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Specifically if they mention how nice your teeth look.

If a chronic pain patient takes opioids, some people can get pretty judgmental, opinionated, and closed minded about how bad this type of pain medicine is. I know that opioids can be dangerous. But they can also be very helpful, specifically when they are used for pain relief which is what they are meant to do.

If a person "looks fine", some people will assume that they must not have chronic pain even if that is what they claim. And that is very discrediting. On Judge Judy, if someone explained to her that their physical pain was what was stopping them from working, she would tell them, well, you look perfectly fine to me. How are they supposed to look? That is what I always wondered. Not every single person who has significant pain wears a cast or brace, or uses a cane or a wheelchair. That thought process is pretty crappy because plenty of people "look perfectly fine" on the outside but are really suffering on the inside.

Or if someone says that they have chronic pain, but instead of writhing around, moaning, and groaning, they are on their phone, texting, reading, or doing whatever else. And again, some people will assume that they must not be in that much pain then. Chronic pain patients shouldn't always have to act or look like their pain is obvious. They really need to learn how to be oblivious to it, or it would probably drive them crazy. Since they are used to being in pain, it isn't that difficult for them to look, and act like they are fine.

Nobody knows how they would react or respond to having chronic pain unless they, themselves had to deal with it. People that are pain free who think that anyone who takes opioids every day is an automatic addict, or any physician who prescribes opioids long term is a bogus doctor or a quack, or pain clinics that offer opioids for pain relief are nothing but pill mills, just aren't being fair. Simply because they too could resort to taking opioids if they had chronic pain, and they were trying to find ways to alleviate it. Especially if nothing else helped.

If a chronic pain patient takes opioids, some people can get pretty judgmental, opinionated, and closed minded about how bad this type of pain medicine is. I know that opioids can be dangerous. But they can also be very helpful, specifically when they are used for pain relief which is what they are meant to do.

If a person "looks fine", some people will assume that they must not have chronic pain even if that is what they claim. And that is very discrediting. On Judge Judy, if someone explained to her that their physical pain was what was stopping them from working, she would tell them, well, you look perfectly fine to me. How are they supposed to look? That is what I always wondered. Not every single person who has significant pain wears a cast or brace, or uses a cane or a wheelchair. That thought process is pretty crappy because plenty of people "look perfectly fine" on the outside but are really suffering on the inside.

Or if someone says that they have chronic pain, but instead of writhing around, moaning, and groaning, they are on their phone, texting, reading, or doing whatever else. And again, some people will assume that they must not be in that much pain then. Chronic pain patients shouldn't always have to act or look like their pain is obvious. They really need to learn how to be oblivious to it, or it would probably drive them crazy. Since they are used to being in pain, it isn't that difficult for them to look, and act like they are fine.

Nobody knows how they would react or respond to having chronic pain unless they, themselves had to deal with it. People that are pain free who think that anyone who takes opioids every day is an automatic addict, or any physician who prescribes opioids long term is a bogus doctor or a quack, or pain clinics that offer opioids for pain relief are nothing but pill mills, just aren't being fair. Simply because they too could resort to taking opioids if they had chronic pain, and they were trying to find ways to alleviate it. Especially if nothing else helped.

Whether it be anti-depressants, anti-psychotics, pain pills, specifically opioids, anti-anxiety medicine, blood pressure medicine, adhd medicine, the stimulant kind, or anything else. How does this combo make you feel?

Or do you just stick with strictly the alcohol, and nothing else?

I am going to tell them, I just wish I knew what to expect. Does anyone here take medicine for high blood pressure and opioids for pain? I read that they really shouldn't be mixed because they can cause hypo-tension, but I haven't had that problem yet.

They always want to hand out anti-depressants. I don't feel like I am depressed. Maybe that doesn't make sense since I have chronic pain. But I feel like I am a very anxious, irritable, and uptight person. And I believe that if I could just calm down, even if it was from taking anti-anxiety meds, then my pain wouldn't affect me as much.

But hell, I could be so wrong about all of this.

Sophia, however, was a tiny woman in every sense of the word.

These posts are not referring to them.

It is giving me a lot of anxiety, and I haven't even been officially diagnosed yet. Mine has just been high when I take it at home. Being aware of my abnormal bp is making me feel scared and probably making my bp worse as well.

Adding him to the cast, especially so late in the show's run was a horrible idea. I felt bad for the actor because, I think overall, he was not a very liked character on the show.

I used to think that I was special for feeling this way but now I think that this is pretty typical for a lot of chronic pain patients.

I just recently learned that these are slang for ass, bitch, and fuck, and I think that they are ridiculous.

God, the priest in this episode (where Dorothy decides to flunk the star football player, Kevin) is so creepy.

I say he was way worse than the coach.