@doctorsood: Do you agree? Opioid medications have a risk of addiction and tolerance, but there is still a place to use them. Patient selection is key. A good example is an elderly patient with chronic pain who has tried and failed physical therpay, injections, non-opioid meds, and is not a candidate for surgery. A low dose opioid will help them function and improve their quality of life. In this case the benefits outweight the risk 🫡. #chronicpain #chronicpainrelief #opioids
RA patient here. I hate that we are treated like addicts because we sometimes need something to lessen the hell.
2024-06-26 14:24:45
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jay :
Nurse here! When they are needed, they should be used.
2024-06-26 16:59:02
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Rayanna Duarte :
There is absolutely a place for narcotics to be used responsibly and it’s a shame that people are having trouble getting them filled even after major surgeries
2024-06-26 16:03:44
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Kendra Trifonoff :
Try being 43 with severe spinal stenosis I don't even bother going to the doctor I would rather suffer and have no quality of life thwn have them smirk and not believe me
2024-06-26 14:12:18
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user2597741970436 :
They taught us in nursing school -“pain is whatever the patient says it is”
2024-06-26 14:16:47
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Norman Monteau :
My wife after spinal surgery is on 4 per day 7.50mg hydrycodone. It really helps her pain. I worry everyday about her being cut off.
2024-06-26 14:20:00
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Anne5757 :
Thank you, pain should be taken seriously & treated
2024-06-26 15:30:20
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user5849749518490 :
Because our health care system no longer accommodates pain
2024-06-26 14:28:24
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HollyW :
Talk to doc before ANY major surgery about pain management. If they don’t have a protocol you’re comfortable with, find a new doc. Just had knee replacement and pain meds were critical to my recovery.
2024-06-26 19:18:59
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LinZLou02 :
I just had a colposcopy and it hurt so much I threw up! 2 hours later It still feels like I’m being stabbed. This is ridiculous. Something has to change for women’s health care!
2024-06-26 15:04:34
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DaniDimps1970 :
Can you talk about why drs no longer write RX for them, and instead force gabapentin? I have a chronic bone disease-and the bottom has a bone sticking out. No pain meds-yet required to function
2024-06-26 14:25:08
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🇨🇦 dreamy_delphine 🇨🇦 :
I couldn’t have survived major abdominal surgery without it.
2024-06-26 15:06:52
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Yes, I'm her.❤🧡💛💚💙💜 :
Spent 4hrs in the ER with daughter 10/10 pain doc gave tried to giver her Tylenol and ibuprofen. refused to listen to her and then gVe her a muscle relaxer she had taken 2 hrs before with no help.
2024-06-26 16:07:22
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Wide eyed. 🆘🇺🇸 :
I believe it took courage for you to say this. MDs are being thrown into jail for treating pain.
2024-06-26 14:22:04
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KayKay :
Drs won’t hardly give them now so people buy them on the streets. I have RA and terrified of it getting worse where I may need them. My niece broke her arm terribly & her ortho wouldn’t give her one.
2024-06-26 21:24:58
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Felicity Snee :
Sometimes doctors aren’t allowed to prescribe it then you have to go through the humiliation of going to a “pain doctor” only to be gaslit.
2024-06-26 15:58:32
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Exploitqueen :
Thanks! My sister was denied proper pain meds while dying at Cooper hospital in nj for a week two years ago. Was on 30mg at home-went to the hospital because the tumor grew back and was cutting if her
2024-06-26 16:33:39
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Katie :
Chronic pain patient here (AS) and that’s the only thing that helps. Thank you ❤️
2024-06-26 14:20:22
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AngieP :
I have RA and fibro...take lots of supplements, Cymbalta and humaria injection still in lots of pain and can't get any pain relief
2024-06-26 20:55:17
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jessrn :
RN here and they are needed for post-op pain, when patient is in pain, and in the chronic pain patients!! The US healthcare system is so messed up!!!
2024-06-26 21:14:49
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Ophanim7bluewhale7🐋 :
It totally depends on each patient!!!
2024-06-26 22:49:57
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Kimberly’IAm91 :
I ra, sjorgens and osteoporosis which has caused 6 compression fractures since sept. I’m awaiting a significant back surgery if I can come off my ra med. I don’t see it happening. Therefore, this med
2024-06-26 21:55:20
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MollyMo :
Yesssss retired hospice nurse and now Pain patient. What has happened to our field? Not the same
2024-06-26 23:11:05
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Nicole Wrinkle :
Sadly, I was labeled and turned to functional medicine and medicinal plants....
2024-06-26 14:23:32
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