Really ?
That's funny because I've been taking different opioid based meds for several years for Severe Bilateral Neuropathy in My feet up to the knees and now in the last 8 months into both Hands.
Now My Doctor can't Rx them for Me anymore. Now I have to go to a "pain clinic" to the tune of $600.00 for initial visit, $325.00 for monthly follow ups AND pay $75.00 for a damned Piss test EVERY MONTH. That really shoots the hell out of $1200.00 a month SSDI.
It's a REAL PAIN IN THE A$$.
And BTW I did NOT run out to the Street to buy Heroin...
PS- a Rx for 30 day supply is $200.00.
Try to be legal about things and I just get SCREWED!!!!!!!
I've got the answer for the REAL JUNKIES problem. Get busted once, clean up your act. Second bust- I'll donate the required caliber round so they can be shot in the head and that will quickly remove the "junkie" problem.
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.
Hello. I would like to recommend 3 sources of information for non-narcotic relief of neuropathy, if you are interested.
The first is www.earthclinic.com, there are three types of neuropathy listet. Very helpful information.
second is Life Extension Foundation, www.lef.org.
Third is tony pantalleresco, of herbsplusbeadworks, windsor, ontario, canada. website: http://augmentinforce.50webs.com/
Something very inexpensive to try is a variation on an electrolyte replacement drink with a few extra vitamins -
The ingredients are very cheap from the puritanspridevitamins company.
distilled h20, powdered msm, apple cider vinegar, powdred vitamin c, stevia to sweeten, baking soda to neutralize. For some reason, MSM and vitamin C combined are an excellent pain reliever.
Other things can be added that will help a great deal, specifically alpha lipoic acid (nutrients)
Not giving amounts, I am not a medical person, but the first and third options listed here will have amounts if you want to do the research. Best to you.
Personal choices and behavior is what is causing most of this and people like yourself, unfortunately, have to pay the price for someone else’s misbehavior. That’s one of the reasons I have issues with the proliferation of, Narcan. Why does the taxpayer have to foot the bill, a few hundred a dose, for someone that wants to OD on something. I’d be willing to give a person one chance. Put their name in a database. Second OD, you’re, SOL. Either that, or you and your family are being billed, triple the cost to cover all the expenses.
Amazingly, they take exactly half of your SSDI.
I wonder how they know exactly what half is.
I feel for you and that is a shame on our govt.