CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS\' PETITION FOR REINSTATEMENT OF RIGHTS
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Jan 14th, 2018Lanora H. from Jerome, MI writes:
Please end the anti Opioid hysteria. Chronic pain patients are suffering. -
Jan 14th, 2018Lanora H. from Jerome, MI writes:
Please end the anti Opioid hysteria. Chronic pain patients are suffering.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jan 14th, 2018Brenda P. from Oxford, AL writes:
I just recently got dumped by my primary care doctor of over 2 years and now I’m being treated like I’m a junkie off the streets the new dr that I got assigned to want treat me and doesn’t want to give me anything he has sent me to a pain management dr and they are yet to call me with an appointment so therefore I’m left suffering in pain and thinking of ending my on life I’m 52 years old and have three children two which are grown one is 12 years old and two granddaughters and one on the way that’s all that I have to hold on to I have no life especially now it’s hard to be apart of thier lives when I’m in constant pain I didn’t ask for this pain as no one does but for some reason I’m being dealt this horrible fate I can only pray that this reaches someone that can help me and so many others out there being treated so wrong for something that they have no control over I’m not sure at this point where to turn I have never been one to beg but they are certainly putting me in that position and I feel at this point not even begging them gets me anywhereREPORT COMMENTS
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Jan 14th, 2018Kathy H. from Spring Hill, FL signed.
Jan 14th, 2018Dee E. from Burke, VA writes:
With the aid of my low dose pain medication I was a productive, tax paying person. Now I am a lump on the couch, unable to do anything. Before my pain meds were abruptly cut off, I was happy. I had been on the same dose for 15 years. Never had a problems. Until the CDC guidelines came out. I was worried but my Pain Managment doctor told me not to worry, it was only Primary Care that had to stop prescribing pain meds. Six months later I was told that I would have to be withdrawn from my medication. I am now on 80% of what I was. I have to use a walker. I can no longer do anything around the house. I used to cook, clean, do dishes, wash clothes, now I am sitting on the couch, only moving to get to the bathroom. I can't shower, it is too painful. I wear the same clothing, day after day. It is too difficult to lift my leg to get in the tub. I am embarrassed, humiliated, depressed. All around in the paper, on social media, pain patients comitting suicide or going to the streets to buy what they believe are percocet, vicodin, xanax, only to find out it's fentanyl and die. Please help, all patients in pain are now being hurt. It's not just long term chronic pain patients but people with Kidney stones, broken legs, arms. Please think of a person, had her leg cut off, was given tylenol. Brain surgery, given ativan, bowel surgery given tylenol. What is happening to our country. Aren't we important? Is it all about those addicted to drugs now? We have been certified to have disabling pain by our pain management doctors. Who is Andrew Kolodny to say we would do just as well on Suboxone? Suboxone is not meant for pain. Please think of the worst pain you have ever had, now think of living with it hour after hour, day after day. Baby boomers are in pain. I think this is elder abuse. The pill mills are gone, the bad doctors gone. You are now attacking innocent doctors and patients who just want to live. We don't want to die. Please stop the insanityREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 14th, 2018Patti B. from Golden, CO writes:
I was a functioning productive person with the aid of appropiate pain medication. I say medication, because that is what it is for me! For 24 years. Never abused. Once contracts and unine tests came about, never broke contract or failed test! Not once! Suddenly over night, my life was ripped to shreds due to CDC guidelines. I hadnt done anything wrong! But was left in pain ! Now Im bed/ couch ridden. Im angry about this, wouldnt you be? Please, fix this!!! I want a productive life back!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 14th, 2018Someone from Ringwood, NJ signed.
Jan 14th, 2018Erica M. from Marquette, MI writes:
We the law abiding citizens who suffer daily (through no fault of our own) are the greatest hurt through the mishandling of the "opioid crisis". We are being forced to be removed from our medications, the DEA threatening Dr's, the unconstitutional guidelines that are being imposed, and the patients well-being forced to the end of the line. We have lost so many to suicide who couldn't escape the pain and lost what quality of life they had. The crisis is with addicts and heroin/illicit fentanyl - not those of us simply trying to survive and live what life is left in us.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 14th, 2018Rebecca D. from Lock Haven, PA writes:
I've been a chronic pain patient for nearly 17 years. This is the only thing that allows me to have a somewhat normal life. Without my pain medication I will not be able to work, as I can only work p/t as it is. There is a Dr's oath of "first do no harm" well this is harming patients that cannot get access to pain control. We have people killing themselves because of the amount of pain they are in and not getting adequate relief because of being denied much needed pain medication.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 14th, 2018susan d. from Wylie, TX writes:
pain patients are dependent on their meds not addicted.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 14th, 2018susan d. from Wylie, TX writes:
pain patients are dependent on their meds not addicted.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 14th, 2018Elizabeth D. from Wantagh, NY signed.
