How do u ask for a stronger pain med (w/out sounding like a pill seeker)?

[jennifer567]

Hi everyone! My question is how do I ask for something stronger without sounding like a "pill seeker" or drug abuser? My Lortab 10mg is like regualr tylenol to my pain. They already have me on Cymbalta, Lyrica, Lortab10mg, Soma, Xanax and Ambien BUT I AM IN SUCH PAIN! It is unreal!

I know it's not a good idea to double up or whatever but I have in desparation- it does not help! My legs give me the worst trouble. I take magnesium, calcium and a few other natural things. I do swim exercise religiosly now BUT the pain is beyond any pain I've ever been through including natural childbirth!!!

How do I ask a doctor to put me on something like Percocet or Oxycodone? Or just anything that will be wotrth taking?? This Lortab is USELESS!! But I've been told if you ask for something specific they think you are just there to get pills for the wrong reason. HAS ANYONE ASKED THEIR DOCTOR FOR SOMETHING STRONGER, AND HOW DID YOU GO ABOUT IT????

By the way thanks in advance for any ideas, thoughts, suggestions or sharing.
Jennifer

[sara12345]

Depression screws up the mind worse.  I've been on anti-depressants for years which has also helped my pain.  You are saying that valium and morphine are better than anti-depressants?  Have you ever looked up the side effects and addictive nature of those drugs?  I read your profile and you do have some significant pain issues.  I am sorry about your pain.

But many of us need anti-depressants to function or not commit suicide due to the terrible pain.  Did you know that depression causes the telomeres to get damaged so that people with depression suffer diseases associated with older ages much earlier such as osteoporosis, stroke, heart disease, and diabetes?  Don't trash a class of medications that have helped so many.  I would NOT be alive without taking them.  And I am happy in spite of being in chronic pain and being very disabled--because of the anti-depressant.  I would rather be happy than being severely depressed by my situation using your paranoid logic.

[tiredofthepain52]

Antidepressants screw up your mind.  If you look them up, you'll find that the PDR even states that they don't know Exactly HOW they work.  So they load up your brain with chemicals they know nothing out.  They call that a GUINIA PIG, and then they WAIT for you to send in side effect complaints to the FDA.  I Like to stick to the OLD tried and true drugs that they know EXACTLY what they do.  Valium is a NERVE Pill, MS CONTIN is MORPHINE (as is oxycontin & to an extent oxycodone, a derivitive at least).  I don't take antidepressants, one doesn't EVER work, so they keep adding others to assist the ones they gave you til you're a mind boggling nut case.  Oh and by the way, it states on ALL those anti depressants that you cannot discontinue them abruptly either, you have to be WEENED off of them, so what is that?  The same as ADDICTION as far as I'm concerned.  But they will freely give those to you.  ASK your Dr., IF you can stop taking them when they don't work or you don't like what they're doing to you....He'll tell you the same thing, "Well No....We're Going to Have to Ween You Off of Them".....so I'll take the Morphine thank you.

[sara12345]

Savella is not a narcotic or pain medication.  Also Trazodone which has helped me greatly with fibromyalgia is also not a pain med or narcotic.  Doctors are most likely to want to prescribe these.  But some people can't tolerate them.  I had such nausea from the Savella that I had to stop it.  Also you may need to start very low on the Trazodone and then work up in dose.  Also the single best remedy for fibro is exercise, but you must start out very slowly.

[tonyw1966]

I have been diagnosed but actually have Lyme's disease, which some doctors feel is actually the cause of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome in many cases. Anyway, it takes me at least 60 mg. of oxy a day to get through the day and still be able to walk to the store. I am sick and tired of doctors telling me about the addiction factor and at the same time prescribe me crap like depakote which is one of the most toxic medicines on the market. My advice it to tell your doctor you want to go into a pain management clinic. There they will offer you a variety of meds and get you to the right dose. Just don't screw up though and do any street drugs or any other pain meds, because they do random pee tests and once you get kicked out, it's virtually impossible to get back in. I know this from experience. I was on 60 mg. of Methadone a day and a friend of mine came over and gave me one single line of coke. I hadn't done it in years. The very next day I went in and got my script, and got tested for the first time in six months and got kicked out. So now it's hell to get a doctor to get me anything.

[g113]

Hi Jenn. I have fibro I was diagnosed 2 years ago, I have been in pain management for 3 years. I am on morphine 30 mg, but my doctor started me out at the lowest pain drug & kept moving up. After almost 2 yrs with being in pain at a scale of 10 he said your ready, You have to let your doctor know that the pain med isn't working & why keep taking something that is getting into your system & not working. He put me on oxycodone but I took one pill and had a bad experience so I returned then and said put me back on morphine. I am also on Savella 100 mg. This works GREAT for fibro along with alot of other meds. You have to watch how you ask because alot of doctors think people just want the high. Hope this helps. Good Luck!

[GeorgiaPeach49]

I have been looking for the way to say how I felt and BOOM, there you are saying it.....I am hand printing this in part to take to a new Pain Specialist.  Thank you so much...

Georgia Peach