My Aunt's Story

This happened recently. One of my aunts, suffering from a chronic back pain, took some pills without the doctor’s advice because the pain was unbearable. She just bought some pain killers from the shop owner (It happens only in India!) and ate those pills hoping that the pain will go away. Her pain didn’t go away and she had to suffer some more side effects of the unknown drug which she had taken without the doctor’s advice.

I understand that when the body is in severe pain, it’s hard to listen to a lecture on logical behavior. We all tend to use painkillers without the doctor’s prescription sometimes, if not always. But my request is to use painkillers that at least have FDA approval. There are some really good analgesic drugs like Tramadol that honestly advertise everything about their drugs on their web site. They give us an idea us to what we are taking and what might do to us.

If nothing else, you can at least be sure that the drug you are using has the FDA approval!