{"id":33300,"date":"2025-05-17T21:44:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T01:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=33300"},"modified":"2025-05-17T21:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T01:44:58","slug":"toms-world-17may2025-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/toms-world-17may2025-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom&#8217;s World &#8211; 17MAY2025 &#8211; Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tomd77\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow ugc\">Tom | Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/category\/guest-contributors\/guest-contributor-tomd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TomD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had something similar about 12 years ago, on a weekend. It was days before I could get to a dentist who then kicked me to a dental surgeon. But he did take pity on me and wrote a few days supply of some opioid for me. Talk about relief! Before, the incessant throbbing precluded all life functions except misery.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many drug addicted people out there that opioids are being withheld from non-addicted people who really have a short term need.<\/p>\n<p>Other than post surgical on two occasions, the only other time I need opioids was from what I think was whooping cough decades ago. Once I started coughing, I would go into a painful fit of it that would last minutes and reoccur several times an hour. My throat was so raw that I could barely talk. A codeine cough syrup was an immediate and blessed relief.<\/p>\n<p>On occasion, you need opioids and you really need them. It\u2019s a shame that events have made Dr\u2019s and DD\u2019s so reluctant to proscribe them that even people like yourself can\u2019t get them when needed.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the true abusers have an immense, cheap and potent supply of much stronger drugs. As a testament to the Law of Unintended Consequences, it looks like the hard restriction of opioid from the abusers had the result driving them and creating the flood of cheap fentanyl. So now, it looks like the only people who can\u2019t get pain killers are the legitimate users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom | Flickr TomD I had something similar about 12 years ago, on a weekend. 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