[Grammy]

Dr.s really don’t know how to treat pain, and in fact are afraid of it. I have a friend with chronic pain. She is never pain free, and in fact goes merely from tolerable pain to intolerable pain. They prescribe her pain meds, then at the end of the year look at what she has been taking and go “OMG, you are taking too much!!!” and cut her meds thru the end of the year, making both the winter time and the holidays miserable.

Her pain is affected by many things, including the weather, yet they will give her a fixed number of pills. Period. If she has a bad spell, she goes to bed, rather than take an extra pill, because then she will not have enough to last the month. She is not on oxycontin, but something milder. Yet they won’t give her an extra day or two of her prescription, because it looks bad.

So, what is better. To be not addicted to pain pills, and suffer unbearable pain and have no life because you are in bed, or to be addicted to pills and be able to function and live a life.

[Sammie42]

Sometimes we have to make hard decisions. I am not concerned that I may become addicted to my nerve pain medications. I would be deprived of a full active life without it. Life is full of choices, we attempt to make the right

[cripplecreek]

Oddly enough, my friend’s mother’s pain seems to get worse as she nears the end of a bottle of oxy.

Gotta figure, it’s Canada so the government is paying the bills and it’s easier for the doc to leave her addicted than to try to struggle through withdrawls that will result in a longer life if she breaks the addiction.

[P-40]

Do they know the source of your friend’s pain?

[TheKidster]

Just wait until we get socialized govt. run medical care forced down our throats.
Take two asprin and call me in the morning will no longer be a cliche! It’ll be the treatment you get when you come in with a broken arm, unless you’re an undocumented pre-citizen!