Why do so many of you equate a good dr with getting narcotic pain meds?? - Pain Management Message Board

maildawn · 01-10-2003, 07:29 AM

I'm sorry and I don't mean to hurt anyone's feelings or upset anyone. But, WHY do some of you equate a "GOOD doctor" and/or pain relief with getting narcotics/pain meds ONLY? Why are you unwilling to try the other things the doctor suggests? Can you not see that THAT is what makes you look like you are a drug seeker? Not being "ugly", just stating what it looks like to an outsider - and your doctor IS an outsider too...

Take care and I do hope you find some form of relief soon.

NugIsHere · 01-11-2003, 07:10 PM

I think we say its a good doctor if we get pain meds, because most drs are cold hearted and uncaring, and why should they care? theyre not the ones going through it..

-Nug

01-12-2003, 01:24 PM

I've tried biofeedback. I've tried nerve blocks. I've been on different anti inflamitories( ok so I can't spell). I wear braces on my hands. I've tried to imagine the pain away. I've tried to ignore it. I'm on 4 different antidepressants. I use a tens unit. I've tried ultrasound. I've tried massage. I've tried different vitamin and minerals. I yelled at my hands. I've cried because of my hands. Anything I missed I probably have done it over the past two years with this. Pain clinic has pretty much decided that all they've got left for me are pills.

kim32 · 01-12-2003, 08:49 PM

I have tried many things also with no relief: reglan, carafate, nexium, prevacid, anti-anxiety/depressants, etc.. and nothing has helped me with the pain, I have even tried not to think about it by trying to keep myself busy. The gastro doctor is having me go to a physical medicine and rehabiliation place, but the earliest that i can get in is Feb. 17th! :-( but the lady on the phone was really nice and said that she knows that i can't wait to get help until then because of my pain so she said that she will put my name on the top of the list and if there's a cancellation then she will give me a call, plus she even gave me her name and a number to call her if i just want to talk. she told me that they try to do tests to figure out what's the cause of my pain (well my gastro doc and primary doc has done all of the tests there is already but maybe this place will do something that these other 2 doc's haven't done) then she said that they give out pain med's and even do surgery, so that gives me hope that there just not there to "talk". Irish Cream: how do they do the nerve blocks? I am thinking about doing that instead of taking pills. Kim

01-12-2003, 10:07 PM

Kim they use medication and go in through your back. You are lightly sedated for this. They try to interupt the pain messages as they come back to your spinal column. You lay on your stomach and they put a needle in your back. Look on the web for sympathetic nerve blocks. Last one I had lasted 10 hours but damn what a great 10 hours at least for one hand.