Originally Posted by Randa
Originally Posted by Linda71
I don't understand why people are so afraid of narcotics. My son takes narcotics every day of his life. He went to the Mayo Clinic(we are from Canada)and with the help of the doctors at the Clinic and pain management doctors here, we have our son back. Basically, his brain receives pain messages for pain when there is no inflammation. Doesn't matter, his brain receives the pain message and he feels diailating pain. He can now function, hold a job again, and go back to school. Not every day is a good day for him, but with medication and careful management of what he does physically he is so much better. Just watch out for doctors that are just/only pill pushers.
I'm not afraid of narcotic pain killers...I don't like the way they make me feel! I like control way too much to use something that makes me groggy, mushy, etc. I'll take non narcotics pain meds anytime, but someone else can have the narcs!
I have a niece who is a well educated woman and is addicted to narcotic pain killers. She had a couple of surgeries within a year and she became an addict. Her life is a mess, she's been found unconscious, barely breathing several times...been taken by ambulance to hospitals, transferred and released all within a couple or three days. Occasionally has even been placed in drug wards to detox, to no avail. She's back on them within hours of being released. How does she get them??? She's divorced, has a son who wants little to do with her.
Feel sad for her life...how it could have been. What a waste. I pray your son doesn't fall victim to this lifestyle.
I have been taking narcotic's since 87 and I am not an addict and at times some heavy duty stuff. I have #1 fibromyalgia and #2 sjogrens sydrom one affects the nerves and the other the bones (#2 is mainly in the joints) if you have a good doctor and be very carful on how much you take. I take just enough to take the edge off the pain so I can do something.