The Pain Med Hysteria

fuzzybuddy

fuzzybuddy

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I'm in pain. It's not imagined pain. I have the MRIs, Xrays, scans, tests, and opinions from at least 10 doctors that I have an extremely severe spinal condition. Yet I get all kinds of nonsense about being on opiods. Without opiods, I can't live by myself, can't take care of myself, and would be in so much agony that I would kill myself. So would you call that addiction? I am so tired of people, who have never experienced intensive pain, and who have become experts on addiction. I think any pain addiction"expert' should be thouroughly beaten with a baseball bat for about 2 hours. They might change their minds about the need for opiates.

I understand there is an epidemic of opiate addiction. Those numbers soared when "addiction" became covered under Medicare.
 

Have you looked into surgical options, such as the LSI (Laser Spine Institute)? Spine surgery has improved quite a bit from the days when all they did was fuse vertebrae, so perhaps their might be something there worth looking into.
 
Fuzzy, I get it. I was there for a couple of years with my hips and earlier, when I had a bad car wreck back in '63 which did serious damage to my lower back; for a while they thought it was going to be lifelong. I also saw the awful pain my niece was in before she died. Opioids helped her to maintain at lease a shred of normalcy, and allowed her to function. They helped me to be able to continue working while waiting for my hip surgery.

I don't think it should be considered addiction, and even if it is, so what? Certainly opioid addiction is better than just lying in bed screaming. If I couldn't have had adequate pain control available after that wreck, I probably would have killed myself. People who have had no experience with unending, bone crushing pain have no idea what they are talking about, and so are able to be so flippant about the "addiction" problem. They act like it is like pain from a bruised knee or minor arthritis pain or something, and something you can "get through" if you were strong enough. It isn't, and it will suck your soul right out of your body.

I sympathize with you. Someone who is in intractable pain is in a whole different world than a "druggie" and shouldn't be treated as if they were the same. I'm sure you would joyously throw those pain meds away if only you could; but you can't. Some kinds of pain cannot be fixed.
 

fuzzybuddy said:
I'm not denying there are thousands addicted to opioids. But that doesn't mean that any pharmacist can just deny you your medication, which is the case now.
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I so agree with you. I have lost two clients to suicide in the past year over this. Both of these veterans had multiple chronic injuries as a result of serving in Afghanistan. Without adequate opiods they were unable to function. Shame Canada, shame.
 
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