Pain Meds Oxycodone Oxycontin

I also suffer severe chronic pain with RSD (not too many know what it is), which is something you never want disease, back surgery and because of walking awkward from the RSD in my leg/foot causing even worse pain and osteoporosis, I just felt the need to reply. Listen up, I worked in medical for years before my crippling injury, and I take 10mg oxycodone (percs) x4 a day. Please read. If your meds lessen your pain and not totally relieve it, be grateful. If YOU TAKE TOO MUCH OR INCREASE YOUR DOSES TO FEEL NO PAIN (which we all desire), you are really messing up. If you are in a really bad car wreck, any severe injury, then you are SOL. nothing will relieve any pain because you take so many meds and your body is used to it, NOTHING is going to help you. Another point is these kind of meds are very hard on your liver. If you develop liver disease you can NO LONGER take pain meds. They will give you severe nausea, vomiting among even worse side effects. With the vomiting the pills are coming out and NO relief. Also, you abuse these NO doc will give you any. Sadly ALL doctors would love to help us, but the government (if they so desire for any reason) can rip away their license to practice. They are terrified of it. Another thing, if they get an attitude with a doc, they can just use this as a quick, doc is done. If chronic pain suffers submit and fight the government, petition, come together to set better guidelines so as to give your family doctors the freedom to intelligently assist in prescribing pain meds, then problem solved. I'm in a pain management and for sure WE ARE BEING ABUSED BY THE GOVERNMENT because we are not getting adequate care. They are there to hand over a script. The guidelines suck! I hope this helps. I'm not yelling at any of you, but rather things to ponder.

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Hello, Susie! How are you doing? Thank you for your informative post. :-)

I really feel badly for everyone in chronic pain who is going through such difficulties and I really hope that all find proper pain relief solutions very soon, since no one deserves to suffer.

However, there are a couple of misconceptions in your post that I would like to clear up

One is about the liver disease and no pain medications, that is not true. There are certain ones that can't be used, others that can be used with dosage adjustments and most IV medications don't end up being processed as much by the liver and/or taxing it as much as oral ones. Thus, pain relief can still be given.

As to getting medications to a level where someone feels no pain and then nothing else being able to help, that is also not true. In emergency cases and cases of people with fatal diseases, it has been found that narcotic medications can be raised until adequate pain relief is achieved and it does not hasten death or cause death, as long as person is tolerant to them and their overdose threshold is carefully avoided.

And the last one is that handing over a prescription is nowhere in a doctor's oath or job description. That is actually not what they are there to do. As a matter of fact, unless someone's life is in danger, they aren't obligated to treat anyone or prescribe anything, they are as free to walk away from any given patient as the patient is free to see a different doctor.

Are there any other questions or concerns?

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Yes you are absolutely correct, but difficult to treat with "IV" medications. All narcotics have side effects that can become chronic. To encourage someone to excessive and sometimes fatal overdoses is not a good idea. Read toxic side effects and risks of chronic high dose narcotic medication. Your comments and the lovely description of what one would go through to obtain satisfactory pain relief still goes without saying. High tolerances to high dose narcotics makes it difficult to achieve relief; thus saying do it and you will probably live. Suck up the pain meds and see how that turns out for you. Addiction is a very real problem. I too live in serious chronic pain and take narcotics but getting the edge off is the safest approach. My readings and training thru a most popular universities in the US.

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