Replies

I don’t argue with people about pain-relief and generally believe more research needs to be done to replace and take opioids out of the market.

All we are doing is putting a drug out there which you will become tolerant with the present dosage and each year...seek out another doctor or pain-clinic to get more of a doseage, which all leads eventually down the line to liver damage...thus giving you a whole new problem to worry about.

I agree totally that the heroin idiots are creating long-term problems and draining off medical resources. It’s stupid to call out some ambulance to save an overdose idiot, and then repeat this six months later again. Some of these will end up with five or six ambulance calls before they finally pass on.

In the rural county where I grew up....ten years ago, there would have been zero heroin users. Today? I’d take a guess that 300 users exist in the county. The whole thing begs questions.

Yea it begs questions.

A bunch of weak-minded drug addicts have ruined a viable solution for responsible people.

They are dying. Not because of me but because of their mental stability.

You still have the issue of Post OP pain, alternative meds don’t work for along with Cancer or incurable disease with Intractable pain. Most don’t have ‘real’ treatments for. Short course of as low a dose of NORCO as needed for 1-2 weeks depending on how major the surgery.

Then you have the ADDICTION of drugs like Xanax, Cymbalta, Lyrica and Neurotin with their SUICIDE Black Box warnings.

Had thumb surgery, I used my 2 week supply to get through Rehab which was worse than the post surgery pain that could be controlled with Arthritis Tylenol and Ice packs. Still don’t have fine motor skills fully restored after 13 weeks of very painful Rehab. Surgery is not clear cut, there are complications the surgeon doesn’t see until they view the area. Ended up with 2 screws in the thumb base joint, was just supposed to have the torn ligaments reattached and Trigger Lock released. Thumb is now FROZEN, and Index finger barely functional. Wrist nerves compromise from the hard cast.

That would not work for MAJOR surgeries which require pain meds.

A IDIOT snowflake after her husband’s ER Appendectomy was incensed he got twenty 5 MG NORCOS. She said the family member who is a dr scripts Toredol...which is a FDA RESTRICTED SCRIPT anti-inflammatory like Advil and causes blood thinning besides the usual GI reflux/gerd, bleeding ulcers.