Remember last year I was urging you to contact NICE about the draft chronic pain guidelines?Here, here and here are the postsWell they published them now and they are pretty much the same! These are the guidelines the give to all doctors. No painkillers of any kind for chronic pain! None!No tens or other electrical … Read more
One thing that a lot of people seem to not realise is that pain levels vary between people and severities in chronic pain. Just because you have chronic pain and so does the next person, that doesn’t mean your pain is the same as theirs! Pain levels vary dramatically.You can have chronic pain and it … Read more
This is your last chance to give your feedback using the comments form on the NICE website regarding the upcoming chronic pain guidelines that doctors will use for prescribing medication and treatment for chronic pain. You have until 5pm Monday 14th September 2020 to fill it in so do it now. These guidelines remove ALL … Read more
Had my telephone appointment with my doctor this morning to see how I was getting on with the patches at 60 hours. I thought I would update here at the same time Basically the chills and sweats the night before I placed my patch at 72 hours has pretty much gone, although when I change … Read more
You hear a lot about an “opioid crisis” going on, but this has a lot of misinformation and it is hurting chronic pain patients.People are lead to believe that opioids in general are killing people and cutting back on prescribing them is the way forward. This is simply NOT true.The fact is that nearly all … Read more
Currently trying my Fentanyl patches every 60 hours. In the past I tried every 48 hours which got rid of the withdrawal between patches, but left my temperature all over the place and I am more sleepy. Only had 2 patch changes so far at 60 hours, and as expected the withdrawal (chills and sweating … Read more