How do doctors get away with playing "God" with those of us with pain and suffering.  If we need pain meds then listen to us.  We are not turtles just living in our shells we do feel the body we live in.  I understand that they have guidelines and have to check our liver panel now and then but don't leave us stranded with nothing and make us suffer more.  My pain started 11 years ago when i birthed my second child and he was 9 lb and 9 oz and that doctor decided to make me go all 'Natural' and i broke my back and never had an epidural or anything and i am still in pain 11 years later.  I finally had emergency back surgery this summer on August 2nd now i have 4 screws fusing my L4 L5 and S1 together and he removed a portion of the broken tailbone but had to leave the rest behind (no pun intended) as it was so far embedded into me.  I have 2 bulging disc w/tears where the screws are in my facet joints to prevent the sciatica pain from returning.  Well i am not healed yet, i also suffer fibromyalgia from 2 car accidents, migraines and post traumatic stress and SAD.  So if i say i am in pain and nothing over the counter helps and i can't carry my heating pad around with me all day give me some fricken relief!!!!!  Others on my support sites get Methadone and Morphine and whatever they need but i have never abused my meds and have to fight tooth and nail to get a little dose of something.  I am a 40 year old mother not a drug addict.  It is freezing cold here in MI and i also need knee surgery now.  I am scared because it feels like the nerve pain is coming back down my left leg again and if that happens i will quit!  I know others have it worse than i do, but everyone feels and deals with the pain differently and i have already had 11 years of this and not to mention an abusive marriage before that and so i want to start living again and get this pain at a level where i can function and have a somewhat decent quality of life again for my sake and my childrens.

Thanks for the Zubby site and congrats to Randy and Randy's Girl for your hard work to see your dream come true!!!!