Does anybodys' spouse take prescription pain meds.?!
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My husband takes oxycontin which is very controversial, but He got hurt and had surgery and the surgery didn't help. He's not a canidate for TENS or similar equipment. I am worried about the addiction. I know he is addicted.
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chronic pain is a tough issue. I would worry most about treating the pain not the addiction. But here is some more information that may help you. As long as it's a legal prescription, you can look into alternatives.but for chronic pain.sometimes.narcotics are not only a good choice, but the only choice. I would try learning to understand how is is affected by this and what you can do also.Chronic pain had a big impact on mood as well.
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He needs to go to a pain management center where they can evaluate his case and symptoms and safely prescribe medicine. Ask your primary care physician.
Most individuals who are prescribed OxyContin will not become addicted, although they may become dependent on the drug and will experience withdrawal symptoms when use is stopped.
Most people who take OxyContin as prescribed do not become addicted. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reports: “With prolonged use of opiates and opioids, individuals become tolerant…require larger doses, and can become physically dependent on the drugs.. Studies indicate that most patients who receive opioids for pain, even those undergoing long-term therapy, do not become addicted to these drugs.”(3)
One NIDA-sponsored study found that “only four out of more than 12,000 patients who were given opioids for acute pain actually became addicted to the drugs…. In a study of 38 chronic pain patients, most of whom received opioids for 4 to 7 years, only 2 patients actually became addicted, and both had a history of drug abuse.”(4)
In short, most individuals who are prescribed OxyContin, or any other opioid, will not become addicted, although they may become dependent on the drug and will need to be withdrawn by a qualified physician. Individuals who are taking the drug as prescribed should continue to do so, as long as they and their physician agree that taking the drug is a medically appropriate way for them to manage pain.
When pain patients take a narcotic analgesic as directed, or to the point where their pain is adequately controlled, it is not abuse or addiction. Abuse occurs when patients take more than is needed for pain control, especially if they take it to get high. Patients who take their medication in a manner that grossly differs from a physician’s directions are probably abusing that drug.
If a patient continues to seek excessive pain medication after pain management is achieved, the patient may be addicted. Addiction is characterized by the repeated, compulsive use of a substance despite adverse social, psychologic, and/or physical consequences. Addiction is often (but not always) accompanied by physical dependence, withdrawal syndrome, and tolerance. Physical dependence is defined as a physiologic state of adaptation to a substance. The absence of this substance produces symptoms and signs of withdrawal. Withdrawal syndrome is often characterized by overactivity of the physiologic functions that were suppressed by the drug and/or depression of the functions that were stimulated by the drug. Opioids often cause sleepiness, calmness, and constipation, so opioid withdrawal often includes insomnia, anxiety, and diarrhea.
Pain patients, however, may sometimes develop a physical dependence during treatment with opioids. This is not an addiction. A gradual decrease of the medication dose over time, as the pain is resolving, brings the former pain patient to a drug-free state without any craving for repeated doses of the drug. This is the difference between the formerly dependent pain patient who has now been withdrawn from medication and the opioid-addicted patient: The patient addicted to diverted pharmaceutical opioids continues to have a severe and uncontrollable craving that almost always leads to eventual relapse in the absence of adequate treatment. It is this uncontrollable craving for another “rush” of the drug that differentiates the “detoxified” but opioid-addicted patient from the former pain patient. Theoretically, an opioid abuser might develop a physical dependence, but obtain treatment in the first few months of abuse, before becoming addicted. In this case, supervised withdrawal (detoxification) followed by a few months of abstinence-oriented treatment might be sufficient for the nonaddicted patient who abuses opioids. If, however, this patient subsequently relapses to opioid abuse, then that would support a diagnosis of opioid addiction. After several relapses to opioid abuse, it becomes clear that a patient will require long-term treatment for the opioid addiction.
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I hope this info helps.
Mine had two knee surgerys and he is not any better. I know he"s addicted to vikes. HE GETS SICK WHEN HE'S out of them. His DR. prescribed them to him for over a year. Now he will buy them from friends at two dollars a piece. He"s very moody and forgetful!! I think he"s taking 6 to 8 pills a day!Things just seem to get worse the longer he"s on them,two years now. He won"t quit and can"t work without them!! I know how you feel !! Email me if you need to talk,Please!Vikes are Vicodin or Hydrocodone>
I think if you talk to the Dr. about your concerns over your husband's addiction, he might be able to either prescribe him something different, or get him into a program for pain management. Your husband might be mad.but he will get over it.
I feel for you, My father had an car wreck when I was a child. Needless to say he has aways been on pain meds. He takes codean pills and they are eating him alive his legs are no bigger then my wrist. I would talk to his Doctors about your concerns And ask for their advise..they may be able to wean him from them and put him on something just as effective but less invasive. Oxycontin is a death sentence, and are given out mostly to people that do not have a lot of time left..Please do what you can to get him off of these.Good luck to you.
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