15 year old with extreme back pain being prescribed painkillers?
Friday, December 11th, 2009 at
3:10 pm
I am 15 years old with degenerative disc disorder/extreme back pain. I can barley do day to day activities. i have tried anti-inflamitory drugs both OTC and prescription, with no help at all. Do you think i could be prescribed painkillers? I am not trying to just get messed up on them or anything i can barely walk anymore.
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I totally sympathize with you. I had my first back surgery at 15 and 29 years later still has back pain. On top of the two herniated discs I have arthritis and scar tissue jamming up my sciatic nerve.
Your doctor can prescribe painkillers for your condition.According to my experience, however, this won’t do much good.The problem is twofold; Firstly many of the medications have side effects that are quite undesirable. Narcotic-based drugs often cause nausea and constipation.
Secondly, It’s very difficult to find a medication that works for you. Different medications affect different people differently. I was never able to find a medication that was just right for me. Either they didn’t relieve enough of my pain or they did but I was seeing singing birds and pink elephants.
In either case one has to evaluate carefully the pros and cons of taking a medication. It’s also well advised to keep in mind that painkillers are often highly addictive. This means that there’s a chance that your body develops a need for the drug and causes extreme discomfort when you can’t have the drug. This opens the door to illegal means of getting the drug, abuse of the drug, and medical problems(kidney problems,etc) because of the abuse.
If I were in your shoes I would try to find a more permanent solution to your back problem. Painkillers can only solve your problem(if you’re lucky) for a couple of hours at a time. You should exhaust all avenues of alternative treatments such as physiotherapy, "block" injections, chiropractic, anything else that might get you some good results.
Try Medical Marijuana It’s a pain killer
And you can smoke it legally
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my father and I both have this
in addition I have scoliosis
so I think it is very possible to get prescribed painkillers(btw im also 15)
This is the second question I’ve answered about a teenager having debilitating back pain. A teenager shouldn’t have debilitating back pain! Honestly, I really doubt that you have a debilitating disc disorder unless you have some other medical problem going on that I don’t know about.
When you have some time, type in "tension myositis syndrome" and "Dr. John Sarno" into an internet search engine. They have to do with the connection between back pain and repressed anger. Check it out. It might help you.
Your doctor can prescribe painkillers for your pain.
Many people are unjustifiably afraid of opioid painkillers (which is probably what you have in mind). Opioids have a bad reputation but it is largely undeserved. They are still the most effective painkillers by far, and are often the medication of choice for severe pain. They do have side effects (CNS depression, constipation, etc.) and they tend to produce tolerance and dependence, but their advantages outweigh their disadvantages for severe pain.
People who take opioids by prescription specifically for severe pain typically do not become psychologically addicted to them, and can easily be weaned off of them once the cause of the pain is eliminated. There’s no reason to avoid opioid painkillers when they are the best tool for the job. Unfortunately, even many doctors are wary about prescribing them, in part because they are so heavily regulated, and in part because they worry unjustifiably about turning people into addicts.
Other painkillers don’t raise any issues at all, as a general rule (acetaminophen, aspirin, etc.), but unfortunately the best painkillers for severe pain are still the opioids.
i can sympathise with the way you are feeling at the moment, the same thing happened to me when i was 14 in my neck…the pain is unbearable.
i was prescribed painkillers and they barely helped, i was given valium which helped the most. It took along time to try and get alot more movement happening, but going to physio helped the most.
try asking for stronger pain manangement and try to get some physio…
i hope that you start gettting better,
goodluck.
You need to apply some DEEP HEAT.