Pain management and stigma--- and medication effectiveness?

Pain management and stigma--- and medication effectiveness?I suffer from a herniated disc--- and have no health insurance.

A close relative of mine suffers from severe back problems and has access to many pain killers.

because of the social stigma of opiods, the addictive qualities, and the high tolerance that builds from having them-- I am avoiding those.
(not to mention that I would be labeled a drug abuser and a criminal)

well-- this person offered me some celebrex for my horendous and painful inflamation
and lidocaine patches for the pain.

My questions are----

would these two products help me? Tylonol and Ibprophen aprin naproxin does not touch my pain
would those two products show on a drug test?
If they were to show on a drug test--- would I get into some kind of trouble?
and do you know if your body builds tolerance to these medications?

thanks so much for reading.

Answer by Mordacious
Nope
YES
Of course.

Answer by sdaljkf l
they might help. there is an inflammatory component to a herniated disc. Celebrex will help to calm the inflammation, but it does predispose you to heart problems. I believe it is only approved for arthritis. Lido will help the pain but only for a short time. The probably would not show up on a test being that they are not drugs of abuse. If they did show up you and your friend could be in trouble. It's illegal to share prescriptions. I do not believe tolerance is an issue with either.

Answer by zombie killer
a) Celebrex is a prostaglandin inhibitor, and is an NSAID (same class as motrin/ibuprofin/alleve). It works differently than other NSAIDS, so there's no way to know if it would work for you, but we don't use it in the ER at all when people come in with back pain.
It will not show up on a drug test. You could try it and see if it works. If not, no harm done.

b) The lidocaine patch is a different story. Lidocaine is a topical numbing agent. It really doesn't do much for bone pain. You could try it, but I doubt it would work. We don't use it in the ER at all. We give Percocet/Oxycontin for back pain and tell people to follow up with their doc.
It isn't on the list (see the "source" website") for false positives, but that list is by no means all-inclusive. If you did test POS for something while wearing it, you would have to own up to using medication that was not prescribed to you, WHICH IS A CRIME, and you would lose whatever job you were going for, since you would fail the test due to not having an Rx.

Unfortunately, there isn't much besides Vicoden/Percocet class of drugs that does anything for back pain.
Good luck.

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