Pain Pills Take Me Out of Work Posted: 01-08-06 03:11am
I had a broken neck back in 1977 and today
suffering from severe neck pain and
numbness in my hand. My doctor has tried
several types of medication and finally I
have been on muscle relaxors and pain
pills. These drugs make me woosey and I
am afraid to go to work while taking them
but I need to take 2 soma 350 and 2
darvacets every 4 to 6 hours. The nurse
at work suggest going on std and the ltd.
Can I do this? If so, what am I
entitled to, I have 4 minor children as
well. I cannot work and take drugs, if I
do I can be fired from the companymif I
get injured or hurt someone else. Am I
entitled to ss and disability for myself
and children?
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Tamadrummer
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 710 Location: Zephyrhills,Fl
Posted: 01-08-06 12:39pm
You need to see about being put on short
term disability so that you can get
acustomed to takign your meds. Also, I
have never seen a doctor prescribe soma
more than 4 tablets a day. If you are
taking 2 every 6 hours, it will take you a
long time to get used to and you may
actually begin to have other symptoms.
It may be necessary for you to have them
prescribe physical therapy and maybe send
you to a pain specialist that can begin a
treatmet regimine to help you cope with
the pain for the long haul. I know it can
be scary to be a chronic pain patient, I
am one too. It does get better as they
get more aggressive in their treatment.
Good luck,
brian
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mintz
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Posts: 5
Aggressive In Their Treatment Posted: 01-09-06 09:25am
What do you mean by this....Aggressive in
their treatment? Are you on ltd. If it
takes me out of work for good....Is there
any funds available from the government?
I have worked for 30 years and have 4
chuildren to raise.
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Tamadrummer
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 710 Location: Zephyrhills,Fl
Posted: 01-09-06 10:15am
By agressive I mean the doctors
willingness to move ahead and treat this
pain with dramatic action. If the disc is
bulging it does not have to mean invasive
surgery, it can be helped with physical
therapy (non-agressive) or steroid
injections (still non-agressive but more
so than p.T.) and then there are other
minimally invasive treatments where the
doc inserts a wire into the nucleas (sp)
of the disc and heats it up to essentially
melt the core and allow the bulge to
shrink and also if there are tears in the
disc this will help to mend them by
melting the disc and patching itself.
If they choose to go invasive it will be a
life changing surgery, it could give you
100% mobility and pain free living or for
someone like me, the charite disc
replacement at l5/s1 fixed my discc pain
but now I am suffering from facet
nerve/joit pain and begining to have
sclerosis at l4/5 and l5/s1.
Again, you are on a very strange mix of
meds for the pain you are having and I
would venture a guess that it is not the
darvacet that is making you woosy but the
soma at such high levels.
You should try to private message a person
on this forum that goes by the name:
painphysician and ask what he would
suggest if in fact he will suggest
anything. It can be dangerous for a doc
to offer free advice so if he will help I
think you will be very pleased with his
answer.
