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Re: Depression & Pain Meds

Group: alt.support.chronicpain · Group Profile
Author: LoriB.o.B.
Date: Jun 11, 2008 20:38

Hi Rog,
Do u feel depressed perhaps because u need the pain meds...because of
what's causing the pain? Also, u r not on a very good or strong pain
med imo, tho I don't know what u take it for. Soon as I see "fiorcet"
I think migraines or headaches...which I don't know that much about
but others here do.
I'd think u would feel depressed because of the pain u r kept in. Is
it worse since u lowered your dose, as that's how I read it? If u
can't talk to your dr about your pain being unrelieved, time to find a
new doc! I know it's not easy but things can be better for you than
they are, imo!
Kindly,
LoriBoB
http://www.painreliefnetwork.org/prn/category/mainpage

On Jun 11, 7:18 pm, rog...@webtv.net wrote:

> Has any of you noticed that after you have been taking a pain med for a
> while you feel a depression related to the taking of your pain meds ?
> At the beginning of the year I had been on the highest dose of fioriceet
> w/codeine recomended (8 a day). Knowing my doc will stop prescribing if
> I tell him I decided to detox myself slowly. I am now down to 2-3 a day
> but the depression is so great I am almost unable to function and this
> scares me because I live alone and I need to function enough to live. I
> see my doc in a couple of weeks (my once a year visit). I don't want to
> tell him whats going on cause the last time I did this he just wanted to
> end pain meds altogether. As I think you all know the doc is more
> worried about his ___ than our pain. Well at least mine is ....

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