I have been on pain meds for 10 yrs, it took six of those yrs to get the pain relief mix right. I take two different short term opiods 4 times a day, as well as gabapentin and lyrica for nerve damage. The pharmacist constantly questions why I take two lesser opiods instead or morphine. DOH, because I try to take the minimum dose I can. He also questions Lyrica and gabapentin.. DOH different receptors. The pharmacist is trying to reduce his customers on certain meds to show “progress” in reducing opiods under florida’s new guidelines. I also can’t get prescriptions early or more than a 30 day supply, And you must be physicallly present at your pain management doctor to get a prescription issued on paper, no over the phone renewals. So I’m tethered to the house, no two month road trips to visit the kids, or friends. And for those of you without high level chronic pain, consider yourself lucky. A day without my meds would be like a nail driven through my big toes and my legs recovering from burns at the same time.
I never knew there was such a thing as a pain management doctor???
I have to be drug tested every two months to get my tramadol from the va. I don’t know if they are checking if I take them or get more somewhere else. I have bee taking the same dosage for years with no change.
Yes, but, all that is worthwhile to even slightly reduce the chance that some darwinbait idiot without whom the world would be better can’t get their hands on some knock off Chinese stuff and clean the genepool. I mean your pain means nothing to the Authoritarians posing as conservatives - all that matters is adherence to the State. /sarc
I sincerely wish all the bastards who want these substances to be in any way restricted from someone who believes they need them could suffer for a few years in the extreme pain a couple of my friends have had to put up with.