Jan 13th, 2018Erin K. from Delanson, NY writes:
Yes!! I’ve been in pain for 20 years, and literally being treated like a junkie, by my PRIMARY DOC!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 13th, 2018Jaynae B. from Miramar Beach, FL signed.
Jan 13th, 2018D P. from Austin, TX writes:
Due to healthcare policy changes, many patients have lost access to the only treatment that is effective to relieve their pain. Patients are reporting they are being forced to taper medications. They also report being unable to refill their opioid prescriptions at pharmacies. Physicians are implementing drastic measures based on “following” the Center for Disease Control Guideline restrictions on prescribing opioids. The CDC guidelines were never originally intended to impact patients with chronic pain. The new guidelines were voluntary and aimed at primary care physicians not pain management physicians. As it stands now, niether primary physicians or pain management physicians want to care for patients with intractable pain because we are a “liability.” The implementation of these new guidelines have created a snowball effect. This resulted in both primary care and pain management physicians rapidly “dumping patients” who are prescribed opioids out of sheer concern for their license and assets. Healthcare providers have been made “examples of” by the drug enforcement agency (DEA), by arresting and prosecuting physicians for failing to follow CDC’s new guidelines. The idea of voluntary compliance seems to have been lost in the hysteria. Our opinion is the CDC guidelines is based on flawed research, driven by special interests and by DEA over-reach. A narrow mainstream media narrative and public hysteria has also contributed to a negative outcome. This combination has resulted in a failed drug policy that has created “pain refugees” being “dumped” by their healthcare providers leaving them with few, if any treatment options for their pain. The guidelines were implemented without sufficient planning or viable options for the pain community to turn to for alternative treatments that are effective. Let’s clarify, equal to the effectiveness of opioid therapy for analgesia. There are a lot of faux designer patented drugs out there, but they are expensive, fraught with side effects, and often they don’t work. These issues are further magnified by extreme healthcare bias, discrimination, marginalization, and social stigma based on misinformation about the complexity of the pain phenomena. Pain is now the “new leprosy!” Actually, pain patients are now, the “new minority.” Chastised, abandoned, silenced and marginalized. Competent pain management physicians are leaving their practice in fear of losing their license and having their assets seized for prescribing opioids. This intended or unintended outcome is leaving a wake of “pain refugees” without sufficient access to medical care or pain relief. These events are unfolding as waves of unwarranted hardship impacting stable patients, and their healthcare providers. There is no justification for this kind of unethical and inhumane treatment. The only perceived “crime” that these patients have committed is the misfortune of having a diagnosis that requires opioids to manage their pain. The only crime most physicians have committed is wanting to treat their patients with autonomy to relieve their pain. The pain community is being gas-lighted and scape-goated. Our community is being blamed for the rise of unintentional overdoses that are fueled by illicit Fentanyl pouring in from other countries. We are suffering consequences for an “opioid crisis” or “drug war” that many legitimate patients and their healthcare providers have had absolutely no control over, and have never contributed to. As a result of opioid hysteria, a term coined largely by intractable pain patients in response to being scapegoated, patients are being blamed for the influx of illicit opiates like Fentanyl from other countries including Mexico, Afghanistan and China. This stance against patients is preferable to the Drug Enforcement Agency and other over-sight agencies than admitting that the “war on drugs” is an “epic fail!” So, the pain community continues to be thrown under the opioid bus rather than re-group or change policy. The facts supporting our position are beginning to pour in and mainstream media is slowly bringing transparency to the this issue. However, untold damage has already been incurred by the pain community that can’t be reversed. There a lot of special interests invested in perpetuating the “opioid hysteria” as it serves their bottom lines very nicely. We can only go forward by rescinding the CDC guidelines as a failed policy, and in light of new information, it will be the pain community’s responsibility to inform the public of the truth. We intend to raise public awareness about the facts by raising our voices in solidarity #ShareOurPain #NoMoreAboutUsWithOutUs #Mission 2018REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 13th, 2018Sheri L. from Delhi, CA writes:
If the American people, who do not suffer day in; day out 24/7 SEVERE intractable pain, could remotely understand what we CPP go through on a constant daily basis, we wouldn't be in this predicament. It IS so life alternating the public has a hard time fathoming such suffering. And ALL they're getting is a skewed version that the media puts out. If they were educated about the other side of this so-called "opioid epidemic" from CPP themselves, it would change the world's view. The problem lies with addicts & alcohol | drugs. Not CPP opioid therapy. And if things aren't changed the addicts WILL find some other substance, CPP WILL suffer OR commit suicide OR be forced to commit a criminal act to stay out of pain. Nothing will get fixed. And this country will have BIGGER problems as a result. I implore you to please take this issue serious & turn things around before it gets any worse. Thank you~REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 13th, 2018Crystal H. from Brooklyn, MS signed.
