Aww @A MyChronicPainTeam Member I feel for you I really do I take a stomach tablet daily with my ibruprofen to stop irritation it's really good Omeprazole it's called if that helps you I also tried cannabis tincture it was a black oil I just didn't like it I felt so strange not sure if it was the same as you but I felt like I was looking at myself just not a nice feeling everyone said I wouldn't get high in it but I felt it didn't like it all all it's expensive but if it had worked but I can't try that again :( Taking my time to comment about the doc telling you you need to see a psychiatrist because it makes me want to scream how dare he that is so rude and bloody ignorant of him I feel I would have done the same walked out 😡I truly hope you can manage to find a kind caring doctor to help you why do they enter the profession if they don't care? sending lots of ((hugs)) to you today take care xx

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I haven't noticed any change in my appetite. I started doing the PETA November Vegan Challenge over the weekend and am so busy trying to work out what I can and can't eat I don't have time to feel hungry.

I've recently been switched from Cocodamol to Pregabalin and it has made a huge difference. It's not that the pain has gone so much as that its quality has changed and it's now more a numbeness than a sharp, dragging ache. Much easier to cope with and I'm able to sleep through the night with just an occasional top up of Cocodamol if I get breakthrough pain during the night.

I just will never understand how people like us who didn't ask for this daily pain, is treated like drug addicts. Because of some "opiate epidemic " so many people in pain who have been on pain meds for sometime, years are just cut off cold turkey by doctors. I feel that when x-rays speak for someone, then doctors should be able to prescribe what us needed. I don't want to be dependant on pain med but I want to live in pain everthat even less. If a doctor can not distinguish the difference between someone living with chronic pain and a dope seeker, then he isn't much of a doctor. And the CDC should have to live 30 days in pain with only over the counter med to see what we go thru. I'm sorry, I just had to vent. I am just disgusted with doctors who do not lose a minutes sleep at night after sending patients home in pain that could possibly be suicidal.

Hi Maureen can I ask why you stopped taking the other med can you not ask your doctor for more pain killers you clearly need them .Don't like to think you are suffering so much when you don't need to how are things now? (((Hugs))) xxx