If I may ask, do you mean that your docs are now reluctant to continue your existing stimulant prescription(s), or is it that your local pharmacies suddenly never seem to have it in stock? From when I was on those, I remember times when I had my script in hand, but pharmacies where I wasn’t known usually would just say they didn’t have any when I called to inquire.
In the end, before going to my appointments I would call my usual pharmacy to ask what they had in stock. That way, I could ask the doctor to write the prescription for 30 or 60 tablets depending on the strength of the tablets available.
We generally allow discussions about illegal drugs from a clinical viewpoint. In other words, you can discuss the effects of opium on the human body and that sort of thing. What you may not do is encourage the illegal use of opium (or other illegal substances) or share “how to” type information for illegal use.
Your doctor is unwilling to prescribe, and is advising self-medication instead.
I don’t know if this is representative of medical care in the USA now, but my doctor would have regarded it as right up there with medically-assisted euthanasia and compulsory abortion on her list of bad things indicating an unsuitiblity for being a doctor.
Kaiwik, I read your whole OP and have nothing but sympathy for you.
A purely anecdotal comment about kratom: until last year I lived in Indonesia, where it is illegal but not too hard to obtain it grows there. I was active on a message board catering to foreigners living in Indonesia, and every now and then someone would ask about kratom.
Many of the senior members of that message board were footloose, fancy-free foreigners who arrived in Indonesia in their 20s and ended up settling down in the country. While sowing their wild oats, a lot of them had tried kratom.
Not a one had anything positive to say about it, which is enough to keep me away from the stuff. Occasionally a newbie would ask about kratom, and every single person would say, “no, don’t do it!” Of course part of that is that it’s stupid to break the drug laws of a country like Indonesia. But a lot of the advice was based on “I tried it and it made me sick,” or something similar.
For some types of arthritis, as I understand it, a lot of the pain is caused by inflammation and there are some things that you can do to help reduce the inflammation through diet and supplements:
They don’t directly prevent you from healing or directly cause additional pain, but if you treat the absence of pain as “it doesn’t hurt, therefore I can bang on my busted hand again”, well, you’ll keep further damaging your already-busted hand. The additional banging will prevent the hand from healing and will cause additional pain.
Apparently a lot of people have problems understanding that “it’s not hurting” is not the same thing as “it’s not hurt”.