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NanaKaren, you are not addicted! You are just controlling your pain. There is so much misunderstanding about pain relievers. If they work, take them. It is not a matter of getting "addicted" to oxycodone or fentanyl and the like. Your body just gets better and better at adapting to the drugs, so they need to be increased. (But so do the things that keep your intestines moving. Increase your diet roughage. Take a metamucil "chaser". Take larger doses of colace and senna.)
My mother had osteoporosis pain for years. Numerous spinal fractures, numerous surgeries. Every time she was hospitalized the doctors would freak about how much fentanyl she got and how much oxycontin, besides. But the pain specialist always got it straightened out.
Ask for a consult with a true PAIN SPECIALIST. They know what they are doing. And they do it one heck of a lot better than an Oncologist, Radiologist, Surgeon, etc. These guys just are clueless about long term pain control.
Carla
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