I have been taking Hydrocodone 10mg, for 5 years now. I take it for chronic pain from my surgery when they took out my right lung because of lung cancer. I have 7compreshion fractures in my spine. I also have severe peripheral neuroapahy. The foot burning gets so bad that I start vomiting, then pass out and wake up at the hospital, and this can happen a couple of times a week. In the beginning, they had me on Gabapentin, Lyrica. They tried everything. I finally had enough!!... I had to become my own advocate, who is going to advocate for me?? No one!!!... I started to make a list of EVERYTHING I wanted to discuss with my Doctor. I made it clear that I am the only one who knows my body!!! These "Doctors" and "people" WORK FOR US !!! WE ARE THE BOSS!!!!!... My PCP told me that "PCP'S haven't any business prescribing pain meds. for people with chronic pain"... "A pain specialist was necessary because they are the ones who REALLY UNDERSTAND and have the POWER to give you THE MEDICATION YOU KNOW YOU NEED!!!"... Yes, I Screamed, Hollard, and Yelled. I was willing to through a Temper tantrum, and I through and I through them.. I know that Doctors are very intimadating but I just kepted Pushing. Got refured by my PCP to a Pain Clinic and now I have a Pain specialest who deals with all my Pain issues... My PCP handels the rest... Dont get me wrong. it didnt hapen over night.I have low self esteem so it was exstreemly hard for me to do. it gets easer the more you are heard .........Be Heard!!!! Try your best!!... IT IS THE SQUKY WHEEL THAT GETS OILED!!!! My best of luck!!!...Much Love I hope everyone gets what thea NEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HUGS!

I was taking norco 10 mg 3 times a day when in January 2020 they cut me back to 2 times a day. I'm still struggling to figure out how to stretch a pill. DEA has mandated cuts on opiods thinking it will stop abusers from using. That's a load of bull manure! Gun control never worked, so, why do they think penalizing honest persons will ever stop illegal use???
One day doctors and law makers will find out what it's like. I hope they never have a bad back like mine. It disrupts your very being. 62 years old and healthy except for my back pain.

Had a t.i.a. In o1 it was horrible couldn't speak for over 15 hours

I "climbed" the WHO pain ladder as recommended by my neurologist for my chemo induced peripheral neuropathy and found that only Percocet worked for me...45mg/day. Not pain free but at least I can sleep better. We pain patients are being persecuted due to a hysteria created by PROP and one Dr. Kolodny...go ahead...look it up for yourself. It's unconscionable!

Then, contact your State legislators and tell them about the intractable pain you are enduring from your State Medical Board due to their inability/unwillingness to understand that pain patients across America are suffering horrendous and unbearable levels of pain caused by State Medical Boards and the DEA who are imposing non-evidence based medical rules regarding controlled prescription pain medications, resulting in severe pain medicine shortages, thereby forcing legitimate pain patients to seek pain relief from unregulated sources, causing a worsening of our fellow citizens suffering from Fentanyl poison and death!

We must each find the strength to tell them, and to tell them in numbers too big to ignore...or they will in fact...ignore us! 💜

Had a 12 hr back surgery in 2017..couldn't walk but my 70 year old neurologist fixed me!!!!☺️☺️ still hurt tho but I can walk!!! PRAISE GOD