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Do opioids help with your chronic pain? - Successfully?
Chronic Pain | Last Active: 9 hours ago | Replies (26)Comment receiving replies
I am so very sorry you are going through this awful trouble! Drs. are to treat the pain and if surgeries fail which many do, they are encouraged to use medication management. You could try calling and set up a appt. with a psychologist or someone who treats depression and anxiety and ask them if they could find you a doctor who would give you what you need.
I have been on opioid therapy since 1998 and currently on Methadone 10 mg 3'x a day and have been on this same dose for the 8 yrs. I've been taking them. And they are a god-send.!! Before that it was oxycontin which had too many ups and downs. Methadone is smoother and doesn't cause that. I wouldn't be moving at all if not for them.
Additionally, I am on a antidepressant, antianxiety and anti-inflammatory as needed. Don't give up. The drs, owe you this!! You will need to advocate for yourself.
With sincere thoughts
Janet
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Thank you for your comments on my post. I have had the services of a great Psychologist for the past 7 years. LiveHealth.com has been a god send for me as I have utilized this site to attend their web video appointments Every Week with a Great Psychologist, LCSW Sylvia Bowen, who gives me a "Check up From the Neck up" every week. My Medicare pays for this service and I don't know what I'd have done without this valuable service. I am currently on 60mg of Cymbalta for my antidepressant and 1mg of valium to help my Insomnia. 10mg of Lisinopril as my Blood Pressure medication and Tylenol for Pain. The Tylenol is like pissing on the raging Fires in California as it does nothing to diminish the fire of CRPS Type 2 in my feet. 8 years and from day one, not one Doctor or Pain Clinic will trial me on an Opioid as they would rather keep their jobs/License. I will not give up because All I Need to gain some Quality Of Life and rejoin the Human Race is a contract with a good Pain Clinic to prescribe me an Opioid at the Proper Dosage and then to monitor me as my LCSW helps me Learn to Live again. Thank you again Janet for your Post and God Bless You.