so i have been thinking....and wondering what to do. if you do not know, i have 'legitiment' health problems, to where i was perscribed my pain meds to begin with. they helped me to get up and go to work, function, etc. i do not have cancer, or any life threatening disease (just to clear that up) i have endometriosis (which causes pain a lot) and on top of that many stomach problems. i have been told that taking pain meds is bad for my stomach, but it was the only thing that seemed to help the endo pain. i had tried everything else to no avail, and went for the pain meds. i know that my problem was also, if i had some pain i would take them, but not neccessarily very severe pain. a lot of it was that i was so afraid to be in that much pain again (had to go to the ER twice before they finally did surgery) that i would take my pain meds the first sign of pain. and then of course that led to dependency. the last time i got my RX filled was in the beginning of november, and i am due back this month. i want to go, yet i don't want to go. i don't want to live with pain every day, but i don't want to be on pain meds every day either.
it is wearing me out and i am not quite sure what to do. as far as talking to my doctor, well he is a greedy %^&$# and i am looking for a new one, so i can't really go to him and expect good results. he is the one that told me changing my diet wouldn't even help my situation!!
any advice, greatly appreciated!