Jerked around....

Guys need to stop calling it "medical"...pot is pot...plain and simple. And it is not an option for me....I am not in occasional pain....this is 24/7/365. I simply can not be "stoned" 24/7. Beyond that...I am mixed bipolar severe with psychotic tendencies...riding on this wonderful diseases coat tails is "persacutory ideation"...in English...I am paranoid. Besides that my pockets are no where deep enough for weed...least not in this state where it is "legal"....it is "legal" as long as you pay the 37% tax on it. Be willing to bet that "medical" pot will cost me more @month than my prescription....more on this shortly.
I just went thru a Spinal Cord Stimulator trial. Pain went from a solid 8 to nada. No side effects...no worries about getting pulled over and ticketed for driving under the influence. The permanent implant is being put in on the 24th. Was told that it will be powered up on the 4th.
Worse case scenario is I get off the Oxycontin a lot faster then I planned. I have enough to get me to the 2nd. A 7 day script of Oxycontin 20Mg ER will be $108. By the time I run out of them the Stimulator will have been running for 5 or so days, which will be enough time for it to be working its magic. Go see my doc, have him give me a script for a weeks worth of Oxycontin 15Mg ER will be $87. Go back and get a script for a weeks worth of Oxycontin 10MG ER, $57....and then I am done....just have to deal with the stuff I use for break thru pain....which the insurance company is paying for...at least until October.
I just spoke with the Pain Clinic that is going to be putting the Stimulator in. They told me that if I were to try and switch from Oxycontin to one of the other meds that the insurance company mentioned, without weening off of the Oxy first...well...will at the very least put me at risk of seizures. She told me that if they were the docs that were writing the script for the pain meds and ran into this type of problem that they WOULD put me into a hospital....she said the chance of respiratory arrest is extremely high.
This gets a bit entertaining at this point. The Oxycontin needs a Prior Authorization. In speaking with the insurance company about this the other day they told me that there is a list of Formulary Options that I need to have been on prior to them authorizing the Oxycontin. All of them...well....require a Prior Authorization as well. Which...well...will result in the same chain jerking. All of the meds that are listed as Formulary Options....my doc and I have discussed using them in the past...he told me that the problem with all of those particular meds is that they are not as pure as Oxycontin is. One of the options, according to the insurance company is Fentanyl patches. I can remember when my wife first got injured on the job this is what she was given. We would put a fresh "patch" on...and within hours she was so loopy she could not drive....and of course the USPS fought us on changing one of our schedules so we could car pool. Fresh patch, decent pain relief. Her patches were good for 3 days. By the morning of day 3....0 pain relief. A now deceased friend (thanks to the pain he was in he picked up his script of Oxy and a bottle of Jack, downed them both, lights out) he was on the patches. He was cutting them open and licking them...much quicker "relief". My PC is fighting me..be back shortly...