I have used Opioids for 25 years for pain no one can fix. Had a lot of joint replacements -- ALL wildly successful! But the degenerative disc disease and arthritis in my coccyx no one can fix. Ergo pain. Sometimes more pain than other times. I have watched over 25 years the mismanagement of opioids and the tragic price those of us without addiction problems have to face. I continue to fight them. I don't take more than a half 10/325 2 to 4 times a day. on a regular basis for years and years and years! I show no side effects. I'd rather take the opioid with tylenol than anything else. I've been given other opioids and the like and they make me feel edgy or itchy or nauseous. The nerve meds make me feel terrible. The NSAIDS - put me in the hospital and THOSE I had withdrawals from! Crazy, eh? (thanks USMC!) So I was finally put on the Opioid in 2001. I take a report to any doctor who might give me a hard time. I do not change doctors because of the problems. I will die (naturally) before I leave my provider because I am so freaked out about this. I believe the protocol is with the CDC. Everyone shuts their mouth when I bring in the LONG TERM SAFETY and prescription on the matter. Good luck. It sucks to be in pain! regards, Lori
https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/hcp/clinical-care/initiating-opioid-therapy.html#:~:text=Upon%20initiating%20opioid%20use%20for%20subacute%20and%20chronic%20pain%2C%20clinicians%20should%3A&text=Evaluate%20patients%20and%20establish%20or,specific%20selection%20of%20opioid%20therapy.&text=Work%20with%20patients%20to%20establish%20treatment%20goals%20for%20pain%20and%20function.