“Addiction is terrible, but so is labeling someone a potential addict just because they ask for something that works.”
Who did that?
That has been done to me by physicians I have seen. I travel a lot and I'm going to new physicians every two to four years. I could spend thousands of dollars and undergo all sorts of tests and "let's try this treatment first" and finally get the meds with every new doc. Or, I can curtail my activities and cope with chronic pain. That seems to be the only options to me.
Well, I don't have thousands of dollars to throw away every so often. The tests are the same and the results are the same: "yes, you have two ruptured disks and will eventually need surgery. Try to cope and if you still have pain in six months or so, I'll prescribe some meds. Try it this way first." I have perforce limited my activities to about two hours of travel in a car, sitting in church for an hour, or shopping for maybe half an hour. Everything else is done from a horizontal position.
But docs won't prescribe pain meds because they think I'm an addict since I want them. Sheesh!
Some doctors have tendency to put people in that category.
I suppose it’s because the government is on them so hard about writing prescriptions.