06-15-2022, 07:01 PM
(06-15-2022, 04:16 PM)G.Elias Wrote: I can well imagine its all very strict around fent and its storage,prescribing etc.
I bet everything I have ever owned that my gp would def not prescribe this to me even though I suffer chronic pain and not acute pain.
Fent esp comes with its own stigma attached that other opioids don't,it would be nice to be able have something that is more effective than trams.The way things are heading with NICE opioid prescriptions will be a rare thing.
I think that would be a safe bet. I was on tramadol for 6 years for chronic pain, then my GP surgery did a "medicines review" and suddenly the guidelines said I didn't need tramadol any more! Not only that, but they just cut me off and I had to organise my own tram detox. I was on 400mg/day and they said I should just stop taking them FFS!
I had some tramadol spare and did my own rapid taper. Let's just say it wasn't fun and I had to fake COVID to justify to my boss why I wasn't at work.
It's a completely arse-backwards system. My quality of life is worse, as is my performance at work. Thanks NICE, good job. But at least I'm not addicted to an opioid, because that's all that matters.
Hope you have better luck than me. (BTW I agree about the fent stigma. My friend who is on fent is walking around with multiple fractures in his crumbling vertabrae so it's pretty extreme. I should probably check-in with him and check they haven't taken it away from him - poor bloke is probably on paracetamol by now.)