Do you think opiate pain medications should be outlawed for noncancer sufferers as in chronic pain?

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156. Bummer. I heard it was good for migraines, but I developed an anaphylactic

allergy to NSAIDS & aspirin after taking too many of them to treat epicondylitis in my R elbow back in the early 1990's. It's a real pain & doctors have told me to go very easy on the Tylenol because I seem to develop allergies to drugs I take a lot. I developed an anaphylactic allergy to penicillin trying to avoid an appendectomy, and I developed an allergy to sulfa drugs treating a chronic UTI. At least with sulfa I only break out in hives, unlike NSAIDS/penicillin, where I get the whole throat-closing scary reaction. I carry an Epi-pen everywhere because aspirin is in things I never would have thought contained aspirin. I am really careful, though. I guess I'll have to stick to Imitrex shots for my migraines. I dislike the heart-pounding side effects, but it's better than the headache.

Thanks for the information!