My Battle Has Been Won (Update Photo Of My Car After Crash)

[Flatulo]

26. I've suffered with degenerative disk disease for over 20 years. In the last 5, it's become

completely debilitating.

My primary care doctor had me taking 32 Advil per day, which did not even begin to touch the pain. He would not prescribe any narcotics, unless you has terminal cancer.

The reason? The bloody DEA crawls up their asses for every scrip they write. Our nanny state legislature in Massachusetts is trying to pass a law requiring each and every opiate prescription to be accompanied with a treatment plan and an estimated date when the opiates will no longer be needed. If this law passes, no doctor is going to go through such a fucking dance, and people will be blowing their brains out.

I was lucky enough to get into a good pain management program. The doctors there actually understand chronic pain, and they understand that opiates are sometimes the only effective treatment.

I've been on the same dosage for over 3 years, and I never take more, and often less, than I am prescribed.

My prognosis is: end of treatment. My lumbar discs are completely flattened and worn out, resulting in radiculopathy and stenosis in the whole lumbar region. Short of fusing 5 vertebrae (never gonna happen), there's nothing to be done.

Before I got into the pain management program, I was seriously starting to consider blowing my head off. If our state legislature gets their way, that may once again become the only treatment.