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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 medications. 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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