Posted on 01/31/2017 12:46:34 PM PST by servo1969
I know people in Arizona who experience chronic pain. They go to pain management doctors who prescribe oxycodone. They are not allowed to receive pain relievers from any other physician and they are required to be tested to make sure THEY are using it and not just distributing it to others.
This seems to be a reasonable way to help people with their pain while preventing abuse.
A person with real pain will not become addicted.......................
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I don’t know if that’s true, but I’ve read it many times.
So when it’s raining you can’t check the roof -
but when it’s dry, the roof don’t need checking!
They put the acetaminophen in there to destroy your liver and kill you if you take too much of the Oxy.
I took it temporarily as prescribed. It helped me sleep, but it didn’t seem to do much else, and of course I didn’t become addicted.
Read the book.
Yep. There would have been mostly (entirely) illegal and dangerous ways to ease the pain. Ways that might have led to a debilitating addiction. And certainly a poor pathetic quality of life.
It sounds like the poor guy did what he could though.
Sadly true. My mom was end stage lung cancer and had to actually go to the oncologists office 2x monthly so she could get her pain meds. He was not allowed to just continue giving them unless she came in. And of course, he was always overbooked and running late and would have cancer patients sitting for 2-3 hours in his waiting room, in pain, exhausted- it was horrible to see.
I finally caused quite a scene about the wait time and was banned from his office....
Dennis Prager is Jewish, his stepson’s father might have been too.
Or cut down the trees that feed the gutters. That is what I did, though some leaves still manage to get in there. Also, there are attachments to leaf blowers that can blow the leaves out while you are walking on the ground.
They’re there and they still get clogged.
Oxy was a blessing for me. I have suffered with arthritis since my late thirties. I have used almost every opioid available over the past ten years. Over time, they will lose their effectiveness and I would have to switch to another formulation. Oxy was the best at minimizing my pain. Unfortunately, I lost my job last March and with it, my insurance. I’m now using Indian healthcare, and the strongest paid med the will prescribe is Tramodol. It’s little more than aspirin.
I never took any med more than was prescribed. I had been taking 30 mg of morphine 3 times a day, and when that quit working for me, I just weened myself off it. Some of us can take these meds without becoming addicted.
The problem is the difficulty getting the legal prescriptions drives people to go to the heroine market. Money that goes to the drug cartel is a story of corruption and gang violence. By allowing patients to go through the legal process and deliver a medical solution prevents the latter lawlessness. I say, let a patient get all the pain relief that can medically be achieved. It surly prevents even worse collateral damage.
Thank you! Ever roll on the bathroom floor for hours in agony with either a kidney stone or a gall stone? I have and oxytocin barley touches it, but does help. Now absolutely everyone if got their hair on fire about this and real people are going to suffer needlessly because everyone’s suddenly got the chic cause dejour.
Remarkable experience. Thank you.
The problem with unrelenting pain is first, the pain, and secondly the way it distracts one from life. To focus on breathing, on music, reading, food, becomes seemingly impossible.
My heart ..and prayers for Bruce, I cannot condemn this man. May his soul be at rest in God’s love..
Being a soft tissue back injury survivor, it takes years. Years. I think I was in five years before I finally started being able to cope with the pain and learning how to live my life around the pain.
Two years is in that five year window, and you suffer, mightily. The pain meds either make you a zombie, or are not providing relief, so your brain is responding to pain, all day long.
I thank God every day that my husband’s doctors believe he needs pain meds and prescribes them. He is addicted to wanting to live without chronic pain, not the meds.
I am so sorry to Dennis and his wife for having had to endure psychically the pain their kids’ dad, her ex, was suffering from. I am so sorry the kids lost their dad and his loved ones lost him.
Our medical system is a travesty. It really is. That kind of pain should be palliated. I’m sorry this happened. What a shame.
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