if thirty painkillers a mo. don't addict why would 60? should i change drs.?

Answer 1

Yeah, go ahead and listen to all these morons who think if you take opiates your automatically addicted...BS you will become dependent and have to taper them down rather than cold turkey but that is no different than any antidepressant or really any other meds you take for a long period. 30 a month that's 1 day I don't think it would be problem to up your dose but at a certain point as you already know you will develop a tolerance so continually upping your dose is dumb. But again at this point it shouldn't be a problem you’re at least trying to reach a level that will allow you to cope (counteract pleasure with pain without excessive pleasure) and when you reach that level you have to accept the fact that no more increases are an option and you will always have to bear some pain. Opiates are not intended to make you 100% pain free they are there to help you cope. Where would up your dose every month or even year put you in 20 years. Taking 1000 mg of opiates. You just have to be realistic. Since tolerance is inevitable you can get the same pain relief from lets say 40 mg rather than 120 mg in the long run. But again at this point depending on you pain you should be able to at least up the dose to a reasonable level that will allow SOME long term relief. Follow your prescription to the T and you will not have to worry about addiction. So to the people that think opiates = addiction then why don’t people that get hurt (car accident, burn etc.) get addicted to accidents or hurting themselves LOL. When you hurt your self. Maybe a burn your brain activates its own opiate receptors (endorphins) to naturally curb that pain. Normally you’re fine until the next morning right or a few hours later when those chemical come down. Now let me ask you did you get high or buzzed after you hurt yourself. NO the same principle is true for opiates if your in pain. You’re counteracting that pain with chemicals that induce pleasure. You won’t feel the pleasure unless you’re taking to many opiates or you’re not in pain. That’s why you follow the script right. "WHEN NEEDED". This is my own theory which I think should be directed to those doctors who fear addictions and lawsuits. For me this is just a common sense approach to effectively treating pain because hey it’s your life and while you have a right to meds that help you cope you do not want to add to your problems. Oh yeah I would change Doctors if you are in such pain where your current regimen is not helping you cope at all.

Answer 2

Instead of changing MDs, ask for a referral to a pain clinic. Other non -addictive drugs may be useful to decrease the pain.
30 pills is the maximum the avg MD can prescribe without filling out all the paperwork for hte gov't on why they are giving you more narcotics than avg.

Use ice or heat to ease pain, as well as non narcotic relief.
Save the narcotics for the unbearable pain.

Answer 3

It depends on what you need the pain relief for..
If you feel you need more pain relief and you find your doctor is not open to your suggestions, find another doctor..
I suffer from various illnesses and take Morphine for my pain..
I tried without success for 7 years to find a doctor who would take my pain seriously..
Finally I found a great doctor, under his supervision we have worked out a pain regime...
I am semi disabled by my pain and I need the pain relief..
However be aware that most prescriptions pain medications will be addictive..
It is absolutely awful having to detox, which I have had to do a couple of times... I often wished for an end to the pain..
Discuss this with your doctor, and above all be honest..
My friends think it is cool that I am on morphine..
Yet I would give my left arm to be pain free..
And remember the more pain relief you take, the harder it will be to detox..

Answer 4

You can become addicted with as few as one pill. It all depends on your body's chemistry. You should not change doctors just because someone else might give you more pills, that's just asinine, especially if you're NOT already an addict.

Answer 5

That will double your body's tolerance to the drug making withdrawal much worse.

Answer 6

do you want to be addicted to pain pills???