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Quoth gerund View PostWhen you take lots of pain meds, your body builds up a tolerance to them. Then when you are really in pain they don't work much. When you don't take them much, then when you really need them they work at their full potential."It is traditional when asking for help or advice to listen to the answers you receive" - RealUnimportant
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Quoth gerund View PostWhen you take lots of pain meds, your body builds up a tolerance to them. Then when you are really in pain they don't work much.
Back in the day, I needed two of those just to reduce (but not eliminate) the pain of a standard headache. To this day, I use them sparingly enough that it takes over a year for me to go through a small bottle. My issue being, I'm worried that I might eventually become resistant to Aleve (naproxen sodium) or Diclofenac (a prescription muscle relaxant/painkiller), which I take only when I reach the point of "I won't be able to walk If I don't"...so, hopefully, that level of usage will delay the onset of resistance."For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
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Quoth ladyjaneinmd View PostAnd the only reason I got diagnosed properly was that I told the doctor that I was tired of living like this and if he didn't do *something*, I was going to kill myself.
I sympathize with the way all humans suffer. The worst story I read about cluster headaches was an ex-addict who had cluster headaches as a result of his ex-addiction. Every time he needed an injection of painkillers to stop the headaches the emergency room looked up his record and said: "Meh - addict after drugs - he can wait." With the result that he would wait in pain for up to 12 hours before they would give him an injection.
This is how all medical professionals react and it needs to stop.
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Quoth gerund View PostEvery time he needed an injection of painkillers to stop the headaches the emergency room looked up his record and said: "Meh - addict after drugs - he can wait." With the result that he would wait in pain for up to 12 hours before they would give him an injection.
This is how all medical professionals react and it needs to stop.
Offhand, I can think of only two other examples where this logic is widely used in society; those would be Sex and Money, and in both cases it's all about the power relations....
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Quoth gerund View PostWomen complain a lot that their illnesses are trivialized and ignored. Given that a lot of specialists are men and that they do not suffer the problems that affect women the worst, it seems that this explanation rings true to me.Replace anger management with stupidity management.
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I have ADD, for which I have been prescribed Adderall and Vyvanse at various times so I know much harder it's become to actually get those medications.
I don't blame the people behind the Pharmacy counter though.
What I do blame are a medical system that seems hyper-fixated on prescribing pills for everything that ails us instead of exploring other remedies and politicians who don't do enough to address our societys addiction problems."If we refund your money, give you a free replacement and shoot the manager, then will you be happy?" - sign seen in a restaurant
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Another factor is medical businesses that give the patient what they want, without considering what the actual issues are and how they can be addressed. If the patient wants <pill X>, write them a scrip and get to the next patient, chop chop!
I know at least one doctor who is getting out of the business due to that sort of mentality...“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
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