Jan 13th, 2018Mindy N. from Easton, MD signed.
Jan 13th, 2018Richard A H. from Palm Coast, FL writes:
Director of Veterans’ Health Administration US Department of Veterans Affairs 810 Vermont Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20240 To whom it may concern: I am a veteran in Central Florida using the Daytona Beach William V. Chapell Jr. outpatient clinic. I have severe health problems which have now left me disabled and home bound. I have had three back surgeries at the Gainesville VA hospital. The last one was in 2009. I have had a slow deterioration of my spine with degenerative disc disease since then and now Scoliosis. My stooped posture has left me not able to breathe well or use my arms over my shoulders. I was on a regiment of 30 mg Oxycodone five times a day or PRN. I was a useful and active individual. With the VA’s across the board reduction in pain meds I am now as I have said, totally disabled and home bound because of lack of pain medication. I had just become used to the amount prescribed and had no side effects except relief from my horrible back and leg pain. I could stand more upright without the pain. I have been cut by 75% of my original prescription. WHY? Why wasn’t this depriving us Veterans be done on a case by case basis. I do get 40 mg a day. I have to use 30mg of it when I get out of bed. When I do get up the pain knocks me to my knees. Using the bulk of my prescription in the morning allows me to start my day relatively pain free. I take the 30 mg and sit for ¾ to 1 hour. With this dosage that I have to use, this prescription only lasts 16 days. I am told by this Nurse Practioner who was hired for Pain Management at the Daytona Clinic that my pain meds should have no effect on me because I have taken them to long. That is not the case for me and is BS. She was absolutely useless and was an acupuncturist. I guess we are supposed to sit under a Lotus tree and pray to the moon god for pain relief. THEY WORK!! This travesty has left me totally against the VA. I have been in the system since 1999 and defended the VA through its darkest hours. I never let anyone bad mouth it. Now for the last year and half the VA has made my life a living hell. I have contacted the Crisis Hot line, my useless Primary Care Physician, and the White House VA hotline and all have been dead ends. I’m sure no one wants to make waves in the system as they might loose their retirement. I am so disappointed that the VA tosses the Veterans aside to keep up with mainstream theory of the Opioid epidemic. This train of thought never thinks of the distress, depression, and possibly death that this ongoing, agonizing pain can cause. I am not suicidal, just disgusted. In my case I have finally decided to have a very dangerous and complicated surgery to correct my Scoliosis. Since the VA has ignored all my protestations and not given me the pain medications I need to survive I am having the surgery. I have waited 2 years for the “New” VA hospital in Lake Nona to have a surgical facility open. Millions over budget and years of delay they still can’t operate there. My surgery has been Fee Based out to Shands in Gainesville. It will be in February and if I survive it I pray that I shouldn’t need pain meds. However I have to get to that point and with this policy I have 2 ½ months of misery. I am sure this will fall on deaf ears as everything else. I am going to do an article to some of the local newspapers to let the public know what the VA is doing to us Veterans. I can’t imagine that amputees, other degenerative disc disease cases, and other pain related problems just go away because some desk jockey doctor has lumped us all together as drug addicts. Over doses are going to happen regardless of where the drugs come from. Public opinion is a great tool and I hope I can help others. I am told through the Crisis Hotline that there are many Veterans that are having this same problem. I am going to keep at this until it is resolved. On 12/19 the VA totally discontinued my pain medication because they said I was misusing it. I was honest with them and said it took 2/3 of my tapered prescription to get out of bed in the morning and have a productive morning. That was misuse.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 13th, 2018Someone from Miami, FL signed.
