I am so tired of being severely undermedicated when I'm in a massive flare up of screaming pain. And I am so tired of hospital staff or doctor's office staff just looking at me like I'm a drug seeker. When I'm having a flare up, like I have been since Thursday, the pain is like someone is ripping every nerve cell out of your body. It's nerve pain, it's not like broken bone pain, although, my Lyme arthritis in my lower back has been feeling like I broke it, too. Regular narcs don't work. And no one in this town is willing to prescribe Lyrica. Every doc here is scared of that drug for some reason. And I have asked for it at two different doctor's offices, and my friend asked at her clinic, too. No one will give it.
I can't take most regular narcs, I have bad reactions to them. I can't take NSAIDs because of the acid reflux, it makes it a million times worse on me. And anything else, the doc's pat answer is "I don't want to addict you". I HATE that answer. Just get me out of this pain. Isn't that their job?
The butalbital I take only takes some of the nerve pain away, it's not working on the rest or my back pain. So today, I'm dying. There have to be other choices for pain that work, that I could take. And not that Enbrel, Humera, Remicade crap. I fully believe that junk played a large role in why my mother is dead now.
I'm just tired of having these bad flares and nothing that really works for them.
I can't take most regular narcs, I have bad reactions to them. I can't take NSAIDs because of the acid reflux, it makes it a million times worse on me. And anything else, the doc's pat answer is "I don't want to addict you". I HATE that answer. Just get me out of this pain. Isn't that their job?
The butalbital I take only takes some of the nerve pain away, it's not working on the rest or my back pain. So today, I'm dying. There have to be other choices for pain that work, that I could take. And not that Enbrel, Humera, Remicade crap. I fully believe that junk played a large role in why my mother is dead now.
I'm just tired of having these bad flares and nothing that really works for them.