I’ll echo what everyone else has said about neuropathy. What an ill-informed and idiotic statement to make. May you some day truly understand what all it entails.
My mother has trigeminal neuralgia, which was undiagnosed for a long time because it wasn’t a typical presentation. It seriously compromised her quality of life, but she did eventually get a correct diagnosis, and a small daily dose of gabapentin keeps this at bay.
There’s a woman at my church whose husband had this, and it defied all standard treatments except for the one he finally resorted to: suicide. 8(
Any doctor who would tell a patient to “just suck it up” should lose their license. :mad:
So to review, those people worked with their doctors to try to manage their real conditions, and didn’t use them as a way to become functional opiate addicts while trying to amplify their high with grapefruit juice?
Any doctor or nurse who’d say that should be put in a position where loss of licensure is the least devastating of their concerns.
Managing one’s condition isn’t the same thing as ‘sucking it up because it’s not so bad.’ And I guess it depends on your definition of opiate addicts. I do know people who have similar conditions who are on long-term opiate treatment and have become physically dependent. Opiate treatment allows them to retain some semblance of normal daily functioning so I guess, yeah, there’s your functional addict.
I have CPPD in both feet, and when it flares up, I get a temporary neuropathy for anywhere from a week to a month after the edema reduces. I have occasionally joked with my doctor about getting my feet amputated but always decide against it “because if I did, I would be the one that ends up with phantom pain syndrome, and no more feet to chop off” 
Holy shit, that must have been a somewhat scary experience - I know what a pain in the ass tweaking meds can be [especially since my blood pressure at the time of tweaking was doing a roller coaster between 210/190 and low normal, with a resting heart rate of 45 to190 depending on which set of meds they were tweaking to get me to go more or less normal human]
I will admit, the time they put me on prednisone and warned me about the glucose popping effect I did not like the effect on my brain of popping a 680. I got real good at tweaking insulin and ran through test strips like they were water.
Not that bad? Compared to what?
This could be the single most ignorant statement I’ve ever read not just on these boards, but anywhere. But to follow it with “is a good excuse to start a long-term drug addiction.” Is just bizarre.
Do you have personal experience in this area? A mother or father perhaps that is on disability because of neuropathy? Do they speak openly about how they are “abusing the system” and using neuropathy for their personal “drug habit?”
Neuropathy is no joke, and I guarantee you that anyone with chronic pain and a real case of neuropathy would trade almost anything for relief. It is a painful, debilitating condition and there are many cases that are idiopathic (I.e. no known cause), so curing it is next to impossible. Pain management is not a picnic, especially when the only relief you can get is when you are unable to carry on a conversation or concentrate because you are so doped up on drugs.
I would not wish it on anyone, including you Matt357. You sound young and ignorant of the facts surrounding neuropathy… I would bet my house that anyone suffering from neuropathy would like to go back to the day that they knew as little about neuropathy that you do.