1997 360 two level spinal fusion. Unstablized my left sacrial illact joint in bone graphs. Four years later found out they put a pedicul screw in spinal cord. 2003 removed all hardware. Took 22 years to work up to pain meds I was on. Since they have cut me back so bad in more pain then ever. I have no life can hardly stand my body weight because pain level goes up. God help us with real pain issues.
One who replied to a commentcsaid that injections are extremely gratifying. To that I say Horse Hockey. A doctor pretty much forced an injection on me and it did not even last until I got home. The next morning my shoulder was in screaming pain. I took the injectiinbonly with the understanding I would be receiving proper medication for all the other joint pains and other pain. He then prescribed too small amount and under strength tramadol or toradol so I left with no prescription! This left me without a doctor again... But at least this time I was free from further mistreatment.
I don’t want a high!, I want to live in a body that doesn’t seem to work with my brain. Yes I want to go for long hikes, yes I want to work out in my flower beds, heck I would love to walk up and down stair steps. I can do all that one I get my body moving. I can go buy off the street drugs. Do I?, no. I just want to be able to be a happy camper without being in pain of stiffness and my hands and knees working. Dr gives you everything and constantly increase dosages, then they say oh we r under very struck guidelines and we have to cut your medications in half or more than half. Ok. Well I will do what you tell me. But I am suffering just to function not vegetate
Excellent presentation. I have to give a similar presentation to a group of community PCPs and you touched on some very relevant considerations I was mulling over. I agree, reimbursement and time allotted for opioid-related clinic visits should be increased if the government is serious about stemming the epidemic. I could do 8 injections/procedures (which are extremely gratifying) or listen to one inappropriate patient complain about opioids for 1 hr.
Numerous incurable and intractable chronic pain syndromes can't be fixed by blocks or injections...E-D, IC, fibromyalgia, rare debilitating eye pain, endometriosis, trigeminal neuralgia, etc. It's not illegal. You are treating these "guidelines" as law. Law abiding chronic pain sufferers who have long used opioids are killing themselves or turning to illegal street drugs. CPP have only 0.07% of addiction.
What makes them inappropriate? Your saying they complain...but you are missing the point,misusing the guidelines, and throwing the baby out with the bathwater
I am in multi organ failure along with alot more serious conditions and they just put me on Palliative care and i am in soooo much Pain and i see a pain Doctor which is giving me 75 MME and said he will have to cut me back to 50 MME next month unless i get Hospice? I thought Palliative care i was exempt ?? Can someone please help and give me some info on this PLEASE
As long as the treating physician has submitted the required paperwork on you, then it is totally in their discretion as to how to manage your meds. They are in control of you, not the CDC. In fact, the CDC can only send out recommendations for non-pallative opioid dosing. And even then these are just guidelines. I would have a talk with whomever oversees your treating physician and describe to them the lack of pain control your getting from your current dose.
1997 360 two level spinal fusion. Unstablized my left sacrial illact joint in bone graphs. Four years later found out they put a pedicul screw in spinal cord. 2003 removed all hardware. Took 22 years to work up to pain meds I was on. Since they have cut me back so bad in more pain then ever. I have no life can hardly stand my body weight because pain level goes up. God help us with real pain issues.
I'm so sorry! I understand.
One who replied to a commentcsaid that injections are extremely gratifying. To that I say Horse Hockey. A doctor pretty much forced an injection on me and it did not even last until I got home. The next morning my shoulder was in screaming pain.
I took the injectiinbonly with the understanding I would be receiving proper medication for all the other joint pains and other pain. He then prescribed too small amount and under strength tramadol or toradol so I left with no prescription! This left me without a doctor again... But at least this time I was free from further mistreatment.
I don’t want a high!, I want to live in a body that doesn’t seem to work with my brain. Yes I want to go for long hikes, yes I want to work out in my flower beds, heck I would love to walk up and down stair steps. I can do all that one I get my body moving. I can go buy off the street drugs. Do I?, no. I just want to be able to be a happy camper without being in pain of stiffness and my hands and knees working. Dr gives you everything and constantly increase dosages, then they say oh we r under very struck guidelines and we have to cut your medications in half or more than half. Ok. Well I will do what you tell me. But I am suffering just to function not vegetate
AND CDC NUMBERS ARE BULL POOP
cdc , dea, ama are bull poop !
The video was blurry/out of focus
The video view of the presentation is terrible.
Excellent presentation. I have to give a similar presentation to a group of community PCPs and you touched on some very relevant considerations I was mulling over. I agree, reimbursement and time allotted for opioid-related clinic visits should be increased if the government is serious about stemming the epidemic. I could do 8 injections/procedures (which are extremely gratifying) or listen to one inappropriate patient complain about opioids for 1 hr.
Numerous incurable and intractable chronic pain syndromes can't be fixed by blocks or injections...E-D, IC, fibromyalgia, rare debilitating eye pain, endometriosis, trigeminal neuralgia, etc. It's not illegal. You are treating these "guidelines" as law. Law abiding chronic pain sufferers who have long used opioids are killing themselves or turning to illegal street drugs. CPP have only 0.07% of addiction.
What makes them inappropriate? Your saying they complain...but you are missing the point,misusing the guidelines, and throwing the baby out with the bathwater
I am in multi organ failure along with alot more serious conditions and they just put me on Palliative care and i am in soooo much Pain and i see a pain Doctor which is giving me 75 MME and said he will have to cut me back to 50 MME next month unless i get Hospice? I thought Palliative care i was exempt ?? Can someone please help and give me some info on this PLEASE
As long as the treating physician has submitted the required paperwork on you, then it is totally in their discretion as to how to manage your meds. They are in control of you, not the CDC. In fact, the CDC can only send out recommendations for non-pallative opioid dosing. And even then these are just guidelines. I would have a talk with whomever oversees your treating physician and describe to them the lack of pain control your getting from your current dose.
You guys need to stay out of the Dr patient relationship! Period! Unless they are a pill mill!