Can medication be harmful or useless? Some medications commonly prescribed for chronic pain are actually harmful and may worsen the pain. Others affect moods or may cause death or coma with overusage. Many medications are taken together and, in fact, have opposite effects to one another.
Some drugs contribute to the chronic pain experience by making the sufferer seek more and more bed rest. This increases the immobility, which leads to further muscular wasting and weakening and a decrease in necessary exercise.
Pain patients often build their lives around their pain and their medication. Withdrawal of medication can be simple for some and incredibly difficult and traumatic for others. It is always an additional therapy best carried out voluntarily and with the patient’s total commitment.
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