My 90 year old mother has crippling psoriatic arthritis, and CV disease.

She had a severe life-threatening bleed from 35yrs of NSAID's.

Her RA doc of 40 years then RX'd 3xTylenol 2's/day for pain. Codeine.

Her new doc refused to fill the script w no discussion or notice.
Mom, force-tapered off 3xT2's a day, no longer gets any sleep. She is more unsteady on her feet and at risk of falling because walking is too painful.

Her cognition firmly intact is starting to slip due to pain / sleep deprivation. She has increased cardio issues.
Mom's life, which she viewed as precious, is almost no longer worth living.

Tylenol 2 force-taper will help kill my mother.

Have mercy, Canada. Withdraw the 2017 Canadian Guidelines for opioids for chronic pain.
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Yes there are appropriate uses of oxy. Therapeutic RX of opioids for acute, urgent, and chronic care leads to dx of OUD in: 0.6% of the time. Yes, I said 0.6%.

My health care system discriminates, misdiagnosis, stigmatizes, shames, & med abandons me bc someone else misuses drugs
Torturous 18yrs in bed: undermed. & non-functional (wrong opioid); overmed. and non-functional (wrong opioid), and torturously refused pain mgt, leading to hosp as I became suicidal when med abandoned and was denied all pain tx. This is not addiction, weakness, or moral failing.
In '11, I found the doc who saved my life, Ellen Thompson. She RX'd the right opioid at the right dose (for me). I stabilized, and began to find life again, with gratitude. Between low dose oxy, 20 weekly NBI's, and a system that believed rather than destroyed me? I improved.
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