It's no big secret that I've taken pain meds for YEARS. It's about the only way you manage the pain of falling 36ft off of a telephone pole, or from being mugged, then dragged by a car at 60mph.

You don't usually get to my age without aches and pains.

Due to new "government guidelines (DEA), family physicians are facing a crackdown on the type and frequency of meds that they prescribe... at my doctor's, they are commonly referred to as "bluescripts". You know the ones... the "sought after" stuff.

As I've said, I've taken the stuff for years. Am I adicted, no I don't think so. I start and stop the stuff at will. (doesn't that sound familiar?) Have I built up a tolorance to it... most likely. In any event, there are certain things that I must take, that there are no replacements for... such as for anxiety. And then there are the things that only seem to work on me... also in the same family, but for pain and spasms. Sadly, there doesnt seem to be a doctor around that will now prescribe this combination. Oh, I should mention here, that the meds that were prescribed, were only for 30 days at a time, no more that 60 pills at a time. (remember this)

Oh well... off to the Pain Managment Specialist. N

FOUR hours later... I walk out with a script for Lyraca (side effects, will make you sleepy, AND make you feel high ... so they say) pain patches. muscle relaxors.. and will you believe this... they argued with me until they were blue in the face that they WOULD NOT give me the same pain med.... REFUSED! and when I got home and looked it up on the internet... it is the SAME MED minus half the tylenol. Only get this.. I'm now given 6 SIX times as many.... *shakes head*

Am I missing something here.... I can take a tylenol with each pain med (if I chose) and "make" the same drug at home. These people are just idiots. I actually came out of this new clinic with MORE meds that I went in on. Well, at least I shouldn't be hurting, and that was the goal all along.