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28. This constant restriction of pain relief on the off chance you might abuse it is too excessive

My 84 year old mother has too many illness to list. She is in constant pain. They restrict her pain medicines too. What are they thinking? That she is going to go to the street corner and sell her pain meds? Or do they really worry that an 84 year old woman might get hooked on some kind of pain killers during her last few years of life? If she does so what?

You sound like my husband who is on the transplant list for a kidney and does at home peritoneal dialysis. He also has a really bad back. Though he doesn't complain, I think he is always in pain.

I hope you can find a doctor that will help you.