Pain medication

[Dana]

I want to know why all Doctors think that if they help keep you from suffering from chronic pain by giving prescription drugs such as Vicodin or other narcotic pain relievers, they think you automatically become addicted to them. Not everyone has addictive tendencies. I had taken Vicodin for 3 years straight before moving out of town away from my understanding and sympathetic doctor whom, after numerous tests on me realized the serious problems with my spine. He had me on Vicodin for 3 years to ease my suffering. When I moved to a different state, I ran out of my pain medication and just stopped taking vicodin. NOTHING HAPPENED TO ME! NOTHING! I did not get sick, shake, sweat, vomit, turn to other drugs or alcohol..........NOTHING! I just suffered constantly with pain. I waited a few months before seeking another doctor in my new town. He treated me like a junkie and told me to take Advil. That was two years ago. Well after two years on Advil, I now suffer from easy brusing and stomach problems. So why do most doctors want to see a patient suffer instead of help them ease their pain? So.......narcotic pain medication is addicting! Big deal. In this day and age with all the new meications to help pain, it is a shame so many of us are allowed to suffer everyday of our lives. So its addicting......isnt that the patients problem anyhow? Cant the doctor at least try and see if indeed these patients show signs of addiction like going through the medication too fast and looking for refills when they shouldnt need them yet? Why cant a doctor give the patient the benefit of the doubt first?
Oh well......advil will do me just fine. I would rather take that then be treated like some drug addict. It may only help me 10% of the pain but at least I dont have to answer to someone that has no idea how I suffer and I dont have to feel like some drug addict. Please answer me.
Thank you
Dana

[The Big EZ]

I might be able to help some of the pain sufferers here.
e-mail me:
***@****

good luck

[Vicodin Gurrl to Dan]

Oh yeah, EZ?  Hows that?  Care to elaborate a bit???

[Ronnieg to Dana]

Dana,

I forgot to give you this site as I bet I confused you. This site has an many forums including addiction and Chronic Pain forums.

I asked you your name in there and realized that the site I gave you was for something else. But please check out this site as the people there for the most part really care about everyone.

<a href=http://neuro-mancer.mgh.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&number=2&SUBMIT=Go>http://neuro-mancer.mgh.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&number=2&SUBMIT=Go<a/a>

Good luck with your search in finding a compassionate doctor.

Ronnieg

[Ronnieg to Dana]

Dana,

What name do you use at the MGH Site? I will look for you over there as I frequent that site and only drop in here occasionally.

Peace,


Ronnieg

[Jerry]

I, too was and am now a long time user of pain killers; vicodan
being the most current.  I know exactly how you feel. They can't
give you anything for chronic pain that works unless It comes
with the stima attached "addicting" woooooo!  No kidding, but
what is the difference that my wife takes zoloft, or remron, or
paxil, or any of the other anti-depressants that are too numerous
to mention. Is that not an addiction? She can't get off of these
new generation drugs, any more than a street junkie can get off
heroin.  At least I am taking something, that if, they wouldn't
fill it full of Tylonel or some other equally usless analgesic;
is a natural substance and if taken in the proper doses will
not damage your liver, stomach, or other organs it is, or would
be a substance that occurs naturally in nature,if they did'nt
screw with it.  Twenty years ago valium was the drug of choice
for Jr. executives and housewives who were under stress. They
were called "mothers little helpers". The some lady with an
additive personality overused her medication, wrote a book,
the medication became taboo. Ask your hmo for a few valiums now
and check out the looks that you get.  It is my prediction that
the current wave of new age medicine that messes with the levels
of naturally occurring subanstances in the brain will be the worst medicine that this country has ever known.  What is the difference if you HAVE to take every day for the rest of your life and addiction?  I'm sorry for rambling, but some of these
"care-givers" have never experienced chronic pain so you will
never be able to take a dose of an opiate like you can a dose of
Zoloft.
ever invented

[for Sick and scared/beware of Vicky!!]

I never thanked you for giving me that website. I went to it the same day and found tons upon tons of info.
I realize now that just because someone is suffering from chronic pain and needs more then advil or tylenol,  that doesnt mean that they are drug addicts!  There are plenty of them on this that are addicts and there also alot of folks that are confused because since they suffer from pain they are dependent on the pain meds....thus confusing themselves thinking they are addicted. Thank you again for your help. Now I wait for the list of doctors that care about ME and my well being.......this should be interesting!!  I have yet to find one!!!