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Chronic Use of Tramadol Sep 15 11:57am | By Christy Hunt (@christinehuntmd)Comment receiving replies
I disagree with these laws completely. My healthcare should have nothing to do with what some Congress person believes I need. It shouldn’t even be decided by a doctor 3000 miles away from me. Whatever I am prescribed or not prescribed should be up to my healthcare providers and me. I have been on opioids for years. I never run out before I am supposed to nor have I asked for increases in my dosage other than once to get to a level that helped me. Now since my doctor retired I have to travel two hours to a pain clinic to get my prescriptions. I don’t understand the purpose of this because all they do is ask me what my pain level is, then take tests to make sure I am taking them. My new rheumatologist will not prescribe the meds for me because of all the scrutiny. I know some people will disagree with daily use of these drugs but they kept me working for years longer than I would have been without them
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Agree with you. Those who legitimately need opioids for pain management are being punished due to the illegal use of them. It IS for a patient and her doctor to decide. I alsof eel for the doctors who have been so subdued by Congress in prescribing these drugs.
I agree 100% about our health care being decided by Congress. What do they actually know about it? They just see the statistics of people that abuse opioids but nothing about people with debilitating pain that take their medication as prescribed. It's not right. So far I don't have a problem getting my prescriptions but that's probably because my diagnosis is terminal otherwise I'd be going thru the same as you for my RA.
I agree with you. If they think opiods are bad, I can no longer nsaids because liver and kidney damage due to use for pain. I tried pain management but all they want to do is give high opiod doses.i. also take Xanax for anxiety at nite. So whoever reviews your medical files, keeps red flagging my doctor because of narco for pain and xanax, tired of the government geting into my business
It’s a shame that congress decides. Let’s test each one, bet they are on something. Bu the way they act, think they are in many different ones. One had to look at the individual, the pain level, any other intervention used and did not work. I hate them, but it gets me through the day, barely. I only take 7 mg a day! One bottle lasts 2 months.
I am almost 80 years old with arthritis in knees shoulders feet I had a knee replacement which left me with chronic pain as well as severe pain in my joints it’s been a nightmare getting pain medication the addicts get medication off the streets I am left to suffer. Pain management wants to do injections and epidurals I’m reluctant. Horrible!!
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You and I and folks like us are the collateral damage in the war on opioids. We are not the problem, we did not create the problem we did not further the problem. We found a way to live out the balance of Our Lives with pain was manageable and that means has been taken away from us. It is Extreme, but the only thing you can do really is get a pain pump which doesn't seem to cause the alarm that other ways of taking opioids to do. Playing the The Devil's Advocate I will remark that really really high doses of opioids did not take care of my pain as effectively as the extremely low doses that I got from the pain pump do and I did have some side effects of doubling my wits with the really high doses. Doses in the 230 to 250 mg of Oxycontin a day rage