By Ed Coghlan.

There’s a national news publication working on a chronic pain story. What they want to know is whether pain patients, in the midst of the anti-opioid epoch in which we live, are patients being encouraged to consider alternatives by the providers that they visit.

We really need your input.

Remember, what we are trying to gauge is what is happening to the patients when they visit their pain doctors.

Please take a look at the four categories listed below and tell us what your experience is. We asked our good friend Dr. Terri Lewis to share some basic treatment categories…and she provided us the categories below.

Please leave us in our comment section, what your experience has been.

We are asking for honesty here…because we might refer you to the reporter interested in this issue. So, when you look at the questions, think about your own experience and let us know.

Here is what Dr. Lewis shared with us.

The noise in the news would have the public believe that effective therapies are available to patients as alternatives to opioids. Your own experience might reinforce this—or not.

Please take a moment to help us explore this conversation by addressing this question:

What is your physician offering you as choices for pain management and in what order?

1. (NSaids, gabapentin, and or anti-depressants), (Epidural injections, pumps, or spinal cord stimulators), (Opioids), (Yoga, CBT, etc.)

2. (Yoga, CBT, etc.), (NSaids, gabapentin, and or anti-depressants), (Epidural injections, pumps, or spinal cord stimulators), (Opioids)

3. (Opioids), (Yoga, CBT, etc.), (NSaids, gabapentin, and or anti-depressants), (Epidural injections, pumps, or spinal cord stimulators)

4. (Epidural injections, pumps, or spinal cord stimulators), (Opioids), (Yoga, CBT, etc.), (NSaids, gabapentin, and or anti-depressants)

Please provide your answers (and additional commentary) in our comments section.

We may be in touch.

Thanks.

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