Posted on 07/19/2019 7:45:06 PM PDT by artichokegrower
More than 70 million prescription pain pills made their way into Humboldt County during a seven-year stretch starting last decade, according to a staggering database of opioid transactions published Thursday by the Washington Post.
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Which would be average.
One to get out of bed, and one in the afternoon to stave off pain.
Big deal...
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Data source??
Check Charleston Co. Georgia
3X Humboldt.
I don’t get the point of humboldt.
Lake county is greater...
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I take tramadol. Have taken it for 10 years for degenerative disc disease and sciatica. I herniated a disc in my neck about 10 years ago and was taking vicadin. When the pain started subsiding a little and I started backing off the vicadin I realized I was hooked and flushed them down the toilet. Went through withdrawals and everything. Went to my doc and said no more vicadin so she gave me tramadol and I’ve taken them ever since. Anyway, the doc I’ve been seeing about the last 5 years recently told me he would no longer prescribe the tramadol and I’d have to go to a pain management doc. Our pain management doc offices are full with long waits so I told him to go screw himself, I’d switch docs. I did. And my new doc, that I used to see before the last doc, prescribed tramadol for me. It’s ridiculous what people who are really in pain have to go through now.
Look at your reasoning.. “I don’t know what a normal prescription count is but 70 pills over a month doesn’t seem excessive.”
All 132,646 people in Humboldt County are taking 70 pills a month for 10 years.
On a side note, a lot of folks taking the opioids are to blame. You can always say NO the doctor and ask for something else.
Everyone is being painted with the same brush, like the only reason for taking codeine or exycodone is to get high. I have sciatica, and I can’t get doctors to prescribe anything for the excruciating pain. Seems they are scared that they will be labelled as a drug peddler by the FDA. There are people in need of these drugs who are being denied because of the “media hype”.
Recently, the headline said Lisa Marie Presley was addicted to opiods. If you read deeper, she was an alcoholic and using cocaine and anything else she could get her hands on. But the headline made it look like opiods was to blame.
Mine wasn't service-connected, just old age. Could hardly walk more than 100 yards before I had to sit down.
Asked the VA doc - had to take a pee test and sign a "contract". MAJOR production. Got 30 5mg Tramadols which have lasted me a while as I only take one when we go on our weekly trips to town.
Funny thing, wife had some knee pain and the local doc just prescribed 30 Tramadols for her with one refill. No muss, no fuss.
The VA doc warned me that it may make me feel euphoric, so I held off as long as I could. Finally took one and . . . drum roll . . . NOTHING. It kicked in after an hour, the pain went away, and I never felt better in my life, but only due to the absence of pain. I can see how people can become addicted.
Depends on what it’s for. Cancer will see the highest as will some other health issues like Sickle Cell.
And it depends on how long the pain med last, most are 4 hrs. There are few that are longer acting besides IV ones those are about 6 hrs.
Post op depends on surgery minor was 5 days at 4 low Dose NORCO or what the patient preferred, not all can take Oxycodone or Hydrocodone.
Today Tylenol is the key word, well these idiots forget ALL OTC pain meds are for 10 DAYS NO LONGER. ALL cause kidney, Liver and GI damage if taken to long and to high dosage.
Major surgery use to be 12 days. Times 4 per day. CRAP NEEDS A BLACK BOX STATING 10 DAYS ONLY, AND WHAT DOSAGE IS THE MAX THAT IS SAFE.
Today 2 days minor surgery if your lucky, and 4 days major again if you are lucky.
Forced Tapers of Intractable Pain Patients and Cancer patients has seen the highest drop in prescriptions. Back Pain is next. 92% of Cancer patients are sent home on Tylenol.
Canada says it treats Pain Patients, It is a COMPLETE LIE.
Shannon MacLeod is Stage 3 AA his spine is a spaghetti of Adhesion’s from a bad back surgery, that are now invading his GI tract. Most don’t survive Stage 2.
Glace Bay man with incurable condition can’t find a doctor
https://www.cumberlandnewsnow.com/news/regional/glace-bay-man-with-incurable-condition-cant-find-a-doctor-174052/?fbclid=IwAR1DPHt7ewjb4TaZC_fgfoszdqtolN09KWW2Okp7-3Ggx2Nawnd4_XLW6uM
Intractable Pain is a Medical Disease, it is a Sub Set of Chronic which can last up to a year. IP last a life time. If left untreated it’s Torture at the level of Hanoi Hilton, Jap and German POW camps all rolled into 1.
If you use a pain clinic you can lose your CCW permit. If this bill is passed it will be worse. DATA Bases of ALL Pain prescription users. https://www.cato.org/blog/senators-manchin-braun-are-attempting-practice-medicine-without-license-fighting-wrong-war?fbclid=IwAR0mHd6PellduiSCkgQLyHjQJ1VZCb2M2Xe6rFb9LPrG0HjULkL5NmFMTAk Which is a Violation of your Privacy Rights and HIPPA. As the info is available to any one.
What is left out are the Heart Attack Deaths, and Suicides that Intractable Pain Patients commit. VA is easy to track the Suicides. But they are still blaming PSTD, most are now loss of Pain Meds.
Imagine you have a 3rd degree burn over 50% of your body and all you are given is a stinking 700 mg dose of Tylenol while they are Deriding the dying tissue. Or you are a 78 yr old Hip replacement patient you get the same 700 mg of Tylenol after surgery and post op.
Pain Patients were Forced Tapered, while Street Junkies were given Suboxone and Methadone both which are addictive. Why weren’t they forced Clean? 6 in Mississippi teens took what they thought was Heroin, turns out it was full blown Fenatayl, all OD’d. Only 1 died.
In Tennessee we had over 300 pain clinics, in one day that went to 65, then to 64. That would not even cover Memphis.
Hubby in 90 days takes 540 Welchol cholesterol med 6 horse pills per day. In 30 days I take 4 per day Lomotil pills, 2 Am 2 PM. 120 tablets. As that is the way Military Pharmacy has them. So number of pills is deceiving, it’s the mg taken per day you go by. NO pain script is for more than 30 days. I don’t care where it is filled. CVS, Walgreen’s and Walmart refuse to go over 60 mg for CANCER PATIENTS WHO MIGHT REQUIRE 150 MG IN THE LAST 6 MONTHS. WHO IN THE H. CARES THAT IT IS ADDITIVE IF YOU HAVE 6 MONTHS TO LIVE?
Roger Chriss is a EDS patient an a Math former MATH Phd, BEFORE THE DISEASE BECAME OUT OF CONTROL. EDS is hyper
motility of the joints. HE TEARS DOPESTICK APART. https://www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2018/8/24/a-careful-reading-of-dopesick
I hear you about the tramadol. When I first took it, I was thinking because of the big deal they made about it, that I’d be pain free and floating around my apartment. I kept waiting for it to kick in, and while it took a little bit of the edge off, didn’t make the pain go away. For me, it’s like taking an aspirin. A little trick one of the doc’s here told me, was take acetaminophen(tylenol) with the tramadol, and it boost the effects a little bit.
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