Comments on Pain-Topics.org News/Research UPDATES: Followup: Safety of Long-Term Opioid Therapy

Dr. Tennant, This was a excellent study and I enjo...

2011-11-01T15:22:19.451-05:00

Dr. Tennant,
This was a excellent study and I enjoyed reading it. I have been suffering form cervical pain for 27 years now and the aggressive opioid therapy I'm on has been great. It has allowed me to live a normal life and Advocate for other in severe chronic pain.
Thanks for your hard work,

Mark S. Barletta
Pain Advocate

I finally had my life back working with Dr. and N....

2010-10-03T16:21:13.782-05:00

I finally had my life back working with Dr. and N.P. at The Medical Center that has treated my conditions for the past 7 years. Last week the receptionist called me and give me less than 30 days to find a new pain clinic/doctor. Contrary to what most people will automatically jump to, I am a compliant patient, take my meds as ordered, passed all drug tests and now I have been tossed aside. Small

As a pain patient who has been through nearly ever...

2010-05-25T00:30:14.042-05:00

As a pain patient who has been through nearly every painkiller and migraine "treatment you can name, as well as chiropractic, massage therapy, yoga, changing diet, etc, etc. I can definitively say that, in my case, at least, opoids are the only medications that were both effective and well-tolerated, with the only real side effect being drowsiness.
Due to a change in doctors, I'

I would like to comment on this. I am a pain patie...

2010-04-28T12:56:00.613-05:00

I would like to comment on this. I am a pain patient who has been on pain medication for 20 years. I just found out that my hip pain was due to arthritis instead of fibromyalgia. My hip was severe and caused severe pain. I just had hip replacement surgery and am now cutting down on pain medication with no adverse reactions, no withdrawals. I will say that according to testing I am not an

As with any other medications, if a patient can do...

2010-03-03T19:22:02.652-06:00

As with any other medications, if a patient can do well without the need for long-term opioids, and thrive, that could be preferred. Even in Dr. Tennant’s long-term patients there were, indeed, side effects that needed to be managed, so it wasn’t a perfect therapy. The real question in your case is, has this new, young doctor had great successes in tapering chronic pain patients off of their

When I first began opioid therapy 15+ years ago, m...

2010-03-03T18:07:23.712-06:00

When I first began opioid therapy 15+ years ago, my pain doctor noted that I maybe one of those that had to be on opioids for the rest of my life. I was in my mid 30's at the time, and I was hoping that would not be the case.

Now, at 51, I still reamin, but unfortunatly have had to change physicians due to moving out of state for my husbands job, and the revolving door of

Thank you Dr. Tennant for your contributions to th...

2010-02-16T14:41:29.647-06:00

Thank you Dr. Tennant for your contributions to the science of chronic pain management.