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@ cindisue
Many are like me and cannot take NSAIDS. I have dibilitating pain throughout my body. Tylenol does very little to quell the pain. I have been through many rounds of steroid injections. Tried Elavil and other drugs that I find I am allergic to. I take oxycodone .. it works because I take it as I need it. 2-4 5mg tablets a day. When my pain goes higher I go up to 5 tablets a day. I do ice and heat as needed and use a TENS unit to help pain too. I don't take oxycodone to just take it.
These are MY definitions:
Addiction to opiod: Taking an opiod when the drug is not needed. Either not needed at all or a less dangerous drug will work.
Dependence to opioid: Taking an opioid when it is needed for high or chronic pain and other medications have been tried and failed to control the pain or cannot be taken.
ZeeGee
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ZeeGee, I love your definitions. They make sense! And are so true! Therefore I am dependent on a benzodiazepine medication called Lorazepam. I take it daily for sleep issues and occasionally during the day if I have bad anxiety. Doctors DO NOT like to prescribe benzodiazepines because some people abuse them! They should NOT punish us people who take them responsibly! I had to try many different meds for sleep issues and anxiety, with no success, before my doctor would prescribe me Lorazepam. And this medication takes care of both of my issues....sleep issues and anxiety issues. It makes me and my life "normal". If that's the right word??