Quote From: coco994I am currently taking pain medication for a variety of ailments. I don't believe that this have interfered with my life. The reason? I take them as prescribed and am under a physician's care. Unless I have another surgery, I will probably continue to take these drugs. They are not very strong and I TAKE THEM AS PRESCRIBED. The reason that pain meds get such a terrible rep is that people take two, three, four times the amount prescribed. They take them to get high. These women....I'm sorry, but these women are immature and irresponsible beyond reason. It's hard to know what they were like before but responsible people don't take drugs and kill people -- people who are high on drugs kill people. If you have a headache, do you take 10 aspirin? No, you could really hurt yourself that way. Every sad story of addiction begins with the addict deciding to up his dosage and continuing to up his/her dosage. Maybe it's easier to blame the drug.
I agree with you. I too have to take prescribed pain medication and if I didn't take it I couldn't function. As it is I barely have a life, I cannot work, drive, etc because of my back injury. However that doesn't mean I pop pills to "Get high". This is what really annoys me when I see these people boohooing on tv about their addiction. Yes it's sad, but no one prescribed the medications to begin with and then you go and take more then what would be prescribed anyway!! Blaming the drugs is the easy way out. But sorry these drugs also do many people a great service. We take them to be able to deal with our pain, not to pass out or get stoned.
As for the person who wrote that these drugs are handed out to easily I have to laugh. I don't know what state you are living in but here in Florida if you go to a pain management doctor or clinic the last thing they do is prescribe these types of drugs. It's when all else fails to help that they will start you on small doses of a narcotic to help you deal with your chronic pain. You don't just walk in and say I'm hurting I need Oxycotin, or whatever. The doctors will never go for that. They are monitored so closely by the state that they will not give you anything until you've tried, physical therapy, bio-feedback, massage, facet injection, the list goes on and on. The people that get these drugs without a legit issue have made it so difficult for those of us who have legit problems. In a way it's a good thing in another it's a bad thing. I don't know how many times I've gone to a new doctor and would get the raised eyebrow when I bring up the medications I take. Automatically they profile you as "drug seeking" it's only after reading your complete medical history and getting to know you after a few months that they stop giving you that look. It's very disheartening for real chronic pain patients.
