Drink Water For Back Pain Medication
February 8, 2012
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Posted by David
Laura asks…
How can i get my pain medication back?
I had low back surgery 3 yrs ago, well it turns out i am in the same pain i was just before surgery if not a little worse,so my doctor had sent me to pain management, he prescribed me norco 10/325mg, Avinza 60mg(morphine) and flexril 10mg. I have been takin these medications for 3 yrs. When i went in for my appt my pain doctor had got a new PA, she had given me my script two days ahead of time,when i went back the next month which my appt again was 2 days ahead of time, she said she i wont beable to fill for 4 days, Now this is where the trouble begins, Just bad timing someone stole my medication norco(i know who but will not say)so a family member was nice enough to give me some of hers to get me through till my next appt which were percocet, so i wanted them early so she dropped a UA on me, which had precocet in it,evry1 told me to lie so i did now i have been discharged as a patient and told to go to detox WHAT ABOUT MY BACK PAIN?am i suppose to detox and live with pain? what to do?
David answers:
Being a chronic pain patient is a big responsibility. If you give your doctor reason to distrust you, you will be dismissed because they are watched so carefully by the DEA. The PA could not write your Avinza script– they can’t write narcotics stronger than Schedule III– so your doctor was involved and likely made the call about giving you your medds. If your meds were really stolen, you should have filed a police report as that is the only way a doc will replace narcotics. If you lied, you deserve to be dismissed. I’m a huge advocate of pain management with narcotics; I am a chronic pain patient myself, but you have to be honest and responsible about it. You never should have taken the family member’s medication, you shouldn’t have tried to get your meds early (or without a police report if they were stolen), and you ABSOLUTELY never should have lied. This is something you did to yourself, not something your doctor did to you, and I’m sorry, but now you have to figure it out. I believe we all the right to adequate pain relief with narcotics if truly neccessary, but I also believe that a place in a pain clinic is a responsibility and something that should never be taken for granted.
Charles asks…
Why is my boyfriend in drug detox for his back pain medication?
My boyfriend is on oxycontin and percocet for his back pain. I understand why he would want to detox, but don’t people detox that are abusing drugs? Does it mean he’s abusing these drugs, because he’s in a detoxification center?
Thanks for any reply!
I just know that he really wanted to get back on oxycontin, because it took the pain away really well. He had to go to 2 or 3 doctors before he found one that would actually prescribe him it.
David answers:
I would let him, and encourage him to get off it, I haea VERY close family member, who started out just as your boyfriend did (taking it for pain) 15 years later he is addicted and he’s been to multiple places and nothing has helped and it is a UGLY drug it causes a person to become something their not, so I’d encourage it PLEASE cause I have seen what can happen
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