Now that I have chronic pain I understand. No one cares.
Sorry about your pain.
Don’t think comparing cannabis to opioids is right but I do have some understanding of living with chronic pain.
My 80+ year old mother lives in extreme pain due to several conditions she’ll have for the reminder of her life. Her pain meds keep getting cut back because they are afraid she will get addicted. She’s treated like a 30 year old addict. No concern about the terrible pain she is in every day.
I had horrible spinal pain earlier this year. Thank God surgery took care of it... ...but before that happened, I was becoming familiar with opiates, and the paranoia (half justified / half not) currently circulating around them.
I had a relative die with cancer in his back. He was in agony and the opioids were his only relief and he had to have that relief or wanted to be knocked out.
Doctors need to be more lenient with prescribing them for surgeries etc... I had hemorrhoid surgery a couple of years ago and it HURT and I was prescribed opioids. But it was a fairly limited amount right off the bat in one prescription, not even a weeks worth. I took two and then switched to prescription strength Ibuprofen. After hemorrhoid surgery the last thing I needed was constipation from opioids.
If marijuana legitimately helps certain ailments, fine, but that needs to be a narrow definition. My first cousin started with marijuana, it was and still is his drug of choice but he would take anything after a while. He is in his late forties and has been an addict since his late teens. The last six months he has been clean. We are praying for the best but prepared for the worst. His niece, whom he started her off on marijuana will take, snort or shoot anything you give her. Five kids later the state decided it might want to tie her tubes.
Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water on opioids. Restrict the prescriptions more to cancer patients in agony and those in real pain.
I think if someone has a well documented need for pain control, they should get the absolute best pain meds which are available, namely, opioids, or synthetic opioids. People should not be made to live with chronic pain. It is barbaric and in some cases will lead to suicide.
Yep. Good article.
“Now that I have chronic pain I understand. No one cares.”
The VA called and told me there is a nationwide shortage of morphine so they are cutting me off.
Ditto
You and me both, brother!
I’ve always found it strange how conservatives profess to want “limited government” and “government out of healthcare,” and yet fall in line slavering like Pavlov’s dogs whenever the War on Drugs is mentioned.
This is not only bad policy; it is the equivalent of torture in many cases. I’d like to see every politician and bureaucrat who pushes this contract a painful chronic illness and be denied pain medication.