The Horrible Side-Effect of the War on Opioid Addiction

[Coventina]

4. Even people suffering acute pain can't get the pain relief they need.

I had major abdominal surgery last year.
I was split from sternum to groin.

I wanted to die, the moment I woke up, I was in such excruciating pain.

I was beyond speech, just screaming, while my husband begged the nurses to do something for me.
Finally, the doctor OKed some morphine.

Every time it wore off, we had to go through the same thing.

When I finally got to go home, the doctor was very reluctant to prescribe anything for me.

"You really shouldn't be in that much pain!" she said.

Oh really? I was cut in half, and and my organs all rearranged, and that's not supposed to be painful?

(Finally, my intractable pain was found to have a source: a surgical staple that had not been removed!)

As a result, I will NEVER have major surgery again, until this opioid insanity has run its course.
I would rather die.