I'm going to be switching from one type of painkiller to another over this next couple of days. Shifting around medications presents an unknown, so I don't know if I will end up feeling better or worse.
My day to day pain avoidance over the past two weeks, though, has gotten me up to the point where the percocet is no longer a viable option. Percocet is 5mg of oxycodone and 325mg of tylenol. I've been taking a dozen of these things every day for the past week and half. The maximum daily intake of tylenol should be no more than 4 grams. Twelve percocets brings this up to 3.9 grams a day, so we're maxed out now.
Time for something else.
My hospice nurse spent a couple of hours here today, coordinating phone calls between my Primary Care Physician and the hospice pharmacy, so that we can make this changeover within a day.
If I don't post anything at all for the next couple of days, it'll just be because I'm going through distracting changes, but not necessarily dire or of any further note.
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