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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s also a large school of thought that untreated pain is a factor in opioid abuse. Treat difficult pain swiftly with the appropriate amount of painkiller, people will be less likely to use painkillers as a crutch.[/quote]

Happened in my family.  Doctors dismissed pain in a teenager, even refusing to write a prescription for a TENS machine (a prescription was needed at the time) and denying any physical therapy for over a year.  Teen eventually was diagnosed with an illness known to be painful, especially in its early stages.

Teen pain must be taken seriously, even if the doctors are convinced it's all in the head.  With their under-developed prefontal cortexes, they give up easily and turn to the street, which they know how to access better than most.

Prescribe physical therapy, give them TENS machines, anything to show you are listening and keep them from the street, even if you don't "believe" teens have pain and think "catering" to it just "feeds" the psychological illness.
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Tens do nothing for me but you can buy them off Amazon and now in stores for $40 or under. You don't need a prescription.

One issue many of us have is doctors either don't know or don't take the time to figure out the pain and just give you the blow off.  One cannot describe long term chronic pain until you experience it.  Some say, my back went out for a few days and took weeks to recover but its nothing like that at all as the pain rarely goes away.  I have horrific migraines that never stop and only get relief from triptans but I can only take so many as I can only get so many and they claim its bad for you.  So, there are days, weeks where I'm basically in bed and rarely leave my house.  I've been hospitalized for it (which is worthless).  Doctors at some point give up and stop trying/searching for why and just throw drugs at you.  I've gotten so many different opioids and other drugs and refuse to take them as I worry about long term use but I can understand why many do it.  I also think there are some who make up the pain for an excuse for these drugs or other drug use which makes those of us with true pain look bad.  Its a bad situation for those of us with unexplained pain.  I wish doctors would take complaints more seriously.[/quote]

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