If you are a white male with chronic pain, you are better off going to the liquor store than a MD for relief.
I have been active all my life and my body shows it. Back X-rays look like a bad train wreck. Throw in chronic migraines, and pain free days are but a distant memory.
Ibuprofen will destroy your kidneys over time, and tylenol can and will destroy your liver. Aspirin does not cause organ failure like the others, but loses effectiveness over time. Where are the stats listing organ damage from these “safe” pain relievers? Tylenol kills daily, but their lobby is strong, so it is never mentioned.
Absolutely NOTHING is being done for chronic pain sufferers, and if you mention to a Dr you have chronic pain, you are blacklisted as a prescription drug abuser.
My SIL has the same back problem I have. Funny, her Dr prescribed real pain killers for her 5 years ago, me, “take 2 aspirin and deal with it” is what I get.
I have to side with the Dr here, because I have seen the addiction. The doctors are now under a more direct control of the lawyers and politicians. Remember they took over the healthcare profession by the Obama crime family and their allies. Please keep in mind, no one will force you to go see a Dr.
And that's going to get a lot worse.
Most states have investigative bodies now which focus specifically on doctors and their prescriptions.
If you're like most people, you would think that catching guys who write 500 oxycodone prescriptions a day would be easy - and it IS easy.
But look at it from the point of view of a career bureaucrat. If you catch that guy, you're sentencing yourself to months of red tape, scads of paperwork, a trial appearance that keeps getting moved around, and a boss who wonders why you aren't as productive as Johnson over there, who "caught" twenty doctors who misspelled something on a form or who failed to document the right ICD-10 code for chronic pain while you were f***ing around with this one stupid case.
"Enforcement" of Medicaid fraud has the same problem. ANYBODY can catch the bad guys - everyone knows who they are. BUT, there are only a few of them, their cases are big and complicated, and the key to your future as a lawman is quantity, not quality.
So, sorry to say, all chronic pain patients are collateral damage in the current response to the "opioid crisis".
“My SIL has the same back problem I have. Funny, her Dr prescribed real pain killers for her 5 years ago, me, “take 2 aspirin and deal with it” is what I get.”
The pain in my shoulders and hands can be unbearable at times. I cannot sleep because I cannot turn over without screaming. I told my American doctor about it and he recommended a pain management specialist. My Brazilian doctor gave me 120 vicodin and said if I wanted more I will need to come back and give a urine specimen to show I am not selling the drug.