You need to see a pain specialist. norco and other such medications were never meant to be used long term. A time released medication is much safer and can better control the pain. You might also look into acupuncture and massage therapy. I'm not a doctor but have been in chronic pain for over 40 years. Sadly back surgery seldom does much for either pain or functionality. I will NEVER allow a surgeon t touch my back after reading some of the horror stories. Just go to Massachusetts General Hospitals Brain Talk Forums and chat with the people on the spine forum. They often have great suggestion and provide great support.. I was supposed to be in a wheel chair over 30 years ago and yet I'm still walking. Good luck.
Good job crackhead.
i can tell you from exsperiance over 15 years of cervical spine injury that doctors will tell you hydrocodone is all the same,but it is not. i was taking watson brand 10/325 for years ,it has been the only one that worked to get rid of pain and not make me feel high, or have horrible side affects. for some reason they stopped making it,maybe because it worked to well. some other hydrocodone made me paranoid ,after 2 weeks i was trying to sleep and had my gun on my chest thinking people were breaking into my house. the pharmacist said they had complaints about it too. since i cant get the watson brand anymore i have tried some others,tramadol,cymbalta,but they had very bad side affects and i couldnt even sleep. for some reason the DEA has taken it upon themselves to arrest doctors giving out pain meds,even at what would be normal dosages ,another zero tolorance political c**p thing. I can tell you after having my neck surgery i did very well but still have lower back and a muscle problem they say is genetic,they wont relax .very painful and getting worse with age,i have had this problem since childhood. i had minimally invasive surgery on my neck,fixed 4 disks all the way around with 2 holes the size of pencils. neck is fine i would never recomend any open spine surgery , only minimanlly invasive surgery. back to your question,why this happening. very simple,your doctor is trying to wean you off pain meds ,but it sounds like you need a physical problem fixed. the meds he is giving you obviously do not control the pain. my doctor wont even give me percocet says its to addictive! bottom line is people react differently to pain meds ,what works for one wont work for another. IMO
OMG YOU ARE THE FIRST person that I have found that know this about redheads. I too am a redhead and I have an extremely high tolerance to pain meds and a low pain thresh hold. I get so frustrated because my paid docs thing I am full of sh*t. I need to find the write up in the medical journal that backs this up. I know that being a redhead is a genetic mutation which would stand to reason that it affects all of your body systems. Thank you so much for confirming what I knew but no one was willing to admit. I am on 180 noco 10/325 a month and trying to get a pain pump put in my back so that I can go off the oral meds. At one time I was up to 80 mgs a day of methadone for pain and they were a b***h to get off of.