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bigblue92
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I'm not sure why I'm nervous about an appointment today with my PC Dr., but I am. Although I live in constant, daily pain due to my upper and lower back issues my PC Dr. has been the only one to offer any assistance in the form of medication. He has been prescribing me Vicoden and Valium for the past 5+ years which I take daily. Before refilling these scripts this month, he required that I have a blood test (which I did Sat), and see him this afternoon.
I am fully aware that these medications can damage other internal organs over time, and that he may be doing his due diligence to insure that they are not doing me harm. Of course, after taking these for so long, their effectiveness has also decreased quite a bit. I am concerned that either there will be issues indicated by the blood work which will have created new health concerns for me in addition to the possibility that I will no longer be able to even take these meRAB which at least provide "some" relief from this pain!
I had actually been meaning to schedule an appointment with him prior to all this to discuss the possibility of addressing trying either different or more powerful meRAB as these are certainly not managing my pain any longer. My additional reason for wanting to speak with him was to discuss the depression that living in this state of constant pain has caused and to see what or if he'd suggest.
I am very anxious about this. I really wish that I'd requested an appointment before he required it. I just have so much difficulty getting through each day, this was just another one of "those things" which I always seem to intend to get around to, but never do.
Does anyone have any advice on what I should ask, or how I should address these issues with him? I have long worried, considering everything I read about people becoming addicted to prescription pain meRAB, that someday he would question how much pain I am living in and decide that they were no longer warranted or necessary. My life sucks as it is, and I do not think I could manage to continue working or functioning at all without some sort of relief from all this pain!
I am fully aware that these medications can damage other internal organs over time, and that he may be doing his due diligence to insure that they are not doing me harm. Of course, after taking these for so long, their effectiveness has also decreased quite a bit. I am concerned that either there will be issues indicated by the blood work which will have created new health concerns for me in addition to the possibility that I will no longer be able to even take these meRAB which at least provide "some" relief from this pain!
I had actually been meaning to schedule an appointment with him prior to all this to discuss the possibility of addressing trying either different or more powerful meRAB as these are certainly not managing my pain any longer. My additional reason for wanting to speak with him was to discuss the depression that living in this state of constant pain has caused and to see what or if he'd suggest.
I am very anxious about this. I really wish that I'd requested an appointment before he required it. I just have so much difficulty getting through each day, this was just another one of "those things" which I always seem to intend to get around to, but never do.
Does anyone have any advice on what I should ask, or how I should address these issues with him? I have long worried, considering everything I read about people becoming addicted to prescription pain meRAB, that someday he would question how much pain I am living in and decide that they were no longer warranted or necessary. My life sucks as it is, and I do not think I could manage to continue working or functioning at all without some sort of relief from all this pain!