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I find this topic incredible relevant to me right now. As I have mentioned, I am looking for a new pain management doctor and I am legitimately worried about my continued access to opioid pain medications, medications that are making a real difference in the way I manage my fibromylagia pain.
Before I started seeing my last doctor, I was never offered opioid pain medicine to manage my pain. For 7 years I lived with severe pain on a daily basis and had to figure out ways to "grin and bear it," primarily through self management techniques.
I am grateful that opioid pain medication is now a part of my overall pain management strategy. That said, it is only one piece of the puzzle and it certainly does not take my pain away, only reduces it. No, I still need to keep employing all the other strategies at my disposable to manage my pain on a daily basis. It is just a bit easier to do so when I have pain medications as part of my arsenal.
My situation is not unique. Unfortunately, this is a hard, cold reality for many of us who are living with chronic pain: we all are living with more pain than we should. I would love to see that change in my lifetime.
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