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Should You Just Keep Taking Pain
Medications?
Robert Filice, M.D. Former staff physician
A reader recently wrote that because they didn't have
insurance, it was
recommended to them by their doctor that they just take
pain medication.
No, it's not a good idea to just keep taking
pain medication!
Here's why:
1. The stronger pain medications can cause dependency, depression, and
also interfere with the bodies attempts to heal damaged tissue. In some
cases pain is actually made worse by such drugs, so the patient ends up
on a vicious downward spiral of more pain, more drugs, and more
depression. Even plain acetomenophen can cause liver damage when used
daily.
2. By pain relievers a doctor may be including the
anti-inflammatory
drugs commonly used in managing chronic musculoskeletal pain. These
drugs can cause ulcers and always completely stop the bodies healing
response, thus ensuring the condition becomes chronic. There are
reliable studies that show that these drugs accelerate the arthritis
process.
3. You are mentally accepting the errant idea that there is nothing else
that can be done to get rid of your pain. This is a dangerous and self
defeating thought to allow into one's brain!
4. Sometimes not having insurance can work to a patient's advantage. If
you have good insurance, it's not unlikely that you will sooner or later
be subjected to unnecessary, ineffective, and dangerous medical
procedures and treatments.
Not having insurance means you have to research all of your options and
find an effective and affordable alternative. One of the best of those
alternatives, in my opinion, is
Prolotherapy.
Prolotherapy, in brief, involves injections of natural substances into
damaged or weakened areas in order to get the body itself to repair the
damaged tissues, and resolve the pain.
Chronic pain is often relievable,
even curable, with Prolotherapy. Depending on the area and the speed of
response, a course of
Prolotherapy may run in the area of $1000 to
$3000. Ask yourself how much will you end up spending on
pharmaceuticals, doctor visits, vitamins, and deductibles over many
years dealing with chronic pain, and then still never solve the problem?
No, whether you have insurance or not, taking pain pills is not the way
to properly manage chronic pain.
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Ross
Hauser M.D.
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