They put on the brakes way too hard for prescription opioid pain killers. They helped chase people to fentanyl. My 78 year old mother should be able to get all the pain meds she wants, as long as she agrees to give up driving.
There is no common sense anymore.
Perfectly stated. So sorry about your mother.
They told my 80 year old mother who has been known to keep going despite broken bones that she was just "being a baby" to go home, and the pain was not "that bad".
They ran into the wrath of dad and decided that maybe they should do a check just to make sure.... Major abyss. They had drained the smaller one earlier that day and completely missed the big one.
Granted sending her home with pain pills would not have been a good solution in that case but it does show how they regard pain as not being a major symptom anymore.
I have been on percocet or oxy since 1994. I started on percocet 5 x90 a month. In 2011 I was bumped to 10 mgs. Then they bumped it to 120 a month. I asked to go back to 90 a month. In addition to the 90 a month I take Hysingla 40 mg which is a 24 hour dose.
On good days I might skip one percocet or Hysingla. When I skip one I hurt. He’ll I hurt most of the time since June of 87 when I had a parachute accident with full combat equipment and a WECI Bag.
I have never copped a buzz. I D not understand how someone can get high off pain pills. Maybe I hurt too much.
Now when I skip one, I feel a type of withdrawal tiredness, followed by pain.
I might skip 8-10 Hysingla in a month. Or I might skip 8-10 percocet a month. However I generally have a day here or there where I take an extra.
The real sad part is they give you 30 days at a time. Then the pharmacy may go a week or two before they can fill the prescription.
The doctors and or pain management don’t care if you can’t fill the prescription or not. They don’t care if you are in pain. IT IS ALL ABOUT THE INSURANCE PAYMENTS.
I imagine the fyntenal crisis us fueled by the supply chain lack of medications.
Suing the drug companies only made shortages worse.
Lots of people buy percocet from India where 700 bucks get you a thousand 10 mgs percocet. But those people get spam calls from the other 1.5b scammers in India.