Posted by sgoose on December 5, 2004, at 17:04:09
i've been struggling with chronic pain for well over a year now and have gotten nothing but chiropractic and physical therapy. i wish those non-med solutions had worked but they only made a small dent into my rampant pain. so last week i awoke to another massive headache and called my dr. for an emergency appointment, as i'm at the end of a semester with a heavy workload that is much harder with this pain and the (IMO) undertreated ADHD I am also dealing with. For the ADHD I am on dexedrine 10mg capsure once a day and 10mg tablet once a day. I also take Klonopin 1mg twice a day (anxiety).
So.. i get into the GP's office and start rattling off my problems, get asked the usual pain questions I've answered way too many times now. Out of the blue she says 'narcotics aren't the way to go here' .... strange because I never have requested or spoke of narcotic pain pills. So I walk out 2 scripts. Nortriptyline 25mg before bedtime and 25mg indomethacin at bedtime.
When I picked up the pills my pharmacist says: "do you have GOUT??" which i certainly do not. This is the second time he has been puzzled by my doctor's script writing.
Can anyone put this in perspective and/or help me on how to talk correctly about my pain to the doctor?? Is it unreasonable to think of narcotic pain relievers in this situation? My doctors seem to be going out of their way to avoid the narcotics. I have no past history of any sort of substance abuse, despite having schedule II scripts in my hands for seven years now..
thx in advance!
poster:sgoose
thread:424906
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