What is Prescription Drug Abuse
A prescription drug (or POM Prescription Only Medicine, in UK) is a licensed medicine that is regulated by legislation to require a prescription before it can be obtained. The term...
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I don't know what is happening to me or even if anything IS happening to me at this point. All I can say is that I'm feeling so crabby and negtive that I can't stand myself these days. I have a feeling it has something to do with my Norco intake, I am also feeling as if they don't work anymore so I keep taking more. This makes me feel so guilty and that makes me even crabbier! I'm prescribed 4 7.5 tablets daily and now I'm needing at least 5 or 6, which makes me run out early, also. I mentioned developing a tolerance to my dr a few visits ago and his reply was "that happens", but he prescribed the same quantity and I am afraid to bring it up again and make myself look bad.
Do others experience this moodiness with the development of a tolerance? What should I do? The patient is not to blame for this to happen, why does it become a behavior issue and not a physical one? HELP! Posted on 08/18/09, 05:08 pm |
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Hi Rubella-
I know all about the moodiness and personality changes that happen with addiction. I think a lot of people on this forum have had similar experiences. Regarding your doctor... do you think you could find another doctor who has had experience dealing with pain management and addiction? Perhaps a pain management specialist? The tolerance starts the roller coaster ride that is our addiction. Addiction should NOT be considered a behavioral issue! Physical pain is not a behavior-- it's a symptom!!!! Take care! 
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I agree with veg. If this is a chronic pain issue, call your doctor and ask him to refer you to a pain management clinic.
Good Luck!.
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I have to play devil's advocate.
I was taking Morphine and Oxycodone for my Rheumatoid Arthritis. My pain is chronic and severe. However, they caused a heart attack on 4-1-09. Nothing is worth my life...and I died twice. I can never take another narcotic or I will die for good. I switched to a pain gel called Voltaren. I apply it directly to where it hurts. I'm clean and sober and couldn't be happier. There is an answer other than pills. I pray you get off them and find the help that is available. Melanye
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Voltarem is a new medication recently approved by the FDA! It doesn't have all of the side affects that other nsaids have and is seen as a breakthrouigh in the treatment of chronic pain.
Melaney, you must be allergic to opiates? Your story is a perfect example of other meds safely doing what opiates did for years but without fear of addiction. God Bless and TC
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I had a heart attack due to being toxic. I'll never touch another one.
Melanye
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Thank you, guys.....the mood swing just won't quit and I honestly don't feel at all in control of myself right now. I'm avoiding the pm route, which I tried, because they are so controlling: they want me to get the spinal injections. I've heard over and over that they are a dead end street in that they only last a short period of time, if they work at all. Wouldn't a person be a fool to go along with this type of advice just to placate the doctor? Also, the lady made me call every 10 days for a refill and ALSO see her once a month. I don't care about the once a month visit, I understand it is something of a game they play, but to have to ask like a small child every 10 days is against my independent nature. I have also tried the Flector patch for other pain issues from ruptured ankle tendons, and they made me quite ill the next morning....I had the dry heaves and ANOTHER headachem just of a different variety.
Is there any way to circumvent this enevitable tolerance issue? In this day and age I would think that a pharmacologist could design something that our bodies wouldn't start to reject( as with anti depressants)! Would the same thing happen with a pain patch? I already have an oral anti inflammatory which helps, but very little. I take it in conjunction with a muscle relaxant when the cervical pain is just unbearable. I must say, though, that Biofreeze ointment is most helpful....but again, it is almost nil compared to an oral pain medicine. I'm stuck dab in the middle of feelings of intense depression again today and I just need to know what it is that has or is happening to me right now.....it feels to me that this is more than a mood swing as it has inflicted me for 4 or 5 days now all the time....I'm afraid to complain too much, also, so that my primary will treat me and not pass me off to one of these pm zealots that treat patients shabbily....I hear that good pm's are very difficult to find!
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The opiates may have something to do with your mood swings. I know they did that to me.
The way that I see it from what you have written is you have two choices. You can continue to be controlled by the narcotic pain meds you are taking, or you can go to a pain management specialist who has a far greater knowledge in dealing with pain then a primary care physician does! To say that all pms are zealots is just your minds way of keeping you away from pms and keeping you on narcotics! In other words, it's your addiction talking and you are listening to it! Addicts are very good at rationalizing! I don't mean to sound harsh, you seem like a very nice person but I have seen this so many times and the sad thing is, the addiction almost always wins! If I wasn't satisfied with the first pm, I would go see another one. Most insurance companies will pay for a second opinion anyway. God Bless and TC
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