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> His doctor just decided to not prescribe opoids for any reason. From my unerstanding, you can only take them for about a week before they become addictive, a
by orthecreedence 5y ago
> His doctor just decided to not prescribe opoids for any reason.
From my unerstanding, you can only take them for about a week before they become addictive, and that in itself is fine, but they become less and less effective as time goes on as well. You've got to take more and more to get the same effect.
Opioids are really only good for short-term pain. Also, doctors are really under the gun right now because they have been overprescribing opioids for years and a non-trivial segment of the population (at least in the US) is addicted to them.
- superduperycomb 5y agoI hope your friend can seek another doctor if this is debilitating. Empathy doesn’t always get a fair voice in prescribing guidelines / decisions
- nonameiguess 5y agoThis is absolutely not true for everyone. I took oxycodone for three years without ever getting addicted, and it never stopped working. Thankfully, eventually enough surgeries and physical therapy finally worked to where I don't really need pharmaceutical pain management beyond normal OTC stuff, but for a while, there was no way I could have handled life without a whole lot of schedule II help, and I'm glad as hell this was before the addiction problem really took off in these economically depressed places among people who are jobless with terrible lives and no prospects and everyone blaming the drugs, so my doctors were never pressured into not prescribing them for people they clearly worked for.
- Retric 5y agoIt’s a shockingly common outcome though. Long term opioid use occurs in about 4% of people following their use for trauma or surgery related pain.. The odds get much worse when prescribed for long periods.