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Yes...Still working 3 days a week on average, Currently in a hospital setting...

The path to addiction is one that takes many different routes...One size doesn't fit all. Have seen patients on enough opiates to kill the proverbial horse and once they were no longer needed had little issues. Others needed intervention.

I agree with this. But my point is that the pharmacist’s job is to counsel about potential side-effects. As I said, too many people simply take them because the doctor told them to.

When I started on Flomax the pharmacist told me about possible complications if I took Viagra. It’s all part of the same spectrum of counselling.

If you have legitimate chronic pain, documentable source(s), there is no moral need to suffer. Ask your primary care physician for a pain clinic referral. Family practice just isn’t set up for the documentation requirements for long term pain management involving opioids. One of the biggest problems now is the dog & pony show state politicians deploy as part of their shell game. Here in NC the state guberment now has limited the amount of opioids a legitimate pain clinic patient can be prescribed by the physician in charge. Right. Politicos have now declared themselves doctors. So degenerative disc disease? Oop. Can’t have you in danger of addiction. You’ll just have to get by on what we say is enough. Cancer? Surgeries, radiation etc required for treatment. Well sure you hurt, but you can manage. We sure don’t want you addicted. And we know better than some doctor. All in the name of keeping us safe. Sound familiar? Bastids in the federal and state govts are the biggest bribe takers going. Cartel money filling the pockets of the Kaliforikator politicians. Heroin, Fentanyl & meth pouring across the border THEY won’t shut down. Wonder why? Chinese freighters bringing in tons of raw material to Mexico’s west coast. Who gets the biggest cut? But politicians talk a good lie on watching out for our health when it comes to prescribed medications from a licensed and over regulated physician. Nothing I hate more than the thought of politicians playing doctor and watching out for me. But they do. Then they demonize the legitimate patient and legitimate doctor.............and leave the back door open for their friends.

Some other comments; 10/325 vs straight oxy? Tylenol can eat your liver if you try to use it for pain it can’t reach. Plenty of over medications on Tylenol. But appropriate amounts can act as a booster to enhance the oxy and reduce the overall requirement. Again, a doctor’s call. Going apneic? Deadly apneic? It’ll take a lot of prescribed medication. Read the directions. Do what the doc says. Tramadol? If tramadol makes it stop, you sure as hell don’t need oxy. Over prescribing? Some do, no doubt. But I’ll bet good money there’s more over prescribing of Xanax and Valium to politicians than oxy to people in legitimate chronic pain. Of course politicians know best. Rant over. If you need it get a good pain management doc that can help you. Don’t make it tough on the family doc who can get a lot of pressure because he was trying to help you by doing somebody else’s specialty.

Speaking from memory here so will make only a few generalizations. When ever the gov’t gets involved, it’s surgery with an axe. I remember a study coming out some time ago about prescribed opioid deaths in the US and their stats. It was later reported that somehow that study and it’s stats included street overdose deaths due to illegal fentanyl. Well...

Anyway for physicians over-prescribing opioids, the remedy could have been much more precise with pharmacy and state medical societies collaboratively sounding the alarm and disciplining individual phys’s.

But no, So now every physician is reticent to prescribe opioids even in circumstances where they are appropriate including surgeons. Even so-called pain clinics will reach for counseling or psych referrals first. It has been established that about 10% of chronic pain patients, almost all older, and who are often on anticoagulants and for which NSAIDs are therefore contraindicated, opioids of some kind, to some degree are the only answer.

This populations is now neglected often left to go there own way. There are also acute injuries, like burns — very painful — that are left grossly untreated as to pain. I’ve seen it.

And as mentioned above, illegal opioids meanwhile stream across the border.

Never did much for me that 800mg of Ibuprofen couldn't do as well or better.

Getting a new knee Wednesday, so I think Ill be taking oxy on Thursday. I heard you only get a limited amount, like 10 pills.
I had cancer and it toasted my kidneys, so I can't take ibuprofen, etc, so I'll just suffer a bit when I run out. Never had a new knee so I don't know what to expect as far as pain.

Been dealing with some stuff for a couple of months and so far I’ve been prescribed Tramidol then Hydracodone and now Gabapentin. None seem to really work for me. I take extended release Tylenol that seems to work the best but am going to stop soon because of the long term side effects. I hate to take pills in general so stopping is easy except for what to use for the pain now. Took Naprosyn for 2 years while I had 4 knee surgeries and it worked well. Dave

And the ever vaunted Tylenol used by itself against any pain, acute or chronic, moderate to severe is much akin to trying to mortar a 170-gr from your 30/30 into that 600 yard bull.