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Is Lyrica a narcotic?
My doc just prescribed Lyrica to me b/c he thinks it's possible I have Fibro....I have all the symptoms....I'm also on Vicodin from another doc for severe headaches.....in order for me to function and get up and go to work, I must take a Vicodin in the AM right away, one in the afternoon and sometimes one at night.....should I look into any other meds or narcotics? Just wondering what everyone else is taking to fight their pain. Thanks in advance!
tramodol can very addictive, read up about it. it is an opioid not an opiate. that's because its a synthetic narcotic made by chemicals not natural poppy seeds.
I have fribromyalgia and I take vicodin and lyrica.I can't say enough about lyrica it is a wonder drug for me I have fibromyalgia and It is very severe and she was.nt saying she cant live with out it because she is addicted to it she is in pain from morning to night it never goes away.You fell like a prisoner in your our body.
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No lyrica ain't a narcotic
Tramadol is highly addictive and about to become a classified narcotic, as it is more dangerous to suddenly withdraw from than heroin, like many of the sedatives out there, even tho it is technically a synthetic narcotic - be careful because that addiction can just sneak up on you! and Steve, I hear you. I was taking 40 of them a day and the only thing that got me off them was suboxone, which unfortunately I am still taking 3 years later. I am weaning myself off the suboxone, which is hard given they come in these bi-lingual strips you put under your tongue, decreasing those little strips in a PAIN, but suboxone saved my life and I only take one 2.5mg strip a day down from two 8mg. strips. Tramadol was my reason for living, and it nearly killed me several times. So many doctors told me it was all in my head, can you imagine? Thanks for telling it like it is.
Tramadol is highly addictive and about to become a classified narcotic, as it is more dangerous to suddenly withdraw from than heroin, like many of the sedatives out there, even tho it is technically a synthetic narcotic - be careful because that addiction can just sneak up on you! and Steve, I hear you. I was taking 40 of them a day and the only thing that got me off them was suboxone, which unfortunately I am still taking 3 years later. I am weaning myself off the suboxone, which is hard given they come in these bi-lingual strips you put under your tongue, decreasing those little strips in a PAIN, but suboxone saved my life and I only take one 2.5mg strip a day down from two 8mg. strips. Tramadol was my reason for living, and it nearly killed me several times. So many doctors told me it was all in my head, can you imagine? Thanks for telling it like it is.
I respect that you are in immense, chronic pain from breaking bones in your back and neck, and I'm sorry that you have that pain, it sounds horrible. However, your condescending comments about headache pain are rude and in my humble opinion, bullsh*t.
Perhaps you've never had severe, chronic headaches, or perhaps you have, but didn't personally find the pain from it to be unbearable. Either way, for you to judge another's pain is wrong.
Have a little compassion for other people instead of playing the "my pain is worse than yours" game and accusing someone of being an addict simply because they need pain medication to treat something that causes them physical pain.
You say you've learned to cope with your pain. But maybe you don't know that your coping mechanisms make you miserable to live with, or work with, etc. I'm not saying that IS the case, I'm simply providing another viewpoint of which perhaps you have not thought, and I'll close by saying that I hope your back and neck pain improves.
Perhaps you've never had severe, chronic headaches, or perhaps you have, but didn't personally find the pain from it to be unbearable. Either way, for you to judge another's pain is wrong.
Have a little compassion for other people instead of playing the "my pain is worse than yours" game and accusing someone of being an addict simply because they need pain medication to treat something that causes them physical pain.
You say you've learned to cope with your pain. But maybe you don't know that your coping mechanisms make you miserable to live with, or work with, etc. I'm not saying that IS the case, I'm simply providing another viewpoint of which perhaps you have not thought, and I'll close by saying that I hope your back and neck pain improves.
No, you think you " need " Vicodin to function bc you ARE addicted to it. I should know.. I broke 14 bones in my back and neck .... I had every reason to take Vicodin and even stronger narcotics. I live in chronic pain but I have learned to cope with it... Without any drugs! Real pain. Not just headaches.. You sound ridiculous ! And FYI, fibro mialjia isn't real. It's just something docs have come up with as a last resort to explain over active nerves. And its something that can't be proven or disproven so people like you can claim to have and the docs have no choice to believe you.. And this is why you asked it this med gets you high bc that's exactly what your looking for. Why don't you change your diet and stretch and exercise everyday and see how you feel....
Vicodin for your f*cking headaches... Give me a break!
Vicodin for your f*cking headaches... Give me a break!
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Dependant on a drug to go to work.. Etc and Addicted are two different things...do you research chronic pain is real!
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