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Chronic Use of Tramadol Apr 26 5:18pm | By Christy Hunt (@christinehuntmd)Comment receiving replies
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
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I have been on opioids for 15 years, I lessened the amount when the pain level warranted it. I went back up when needed. I have MRIs for each pain issue. c-4 to c-6 with bone spurs, torn rotator left side, need new knee right side and neuropathy both feet.
My take on the political aspect to the pain management issue is 2 fold. They reacted to the suffering of those loved ones who died from an overdose. I fully understand that, that is horrible but taking away my pain relief from me does nothing to bring their loved one to come back. The other one is more of a manufactured crisis, they added heroin, fentanyl, oxycontin, Percocet laced with fentanyl. They rolled all of those numbers together to increase the death toll. People were snorting it, shooting it up, taking them and drinking alcohol. Take them as prescribed and you should not have an issue, chronic pain is nothing I ever wanted and I don’t need a congress person telling me I can’t get them or putting pressure on my doctor. Hope all works out for you.
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I haven’t heard much about a pain pump. I think the only thing I really know is a friend’s doctor was trying to give her one but she was nervous that it wouldn’t work and then she wouldn’t be able to go back to her current prescriptions. My doctor never mentioned it. If you know can you tell me if this is an option from any doctor or is it a specialty from a pain management clinic?