Opioids can do a lot of good too. As someone taking some daily for my chronic pain from autoimmune issues, it makes a huge difference. It helps me function, have more energy, do things I normally really struggle with, and it improves my mood a bunch. It's a real struggle to live with chronic pain and can affect a lot of areas of one's life. I go to a pain management Dr every couple months for them to monitor me and give me more refills. Hopefully you never have to find out what it's like to constantly hurt day in and day out, and all the negative effects it has on aspects of your life, but opioids can do a lot of good and improve quality of life a lot in the right situations.
They aren’t for everyone and these doctors still push it thats all.
Yes, I’ve been in chronic mega beyond pain. I just want these doctors to be open to choices. Not every doc is responsible with the dispensation of opioids.
Maybe I just have a good doctor, but they tried other stuff before going to pain meds. I tried physical therapy and steroid shots in the right places first before they decided to start giving me opioids after those two things didn't help enough. Recently doctors have cracked down a lot on prescribing opioids and have tried other options more readily. They wouldn't prescribe them to me until I had tried those things and then they had x-rayed me all over looking at my joints and seeing what they could find out that way too. So I was pretty happy about their decisions before starting to prescribe opiates long term for me.
Opioids can do a lot of good too. As someone taking some daily for my chronic pain from autoimmune issues, it makes a huge difference. It helps me function, have more energy, do things I normally really struggle with, and it improves my mood a bunch. It's a real struggle to live with chronic pain and can affect a lot of areas of one's life. I go to a pain management Dr every couple months for them to monitor me and give me more refills. Hopefully you never have to find out what it's like to constantly hurt day in and day out, and all the negative effects it has on aspects of your life, but opioids can do a lot of good and improve quality of life a lot in the right situations.
They aren’t for everyone and these doctors still push it thats all.
Yes, I’ve been in chronic mega beyond pain. I just want these doctors to be open to choices. Not every doc is responsible with the dispensation of opioids.
Maybe I just have a good doctor, but they tried other stuff before going to pain meds. I tried physical therapy and steroid shots in the right places first before they decided to start giving me opioids after those two things didn't help enough. Recently doctors have cracked down a lot on prescribing opioids and have tried other options more readily. They wouldn't prescribe them to me until I had tried those things and then they had x-rayed me all over looking at my joints and seeing what they could find out that way too. So I was pretty happy about their decisions before starting to prescribe opiates long term for me.
Truth. Former oxycodone/smack addict here. Never would've been able to score so many 30$ roxies if pill mills weren't so readily found.