Is Pain Medication Destroying Your Body?

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Did you know that pain medications can damage your body? That’s right – painkillers can change the brain’s chemistry, and as a result, frequently cause people to become physically dependent on them.
According to Spine-Health, the brain may stop responding to the presence of pain medication by “increasing the number of receptors for the drug, and the nerve cells in the brain cease to function normally.”
Furthermore, withdrawal symptoms can affect the body, which may stop creating endorphins, aka “natural painkillers,” if it is receiving pain medication.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...troying-your-body_us_579a35dee4b0e339c240655f

 

[Sean Mosher]

The doctor I work for treats patients for opioid and pain killer addictions.
Those things definitely wreak havoc on the body and can be testosterone killers.
Over time, they also trick your body into thinking you're in more pain than you actually are so you ending up increasing those dose and the cycle continues.
It is definitely rampant and becoming an epidemic.
We see patients from 18 on up to 80 who are severely addicted.

 

[masfield]

I'm not an alcoholic (I don't think) but I love alcohol. It makes me a better, happier person all the way around. Sadly, I recently had to give up my beloved vodka due to the way it was messing with the nerves in my legs. I complained to my doctor about how unhappy I was without booze. His solution? A prescription for the opioid Tramadol. Can you believe it? I've only taken em a few times. The rest I'm going to hold onto in case I really do need them in the future.
Anyway, they're no substitute for vodka. Wish I could find something that was!

 

[Vince]

I think most, know someone who's addicted to opiates or just heroin.
Pbs Frontline Chasing Heroin

youtube.com 1:45:11 3 months ago

 

[PAUL-E]

Before when I was taking pain killers I could defiantly tell there could a problem that's why I try and stay far away from that stuff now, funny thing is the only time I ever went threw withdrawals was when I quit Lyrica.

 

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FYI a new prescription opioid that's not supposed to cause physical dependency
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article92725762.html

 

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Association Between Commonly Prescribed Opioids and Androgen Deficiency in Men[h=4]CONCLUSIONS:[/b]Our results suggest that certain opioids are associated with increased odds of androgen deficiency compared with hydrocodone. Transdermal fentanyl, methadone and oxycodone were associated with higher odds of androgen deficiency than hydrocodone.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27516365