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[PhilipG]

Welcome to our newest forum: The Pain Management Support Forum. Please feel free to post and share your support.

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[NAMCAM]

Have any of you tried trigger point therapy? after I'd visited multiple doctors, surgeons, chiropractors, physiotherapists, I learned about trigger points, and It was the only thing that helped my bursitis. I've used it for several other painproblems since then.

[CherryAnne]

I have never posted here, so I am new! My name isCheryl and I need some advise...please!

I was randomly tested at me doctors office the last time I went to pick up my prescriptions. I did not ask any questions...my doctor and I have had a good relationship and I was fine with it. Here is my problem...I had not taken my narcotic pain meds for aout 6-7 days prior to peeing in the cup due to a false positive pregnancy test. I thought that I was pregnant and had stopeed taking all that medication as a precautionary step.
I finally did get my period and have again started taking my meds. The test came back and said that I did not have any of my medicine in my system and therefore I was being dismissed from my doctors office immediately! WHAT!!??
This letter arrived yesterday and I have not had a chance to call my doctor and ask why this turned out the say it did and why I get no chance to explain the situation. I feel like I have no rights, no recourse...?!?!
Has this happened to anyone else? What should I do now? Now I am going to be left in severe pain and without a doctor. My pain management is not my only health issue...and without a doctor I am left without scripts for other meds that I need.
I feel...wow...I don't know....numb I guess....I just don't know what to do.
ANY advise would be greatly appreciated!
~Cheryl

[gamma577]

I really feel for you, My sister n law is doing the same thing morning,noon and night. I feel bad because I can not stand to be around her when she is on those supid somas. She can not talk,walk or keep her jobs thats she has.She lies all the time about things that do not make sence.Lets put it this a way. Yes its her body and it will be a daed body. What they do not seem to understand is that is a muscle relaxer and the heart is a mucsle.So one day that mucsle will stop.I know I have went to enough funerals.I told myself that I am going to have a talk with her and I am going to give her a choice, It will not be a nice talk but it will be a talk. I wish you all the luck in saving your girlfriends life.Take care Gamma577

[jmille23]

Words of advice...Don't hold on to her scripts. Yes, continue to seek help from professionals. If you can't get her into treatment right now, thats not so good, but you said she said she would after the holidays, so that is a start.  You do have that on your side. Good luck.

[icemachine]

kewguy45- if you have insurance or her dad does, you can get her checked into a medical facility where they can administer the right kind of drugs and doeses and also get her meds that aren't addicting or habbit forming. i was in a phyciatric unit that was right next to the drug/rehab unit and it was great.. a hell of alot better than jail.. since i've been to both. it was very chill. so that might be something you can check out. its a very good place to detox and ease into an outpatient drug rehab program. so talk it over and good luk during the holidays man.. i know its rough.. i wish you the best-

[kewlguy45]

i kinda figured doctors could get  into trouble probally even losse there liceses, etc. and i tell her everyday what could happen if she gets caught doing her doctor shopping. now it's like shes on this thing where she'll call a doctor after hours like a doctor on call say she seeing so, and so and of course like i said in my first comment she either get soma or now it's been lately loratabs, since it don't make her messed up as much as the somas do. me and her father have been talking and were going to try and get her in this place for help, just maybe first talk to them about it see what happens from there. i myself don't really think the at home thing will work cause we even tryed holding on her scripts and that never worked out so i don't think detox at home would do her any good cause sonner or later she'll be like these aren't doing nothing for me i need my better meds or drugs. I hate doing this to her durring the holidays and all but i really think she needs to be  put into some place where they can help her. it's like one min were yelling at each other for stupid things like calling doctors, etc, then the next were like talking normal and she thinks i forget what was said, but deep down it hurts and i would hate to leave her, cause i hate to see something bad happen to her  then feel bad cause i never tryed  to help her out. at this point and time i'm almost thinking maybe taking loratabs would be better for her in the mean time while  me and her father look for options to help her out, at least they don't make her slur her speech or walk like a drunk or whatever. ok, thanks for the support and great advice.

[icemachine]

hey, this is in reply to kewlguy45- i've dealt with drug and alcohol addiction all my life, and now i'm in a position in my life where i have to take pain prescriptions just so i can get out of bed in the morning. i've been off of my pain meds for about three weeks and have been barely able to make it from my bed to my couch. i have never abused pain medication, mainly marijuana and alcohol, but i do know that addiction is addiction, no matter what the drug of choice is. i know that there are medications out there that are made to help people come off of drugs such as somas. my advise to you would be to talk to her parents and a doctor to decide what the best way would be to get her off of the somas to avoid withdrawl. i know that they make a medication called suboxone to help people manage withdrawls from alcohol, and opiods such as lortabs, percocet, and oxycontin. i don't know if it would work the same for somas since i'm not a physician, but a doctor or psychiatrist would be able to help you with that. after a safe detox, i would get her into a drug-rehab program. a licensed drug and alcohol counselor would be able to make an acurate diagnosis on what kind of treatment program would be the best. but the only way she is going to be able to gain control of her life is through sobriety and treatment. i've spent half my life going through drug and alcohol counseling, and i've seen alot of people go through it with prescription drug abuse problems, and i've done my share of teaching drug and alcohol classes. its a tough road, but with your support and support from her family, she can get through it. another thing that might help- the DEA has put some seriouse resrtictions on the amount, and in the manner that doctors can prescribe controlled substances. any doctors that are prescribing her somas in an irisponsible way can get into real trouble, and you can report them for it. on the same token, your girlfriend can be federally indited for doing what is called "doctor shopping" going from dotor to doctor to get prescription drugs. and a federal charge can get her some time in a federal prision. regaurdless of her circumstanes. so by getting her into treatment, you could be keeping her out of federal prision for several years.. good luck man-
i wish you the best-