Jan 13th, 2018Someone from Des Moines, IA writes:
This anti human agenda is killing good people. People who are prisoners to bodies that betrayed them...people who never thought their government and medicine would betray them in such an evil way. Forcing people who live with debilitating pain will not solve addiction. Condemning pain, surgical, cancer and terminal patients to a painful life of hell that you can't begin to understand or imagine, is incredibly Hitleresque. What kind of civilized country treats innocent citizens like criminals?? Over 88,000 alcohol related deaths a year but I don't see anyone working to stop that. Did you know that actual addicts are treated with opioids? Also given safe zones in which to shoot up but people who suffer in excruciating pain every damn day, are now denied safe medications that help them function. Forget about the 'complimentary' therapies as anyone in pain is unable to exercise or do physical therapy without pain control. If our pain is no big deal, then my hope is all involved in this witch hunt against patients and our doctors, feel every ounce of our pain. STOP THIS JUNK SCIENCE HYSTERIA...YOU ARE KILLING US.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 13th, 2018Someone from Des Moines, IA writes:
This anti human agenda is killing good people. People who are prisoners to bodies that betrayed them...people who never thought their government and medicine would betray them in such an evil way. Forcing people who live with debilitating pain will not solve addiction. Condemning pain, surgical, cancer and terminal patients to a painful life of hell that you can't begin to understand or imagine, is incredibly Hitleresque. What kind of civilized country treats innocent citizens like criminals?? Over 88,000 alcohol related deaths a year but I don't see anyone working to stop that. Did you know that actual addicts are treated with opioids? Also given safe zones in which to shoot up but people who suffer in excruciating pain every damn day, are now denied safe medications that help them function. Forget about the 'complimentary' therapies as anyone in pain is unable to exercise or do physical therapy without pain control. If our pain is no big deal, then my hope is all involved in this witch hunt against patients and our doctors, feel every ounce of our pain. STOP THIS JUNK SCIENCE HYSTERIA...YOU ARE KILLING US.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 13th, 2018Darren D. from Florissant, MO writes:
This IS a life and death situation. If we don't get this back you will really have an epidemic on your hands.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 13th, 2018Kevin D. from Springfield, MO writes:
I suffer from this gross farse false data that has motivated this stupid process being imposed upon those who are medically declared by a physician due to chronic issues that need to be treated medically prescribed. Take your noses out of patient dr business.. this is the neglect and backlash when big government gets involved when the government cannot manage organize there own businessREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 13th, 2018Someone from Shelbville, IN writes:
Stop discriminating against pain patients We are suffering! I have organ failure and it is VERY painful, my medication has been cut to the CDC 90MME and it is NOT adequate to give me relief. Our lives matter too we are NOT Justifiable Collateral Damage, we are human beings and this is inhumane torture!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 13th, 2018Someone from CHAPEL HILL, NC writes:
The protection for the incurable, the wounded, the sick, to be assured that all methods medicine can offer to mute and subdue pain must be put in writing and made law. Currently, many of our sickest, most vulnerable citizens are struggling with unmedicated pain for which alternative therapy and surgery havent fixed. Opiods are effective for many patients. While no panacea, for many, they are the difference between a life with quality and autonomy, and a miserable existence to be endured.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 11th, 2018fiore d. from Bayport, NY writes:
I suffer from Chronic pain.Illnesses, surgeries, injuries all permanent.Due to the restrictions placed on our opioid pain medications I cannot get relief.Doctors are reluctant to prescribe to honest responsible Patients.We have been cut off from the very meds which have given us a quality of life,Enabled us to perform daily tasks not possible with painful limitations.Intractable pain causes great hardship, physically and mentally.Untrested or undertreated pain taxes the body, overwhelming the heart and other organs. All around are stories of mass Sufferering and suicides created by hysteria against our pain meds,we are unfairly and wrongly labeled as addicts,our human rights and dignity stripped.Chronic pain Patients are educated we use self help and alternative therapies,however there are many cases where these alone are of no relief.We need balance not judgement.We need access to our opioid medicationsREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 9th, 2018Someone from Roseville, CA signed.
