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most doctors are extremely careful of how much pain meds they allow if at all. my doctor moved all of his pain patients for pain to a pain clinic. for me this was a nightmare and he finally agreed to prescribe the opioid pain meds. i am only getting around 25% of what i used to get and of course have to augment with other things. there are alternatives to help with the pain meds
mike....
most doctors are extremely careful of how much pain meds they allow if at all. my doctor moved all of his pain patients for pain to a pain clinic. for me this was a nightmare and he finally agreed to prescribe the opioid pain meds. i am only getting around 25% of what i used to get and of course have to augment with other things. there are alternatives to help with the pain meds
mike....

she did say pain clinic, but it's not really. Injections, I'm thinking like how my sister started for her pain many years ago, she'd have needles in her knee. Cortisone, i dont know what it's called anymore for sure. I told her how much over the counter meds I'm using.
She just said ''well you cant have that.'' well yes I can, if you aren't going to up my dose for how I feel what do you want me to do.? She sounded exasperated, and said I'll send you to (a place a good 2 hours drive away) for injections. I said I'll try it. And after she finds my mri she'll give me naproxen and something to coat my stomach.
Unfortunately I know the med she's talking about, it's aleve, it's also over the counter here and something I've already used. I said I've had indomythicin before, she won't do that.
She isn't my primary doctor. She said ''well what are you doing here then?'' I said it's pain and sore throat, what do you expect from me to do? I give up about it. I take the over the counter stuff with it. They really don't care.
They'd rather have safe sites for heroin oror whatever those drugs are in Canada, or tell you sign up for euthansia, like legally commit suicide, it's sad.... there's been ads up even though I don't watch tv I've seen it on youtube. The world has gone nuts. Instead of help, they'd rather you give up. Sorry it's a depressing post. One thing I felt good about was my vacation, and I had my sister ''stop'' by at a coffee shop tonight. As soon as I'm telling her the fun stuff... i realize I don't need to be heard, she get's up and ''well we have to get going''... yup, someone who never understood me and I don't expect it to change. I've been thinking about writing a book, but everyone has been through a lot in life, my story is no different really. I'm feeling down when I want to be happier. I'm sorry I'm not contributing to helping anyone here... I just don't have it in me.

