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Pain patients already hurt

CLASS ACTION NEEDED.
we trust our goverment to do the right thing,,, the drug war has change from the border to us people and the doctors that want to help us,,, black/grey area's don't help the US citizens, it hurts them even more.

I’m a 52 yr old housewife, I’ve had back problems for 25 yrs. it started with DDD, and as the yrs pass things keep adding up, I’ve had 3 back surgeries, I can’t say the first 2 failed because I could barely walk from nerve pain, but with each time they fixed the one problem 3 more occurred, my last surgery they removed rod and screws due to the screws coming loose from osteoporosis. Since the removal of the hardware, I have more pain then I’d have ever dreamed. My drs have told me that my conditions would never get better and I’d always need pain meds. Since these new cdc guidelines, I have been cut back to the point I don’t do anything for more then a couple mins. I hurt so bad that I feel like I am a burden on my family and everybody would be better off if I wasn’t here to tie them down, I know this isn’t how they feel, but I do, and I just can’t imagine 25 to 30 more yrs of this pain, it’s no way to live. Before the new guidelines I was on a high dose of opiates and I had some what of a normal life, normal as I know it, I was able to do my house work, go grocery shopping, etc., Then these new guidelines kicked in and my dr has been reducing my pain meds. I have stomach problems now from all the NSAIDs I take with my pain meds. and I have to medicine for that. I never abused my medicine, I’ve never failed a drug test, my pills count out right, I go to the same Dr., and I go to the same pharmacy. I do not believe opiates are the problem, I believe addicts are the problem. Making good people suffer because people want to get high is wrong. Please reconsider all the changes the CDC has set in their new opiate guidelines, no one person is the same, so s dose that works for you may not work for me. Thank you