Found an interesting website

[Quahog]

I happened upon an interesting website with a lot of documentation on opioids, their use, side effects, etc. from a clinicians point of view.

It is very informative, especially the statement, "With respect to the underlying pain syndrome, opioids have been shown to be effective in essentially every pain syndrome in which they have been studied, at least in the short run;" and

" Myth: Opioids are not effective in certain types of pain, such as neuropathic pain.
Reality: There is no pain syndrome which is known to preclude the efficacy of opioids therapy."

Something tells me I need to send a certain Nurse Practitioner I know this publication. The thing is, I doubt it would do any good.

Feel free to check it out

http://www.painedu.org/manual_plus.asp

Glenn

[BrokenBladder]

Quahog thanks for the website I really enjoyed reading it!!

[bewolf]

Good site Quahog, interesting manual too.

[Kathi49]

Good, I am glad the "myth" was dispelled! :)

Opoids, and I take very little, worked much better for my neuropathic pain than Neurontin, Lyrica or Depakote put together. I was forever having breakthrough pain with those three let alone horrendous side effects. And, I never have a problem with my PM prescribing Norco or Vicodin. He knows exactly how much I take; so he really never has "issues" with me taking either one of those (not at the same time of course). I am certainly no doctor and really don't know why the opoids work better; they just do. :)