Hello to all of the fello pain suffers out there living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Chiari Malformation, Neuropathy and other Pain Sensitivity Disorders etc. I’ve dealt with and managed very severe pain for over 30 years from the above disease states. I’ve successfully managed opioids during that period of time and had too because they’ve been the only effective medications I’ve found to provide any kind of measurable relief and efficaciousness from. Living with debilitating pain is challenging enough. Trying to find physicians to work with you on this is even more difficult and challenging. The bottom line for all of us is to find whatever medication(s), treatment protocols or therapies etc that actually provide any successful
reduction in pain or qualify as efficacious. Unfortunately, the “war on drugs” that morphed into the “war on opioids” has been severely mismanaged and overflowing with too much disinformation, misunderstandings and ineffective management to effectively serve the patients who desperately need opioids to exist day to day and the doctors they rely upon to prescribe what’s proven to work and be most effective for them. Firstly and most importantly, counting the deaths that occur from people taking poisonous FENTANYL in the same category and statistics as legally prescribed opioids like OXYCODONE is both horribly misleading and bogus information that only complicates the situation and does not serve anybody’s best interests and has created extremely adverse effects on the legitimate pain patients who require them to survive day to day. It also unnecessarily threatens the licensing and well-being of legitimate physicians trying to assist and treat their patients with the only things available that provides the only meaningful and measurable amount of effective pain management available. There’s a very good reason why patients use “OPIOIDS,” they work when everything else does not!
There’s no factual evidence that supports the notion that legitimate long term opioid users eventually turn into people who overdose and die from their legally prescribed opioids. I’ve used them safely for 32 years along with other, stronger medications without any problems what so ever. Except when they’ve been difficult to get because one of my prescribing physicians has moved, retired, passed away or become disabled and is no longer able to practice. This is really a problem that was “invented” by various drug agencies in America and used as a deeply flawed and failed attempt to address all of the overdoses resulting from illegally purchased opioids and drugs which physicians rarely, if ever prescribe. They have been procured by illegal means and or sold on the street combined with Heroin, Fentanyl and other very dangerous narcotics which contain poison
and then taken by unsuspecting people seeking drugs.
Leave the legitimate Pain Patients and their responsible physicians alone and go after the people who are causing all of the real problems and killing the people in our society!!!!