If you’re a male pain patient and your physician has prescribed pain
medications for you including Codeine, Fentanyl, Lora Tab, Norco, Vicodin,
Dilaudid, Demerol, Morphine, Oxycodone, Oxycontin, or any other medication containing opioids, your physician
has basically castrated you with no warning.
Symptoms low testosterone
is reduced desire for sex, fewer
erections, infertility, muscle loss, depression, low energy, and sleep
disturbance.
Physical
changes from Opioid-Induced
Androgen Deficiency include increased body fat, decreased strength/mass of muscles, fragile
bones, decreased body hair, swelling/tenderness in the breast tissue, hot
flashes, night sweats, increased fatigue, and effects on cholesterol metabolism.
The Problems Pain Meds
Cause…….
Imagine a 30 something
male that gets injured at work. The patient goes to the ER and the problem is
diagnosed as a herniated a disc and the patient is given opioid medications,
and his primary care physician continues the pain medications.
Within a couple weeks he
notices a loss of energy, but thinks it’s just the injury. His wife notices her
husband no longer has any interest in making love to her.
The patient doesn’t
notice the problem because for the guy it’s like when you were 8 years old,
girls aren’t icky, you just have no interest in playing with them. As time goes
on the wife and intimacy and making love gets worse. The wife begins to think her
husband doesn’t love her any longer or he’s cheating on her. This isn’t good
for the relationship and creates problems.
Example
A friend of ours was taking pain medications for a back
injury. He’s a big biker guy about 6’2” 275 pounds. One day my wife was at
their house and he came home early from work crying.
She asked what was wrong and he said, they called me a
sniveling little bitch at work and sent me home because I was crying about my
dog being sick.
My wife asked how his
energy was, he said not very well. She asked about his sex life, he said what
sex life. She explained that opioids deplete testosterone and to have his testosterone
level checked. A few weeks later he felt better, and his wife understood he
wasn't cheating on her.
If your pain
management physician is not testing your testosterone levels please file a complaint
with the Arizona Medical Board.
Any physician who treats pain should know this information, if not there's a problem.
Any physician who treats pain should know this information, if not there's a problem.
For
more information please read my blog Pain Crisis in America……… http://paincrisisinamerica.blogspot.com
PLEASE
READ These Articles
Article in the
Pain Physician Journal on Opioid-Induced Hypogonadism: Why and How to Treat It
Article
from Pain Physician Journal on Opioid-Induced Androgen Deficiency
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