#Pain Management Drugs

[teagan-of-kevera]

Ever since I was a little girl, I knew I wanted to be a disabled age regressor who spends most of her time unsober.

[scintillatingshortgirl19]

gee i wonder if the issue could be at all related to the fact that the current treatment plan for his chronic pain consists solely of FUCKING IBUPROFEN

[laniidae-passerine]

I made my post about Dean Highbottom and then as I was writing my tags realised that his Hunger Games counterpart is Haymitch. and now my head is in my hands and I don’t think I’ll ever recover

[snzluv3r]

being chronically ill is the least glamorous thing ever like the things i would give to feel a little more like a person and less like a collection of symptoms im trying to manage are innumerable

[gingergofastboatsmojito]

Guys, I’m back on painkillers but this time I’m also writing. You’re sooooo in for such a ride 😈

[phagodyke]

my dr asked me to get a digital thermometer to check my temp at home when I'm getting feverish or having hot flashes and I feel like I'm being gaslit bc my temp is always in normal range even if I feel far too warm.....

[evil-jennifer-hamilton-wb]

Imagine taking 1500mg acetaminophen (500 within 6hr intervals) and a double dose sumitriptan

and it literately does absolutely nothing.

I guess time to figure out what the opiate market is like in the US

(/j for the last but, but I originally did start using opiates because my doctor refused to prescribe even a migraine med as simple as sumitriptan)

[only-knives]

finally tried hydrocodone for my back pain and THIS is the ~big scary opioids~ they've been talking about?! i know they're still ykno, serious medication but. i. feel. fine! i even took my other medication todayy!? i'd be angry but im honestly just. WHAT. i'm not in pain! yall coulda gave me this YEARS ago but you just didnt! i shouldnt have had to have figured this out all on my own especially with how it coulda easily gone sideways if i didnt have some awareness of what im doing?? fuckkk the war on drugs man. fuck it. shit.

edit: to be clear no i am not prescribed this i found some in the house it aint mine

[c3p-mo]

Got out of bed and to the bathroom, peed, walked back and got into bed all by myself. Without a working nerve blocker, this is dark souls knee surgery recovery and I'm faring pretty well.

[anftherapy]

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[parasocial-work]

Seeing a lot of people on the internet saying ‘doctors are finally taking my pain seriously! It only took x years!’

And I just wanna say how a big factor in this is that doctors don’t think young people are capable of understanding their own pain.

You’re not just being taken more seriously for having X years of pain, or because doctors are finally more aware of pain management: you’re being taken more seriously because you appear to be more like an equal to them, a grown up person capable of understanding your pain.

Young people are suspect, foolish, unable to know their symptoms, falling for trends, possibly at risk of addiction: this unconscious prejudice is doubly or triply so if you’re a woman, or a person of colour.

But if you’re an adult, articulating themselves clearly and confidently as an adult does, they have a harder time knowing how to dismiss your pain.

[kingproteus]

Doctors LOVE to prescribe opiates to a guy whose early childhood was destroyed by familial addiction issues. Like bro you’re the one telling me I have a lesion on my pituitary. Leave me alone or fix it stop giving me hydrocodone. Fuck off

[vargamornight]

every time i take a pain pill i am blown away by the fact that i'm suddenly not completely fucking exhausted anymore. i really am the bitch with the shocked pikachu face when the medicine that stops pain prevents the pain from happening

one hour ago i had been awake for seven hours and was ready to sleep another eight. then i took a vicodin and now i'm literally just chilling. my body went from a five alarm fire to "oh nvm false alarm i guess haha. wanna watch midnight texas?"

[emiliosandozsequence]

the absolute worst thing bar none about my chronic pain is how irritable it makes me and how it makes me snap at people i love and say things i don't mean. i always apologize after, but jfc. i would rather not be like this so there would not even be a need.

[kurtbrussels]

tore a muscle in my back so bad i couldnt move for two hours, finally got my building manager to wrangle me to the va er, spent 40 mins lying crumpled on the examination room floor while waiting for the doctor, just for said dr to tell me i tore a muscle and 'not to do that', proceeded to hobble back to my apartment, back to being unable to move ayyy