Happy to say I don't know anyone addicted to pain meds. I have been prescribed percoset after both my c-sections but they made me sick to my stomach and I stopped taking them asap.
@Bigbopper42
hitting the foot with a hammer is good for a head ache, not for chronic pain
for chronic pain there are other ways, that do not involve any drugs
those ways will not be prescribed by docotrs as they are payes to prescribe medicines
here you have some samples
view linkview linkview linkview linkhere you have a short article on pain, and how doctors can find ways to trat pain without drugs
view linkpeople that have chronic problems with lot of pain were able to stop having the pain (no they were not cured from the illenes) withut any drugs
but no doctor will "prescribe" you one of those devices that you can buy for less the $100.oo when he can get the "comission" from the drug companie for prescribing you a drug for life (and chargeing you for the prescription
I will just say this and leave it....its not always about a profit motive with doctors....my doctor gets no commission for prescribing certain drugs over others.....and other than paying for her time and expertise, I don't pay extra for her to write me a prescription.
I have done biofeedback and meditation and taken some natural herbs to help with chronic pain....all at my doctor's urging and fortunate now to not need anything at all....but when I needed to take a prescribed medication, I did. Our tolerances for pain are very different and we all respond differently to different remedies.
MD's know little other than prescribing drugs. That's what they were educated to do -- not to use other more natural methods to relieve pain or anything else, for that matter.
Case in point: For all the years of delivering babies, administering spinal blocks and all kinds of sedatives to women during childbirth including Demoral, it was left to alternative practitioners and midwives to institute and recommend LaMaze breathing, not the medical community. As a result mother and child go through the process without drugs that can suppress the respiratory system in infants among other side effects. When I went through the first time, without anaesthetic, the nurses had a pool going for the hour I would cave in and beg for drugs [I didn't]. The anaesthesiologist came to my bedside three times while I was in labor checking to see if I wanted some of his goodies [nope].
Ditto for pain relief after surgery. When the sedative I was given did not work -- stitched from here to there, I was -- I topped off four of their magic pills after an hour with 3 glasses of wine. When I awoke only an hour later and called my doctor, she told me to forget the pills -- the wine was better for me, anyway.
My two youngest children were accident prone, especially the youngest -- ADHD from the moment he was born. He would run full tilt into things, drop, stumble, fall and hurt this or that. One afternoon I taught my sons LaMaze breathing to use if they were ever in a situation of severe pain and wanted to block the pain until we could get the boo boo fixed. It was a year or so later that he got his hand slammed in our car door and was rushed to the ER for stitches, for it was a 2-inch gash. When the doctor came in he told him what he was going to do -- spray his finger with something to make it cold so he would feel little to no pain while his finger was stitched. My 6-year old shook his head, "No." "I have something just as good to do. Go ahead and stitch it. It won't hurt." He then proceeded to do LaMaze breathing, rapidly and evenly while the doctor, hesitatingly at first, began to stitch his finger. My son never flinched throughout the process. The doctor sent him out to the nurse's station to tell them he had earned 2 lollipops, per the doctor and asked me to remain. He told me, "That was the darndest thing I've ever seen! Never, ever have I seen a child breathe his way through stitches and with not even topical anaesthetic. How long did it take to teach him that?" "About half an hour," I told him. To this day, my son remembers and has been in a couple of spots where he was injured, pain was intense and he breathed his way through it to intercept and stop the pain.
Relaxation techniques taught in Easter rites as well as yoga can help relieve pain. As a chronic pain sufferer myself I am sympathetic to anyone who suffers daily pain. But there are remedies that can help, sometimes B supplements alone, before one reaches for pharmaceuticals. For every pharmaceutical has side reactions against one or more body organs and over time, they take their toll.
. Blithe, your MD is exceptional for most physicians are too quick to reach for his prescription pad and write a prescription rather than suggest another remedy. I just wish more US trained doctors were as well informed and willing to prescribe alternate remedies for insomnia and pain.
well whatever
I still think hitting your foot with a hammer to get rid of a headache is just plain stupid
Bigbopper, take a happy pill. I am prone to agree that your sense of humor needs some work.
