I always thought they wanted to see the stuff they are giving you in your urine for one then they know your not just selling them and two that they are not using fake pee to pass the piss test. It's to easy to use synthetic urine, but your probally right because my brother inlaw sucks on those suckers and uses the patches and smokes weed. And he's never had a serious injury except maybe a broken wrist! And honestly I feel sorry for the guy he looks like a ghost everytime I see him.
The shitty thing is if the doc does cut him off he will just go to the methadone clinic.
Makes me sick
On your second quote I totally agree, but that is temporary pain as squiggles stated and that's what they should be used for.
After I had my knee surgery (acl replaced and MCL's repaired" from a snowboarding mistake I was on the crazy pills and after a couple of weeks I still wanted more but the doctor said no here's one last small script you don't need them anymore. LoL and that was the end of it!
I don't understand how a doctor can keep writing scripts year after year because you say your back hurts with no real proof how it happened or surgeries planned to fix the problem.[/QUOTE
I have had (3) cervical surgeries, and (2) were fusions. The first one broke and nobody through my bright purple throat was a red flag so I stayed like that for 18 months! I kept complaining and was sent to another neurosurgeon who said I need the levels above the first fusion fused. When he was preforming this surgery, he saw, that all the screws were wiggly and the titanium plate had popped off. He had to remove all of that, and then fuse (4) levels which is very rare.
All that hardware has caused neural foraminal narrowing and spurring from C-2-C-6 & now I have a subluxation from C-7-T-1. My low back surgery was a failed surgery and it left me with nerve damage.
My pain is not in my head. Narrowing means that the nerves to the spinal cord are being squished. That has left me with abnormal bicep and tricep reflexes which is why I drop everything.
My EMG study is positive for radiculopothy.
I found an osteopath who was very helpful but he takes no insurance.
At this time, I have weaned down more and more from oxycodone. I am taking half the dose I use to and only twice a day. It use to be 3 x's a day and it was 40MGs plus, Kadian, oxycontin, Lyrica Gabapentin, Norflex, & Flexoril.
I threw all of them, into the garbage, (cold turkey) except for the oxycodone & the flexoril, (PM) so I can sleep. That is a huge amount of reduction, and I did it on my own.
I am now substituting the 2nd dose of oxycodone with a higher THC vape cartridge pen, that really allows me to sleep through the night. I use the hybrid, cannabadiol vape oil cartridge in the daytime for spasms and pain.
I am rather proud that I am down to (1) 20MG pill of oxycodone per day, thanks to the fact that CT. has passed medical marijuana. Without this program, I would still be throwing back those narcotics.
Its kind of rude of you to judge people unless you have been in their situation.
I was not prescribed all of that, because "my back hurt". I have a rare amount of hardware in my neck, and it us fused so high up, I choke drinking water, 5 years after my last fusion.
A drunk driver maimed my neck forevermore, and she walked on the charges. (That is a whole other ordeal) The trooper was sent off duty without pay for 6 weeks, for lying on (4) reports of this burning crash.
Four level cervical fusions are VERY rare and they come with all kinds of risks, as I described already, that my first 2 level fusion fell apart, and the MRI's & CT scans they rely so heavily on, did not show broken hardware.
It could have perforated my esophagus.
Right now, I have a terrible pinching on the left side of my neck, right on the scar of the last fusion. It is now BRIGHT red, and once again, they are all ignoring me.
My goal is to get to 10MGs of oxycodone twice a day, and then hopefully, just PRN, for when I have a flare-up.
My primary care doctor is prescribing for me still, because he is aware that those pain clinics, are the people that load us up, so everyone else can insult us for what they prescribe.
Those urine screenings are big money for doctors and everyone wants in on that! Every (3) months at a cost of $600.00 to $1,200.00 is insane.
I read tons of articles on how they are testing seniors for angel dust, heroine, crack...just because the more testing, the more money they make.
People who legally posses a medical mj card, should be able to have the THC screening waived. Factually, marijuana and narcotic work great together, and that is coming from a pain doctor who sits on the CT. Medical marijuana board. Dr. Jonathan Kost.