Jan 6th, 2018David A. from Hoquiam, WA writes:
I mistakenly listed Washington State law in first post, which should've been (WAC 246-919-850). An excerpt from that law reads: "Physicians should not fear disciplinary action from the commission for ordering, prescribing, dispensing or administering controlled substances, including opioid analgesics, for a legitimate medical purpose and in the course of professional practice. The commission will consider prescribing, ordering, dispensing or administering controlled substances for pain to be for a legitimate medical purpose if based on sound clinical judgment. All such prescribing must be based on clear documentation of unrelieved pain. To be within the usual course of professional practice, a physician-patient relationship must exist and the prescribing should be based on a diagnosis and documentation of unrelieved pain. Compliance with applicable state or federal law is required. The commission will judge the validity of the physician's treatment of the patient based on available documentation, rather than solely on the quantity and duration of medication administration. The goal is to control the patient's pain while effectively addressing other aspects of the patient's functioning, including physical, psychological, social, and work-related factors". Furthermore; State records related to prescription drug deaths are fabricated to reflect a higher incidence for political purposes. Rarely is it possible for a toxicologist to discern between illegal and prescribed opiates resulting from an overdose, since both metabolize into morphine. The "Time Release" feature of OxyContin's new "OP" formulation can't be altered, whether broken, chewed of crushed to release more drug than is intended, making an OD nearly impossible. Written within the preface of "Opioid-related Deaths in Washington State, 2006–2016" is the following admission: "Differentiating between overdose deaths involving prescription opioids or heroin can be very challenging". While anxious to tout enactment of newly restrictive laws, they purposely failed to inform the public that Methadone accounts for more deaths in Washington than any other long-acting painkiller." Deaths from opioid overdose have increased four-fold in the past decade, and methadone now accounts for nearly a third of opioid-associated deaths," CDC Director Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, said in a written statement. "There are many safer alternatives to methadone for chronic non-cancer pain." Analyzing all prescription-opioid fatalities in Washington from 2004 to 2007, department researchers discovered that a stunning 64 percent involved methadone. And of the people whose deaths were linked to Methadone, 48 percent were on Medicaid. Since 91% of Methadone is retained in the body's fatty tissues for up to 30 days, subsequent doses create a cumulative effect, resulting in death of patient or heroin addict, bolstering the list of "Opioid Related Deaths". Cover-Up: Jane Ballantyne, MD from the U of W, well known for her anti-opioid bias, joins the CDC in drafting their guidelines, excluding input from pain doctors or patients, which the DEA quickly adopts even though FACA Laws were broken. The CDC hires the University of Washington to help the agency conduct a series of training webinars. Three of the four faculty members who participated in the webinars are affiliated with Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP), an organization that lobbied the federal government for years to reduce opioid prescribing. Jane Ballantyne, MD, is PROP’s president, Mark Sullivan, MD, and David Tauben, MD, are PROP board members. CDC hires public relations company – called PRR – as an image consultant, to determine why the CDC’s opioid prescribing guidelines were so poorly received in the pain community and try to alter perceptions. PRR states they contacted “thought leaders” in the pain community then refused to speak with a dozen activists who disagreed with the guidelines and also wanted to participate but PRR said they'd “completed the required number of interviews, so we'll not speak with these individuals.” Washington State's short sighted acceptance of illegal Obamacare left us in massive debt and the only way to redemption is to initiate a class action suit against Big Pharma, using skewed data and PR firms to sway public opinion in hopes of winning. The fact is, most Americans are dumb as oysters, believing the tripe fed to them on the boob tube, while the trampled voices are murdered by their own government. Since enforcement of this draconian law, heroin deaths rose 350% during 2017 in Grays Harbor County alone, none of them from prescription drugs. Cities of Everett, Seattle and the State of Washington have all filed suit as of September, looking for a payday and especially someone to blame for their own maleficence. SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS WEBSITE, BOOT THE POLITICIANS RESPONSIBLE AND GIVE ME MY LIFE BACK.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 5th, 2018Someone from Hoquiam, WA writes:
