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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know of any direct impacts in my family, but FIL was an ER doc and saw plenty of pill-seekers through his career. He stopped practicing after a car-accident left him only able to walk short distances. He underwent 5 surgeries, two were longer than 12 hours...and he spent months just waiting for the swelling to go down to get his legs put back together. Even still, we had to convince him to take the morphine in the hospital. He couldn't have borne the pain without it, but he hated every day he had to take it...and switched to non-opioid pain relief as soon as he could tolerate it.

I find it very odd how willing doctors are to prescribe opioids. I had an excruciating neck spasm after delivering my first, and I was desperate to figure out what I could do to relieve it...and it didn't help that DD couldn't latch and we ended up needing an extra night in the hospital because she wasn't peeing enough. The only thing they would offer me was more narco, until I figured out that maybe a muscle relaxant (non-opioid) would help. It did...and I never even had my narco prescription filled. They offered me narco again after DS was born, and again I was refused because motrin was fine.

My parents are both MDs, and even though my mom has had chronic back pain her whole life she never took an opioid pain killer. Doctors know what these pills can do...I don't know why they blithely prescribe them.[/quote]

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