Is anyone else struggling with pain relief?

Hi all, I am getting to my wits end going round in circles and wanted to see if anyone had any advice. I have had SBC for a couple of years mainly in my spine. Had rads 2 years ago which worked well and was on hormone treatment until Jan this year. Then it stopped working and I got the e/e combo which (apologies to anyone on this) did nothing for me except make me quite ill. Lots of pain came back and CT scan showed extensive progression - so they have given me more rads on my sacrum joint. I finished 2 weeks ago. Then OMG, the diaorrhea kicked in for a week. I lost 3/4 of a stone and the pain got worse. The other se have callmed down but not the pain. And nothing they have given me works. They all seem to make me sick. 

I have been referred to a pain specialist who prescribed some unbelievable drugs (buprenorphine) which has made me soooooooo ill. Not just horrendous vomiting but dizziness ( like having drunk an entire bottle of whiskey). I read up on the se and it says vomiting and nausea. I just don’t understand why he’d give me something that will make me sick, knowing that so far they all have and I don’t tolerate drugs well. Ant sickness drugs don’t work either btw. 

 

Any advice gratefully received. 

Oh dear it sounds awful Rachel. It is still early days, 2 weeks, you should hopefully still get some eventual pain relief from the rads. I had a number of rads to the sacrum twice, years between the two sessions. My first pain relief didn’t work, Gabapentin made pain worse, Amitriptyline worked better, OxyContin too. Slowly things improved and eventually I was able to wean myself off them. Hope things improve soon.