Pain and narcotics.... hydrocodone/oxycontin ect..

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Ok, I think that there may come a time with most of us that we have to take

narcotics for pain. I have been on hydrocodone now for about a year and half.

No, it does not do what it use to for the pain. BUT.... when I skip a dose for

too long, my body really tells me with fibro pain. The pain is unbelievably

worse. So, on that take, I guess it is helping me still.

I have the same fear expressed here by some. yeah, what happens when I am on

narcotic meds and have to keep stepping up the ladder to oxy or methadone?

Well, I fear that it will eventually quit working too. Then What? Or if I go

somewhere and don't have the hydrocodone or my doc discontinues it, then what

kind of withdrawals will I go through?

It is like being between a rock and a hard place.

BUT.... I do not think anyone should have to live with this crap without

proper pain control even if it means strong narcotics. I would not function

without it. Not because I am an addict, but because the fibro will rear his

ugly head 10 fold.

Do what you have to though. Do not suffer when there are medications that

were made for people IN PAIN. I know of all the bad rap about this. The street

pushers and people who use this medicine for a " high " . If it were not for

dumba$$es like that, we might not be looked at with such stigma. But we take it

for REAL PAIN. So, let it be so.

love and hugs,

Debra V.

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