Hello dear.
I am sorry you continue to experience discomfort at bedtime due to your accident. My son was also hit by a drunk driver and now resides in a long term care facility. He also suffers with a great deal of pain.
Although it has been 4 years since your post the answer remains the same. You are now, presumably 23. Starting a pain regimen of narcotics will most definitely lead to far worse illnesses in the future. Second, because of the increasingly number of deaths due to overdose of narcotics has raised the insurance rates for physicians to an astronomical amount.
By now, I pray your pain has become manageable without such harmful medications.
So sorry to hear about your pain. I have to agree that eventually, pain meds just stop working. If you just need then at night, maybe there is something else you could do or even a different type of medication.
I'm very supportive of taking narcotics when needed. I've been on them for years. There are legitimate reasons for taking them. But they no longer are working due to having developed such a tolerance. It's so frustrating that medications so desperately needed, just stop working - unless you increase the dose over and over.
I'm amazed that so many people seem to get help from them, after years of use. If that happens - I think they should be available. They helped me stay productive when I needed to be there for my kids. But they messed with my GI tract, which was already destroyed by Systemic Sclerosis. My MS pain keeps increasing, and my poor spine is a degenerated, stenosed, mess, with bulging discs, cysts everywhere, scoliosis, facet joint arthritis and on and on. I was given a huge amount of fentanyl recently for a nerve ablation to my Thoracic spine, and they might as well have given me water. So yesterday, when abating twice as many nerves - I said forget the fentanyl. It was actually better - he felt forced to give more local! Believe me - had it worked, I would have wanted it!!
I offer this perspective because if you are able to function fairly well at this point - it would be awesome if you didn't have to continue with opioids. Eventually they turn on you and can even cause more pain. (Not with everyone).
Muscle relaxanrs, or light sleep aids - or tens units, or acupuncture maybe? I just hope you're able to find relief. And I wish there were a good option for chronic pain!! Blessings!
Nonsense, medication is a therapy.
Pain ***** but withdrawal ***** more. I was on Pain management for several years and everyone will tell you the longer you take, the more tolerance you build, and the more you have to take to be effective, until you are basically taking heroin. My body is also a mess from sports and car accidents, two back surgeries exc... I found that the more I took the more pain I was in at the end of the day because my body wanted me to be numb to it. The hardest thing in my life was getting off the meds but had to have a second back surgery that fixed me before I was willing to try. I'm 8 days off norco and 12 days off oxycontin and feel so much better not taking. I forgot how it feels to feel, forgot how great music sounds. It was hell not taking for that past week. I'm really sore today, but it's all Muscular from a busy day yesterday and would rather be sore than be owned by pills. The things you love will become second to pain pills if your not careful. I wrote this to give perspective, because it can happen to the best of us. I was a functioning pill popper, full time job, managing household, exc... but felt and looked like ****. Just a few weeks and I'm looking like a new man, because I'm no longer being poisoned.