hobbies because of the pain. Explain how the pain is negatively affecting your daily life and that the Ultram and Flexeril just is not working well in bringing your pain down to a manageable level. It may take some time to figure out which medication and dosage works the best for your specific pain. It took several months, almost a year, for my pain management doctor and myself to come up with a treatment plan that was successful in keeping my pain under control. Be patient, but if your current doctor seems unwilling to prescribe medications that work (many doctors are leery of prescribing stronger opioids, especially to young patients), I would recommend seeking out another doctor. It's not 'doctor shopping' if you switch doctors, that is only a problem if you are seeing multiple doctors at the same time and receiving prescriptions from each of them (and none of them know about the others). The next step up could probably be codeine or hydrocodone.
Just tell your doctor that lately you’ve been in a lot more pain and that you have had to severely limit your activities and hobbies because of the pain. Explain how the pain is negatively affecting your daily life and that the Ultram and Flexeril just is not working well in bringing your pain down to a manageable level.
It may take some time to figure out which medication and dosage works the best for your specific pain. It took several months, almost a year, for my pain management doctor and myself to come up with a treatment plan that was successful in keeping my pain under control.
Be patient, but if your current doctor seems unwilling to prescribe medications that work (many doctors are leery of prescribing stronger opioids, especially to young patients), I would recommend seeking out another doctor. It’s not ‘doctor shopping’ if you switch doctors, that is only a problem if you are seeing multiple doctors at the same time and receiving prescriptions from each of them (and none of them know about the others).

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