KRichards24
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- Dec 20, 2017
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First post and backstory to what brought me here:
New here. First post. Been lurking for a while after researching pain meds after developing a persistent pain in my jaw that I feared was cancer due to tobacco use, but turns out it's a rare disease that effects only a small fraction of the population called Eagle Syndrome.
I'm also depressed, and going through anti-depressants Paxil and now Effexor, which both pretty much suck. Effexor is better than Paxil for me.
For the pain the Doc started me off on a trycilic anti-depressant for the nerve pain in my jaw, and it didn't help, made me sluggish and super dry mouth where I could barely swallow so after MRI confirmation of the Eagle Syndrome they went with Gabapentin. Which too, makes me sleepy as hell, doesn't get rid of all the pain, and does nothing for the headaches that I have associated with the syndrome.
What gets me is the fact that Doc's are now scared to death to prescribe a narcotic or opiod to the point that now, they don't prescribe any at all to the people that are in pain, they say, take Advil, or Tylenol. Well, Advil doesn't cut it, but pain meds do. Anti-depressants don't make me feel any less depressed, but some pain meds do. I've been going to Doc since October and I'm up to Gabapentin and on it, I'm pretty much worthless and all I want to do is sleep. I don't want to live my life like this, so I've sourced my own pain meds and take them to function.
It just makes me think that either way the healthcare industry is broken. 1. They are responsible for the opiod epidemic by prescribing so many at one point. 2. They are responsible for more OD's now because people that need them can't get them from a trusted pharmacy and have to resort to other measures where you don't know what you are getting.
It just pisses me off and I feel like I'm being held prisoner for something that isn't my fault, and I'm falling into the trap of unsupervised use. A trap I didn't want to fall into, I wanted a legit prescription with Doc supervision, and now I'm just limited by how much I want to spend, which is becoming more and more, since it seems that's the only way I feel less depressed.
I'm to the point where I just feel like what's the point of going to the Doctors who don't know crap, and aren't going to do anything to improve the quality of my life. For all they care I could sleep all day, as long as I'm not being prescribed something that would work and keep me active and engaged.
You can move this if this is to much for an intro.
Cheers,
K
New here. First post. Been lurking for a while after researching pain meds after developing a persistent pain in my jaw that I feared was cancer due to tobacco use, but turns out it's a rare disease that effects only a small fraction of the population called Eagle Syndrome.
I'm also depressed, and going through anti-depressants Paxil and now Effexor, which both pretty much suck. Effexor is better than Paxil for me.
For the pain the Doc started me off on a trycilic anti-depressant for the nerve pain in my jaw, and it didn't help, made me sluggish and super dry mouth where I could barely swallow so after MRI confirmation of the Eagle Syndrome they went with Gabapentin. Which too, makes me sleepy as hell, doesn't get rid of all the pain, and does nothing for the headaches that I have associated with the syndrome.
What gets me is the fact that Doc's are now scared to death to prescribe a narcotic or opiod to the point that now, they don't prescribe any at all to the people that are in pain, they say, take Advil, or Tylenol. Well, Advil doesn't cut it, but pain meds do. Anti-depressants don't make me feel any less depressed, but some pain meds do. I've been going to Doc since October and I'm up to Gabapentin and on it, I'm pretty much worthless and all I want to do is sleep. I don't want to live my life like this, so I've sourced my own pain meds and take them to function.
It just makes me think that either way the healthcare industry is broken. 1. They are responsible for the opiod epidemic by prescribing so many at one point. 2. They are responsible for more OD's now because people that need them can't get them from a trusted pharmacy and have to resort to other measures where you don't know what you are getting.
It just pisses me off and I feel like I'm being held prisoner for something that isn't my fault, and I'm falling into the trap of unsupervised use. A trap I didn't want to fall into, I wanted a legit prescription with Doc supervision, and now I'm just limited by how much I want to spend, which is becoming more and more, since it seems that's the only way I feel less depressed.
I'm to the point where I just feel like what's the point of going to the Doctors who don't know crap, and aren't going to do anything to improve the quality of my life. For all they care I could sleep all day, as long as I'm not being prescribed something that would work and keep me active and engaged.
You can move this if this is to much for an intro.
Cheers,
K
