Posted by nikioct73 on August 21, 2002, at 17:01:36
In reply to Re: Post surgical pain, crash and burn depression, posted by oracle on August 21, 2002, at 11:51:48
Only 2% of persons taking narcotics for chronic pain develop a addticion requiring medical intervention...your MD's are right if you have pain take the pain med's but you bring up a good point about the Tegretol/neurotin..what is better..to use for long term control..I guess you would have to weight the side effect of both in the longand short term. If you have not had problems with coming off the narcotic's and your Doc has no problems prescribing them to you i would jump for JOY...as for the BP2 ...you on a mood stabilzer??..your right talk TX usually is ineffective when you are rapidly cycling...so you would need that before anything else ...some of the med's used for long term pain management also help a great deal in certain people with BP2...like the ones you mentioned...Good luck..
niki
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