Narcotic addiction
Argh! I am SO jealous of you all! I am currently "doctor shopping" because my PCP won't prescribe ANYTHING for pain, nor will my Rheumatologist! WTF? I fight for 12 vicoden and you guys have docs that help you reduce pain!
My PCP said she was so wary because of my age (27). So because I am young I'm not in pain?
I am so frustrated.
My PCP said she was so wary because of my age (27). So because I am young I'm not in pain?
I am so frustrated.
Sweety find you a pain specialist. That will be the one to help you. Tell them your age has NOTHING to do with how much pain your in. You have to be blunt with some of them. They get wrapped up so tight in their own little doctor world seeing hundreds of patients a day. Be blunt with her and tell her you are coming to her for help and your paying her fee to HELP you. Now if she wants to continue taking your money then she needs to try to help you. Tell her to stop being so damn judgmental and fix your problem.
Does she not believe that you have fibro? Is she the one who diagnosed you? Ask for a referral to a pain specialist that's what they do is help pain patients. If you lived down this way I would say go check mine out cause she is awesome!! She does not make me sit around in pain. She gives me just enough to get me by in one month if I go over well I am **** out of luck so I have to watch myself and not take to many or I know I will be in pain.
It took me A LONG LONG time to find this doc. I went through so many docs that would not listen, would not care, would not help nothing they just was not worth their weight in cat poop!! I had one tell me I was to sensitive and fat and needed to go home and exercise and learn to diet. I left there crying it hurt me so bad. So I just kept looking until I found this one. I still want to go back to all of of them docs and say look you said it was cause I was fat then how come I am not that big anymore and I STILL HURT!!! I would love to be able to do that.
I wish you the best of luck in finding you a good doc. You could always move to GA and I will introduce you to my doc.....LOL
Does she not believe that you have fibro? Is she the one who diagnosed you? Ask for a referral to a pain specialist that's what they do is help pain patients. If you lived down this way I would say go check mine out cause she is awesome!! She does not make me sit around in pain. She gives me just enough to get me by in one month if I go over well I am **** out of luck so I have to watch myself and not take to many or I know I will be in pain.
It took me A LONG LONG time to find this doc. I went through so many docs that would not listen, would not care, would not help nothing they just was not worth their weight in cat poop!! I had one tell me I was to sensitive and fat and needed to go home and exercise and learn to diet. I left there crying it hurt me so bad. So I just kept looking until I found this one. I still want to go back to all of of them docs and say look you said it was cause I was fat then how come I am not that big anymore and I STILL HURT!!! I would love to be able to do that.
I wish you the best of luck in finding you a good doc. You could always move to GA and I will introduce you to my doc.....LOL
Kimberly"be nice to me or I will sic my ninja monkeys on you"
Hi Donna, my name is Brenda. I also have fibromyalgia. I do not take narcotics for it, I take Lyrica 200mg AM and 200mg PM. My Doc recently added cymbalta (something new that they say is suppose to work on it ). I do very well with it. I have been taking it for about 3 years (lyrica).
In 2001 I started with very bad back and leg pain. To make a long story short the Doc I was seeing had me on 100mg oxycotin a day with 10mg percocets 3 times a day. But guess what I still had very bad pain. So with the help of my husband, who was a nurse at the time, we weened me off both. Talk about some detox, wow. I had to call my regular doc to help but I did get off of it.
Since then I had my leg fixed then had work done on my back. I have had a total of 4 back surgerys and still I'm in a great deal of pain. I have a spinal stimulator in my spine and I take 7.5mg pecocets 3x a day. That is not enough but I will never go back on oxycotin again.
I am addicted. Anyone who takes narcotics on a regular basses WILL get addicted.
I have exactly the same problems you do. We have to learn to strech them out when we take extra. You can get your Doc to write for more but eventually you will be right back where you started from. They do make you feel good and the reason you want more is because you don't want the feeling to go away or because you want to make it a great feeling. Living a life in pain is not easy it's very very hard. You will always have worse days and you know this.
On the day I get my meds I seperate them. I see my doc 1 time a month so I have 90 pills. I get 5 bottles and put 21 in 4 of them. That leaves me with 6 for emergencys. I put 3 bottles of 21 and the 6 in a lock box. When it gets close to the end of the week and the first bottle is almost gone, I try to strech whats left. Most of the time I can't but I try. If I get that feeling I want more I use the ER ones. When they are gone thats when trouble starts. It's a bad situation.
Well if you want to talk some more I will be glad to listen.
Brenda
In 2001 I started with very bad back and leg pain. To make a long story short the Doc I was seeing had me on 100mg oxycotin a day with 10mg percocets 3 times a day. But guess what I still had very bad pain. So with the help of my husband, who was a nurse at the time, we weened me off both. Talk about some detox, wow. I had to call my regular doc to help but I did get off of it.
