MAJOR'S MESSAGE

THE PAINFUL TRUTH

As you move through your life there will be times when a doctor will see fit to prescribe medication for pain. It is a fact of your very technical and scientific life, and a very beneficial result of your “industrial” revolution. When taken as prescribed, pain medication is a wonder tool for relief, and though I have other thoughts on ridding one's life of pain, right now the topic is prescription medication and the painful truth.

Pain Management is a catchword in society today, but too many people across the globe tend to think they are managing the pain, when the pills for pain are managing them!

After a long while, that is what taking medication does. The biggest alarm is that it alters your personality. Little by little, what you used to have patience for, you don't. What you were happy doing, you have lost desire for. You begin to react instead of respond, and reacting is with emotion, while responding is with reason. Over time, depending upon how long you are on the medication, it will erase the person you once liked in yourself, and replace you with someone being controlled by a substance designed to help!

This is a secret in healthcare, that not just the pain one endures can change them, but the very medication they use to be pain-free. So, remember, don't let your medication manage you; you manage your medication; and look for stress-free alternatives while trying not to be on the meds so long.