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Abilities and Life Expectancy (living life)

Chronic Pain | Last Active: Aug 22, 2023 | Replies (36)
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@pfbacon Are you worried about having to take narcotics in your future and how will you take care of yourself? I don’t take narcotics or any pain meds but, as an oncology (cancer) nurse, I have a lot of experience with them. Many of the patients on the unit where I worked , took large amounts of narcotics, but they acted just like you and I. The body adjusts to each increase in dosage. It’s not like a drug addict; they want the drugs, but the body doesn’t need them ( for pain relief). For a person with cancer, the body both wants and needs the drug. Their mind is completely with it.
Also, if a person needs to start taking high doses of a drug, they can be referred to a palliative care doctor. They treat everyone, not just cancer patients. Their speciality is pain management. They aim to help you get “more life in your days, rather than days in your life.” The whole palliative care team helps you to figure out what you want to do to get life in your days.
Do you have any other thoughts or questions?

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pfbacon | @pfbacon | Jul 23, 2020

Thank you, Becky ... your information is encouraging. Yes, I'm afraid of taking narcotics, afraid I'll be 'out of it'. It's encouraging to me that your patients who took large doses for pain were as normal as ever, and your explanation about how that works makes sense to me. I noticed the same thing with Adderall. I have ADD, I take a small amount daily, it makes me normal. When people who don't have ADD take adderall, it makes them high and not normal. Thank you! Peggy

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jasl | @jasl | Aug 13, 2023

The truest comment I’ve read in a long time about pain medication. As you said, they act like you or me. I could cry as I’ve been forced into a nontreatment state for 3 years. I cannot get pain medicine. I don’t live a life that is lively. No one should live like I do. And, although I know this goes against Human Rights and Patient Rights, it does not go against the right of the government to withold medication from a paitent with four pain inflicting diseases. Try suing the DEA or the DOJ, or the CDC. I have never in my life seen anything so horrible as the way pain patients are treated today. This is absolutely horrible. Classififed as a pain patient and tortured for it. Defending your right to use cannabis along with an opiate when cannabis STILL sits in a Schedule 1 classification knowing full well that cannabis AT MINIMUM helps with appetitie, wasting disease, nutritional deficiencies. Many of us cannot eat because of pain.
I am sure we are the laughing stock of China.
I did not do anything to acquire a disease. In fact, I was bitten by a Lyme tick and we know the history of Plum Island, and then I developed other issues. I feel betrayed and forelorn. This is truly shocking that the government of the United States refuses to allow pain patients their medication. Wow. What an experiment on the human race.

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