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I've been in chronic pain for over 10 years. I am on oxycodone. I used to be on 12 a day for 2 years. Then my doctor cut me to 9 a day because that's all insurance will cover. Now recently I've been cut down to 4 a day. My back isn't healing itself and I am in terrible terrible pain. What can I do?
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amkoffee joshua55823
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do you live in the u.s.? In the US where I live there is an opiate crisis. The problem is that the CDC wrote guidelines in 2016 that were intended to be suggestions to general practitioner doctors on how to prescribe opiates. however since those guidelines were published the DEA has taken it upon themselves to use those guidelines as law. and because of this they are arresting doctors that are prescribing more opiates then the guidelines suggest. so doctors have become gun shy and are afraid of losing their license or even having to go to jail.
even if you don't live in the u.s. I know that other countries are looking at us and following our example . I think Canada was a good example of that but they got smart quicker and realized that going after doctors and their chronic pain patients were the wrong sources of the opiate crisis. the blame, if you will, falls on the addict on the street using heroin and illegal Fentanyl from China and Mexico. not the chronic pain patients like you and I. if you live in the US and you want to help yourself then contact me and I can direct you to organizations that are working towards changing the way the government is looking at chronic pain patients and the opiates they need.
the best way to provide coverage for someone with chronic pain is to give them one long-acting opiate and a short-acting one like oxycodone for breakthrough pain. Your doctor did not do that for you. if you aren't seeing a pain management doctor now you need to see one.
and finally a few suggested medication that might help provide you some relief are pregabalin and Gabapentin., there is also a new non-narcotic pain medication that works along the same lines as the two I already mentioned. unfortunately I cannot remember the name of it but a pain management doctor would know. I stopped using opiates all together about 2 months ago. I am now trying pregabalin and a drug called Fetzima. Fetzima is not approved in the US for pain control but I have been told that it is being used for pain control in Europe and the UK.
joshua55823 amkoffee
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Hey there. Thank you for your reply. I do love in the US. I live in Louisiana. I have tried everything up to oxycodone, including Tramadol, Tylenol 3, and hydrocodone. And it does seem that my doctor is becoming gun shy. And not only that but cutting my meds significantly. Yet he s not cutting my mother for her chronic pain. Also she is prescribed gabapentin and I have tried a couple before. All they seem to do to me is make me sleep lol. Bit yeah he is a family doctor and I have been wanting to look into a pain management doctor because right now on the small amount he has me down too, it's almost as if the pain pills aren't working at all. I will contact you. Thank you.