Why are doctors reluctant to treat pain?!
Question: why are doctors reluctant, at least in my small town, to treat pain. i've had a diagnose from a major university that recommend analgesics. nerve damage and degenerative bone disease. is it they are afraid of the demonized opiates and might lose their licenses. i thought doctors went to school to help not cower in fear of the FDA. if you live in eastern oregon and know of a pain specialist please tell.
Answers: why are doctors reluctant, at least in my small town, to treat pain. i've had a diagnose from a major university that recommend analgesics. nerve damage and degenerative bone disease. is it they are afraid of the demonized opiates and might lose their licenses. i thought doctors went to school to help not cower in fear of the FDA. if you live in eastern oregon and know of a pain specialist please tell.
Medical schools are now teaching drs more about pain treatment, like how you have to deal with pain or a patient gets sicker, but old school drs are still convinced it's common for people to develop addictions--which of course is not true. Chronic pain patients rarely have problems with narcotics. You may need to travel several miles to a major city to find a decent pain specialist. Often ansthesologists who have pain clinics are good. They can mail you prescriptions if you can't get to their office very often, and they have other drug ideas that can help with pain like anticonvulsants, muscle relaxants, etc. which can be used with opiods. There was a dr recently, Dr. Hurwitz, who was put in jail by treating pain patients. The DEA has scared drs into this--but at the same time the DEA is cracking down on genuinely useful drugs, hospitals are being taught that pain is also a "vital sign" and should be treated as much as any other problem. I think once the new drs now become the mainstream we'll see better treatment, but until then you'll need to search around til you find a brave, helpful dr.
I know what you're going thru. I lived in the sticks of Kansas and have ankylosing spondylitits, Crohn's, interstitial cystitis, and a bunch of others. Usually AS is the sort of disease where drs throw opiods at you, it's so painful, but my small town drs would barely give me Ultram. I had to drive a ways to get to a good pain dr but I found one, and you will too.
Unfortunately, they do cower in fear of their licensing boards and their local district attorney.
Some MD's are finally learning that you cannot hop someone up on pain meds to cure the problem that causes the pain. You should look into other options than a pain management clinic i.e. nerve blocks for your damaged nerve or conservative treatment.
b cus lots of ppl get hooked on meds... and they start using the docs to legally satisfy their addiction.
b cus of those ppl is that youre suffering now.
That fear is felt by drs in small towns and big cities. A guy overdoses on pain killers and the police go running to the drs. or worse. the guy sues. Have you tried searching on your insurances website? Alot of insurance carriers let you search for doctors who they cover.
Isn't Oregon suppose to be the Oxycontin capital of the country with Loggers taking them?
Blame it on Junkies, And Oxycontin. And people that mix pain pills with Xanex and dies. Guess what drug gets the blame? The opiate.