I suffer from full body, incurable RSD / CRPS, the most painful disease known to man and prescribed opiates since 1991 to offset the intractable pain but now denied this life restoring medication since politicians supplanted doctors and insurance companies dictate prescriptions. My PCP was threatened with loss of DEA license if she continued to prescribe, halting treatment to all patients 1 year ago. I'm bedridden, immobile, lost job, depleted savings, sleep deprived, unable to care for myself and in constant agony. The 90 MED CDC limit is inadequate to restore mobility and after 1 year of unemployment (without benefits), I'll loose everything I've worked for the last 50 years and face homelessness. The government stole a previously productive life. I'm denied access to Pain Clinics, all of whom refuse State Medicaid Insurance. Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness is a God given right according to the Declaration of Independence, which our representatives purposely trashed. Restore doctor's ability to treat their pain patients (WAC 246-919-250) without fear of prosecution as written in Washington State law. I NEED MY MEDICATIONS AND AND OWED MY LIFE BACK.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 3rd, 2018Tammy B. from Mojave, CA writes:
President Trump's. I have lost everything because of being sick because a DR performed the wrong surgery on both hands. I lost my company my farm. The pain is unbearable. I never took an illegal drug in my life. I am now being harassed constantly by the DEA. They investigate Drs not understanding the reason they have so many patients is because they are the only DR in the middle of no where for miles and miles for Medicare patients. Then they go the pharmacies and threaten them. Then they lie about it. All the legitimate patients want is to be left alone. Do you think I want this life. I was an athlete I had everything I wanted. Now I have almost no use of my hands. The only thing that gives me any quality of life is the little bit of relief from the pain meds. PLEASE MAKE THEM LEAVE ME ALONE.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 14th, 2017David P. from Mesquite, TX writes:
I need help. My daily dose of oxy has been restricted to such a low level that my ability to perform daily functions has been severely impacted. I have trouble just raking leaves, setting the trash on the curb, sitting and standing for more than 20 minutes. I am no longer the father I once was. My family needs me, but my pain is so high that I must often sit out from family activities and outings. I have become a prisoner to my house and bed. Prior to the reduction in oxy dosage I had all of this. I had true joy in my life. I am 56 years old. Now, I sit and wait for old age to take me. My life has been stolen from me by a government that has little compassion. Why has my government abandoned me?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 7th, 2017Barbara P. from Austin, TX writes:
I have osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, neuropathy, cervical spine surgery afflictions, hardware in my hip from a fracture that causes pressure pain, spinal stenosis, arthritis and a partial knee cap removal that may soon become a knee replacement. I was followed for years by a neurologist and orthopedic receiving medication and going through alternative management. When Pain Management Clinics became a requirement I ended up with new doctors, but basically doing the same routine. That was a couple surgeries ago and I've added accupuncture. Now I'm told we're cutting down your medication and it's for your own good. 5 months ago the doctor said that my body would adjust to the lower dosage. As he reduced it again I said, but my body hasn't adjusted and I'm going to have to quit the part time job I've been attempting. His answer was that the government regulations say I'm on a dose that exceeds what they say is appropriate for all chronic pain patients. But wait, I'm not every chronic pain patient. In order to have a couple good days out of bed I need to take my medicine then. The alternate days there better be nothing to do, because I may not be able to move.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 3rd, 2017David E. from Mesa, AZ writes:
I suffer with chronic pain, daily, I am hurting my body by trying to use over the counter meds to ease the pain, and I am hurting my body parts with these drugs, and I am trying to do the exercise that they tell me to do, with no results.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 2nd, 2017Christine P. from Wichita, KS writes:
I had breast cancer in 2014 and did 2 years of chemo. Now I was just diagnosed with AS. I'm in Chronic Pain every single Day. I'm in tears that I can't get my script for my pain patch because I'm being told it needs prior authorization. So, this Weekdend I suffer and sit in pain as I wait. Wait; to see how long this is going to take to get authorized. I had the paper script and I see no need to make me wait!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 2nd, 2017Karen C. from Sewaren, NJ writes:
Please help... I suffer from chronic pain and I need medicine to get out of bed.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 2nd, 2017Karen C. from Sewaren, NJ writes:
Please help... I suffer from chronic pain and I need medicine to get out of bed.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 2nd, 2017Karen C. from Sewaren, NJ writes:
Please help... I suffer from chronic pain and I need medicine to get out of bed.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 2nd, 2017Karen C. from Sewaren, NJ writes:
Please help... I suffer from chronic pain and I need medicine to get out of bed.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 2nd, 2017Karen C. from Sewaren, NJ writes:
Please help... I suffer from chronic pain and I need medicine to get out of bed.REPORT COMMENTS
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