I wouldn't expect my doctor to do anything. He's the doctor. I would just hope that he would do what he knows is best.

There comes a point where enough narcotic pain killers to knock out severe pain also happens to be too much to continue any normal activities. In that case, your choices are either continue normal activities in pain (only dulled a bit) or take enough to kill the pain but end up laying around doing nothing.

Bill this has to be you again and with severe pain just put me to sleep forever never to feel pain again ah yes

> I wouldn't expect my doctor to do anything. He's the doctor. I would
> just hope that he would do what he knows is best.

Sleep sleep forever no more pain ever again bury me in that box

I'd expect my doctor to try to help me correct the condition that was causing the pain.

If that's not possible and the pain is too severe, why should I have a problem with taking prescribed narcotics as directed?

Of course I would if I had a doctor.

I would expect treatment, pain killers or otherwise

If I didn't get a prescription for strong painkillers, I'd be pretty pissed at my doctor.

Eh. I don't know.

I'm fairly wary of narcotics. Narcotics make me spacey. Also, they are addictive and people addicted to narcotics suck. I don't want that.

What I'd really want would be some solution that would somehow eliminate the source of the pain.

I don't tend to have a ton of expectations from doctors.

If I had chronic pain for so long and it was bad enough that I was seeking narcotics for it with no real sign of ever getting off of them, I would probably need some anti-depressants too because I would be very unhappy about the whole situation.

I wonder what the relationship between chronic pain being under-treated and prescription narcotics being abused is. I mean, do we really want to put all those people with chronic pain on narcotics?

Maybe, there are other treatments... I used to have some sciatica (back/leg pain) but regular exercise resolved it. Also, acupuncture has been proven to help with pain relief. I'd certainly try these before using narcotics indefinitely.

It would depend on if I had any other options. If not, then yes.

I would seek and try to find the root of the problem.

Many years ago, my daughter's former husband's father had terminal cancer. The doctors would not give him enough pain killers to ease the pain, because "they didn't want to addict him to the drugs". I was told by his wife, he ran through the house looking for the drugs, he was only allowed a little each day. She went through hell seeing her husband crying, screaming for relief of the pain. I have seen some pretty dumb things done by doctors, but the poor man was dying, and they didn't want him addicted? Really insane. I have learned over the years to dislike the medical community, many of whom are so inept. A few years ago, a family sued a hospital and doctors for not giving their father some comfort in his dying days, with some pain killers. Since many of the medical community don't want to really heal people, due to not wanting to lose their blood money/profits, the least they can do is give them pain killers.

it is possible but i think it is all in the mind most of the time

He did ........ had terrible backpain about 2 weeks ago he gave me Voltaren apparently very strong pain killer with codeine

When my brother was alive, I took a pain management course at the hospital, to control his pain. He took different drugs for pain,every 5 to 7 days his pain pills were changed instead of upping the dose, this got rid of most of his pain, and he did sleep alot, but at least he was not as miserable.

i would expect to be treated for my chronic pain. i also understand the difficulty for the medical community and patients with chronic pain. i have been involved with true drug seeking patients who do most anything to obtain narcotics(including burning themselves and causing a 2nd-3rd degree burns multiple times) and also with patients with chronic undertreated pain. it is hard to treat appropriately at times. that all being said: i would expect to be treated for my pain with whatever is needed to continue normal activities safely. narcotics aren't always the answer.

Since many of the medical community don't want to really
> heal people, due to not wanting to lose their blood money/profits,
> the least they can do is give them pain killers.

in my experience working in the medical community, the majority of the medical community does want to help and heal patients........... and they also want to do their best for every patient. many physicians in the US, practice defensive medicine because of law suits.
as far as terminal patients, most physicians i have worked with will ease a patient's pain at most any cost but the problem in the US is that families sue physicians for "killing" their terminally ill relatives with pain medications. it is a double edged sword, you can have a family member in pain or they may stop breathing due to the medications............ physicians lose licenses for overmedicating terminally ill patients!
i completely agree that terminally ill pts should not be in pain but the families have to understand that they need to help to change laws in the US as well.

I agree with you, people need to help change the laws. I understand, with the sue happy society we're in today, the worry of the doctors, and liability. I'll assume with the huge law suit filed by the family I spoke of, and they did win the case, this case will make some changes in the right direction. This is a tough subject.

If nothing else would help me function, yes.

I would only take continuous narcotics if I had already decided I was just going to sit around and watch TV and waste away. I couldn't function on drugs like that.

I do have severe chronic pain and have been trying to get my stupid doc to give me drugs..lots of good drugs... So far only Percocet...

Yeah.

fudge the pills...simply smoke a bit. it helps everything

yes

No, I don't expect much from a doctor these days, I instantly seek alternative medicine for cures rather hiding pain, chronic or not. Doctors, in my humble opinion are only good for dispensing band ades.

Only if I asked for it.