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Suggest Medication For Degenerative Disc Disease And Stenosis In Lumbar Spine

I suffer from chronic pain due to degenerative disc disease & stenosis in my lumbar spine. I currently take 60 mg OxyContin 2 times a day to control the pain with roxycodone for breakthrough pain. Would I benefit with a change to fentynl instead of the oxy
Tue, 21 Jun 2016
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I really appreciate your concern, in my opinion try to avoid too much analgesic it may harm the health better try to tolerate the pain if it is functional in origin, if go on change the drug the effect would be the same but of course may change the thinking due to functional factors hope this information helps.
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Suggest Medication For Degenerative Disc Disease And Stenosis In Lumbar Spine

HI Well come to HCM I really appreciate your concern, in my opinion try to avoid too much analgesic it may harm the health better try to tolerate the pain if it is functional in origin, if go on change the drug the effect would be the same but of course may change the thinking due to functional factors hope this information helps.