[icemachine]

hey everyone, i'm new to this, but i was wondering if anyone out there is dealing with chronic pain management?i'm 22 years old. i've had over 80 fractures in the last 4 years including a cervical spinal fracture @ c6-c7 with a fusion. i suffer from central spinal cord syndrome wich causes extreme nerve pain down both of my arms. i also have a bulging disc at c2-c3 that causes extremely harsh headaches. i have a titanium plate over my left collar bone, that also causes me significant pain. I suffer from lower back pain, and the regular aches and pains that go along with arthritus, and old injuries.. i also have a condition called tachycardia. it basically feels like my heart is going to explode in my chest due to this condition. my heart rate jumps up to 186 beats per minute on average when my tachycardia hits, weather i'm sitting on the couch or walking around, driving a car,ect.. i have tried all kinds of pain medication for pain management from darvaset, lortab, percocet, morphine sulfate, ect.. the only thing that makes my pain manageable is large doses of percocet(oxycodone) but it makes me very sick, so i can't take it. i'm considering trying oxycontin for pain management since the its in the same boat as percocet, but was wondering if anyone out there that has similar problems and if so, what kind of pain management works for you? and also if anyone has any suggestions to treat my tachycardia. i take on average ten different persription three times daily, including 800mg ibprofen, baclofen, inderal, tofrinil, lyrica, risprodol, zanax, and some antidepressants and provigile to help me wake up and stay awake through the day due to 10 different head injuries..anyways, any help is much appreciated.. thanks-

[kewlguy45]

well i am new to this so i couldn't figure out how to post this in drug addiction. ok well anyways me and my girlfreind have been dating for like almost like 5 years maybe 6. well when i first meet her i relized i was just looking for trouble knowing she had a  prescription drug problem over the years it was different types of medicines from different doctors, etc, etc. well now she is hooked on soma and will get them any way possible from doctors who don't even know he condition. don't tey know that this drug can kill you if u take more than one pill, well in her case she would take one wake up an hour later and still think she has pain and continue to do this through the course of the day till i get home from work and serach for them so she can't take anymore. they make her talk in like a mummble up language and can't walk straight. i care for her and i feel  it's just hurting our relationship. i just can't take it anymore. me and her father have tryed calling the er and any doctors she gets them from but some other stupid doctor she finds gives them to her. the funnny thing is most of them wont give loratab but will prfer you to have the soma. since being with her i have noticed her way more druged up with theses somas than the loratabs. i'd rather see her take them then just take soma and basically kill her self. they reax musels and she doesn't seem to understand what they do . i keep telling her over and over one day you'll take to many and hurt your self or even worse kill yourself. you wanna know what the response is there.... well of course with any other pills addiction, she'll tell me it's her body and she'll do what she wants were not married. so what i have to be married to her for her to stop this none sense. i just don't know what to do i am only her boyfreind and of course everytime she get these pills and takes to many she calls up her parents and they come get her cause they know i'm to pissed and it better any way. she just makes me so mad at time and i wouldn't wanna do anything stupid to hurt her, so it's best to let her cool off at the parents i guess. after all her father does most of the calling around to explain to the doctors whats going on,etc,etc. i know you shouldn't just stop these pills cause of the withdrawl but i think she needs to stop. we have talked meaning me and my girls about getting some help and of course i fell for it again. she says i'll seek help after the holidays to which i would like to spend time with her durring the holidays but how am i suppose to deal with this when just the other day after telling me she'd fine help after the holidays she lies to me and goes behind my back and gets 90 pills with 5 refills. i know i tend to jump around , when something is on my mind i tend to jump around in my conversations so just bare with me. i just knew from the beginning i should of just never dated her. but i seen more than just that and after 5,6 years know i just can't take it. she always tells me i'm not hurting you so why does it matter to you, and i know it's the pills doing most of the talking and i try to look past that and maybe just one day she'll open her eyes and relize shes just not hurting her slef but everyone around her, including me. i'm to the point to where maybe if i just leave her for a while she'l think well maybe i do need help, ut whos to say she'll do that for a while saying she needs help and when we get back together she does it all over again. i know this is long but i just needed to get this out and maybe see if anyone out there knows of a website or place on here where i can talk to others  and get a feeling i'm not alone.