Down Some Pills, Up Some Hope

Penny and I saw the pain doctor yesterday in clinic and got a real plan together on how to manage my pain. As a result today is my first pain-free day in weeks. I am a little zonked though but that didn't stop me from volunteering in Carly's class today and running some errands. My next pain medication which we are phasing into over the next few weeks is, believe it or not, methadone! Billed as having all the pain control of other morphine based pain killers with none (or much less) of the getting high feeling. It will be a bit of trial-and-error over the next few weeks as we phase in the methadone and phase out the fentanyl/percoset. The end result should be good pain control with no snowed over, sleepy, high feeling. Can't wait!