>----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin" <rmasse2333@aol.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS"
<adhesions@mail.medispecialty.com>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: Ok, you can tell me if I'm paranoid or not...
> I have taken pain meds off & on for over 8 years. I have never had a
> problem getting off of them. My Dr of the last 4 years told me not to
> worry about getting off of them, that when the time came, she would help
> me. People who are addicted to pain meds (which ever kind they take)
> get a high from them. People who take pain meds for pain usually don't
> get that high. They get pain relief. I have had Drs tell me I was
> addicted. That adhesions don't hurt. It is all in my head. That is
> why I now have the wonderful, caring Dr that I now have.
> Robin
>
> 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 :-)
> >>
>