marinesargeant

The unrelenting bull that we are being put through is not going to stop overdoses. However those in politics do not seem to understand that or just don’t care. It is sad that while there is an absolute need to help those souls who are fighting the demon of addiction that isn’t what is happening. This has become a political issue when it should be…[Read more]

Guit30,

I am so happy to hear that you are now getting your medications filled with no hassle. We have enough to deal with on a daily basis and we don’t need anymore.

Take care,
Noki4

Hi Tiltnturn,

Welcome to the TPC family. I hope you are having a low pain day.

Noki4

Durango430,

This is the way it has been explained to me by my health care provider. Regardless of what type of opioid pain medications you are using, it must equal out to be no more than 90 milligrams of morphine, if you were taking morphine.
The 90 milligrams of morphine is being used as the goal post and the CDC guidelines say that if you must…[Read more]

Guit30,

Do I understand your last post to mean that you are now able to get your medications filled?

Noki4

The same thing is happening here in WV. The state took the CDC Opioid Guidelines meant strictly as guidelines for primary care providers and added to them. Since July of 2017 they have been in the process of trying to make everyone who has Medicaid or Medicare wean off of opioids and go below the recommendations of using at or below the equivalent…[Read more]

Guit30,

It is the stigma of living with chronic pain. There has been so much negative information put out to the public in regards to opioids and chronic pain patients. This has been brewing for some years however it exploded when the CDC put out the guidelines in using opioid medications that were meant for primary care providers. All types of…[Read more]

Hi Kristy,

Thank you for sharing this with us, we are so pleased to read this. We are committed to doing all we can to help people with pain find ways to interact with others because we are also live with pain and we understand how isolating the pain can be.

Take care,

TPC Yaya
TPC Community Moderator

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Kristy,

Welcome to The Pain Community. We do wish it was under different circumstances. If we can help you in anyway please let us know.

Take care,

TPC Yaya
TPC Community Moderator

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Hello Durango430,

Welcome to The Pain Community (TPC). We do wish we were meeting under different circumstances. We have known many who suffer with the Trigeminal Neuralgia and we are so sorry to read your post and how this came to be.

We are committed to providing you with the tools, resources, support and coaching you need to be your own best…[Read more]

Jhonsontic,

It is our pleasure to help you in anyway we can. We would like to also let you know that we have live hosted chats here on the website on Monday – Wednesday – Friday at 11:00 AM ET.

We also have support calls every Tuesday and you can look at that schedule at this link;…[Read more]

Hello Guit30,

Welcome to The Pain Community (TPC). We also responded to your message on the other forum however like Noki4 we wanted to also post here.

We are sorry to hear that you are having issues filling your prescriptions from your health care provider. As Noki4 mentioned this is in part due to the new guidelines that pharmacies are putting…[Read more]

Hello Guit30,

Welcome to The Pain Community (TPC). We are sorry to hear that you are having issues filling your prescriptions from your health care provider. As Noki4 mentioned this is in part due to the new guidelines that pharmacies are putting in place.

If you have tried speaking to the pharmacist and your doctor has tried and they still…[Read more]

Hi Guit30,

I responded to your other message about this but I am also going to share what I wrote here in case you miss the other one. There are a lot of people having this issue.

The CDC came out with Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids due to the opioid of overdoses. Since then pharmacies have implemented new rules saying that they will not…[Read more]

Hi Guit30, it is nice to meet you. I understand a life of back pain, I have lived half of my life time with back pain (25 years). I have Degenerative joint disease, sciatica, neuropathy, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, sjogren’s syndrome, spinal stenosis and more.

In 2016 the CDC came out with Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids due to the…[Read more]

Hello Johnsontic,

Here are a few of the alternative treatments that may help to ease the knee pain you are experiencing. Before trying any of these alternative treatments it is important to talk to your doctor so they can help you decide what treatments may be right for you to try to help manage your symptoms.

Massage therapy
Aqua…[Read more]

Hello Jhonsontic,

We hope that you will find our website and the forums to be helpful. If there is anything we can help you with please let us know.

TPC YaYa
TPC Community Moderator

“The views or opinion(s) contained herein do not necessarily represent those of The Pain Community.”

Hi Terri,

We do understand the impact that chronic pain has on our mental health. Chronic pain isn’t just the pain — it is also how the pain impacts our whole lives and how it limits us from interacting with family & friends and the world in general.

We found this to be such a huge problem and concern for people living with pain that we started…[Read more]

1fortunateone1,

I somehow missed your reply please accept my apologies. How are you doing now? Has the additional pain eased as you were hoping it would do? I do hope that you have found some relief for the pain.

I also want to invite you to check out the, Outreach Support Conference calls every Tuesday where you can talk to others who are also…[Read more]

Hi Alpha Mode,

This is something that I have not heard much about. I will look into it and see what research that I can come with and get back to you as soon as possible.

Take care,

TPC YaYa
TPC Community Moderator

“The views or opinion(s) contained herein do not necessarily represent those of The Pain Community.”