Being treated like a liar?

[Paulington]

Make this a short one..

Basically, my previous drug pile was this:

https://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w182/OllieePaul/drugpile2.jpg.

That has now been brought down to this:

https://i54.tinypic.com/t6z2o0.jpg.

From left to right:

Mix of 5/10mg 12-hour release Oxycodone.
5mg instant release Oxycodone.
500mg Paracetamol caplets.

Now, as far as I'm concerned, this reduction is vastly better. I appreciate Oxycodone is STRONG (Roughy ~3x stronger than heroin orally). Those 3 drugs manage my pain to a very tolerable level and most of the time almost eliminate it which I am happy as larry with.

But when I walk into the Doctor's, sit down and say I am running out of these medications, it's always the same:

Walk in,
Sit down,
Ask for more medication as I'm running out, but they still work very well,
15 minute lecture on how the drugs are so dangerous and addictive,
5 minutes of implying I'm a liar just wanting drugs,
eventually get the medications that make me pain free.

Whilst I appreciate someone of my age (18) on some of the strongest opiates known to man and a lot of them is a bit mad, but when I walk in with my Mum asking for the required medication and then proceed to feel like I'm being treated like a liar really grinds my gears.

I also appreciate that whilst he does get people coming in just for drugs as they are addicted/dependant, surely as a trained GP should be able to tell the difference between a 35 year old addict coming in and an 18 year old with a MASSIVE accident on his record that needs them to function.

As the Doctor said, this stuff is usually for patients with disseminated cancer and other things with an objective proof of the source of pain whereas with me they have just have my say-so. Whilst this should be an expressed concern, I resent being treated as if I am just wanting drugs for the sake of it where in reality I need them to function as no lower painkillers work, we started at codeine and tried alternatives/stronger meds until we found what worked.

Does anyone else ever feel like this or would hate being treated the same way?

TL;DR: I use very strong opiates a lot to function, when I want more I get treated and made to feel like I'm a liar, it sucks, anyone else get this or would resent it?
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[colin1]

If you were a liar, you would consciously be giving false information. I dont know how much pain you are in without drugs, so I dont know if you need the super-strength stuff. But I do know that a friend who had his appendix removed was on morphine, he was in hospital and there was some kind of click to use delivery system. He was using it quite a bit and he thought he needed it as much as he was using it, but they reduced the amount he could self administer. Afterwards, he realised some of the need for more, was cos its rather moreish.

Opiates are serious stuff, so I think it's good they give a bit of thought to whether you really need it. Bottom line is, they are wary, but you still got the stuff, so all works out ok really.

But yeah it is shit if it feels like someone is accusing you of doing something you havnt. In this case lying.
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[Tarmacsurfer]

[Paulington]

[Paulington]

[G]

The doctor may well find that nine out of ten people who are in your position are actually lying; addicted to the drugs, wanting to sell them on etc.
So that being the case, it doesn't seem unreasonable for the doctor to at least try and ascertain what's going on. Often the most desperate are the best at giving a convincing lie .

In retrospect, it'd have been nice if the GP I saw realised they were happily prescribing me another big box of addictive pills that it turned out didn't massively help.

[panrider_uk]

I don't believe you

Mark
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[colin1]

It may be slightly annoying to get the drugs, but be suspected of lying, but think how much worse it would be to be suspected of lying and not get the drugs.
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[Paulington]

[Tarmacsurfer]

[dextersaurus]

Be careful though, lass i'm seeing had a lot of back problems, and ended up addicted to codeine, so now she can't touch painkillers or anything of the like.

Though i had the same experience when i needed more, went up and they give me a big lecture on how easy it is to become addicted, and that if i can function without the medication i should.

My GP mentioned something about the pain i'm in being all in my head, just to get more of the stuff.

i'll probably be put back on something not as strong for my hip, fuck knows how that's going to turn out... The stuff i have just now is pretty decent but if i run out or get weaker stuff, i'll go back to having problems walking.


NHS have been terrible recently for me... so private is the way to go.

[J0Al1]

What is causing the pain? What is being done to rectify that? Drugs only mask it.

Was the accident a very recent thing and you are still mending?
ie broken bones, internal injury?

[Paulington]

[J0Al1]

Poor you, sounds horrible. I hope for you sake you are off the soon.

[garyd]

Liar Liar ya bums on fire
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[The999Kid]

do you have the surgeons reports for the initial procedures for the insertion of the metalwork, and X-rays of the 4 wedge shaped vetebrae?

Possibly take them into your next doctors Appt for the repeat prescription and say, "this is what im dealing with... could i actually have the medication without 1001 questions"

Assuming that your doctor has seen you on enough occasions to know who you are and that your appts seem to be taking the same monotonous route month after month?
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[Ariel Badger]

Have you tried Reiki or Chrystal Healing?
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