The elderly are being denied helpful pain medicine by paranoid medical doctors

Icon for Aging with an Attitude Aging with an Attitude · Follow Answered by Robert LeVan Oct 14 [ "What’s the hardest part about getting older that no one ever talks about at all? Nobody really talks about the pain. I don't mean occasional aches and pains. I mean relentless pain 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Pain that wakes you up several times a night. Pain that stops you from doing the things you enjoy. I can no longer ride my beloved horse because of the pain in my hips. She misses it too. Yeah sure, you can take things like naproxen or Ibuprofen, or something stronger prescribed by a doctor, but they all have bad side effects such as gastrointestinal issues that you have to take other pills to fix. Once a week or so I'll take some of those things just so I can get a decent night's sleep. I have a small homestead that requires a lot of physical work, so you learn to put up with pain, but it wears on you mentally and emotionally as well as physically and you can't complain about it because no one wants to hear it. The worst part about it, is it the drugs that really work for the pain are extremely hard to get because the DEA comes down too hard on the doctors and they don't want to prescribe them even if you would only use them to sleep. So we put up with it, take days off and we should be working on something, take naps frequently enough that your loved ones commented about it, but you can't ever say that you're doing what you're doing or not doing something because of pain." ]