Since then I had my leg fixed then had work done on my back. I have had a total of 4 back surgerys and still I'm in a great deal of pain. I have a spinal stimulator in my spine and I take 7.5mg pecocets 3x a day. That is not enough but I will never go back on oxycotin again.
I am addicted. Anyone who takes narcotics on a regular basses WILL get addicted.
I have exactly the same problems you do. We have to learn to strech them out when we take extra. You can get your Doc to write for more but eventually you will be right back where you started from. They do make you feel good and the reason you want more is because you don't want the feeling to go away or because you want to make it a great feeling. Living a life in pain is not easy it's very very hard. You will always have worse days and you know this.
On the day I get my meds I seperate them. I see my doc 1 time a month so I have 90 pills. I get 5 bottles and put 21 in 4 of them. That leaves me with 6 for emergencys. I put 3 bottles of 21 and the 6 in a lock box. When it gets close to the end of the week and the first bottle is almost gone, I try to strech whats left. Most of the time I can't but I try. If I get that feeling I want more I use the ER ones. When they are gone thats when trouble starts. It's a bad situation.
Well if you want to talk some more I will be glad to listen.
Brenda
Hi Brenda,
I like the idea of separating them into different bottles for the week. That would show you where and when you are over using. I think I might try that...........How did you come up with that system?
I go through allot of the pills myself. Tell the truth I do not feel "addicted" in the true sense of the word. I know that I will be in EXTREME amount of pain if I did not take them but I do not feel as if I could not live without them. I do not feel panicked when I run out cause I know my doc will always write another script.
" I have a spinal stimulator in my spine and I take 7.5mg pecocets 3x a day. That is not enough but I will never go back on oxycotin again. "
What is a spinal stimulator?? and isn't percocets narcotics? You said at the beginning of your reply that you do not take narcotics but then said you take percs. I always thought percs where narcotics?? I am not trying to be rude I am just asking is all.
I better hush I got to finish cleaning my house. My dad is coming to visit. I have been scrubbing my whole house down for the past 2 days cause nothing is ever good enough for him. I am wore out and hurting so bad and my pills are not helping at ALL!!! I would kill for a shot of morphine in the butt cheek!! LOL
I like the idea of separating them into different bottles for the week. That would show you where and when you are over using. I think I might try that...........How did you come up with that system?
I go through allot of the pills myself. Tell the truth I do not feel "addicted" in the true sense of the word. I know that I will be in EXTREME amount of pain if I did not take them but I do not feel as if I could not live without them. I do not feel panicked when I run out cause I know my doc will always write another script.
" I have a spinal stimulator in my spine and I take 7.5mg pecocets 3x a day. That is not enough but I will never go back on oxycotin again. "
What is a spinal stimulator?? and isn't percocets narcotics? You said at the beginning of your reply that you do not take narcotics but then said you take percs. I always thought percs where narcotics?? I am not trying to be rude I am just asking is all.
I better hush I got to finish cleaning my house. My dad is coming to visit. I have been scrubbing my whole house down for the past 2 days cause nothing is ever good enough for him. I am wore out and hurting so bad and my pills are not helping at ALL!!! I would kill for a shot of morphine in the butt cheek!! LOL
Kimberly"be nice to me or I will sic my ninja monkeys on you"
This letter was my first time posting and I sent it to the wrong person. I was trying to reply to the woman who needed help because she kept running out of meds. She said she would take to much. I was just trying to help her.
A spinal stimulator is like a tens unit but it was surgically put in my spine to stimulate the nerves when I have pain then its supposed to tell my brain I am not in pain, and if its set right sometimes it helps a lot.
About the narcotics, I was trying to say that I was not given percs for fibromyalgia. I was sent to a specialist ( don't know how to spell the type) and he put me on lyica then latter added cymbolta with it . I'm sorry I wrote it wrong. Then I started going to pain management for my back and he is the one who started the percs and set me up with the stimulator. Hope this helps.
Brenda
A spinal stimulator is like a tens unit but it was surgically put in my spine to stimulate the nerves when I have pain then its supposed to tell my brain I am not in pain, and if its set right sometimes it helps a lot.
About the narcotics, I was trying to say that I was not given percs for fibromyalgia. I was sent to a specialist ( don't know how to spell the type) and he put me on lyica then latter added cymbolta with it . I'm sorry I wrote it wrong. Then I started going to pain management for my back and he is the one who started the percs and set me up with the stimulator. Hope this helps.
Brenda
Anyone taking a narcotic for an extended period of time becomes addicted. Theres no way you cant. Your body cant control being used to having something in your system and then not and having withdrawls. Its just the same as antidepressants.
There is nothing to be ashamed of, its not like youre faking your illness or youre buying them on the streets and using them recreationally. That makes you a junkie.
There is a HUGE difference between being physically dependant upon a drug due to health reasons than being dependant upon a drug for recreational reasons.
