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Brewmonkey,
I'm glad you brought up the 'addiction' word....being on the medication chronically for a true medical reason, with the ability to function normally and use of the med to treat your pain relieves you of the concern for that BAD word....you are not addicted. Yes, there develops a dependence on the drug so that you can function normally. I have patients that are on 80-100mg oxycontin every 12 hrs that are driving, go to high level jobs and basically are functioning because of the pain relieve they get with the Rx.
Don't ever feel the stigma society wants to tack to your forehead about addiiction....this is NOT FOR PLEASURE/RECREATION!! The only pleasure you get is by experiencing life again pain free so that you can return to 'normal' ....keep on truckin'.
Are you on combo Tx, i.e., a non-steroidal also.....you likely should be.
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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