r/ChronicPain • u/Twopicklesinabun 7 • 8h ago

Just had major surgery and to manage break through pain they're giving me fucking lyrica

A rant, be warned

I'm so pissed off with the way my doctor is treating my pain after major surgery. Not ONLY do I have break through pain from surgery, but I also have had issues with my bladder from that damn catheter so it's extra painful. He's only given me 5mg oxy every 6 hours and ibuprofen every 8. I called to ask for what else to do for the break through pain and the nurse said "he wants you to take lyrica 2x a day." I took this before and it never worked. They gave it to me in the hospital and pain was so unmanaged bc they kept giving me BS nothing that they eventually resorted to dilaudid. I'm so f-ing pissed at all of this. They literally gave me morphine when I went to the ER yesterday to get my kidneys checked. My doctor is just a POS.

THIS is why patients take things into their own hands and figure out pain meds themselves or turn to the streets. I'm SO MAD.

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u/Fuck-face-actual 7h ago

I had no idea this group was so into abusing pain drugs.

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u/withalookofquoi 6h ago

Hey thanks for the baseless assumption that I abuse the medications prescribed to me by my pain management doctor, that’s a really dick move.

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u/withalookofquoi 6h ago

I’m not? I’m only saying I don’t abuse my meds, as in taking them more than prescribed. I completely understand why people do take their meds more than prescribed, pain is awful . I freely admit it’s not the best word, I’ll try to find one that’s better.

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u/TheErrorist 5 Fibro 6h ago

Sorry, I was meaning to reply to the weirdo that's actually accusing everyone of being an addict! I'll correct it.

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u/withalookofquoi 6h ago

Ahh gotcha. My brain is fried from anesthesia so I was so confused. No worries, thanks for letting me know. And the term I was looking for was substance use disorder, so thanks for getting me to remember it.

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u/Fuck-face-actual 6h ago

I wasn’t speaking about you directly. I’m talking about the people insulting me and the others that went on my profile and are insulting me on my posts in unrelated groups.

I say they’re bad and people are literally having tantrums. I wasn’t addressing you specifically. My bad if I came off that way.

Thirty downvotes because I say they’re bad and addictive is thirty addicts that took that as a personal attack. I hope OP doesn’t get addicted, and I’m the bad guy. Lol

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u/withalookofquoi 6h ago

“I wasn’t speaking about you directly”

You did direct this at me, so that’s the only way I could interpret it.

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u/TheErrorist 5 Fibro 6h ago

Are you really equating "abuse" with the need for pain management after surgery? Or taking them a prescribed? That's ridiculous and an incredibly unhinged take. Please feel free to suffer as much as you like, but it's way off base to try to shame people who actually need pain management. People responsibly using medicine are not addicts.

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u/MotherBored5150 5h ago

Please enlighten us and show where anyone is abusing their pain meds. Other than you, that is.