However, if youre starting to feel like you want to take them to get high youre starting to get a problem. They are to relieve your pain, and sometimes you may feel high from them but NEVER take more than prescribed unless its not helping with your pain and you feel that you have a tolerance and need to increase and that should also be approved by your doctor.
If you take more of your meds youre going to have to do one of 2 things, get sick if you are physically addicted because youre going to run out early or buy some on the street which depending upon where you live could put you in debt very quickly.
Where I live pain medication is extremely valuable and if people know that you have certain kinds (oxycontin, roxycodone, etc) Anything high in dosage, you can probably count on being robbed.
I was once a junkie myself, its been years now sober. Another weird thing is my friends were always jealous because I never ever got sick from not having any like they did. I could do it as I wanted for however long and just stop when I felt like it, which is what i did for about 6 years or so until I started getting very heavy medicaion fronted to me very cheap, then thats the first time I got physically addicted and hated it. Scared the crap out of me so I detoxed myself and moved out of state for a while. I just laid in bed with horrible diarrhea drinking water and taking ammodium AD til it passed. It was my own fault so I did what I had to to get over it.
No looking bac****il after I had my bypass about 6 months later I ended up with gallstones and had to take percosets for the month before my surgery and 2 weeks after. I took them exactly as prescribed, no abuse. I used to do very hard drugs, even herion at one point way back in the day when I first started so percosets to me were basically a joke to me. I actually ended up getting physically addicted after a month and a half. I guess because my body had changed so much from how it was before. I instantly got on suboxone to withdraw myself because I was horrified I may start to go back down the path I ran so far away from and lose everything.
Ill publish this in the forum because I am not ashamed of anything. I admit to everything and it makes me who I am today and I am very thankful for who I am.
There is nothing to be ashamed of, its not like youre faking your illness or youre buying them on the streets and using them recreationally. That makes you a junkie.
There is a HUGE difference between being physically dependant upon a drug due to health reasons than being dependant upon a drug for recreational reasons.
However, if youre starting to feel like you want to take them to get high youre starting to get a problem. They are to relieve your pain, and sometimes you may feel high from them but NEVER take more than prescribed unless its not helping with your pain and you feel that you have a tolerance and need to increase and that should also be approved by your doctor.
If you take more of your meds youre going to have to do one of 2 things, get sick if you are physically addicted because youre going to run out early or buy some on the street which depending upon where you live could put you in debt very quickly.
Where I live pain medication is extremely valuable and if people know that you have certain kinds (oxycontin, roxycodone, etc) Anything high in dosage, you can probably count on being robbed.
I was once a junkie myself, its been years now sober. Another weird thing is my friends were always jealous because I never ever got sick from not having any like they did. I could do it as I wanted for however long and just stop when I felt like it, which is what i did for about 6 years or so until I started getting very heavy medicaion fronted to me very cheap, then thats the first time I got physically addicted and hated it. Scared the crap out of me so I detoxed myself and moved out of state for a while. I just laid in bed with horrible diarrhea drinking water and taking ammodium AD til it passed. It was my own fault so I did what I had to to get over it.
No looking bac****il after I had my bypass about 6 months later I ended up with gallstones and had to take percosets for the month before my surgery and 2 weeks after. I took them exactly as prescribed, no abuse. I used to do very hard drugs, even herion at one point way back in the day when I first started so percosets to me were basically a joke to me. I actually ended up getting physically addicted after a month and a half. I guess because my body had changed so much from how it was before. I instantly got on suboxone to withdraw myself because I was horrified I may start to go back down the path I ran so far away from and lose everything.
Ill publish this in the forum because I am not ashamed of anything. I admit to everything and it makes me who I am today and I am very thankful for who I am.
Also doctors now days have to be very careful with what they prescribe. They have to have everything documented clearly that certifies you have a reason for the medicine or they can get in trouble.
Pain medicines are very much abused and if one gets a prescription for the right medication and didnt really need them, something like oxycontin would make them so much money they wouldnt even have to work. Here they go for approx $1.25 a pill, so that would be $25 for a 20, $50 for a 40, etc. Also there is a very high overdose rate here. My ex overdosed on methadone Nov of 2002 and I have lost many other friends from it as well, the most recent was actually this past Sunday night.
If youre taking it to feel euphoric then youve got a problem. If youre taking more because some days are just more painful than others then you dont. Either way if you go
Pain medicines are very much abused and if one gets a prescription for the right medication and didnt really need them, something like oxycontin would make them so much money they wouldnt even have to work. Here they go for approx $1.25 a pill, so that would be $25 for a 20, $50 for a 40, etc. Also there is a very high overdose rate here. My ex overdosed on methadone Nov of 2002 and I have lost many other friends from it as well, the most recent was actually this past Sunday night.
If youre taking it to feel euphoric then youve got a problem. If youre taking more because some days are just more painful than others then you dont. Either way if you go
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