The only time I ever needed pain med's other than ibuprophen for fatigue was after falling 12' and trying to catch my 212lb body with my arm.
Needless to say, Isuffered the 'Terrible Triad", two broken ulnar shafts, and three fragments of the distal radius. I was a problem for them, due to all the injuries in the same arm at the same time. The course of time in the hospital was 11 days due to damaged tissue removal and drainage that ensued before sewing me back together.
I was on morphine or oxycodone every 3 hoirs at the push of a nurses button until the very last minute.
Immediately my prescript
ion was cut by 80% as I was wheeled out the door.
I got off the oxycodone after three months of therapy and have my medication reduced due to chronic pain from nerve damage and "underlying tissue removal".
I have good extension in my arm now, due to doing my home therapy properly, and hardly anyone notices my large scars anyore, nor the skin graft added to the 10" incision from the operating room (added skin graft to accomodate permanent hardware holding my bones together)
When it comes to chronic pain, my experience is that people think you are "all fixed up", and especially do orthopedic surgeons.
Nobody who has never suffered injuries or illnesses causing pain knows jack squat about
what we go through from one day to the next, and my comaraderie with others who need pain meds legitimately yields expressions of wishfulness to never have to take pain meds at all.
For most, it is just that...wishful thinking, and I personally despise fakers and recreational drug users.
It seems to me that the medical field is becoming even less capable in telling the difference, while the recreational abusers and their dealers get more sympathy for their supposed "culural disabilities" as if they are victims.
They ruin things for everybody.
Post Edited (JackLegofAllTrades) : 7/24/2014 8:17:56 PM (GMT-6)