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Boozeled t1_j29ebmg wrote

And still the only people screwed over are those who need short or long term pain management. It's a disaster and why I hope to avoid serious injury. You will not get adequate assistance in this environment.

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Dpontiff6671 t1_j29k3ym wrote

Got in an awful awful car crash a few month ago it left me bedridden and unable to walk for 6 weeks got literally 2 days of pain killers lol. Mind you I was trying to avoid them since I’m a recovering addict that been clean for 6 years so I’m definitely glad I didn’t get more but still if I hadn’t been I would of been pretty fucking pissed lol

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Rawrist t1_j29pj0j wrote

I had a 4 inch tumor with spreading necrotizing flesh that even shocked the surgeon. They gave me Tylenol. Surprise! I ended up in the ER when the pain was so bad I couldn't manage it. ER doctor even tried to accuse me of trying to score drugs until she went through my history and confirmed the now 7 INCH SPACE that my body was trying to adjust for through a scan. Thanks Big Pharma!

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Dpontiff6671 t1_j29pom0 wrote

Jesus Christ that’s awful. At least at the hospital they didn’t hesitate to give me pain killers when I asked, they just sent me home with barely any

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FiendishHawk t1_j2aa45s wrote

I had minor surgery 7 years ago and they sent me home with a ridiculous amount of opioids that I did not want to take (about enough to be high as a kite for a week) When I complained that the wound was not healing right they ignored me, saying it was only hurting because I wouldn’t take the opioids. This led to 5 more surgeries to correct the first one.

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Dpontiff6671 t1_j2aap8y wrote

Yikes dude that sucks, I had a surgery for a really bad leg break when I was a teen and was on opiate for around 6 weeks started a really bad point in my life that led to a 10 year opiate addiction been clean 6 years though minus two days on pain killers after the accident So I’m glad things didn’t go down that path for you.

But from what went on then it’s totally understandable why I was glad I didn’t get that many painkiller when i got in that car accident a few months ago

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FiendishHawk t1_j2abfsk wrote

I can see why you’d get opioids for a bad leg break but my surgery would have been no more than uncomfortable had it gone well. Giving me as many painkillers as someone in a car accident was just crazy.

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Good-Duck t1_j29q6ak wrote

Absolutely. I’ve suffered from chronic pain for over 10 years and this opioid crisis has caused those with actual pain a lot of suffering, not to mention suicide.

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mikeydavis77 t1_j2b2w0u wrote

Tell me about it. I’m a disabled veteran and have had many many knee surgeries and a partial knee replacement on right knee, partial upgraded to full upgraded to rotating hinged joint replacement and all I got for pain meds after surgery was 20 hydros.

Before the whole opioid pressure epidemic the VA sent me 90 hydro 10s a month. They are uppers to me and if I took them as issued I wouldn’t sleep. I voluntarily had them cut it down to 60 a month. Then trump did his thing and I get called an addict by the VA. My refute was if I was an addict 60 wouldn’t last me a week unlike the month they were lasting me. But alas they took them away and I had to find alternative pain relief. Marijuana was it and when I popped positive on one of their annual physical drug test they tried to scold me like I was a freaking kid. I went off on them saying maybe if you morons actually treated patients we wouldn’t have to seek other alternatives.

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westviadixie t1_j2behex wrote

I have personal experience with both sides. I worked as an rn. I have an inoperable, degenerative condition causing pain that took forever to diagnose as it's rare. I'm married to a prescriber at a pain management clinic.

I've seen and heard all kinds of stuff. I think we are essentially now in an unstated opioid prohibition.

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Boozeled t1_j2biaxz wrote

I can understand the need to avoid over prescribing but now people are left with trauma from not having adequate relief at all. It's all about money, always has been; first it was $$ for over prescribing and now it's $$ for not doing anything at all. Soon it will swing back to $$ for prescribing- once there is a new wonder drug for pain relief.

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thrashette t1_j2exexx wrote

I feel like they hear the word "pain" and don't even want to talk to you anymore, or at least that's been my experience. I wish I could tell them that I was literally handed opioid prescriptions in the past for surgeries and whatever and never got them filled. I don't want to take anything. My tolerance is a little insane, maybe. I just want to know what the problem might be.

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ohwrite t1_j2amr0a wrote

Well the dead people are screwed over, too

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TopDeckHero420 t1_j29y77l wrote

Just go to the dentist. They write oxycodone scripts like thank you notes.

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