At Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Karla wrote:
>
>Not that I think you are out of your mind, but where do you find a doctor
>that tells you that?????????? I have never had a doctor tell me not to
>worry about addiction. Quite the contrary. That's all they ever say. No
>one ever told me I deserved relief....except on this list. Certainly not a
>doctor. I would imagine that almost everyone on this list would love to
>find the doctor that you have because we all have such a hard time finding a
>doctor willing to prescribe adequate pain relief.
>
>As for not becoming addicted? I know from my own experience that if I take
>a pain medication when I don't really need it I get headaches and feel sick
>to my stomach. It doesn't matter what drug it is. But if I am having lots
>of pain I don't get the headaches or nausea at all.
>
>Just my observations.
>
>--
>Karla
>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>From: "cathy:-" <anonymous@medispecialty.com>
>To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
><adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
>Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 10:53 PM
>Subject: Ok, you can tell me if I'm paranoid or not...
>
>> I read through both of the recent links that Helen Dynda about addiction
>> and chronic pain. (Yes, I read them all, Helen -- you are one of my
>> personal heros for tracking down all of this fabulous info!) I must say
>> that both of them raised the hair on the back of my neck.
>>
>> "Risk Of Addiction To Pain Relief Is Small, Expert Says" Then the
>> article goes on to simply repeat this as a bald-faced assertion over and
>> over. It gave NO explanations, NO reasons, simply stated that it is
>> true. Well, you know, I'm not believing doctors simply because they
>> ascend their thrones and proclaim things to be true! (ESPECIALLY things
>> that they so sincerely WANT to be true!)
>>
>> I can think of several plausible scientific explanations for why it
>> might be true that people who are in pain and take narcotics are
>> unlikely to become addicted. For example we know that pain is a
>> chemical reaction in the brain, and we know that drugs work by causing
>> chemical reactions in the brain. It would be completely plausible if
>> the brain scientists find out that pain chemicals interfere with the
>> chemical process of addiction. Or maybe there is only a tiny fraction
>> of the human population whose brains are wired up to become addicted and
>> so among chronic pain sufferers there is only a tiny fraction who are at
>> a risk for addiction. Or maybe it is some other reason. Or maybe in
>> that study of pain patients and addiction they manipulated the data and
>> said that anyone who needed the pain relief wasn't addicted when many of
>> them actually were.
>>
>> But the point is that these Lords of Medicine do not deign to actually
>> give us stupid little patients any information like that. Instead they
>> pat us on the head and chuck us under the chin and tell us not to worry
>> our pretty little heads about addiction and if we are in pain we DESERVE
>> those narcotics. There are just so many things wrong with that
>> attitude. First of all, I've heard enough "don't worry your little
>> head" statements to know that I SHOULD worry. Don't worry nothing bad
>> could happen from this c-section or tubal and that hysterectomy is a
>> triviality and adhesions don't hurt. Secondly, I don't give a horse's
>> patooie what anybody else thinks I DESERVE in the way of pain relief.
>> It's not just that I have the right to pain relief, I have ALL the
>> rights. I have the right to decide how much pain I can stand. I have
>> the right to decide whether or not the benefits that any particular drug
>> gives to me are worth the side effects that the particular drug has on
>> me. Those are MY rights. MINE! MINE! MINE!
>>
>> Ok, I finished ranting, I'll stop now. If ya'all think I'm out of my
>> mind, well, alright you wouldn't be the first ones!
>>
>> --
>> cathy :-)
>>