Note, I am not a druggy of any kind. My problem is I have very flat feet. This is causing significant lower back pain which after a few hours of work, makes my back start to painfully spasm to the point where I want to cry. When I finally am off work and sit down, the pain gets worse and after a few more hours of rest it ends up going away. I want to go to the doctor for pain pills because OTC stuff isn't helping at all now. What else can they do for this? I don't have insurance so I'm having to wait for my income tax check to go.
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Answer by Maverick
Just don't tell your doctor you plan to sell most of them. Keep that little secret to yourself.
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I hear ya, you just want the drugs, you're not a druggie.
ReplyDeleteShouldn't be any trouble. Tell him you want Opana (ask for it by name).
Sadly No. It will be very difficult to get pain pills. My husband just had knee surgery and HE can't even get pain pills, I am most certain you won't get any for flat feet.
ReplyDeleteA much better way to go is to get physical therapy and orthotic shoe inserts or orthotic shoes to try and correct the problem. These treatments are probably going to run more money than you have available right now for this. You probably can't get prescriptions for the heavy-duty medication without continuing to see a doctor regularly and frequently. If you can't pay for therapy but are willing to exercise, you could look on YouTube for videos of exercises for flat feet. The quality could be good or could be bad--hard to predict. It's not as good as professional physical therapy, but at least it's free.
ReplyDeleteYou might be able to get her to agree pain medication for a short time to try and get going in therapy.
There are two basic kinds of pain medication: anti-inflammatories, which you have already been taking, and narcotics, which are fine to take for breakthrough 10/10 pain but only occasionally. They do nothing to correct the problem causing the pain. They just deaden your response to pain--at first.
You have a chronic condition, not an acute injury that will heal just with time. If you take narcotics every day for more than a few *weeks* for this, the narcotics will be changing you inside and ironically making you *more* sensitive to pain generally all over your body whenever you are not taking the narcotics. You would need stronger doses to get the same effect. You run a real risk of addiction. Weaning off narcotics has to be done gradually, and when the drug is withdrawn after a long period of regular use, you can feel awful for months, much worse than you feel now.
Bottom line: not recommended long-term for this. Treat the problem.
Wishing you good luck and good health.