Inneffective Pain Medication

I understand Darvocet may be taken off the market because of related deaths due to overdoseage and depression leading to suicide.

I can fully understand these reasons, but I think we must look further. A medication that provides little to no relief of pain, such as Darvocet, may lead to depression and suicide may be the only way to stop the pain for some individuals. I understand this, I am contemplating suicide if I cannot get relief for the pain I have due to what may be a compressed cervical nerve root.

Overdosage may not be related solely to the desire for the sense of euphoria, but to the desire for pain relief.

I developed pain from T-1 across my left scapula and radiating down my left arm, with severe muscle spasms - at times it looks like someone stluffed an egg under my skin. I am a home health nurse and work from my car, the pain is particularly excruciating when I am driving, bending over, sitting or doing anything at all - there is no relief and Darvocet, which has been prescribed to me to be taken 1 every 12 hours is a joke, to say the least. I am starting to feel as though I may have to take to the streets to find medication that will provide me with pain relief - I never thought as an RN I would have these thoughts.

Darvocet should be banned and physicians need to stop writing prescriptions for this useless medication. If a physician does not want to treat a patient for pain then he/she should refer the patient to another doctor or pain management center. I have written to the FDA and provided them with my thoughts. I hope to see this drug banned very soon.

Isabelle, R.N.

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I totally disagree with you and I will add if it does not work for you why do you think you get to decide what works for me .

Because of the people in the world that can't mind there own business I have been suffering with debilitating pain for the last 2 years.

I'm 46 yr old and have to live stuck in a chair because Drs. prescribe in an arbitrative manner this drug that does work for me to others but not me. I have been on line all morning trying to find some legal reason other then discrimination why I can't have what works. Your are an RN getting a drug that does not work for you. I am a disabled person who up until having surgery to keep me from being in a wheel chair can't get anything more then tylenol. Witch will kill me faster then the darvcet. And what really sucks is the fact I can go into any city in the united states and buy this drug off the street in a heart beat. So the option I have been given effectively by people like you screaming the sky is falling to the extent that physicians are afraid to prescribe



to some one who is not an RN Is to

A) risk arrest from buying off the street.

B )become an alcoholic or

C) Suffer.

So Please if you don't have a real solution to the pain we all share then mind your own business.

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