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Physical Dependence versus Mental Addiction. They are not the same condition! Quit treating them as though they are.
I'd LOVE to know why everyone , especially chronic pain patients have been given this diagnosis and treated as though we are addicts not to mention being cut off our pain medication that helps us function everyday. Without it our simple day to day living has been resorted to barely getting by like being bedridden, trying to choose between life or death because being cut down to less than nothing isn't living. No one wants to listen to us, everyone thinks we're abusing our medication, our children are so frustrated with us although we NEVER chose to live this way either and let's not forget about the fact that a lot of us have diseases and diagnosis that medical professionals have no idea how to cure or what's even causing our pain yet we lay here day after day, year and year (in my case 25 years) in unmeasurable pain. If there something out there FDA approved to help pain why don't we have access to yet?
One last question that I'd REALLY loved answered is : how much pain is to much before we decide we've had enough? I've been very patient for 25 years but I'm near the end of my patients as I'm getting absolutely no where!!!!
