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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 637149" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>Janet, it does sound like you are dealing with a pill mill. I know that when husband was in a hospital-affiliated pain management program that there were all sorts of non-drug therapies included.</p><p></p><p>Stuff like acupuncture, massage, physical therapy, counselling, etc. Sounds like your place just runs you in and out. Do you even see a MD or NP, or just PAs?</p><p></p><p>A red-flag for me about your place is that they haven't even addressed the constipation from pain medications. A "bowel protocol" was part and parcel of husband's pain management plan. As a result, he never had to deal with the problems you've had.</p><p></p><p>I wish you could find a different pain clinic in your area. I worry about you taking pain medications without proper supervision. A good pain clinic can come up with an indivualized "cocktail" of medications that takes care of the pain without side-effects (until you go on the big guns. husband had to quit driving when he went on Dilaudid) that affect your quality of life.</p><p></p><p>You should be followed by a bariatric specialist. husband didn't have a problem with overweight. Instead he had trouble keeping weight on that dated back to long before he got sick. He worked with a nutritionist to come up with an eating plan that he could tolerate that would keep his weight up. I know for a fact that help with weight LOSS was also offered by the clinic.</p><p></p><p>Pain control is only part of the picture. Pain management has to deal with the WHOLE patient to work properly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 637149, member: 1963"] Janet, it does sound like you are dealing with a pill mill. I know that when husband was in a hospital-affiliated pain management program that there were all sorts of non-drug therapies included. Stuff like acupuncture, massage, physical therapy, counselling, etc. Sounds like your place just runs you in and out. Do you even see a MD or NP, or just PAs? A red-flag for me about your place is that they haven't even addressed the constipation from pain medications. A "bowel protocol" was part and parcel of husband's pain management plan. As a result, he never had to deal with the problems you've had. I wish you could find a different pain clinic in your area. I worry about you taking pain medications without proper supervision. A good pain clinic can come up with an indivualized "cocktail" of medications that takes care of the pain without side-effects (until you go on the big guns. husband had to quit driving when he went on Dilaudid) that affect your quality of life. You should be followed by a bariatric specialist. husband didn't have a problem with overweight. Instead he had trouble keeping weight on that dated back to long before he got sick. He worked with a nutritionist to come up with an eating plan that he could tolerate that would keep his weight up. I know for a fact that help with weight LOSS was also offered by the clinic. Pain control is only part of the picture. Pain management has to deal with the WHOLE patient to work properly. [/QUOTE]
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