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Do I prescribe narcotic pain medications for my patients?

I do not prescribe narcotic pain medications. The main reason is that morphine and all the derivatives of morphine, including fentanyl, Vicodin, Tylenol with codeine, and oxycodone, they all suppress the immune system as a matter of fact, they suppress all the cells of the immune system. So should I prescribe chemotherapy? Chemotherapy inhibits all of the cells of the immune system. You would say “Of course not, you perform Prolotherapy, and your patients need a healthy immune system to heal the body.” Well morphine and all its derivatives, including vicodin, suppress the immune system. I know a lot of people take vicodin, but it inhibits the healing process. So if it was me watching this video and I was taking narcotics and wanted to get better, I would try to get off the narcotics, as soon as possible. Then go get Prolotherapy. I know it is a catch 22. But if you get Prolotherapy and you continue to take narcotics, just realize that’s going to negate some of the positive effects of Prolotherapy. In the ideal setting, get off the narcotics and get on other pain relievers, muscle relaxers are fine- medications that don’t inhibit healing. Sleeping medication is fine as it doesn’t inhibit the healing process. Tylenol is fine. Tramadol is fine. But you shouldn’t take narcotic medications or anti-inflammatories as long term treatment for chronic pain, because that inhibits healing. If a person is going to get Prolotherapy, you don’t want to do anything to inhibit healing. So you should switch over to other pain medications and get off the narcotic medications.