Does anyone know what the long term affect of taking Lortab and Soma will be??? I have severe scoliosis?

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and in chronic pain ALL the time. But my pain dr. has just put me on the Fentynal patch 100mcg so i'm hoping that will work much better. I also got some trigger shot injections in my shoulders, 3 of them................hopefully i will be much better in a few days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

I am truly sorry for you pain. The long term effects Loratb and Soma depends on how long you were on the medication. As you know, addiction is always a possibility but your doctor should have been monitoring you for this possibility. And there are ways to detox if indeed you have become addicted. The good news....if I can call it that...is that Fentynal is a very powerful, potent and effective medication for pain management thus it should provide you with significant pain relief.

And about possible addiction.... When my mom was dying of cancer...in the brain,lungs,uterus...she was eventually placed on Dilaudid..oral at first and eventually they has an Omar devise to have the medication injected directly into her brain. Dilaudid was desribed by her MD as the closest thing to heroin in the US. My mom was concernned, afraid of becoming addicted. I told her not to worry. I was direct and blunt ...I had to be then...and told her that she was given less than a year to live and becoming addicted should never be a concer.

I am not saying your condition is that serious...I have a friend with scoliosis and as painful as it is she tells me it isn't terminal. But I imagine you will be on pain medication for along time, perhaps for the rest of your life...I don't know and it's none of my business. I hope there is or will be a treatment to help your condition. But until then....please try not to worry about addition.

Answer 2

People who try and scare true chronic pain patients about addiction are truly ill-informed. In true chronic pain patients, addiction is rare. Dependence is another issue, and is a natural result of having to take pawerful drugs on a regular basis.... but you have a disease, and these are the drugs to treat the diease in the same way that insulin is a medication to treat diabetes. Diabetics can't live without their insulin, but no one calls them addicts. The literature I've read put the addiction rate for chronic pain patients at less than 1%, others have said less than 5%. Addiction is a behavior issue, and the chronic pain patients who become addicted already have addictive personalities. This doesn't mean that former addicts or addictive personalities can't be treated with narcotics for pain, it just means they ahve to be more closely montiored and put on medications that can't be abused such as Talwin NX or Suboxone. Pain medications affect the brains of true pain patients differently than they effect the brains of recreational users or addicts. Euphoria is exceptionally rare and usually only occurs for the first few days of treatement or after a dosage change, the same thing is true of sleepiness, nausea, and the other effects that causes recreational users to become addicts. If you have chronic pain, narcotics are actually the oldest and most effective drugs to use, a doctor told me just yesterday that Tylenol has the potential to do much more harm than narcotics. You have the right to a pain-free (or pain reduced to a manageable level) life, and you deserve it. Good luck, and feel free to e-mail or IM me if you need to talk to someone in the same boat!

Answer 3

You are in serious pain. Please don't worry about addition. You may have to be on these meds for the rest of your life and as long as the doctor will give them to you you don't have to worry about withdrawal. If there does come a time when you want to come off there are ways the doctor will help you with.. When people are taking medications as perscribed for pain and not abusing them there is a difference between that person and the drug addict on the street who is taking them to get high and everyday increasing what they are taking. I've been on pain meds for 8+ years now and I stop thinking about being addicted along time ago. Hope you feel better with the patch. good luck

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I believe the long term effect of taking these drugs is the risk of addiction, and possible kidney and liver damage. If you're on the Fentanyl patch, are you taking the Lortab for breakthru pain? Or have you discontinued using it? Follow your dr.'s instructions. If you're living with chronic pain, addiction is one monster you'll have to deal with sooner or later. You'll be addicted at some point after taking the opiates for awhile. But ya gotta decide what you'd rather live with...the pain...or the knowledge that you gotta have your meds to function.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

hmm...you know...for pain issue with scoliosis, you might want to consider soft brace rather than taking drugs for long term...

Spinecor brace is used for symptomatic relief for adults and has had some great successes...

check it out at... http://www.myscoliosis.net