Chronic Pain Patients Treated in an Inhumane Way by Doctors
To whom it may concern;
Arkansas' attorney general has retained five law firms to help investigate drug companies and prepare for potential legal action over their role in the state's opioid abuse problem.
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said she retained Dover Dixon Horne PLLC in Little Rock and four out-of-state firms for the work, which could result in lawsuits against the drug manufacturers. Rutledge said she did not have a timeframe for taking legal action against the companies. The drug companies did not cram the pills down peoples throats. The doctors should be punished for their ignorance and the doctors denying chronic pain patients medication should also be held accountable for the neglect that they have caused so many people.
I would like to know who is standing up for all the legitimate pain patients here in Arkansas who have been completely cut off because of peoples greed?
Most of the people who die from drug over doses or street drugs were already street drug addicts. They had multiple medications and alcohol in their systems. 27% of people with chronic back pain did not abuse their medications and are still alive. But have been severely incapacitated by pain. We didn’t run to a hospital begging, we didn’t hurt ourselves to get medications and we didn’t go out and buy street drugs but we are being neglected by doctors. I would call that malpractice and the most inhumane treatment we could ever receive.
Doctors are now saying, “they will loose their license” or “that it’s against the law now to prescribe pain meds.” I won’t go see an anesthesiologist or get shots in my back, which only deteriorates bones, even more because I am a diabetic. Diabetics do not take steroids or get steroid shots in their back.
Nor will I be given a medical marijuana card to purchase something that is a federal crime to use, own, or possess. But I guess the revenues from sales, taxes, tickets, imprisonment, court cost, county lockups, people loosing their homes, jobs, families, and vehicles will benefit the states.
2.5 years ago I weighed 163, active all day, grew a garden every year, kept my house spotless, cooked meals, done laundry, walked ½ mile a day, took care of my husband who is a heart patient, washed my car, walked my pet, mowed the lawn with a push mower, worked in my flower beds, drove my own self to doctor visits, grocery store and church every Sunday and maintained a very fulfilling life because the pain medication I took managed my pain so that I could maintain some normalcy to my life. When I first started the medication, I was still on the same amount when a doctor decided to take me off because their clinic lost 15 doctors in 2017 and they wanted patients to come in every month so that they could charge insurance companies to make up the loss. My great grandmother lived to be 95, my grandmother lived to be 94, and other grandparents lived to be in their late 80’s. I don’t see myself reaching those goals because when you are no longer active, body parts will eventually shut down.
Now I am practically bed ridden, weigh 210lbs, loosing all muscle mass, heart and lungs getting weaker every day because of lack of activity and doctors who just all of a sudden decided in 2017 to take me off my pain medication that I had been taking for years. I am not able to sit for very long or stand on my feet for more than a few minutes. I have had multiple x-rays and MRI done on spine, hips and legs since 2005. I have had one hip replaced, have vertebras that are collapsing on each other, putting pressure on nerves that run horizontally in my back and have lived with this since I was born. I am loosing all the cartilage in my spine. It is a generational disease and cannot be cured. There is no surgery or fix for my back.
So now I am living in excruciating pain daily, have lost my ability to be productive and the doctors do not care about my well being or anyone else’s. I am no longer able to take care of myself and I am becoming a burden to my husband.
Is that any type of life worth living? All because people want to blame drug companies and profit off of somebody. Some of us respect that the drugs were made to threat pain. I do not pity the ones who were ignorant or had a doctor that was a pill pusher.
What will it gain me and thousands of other patients with debilitating chronic pain? Nothing!
Arkansas' attorney general has retained five law firms to help investigate drug companies and prepare for potential legal action over their role in the state's opioid abuse problem.
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge said she retained Dover Dixon Horne PLLC in Little Rock and four out-of-state firms for the work, which could result in lawsuits against the drug manufacturers. Rutledge said she did not have a timeframe for taking legal action against the companies. The drug companies did not cram the pills down peoples throats. The doctors should be punished for their ignorance and the doctors denying chronic pain patients medication should also be held accountable for the neglect that they have caused so many people.
I would like to know who is standing up for all the legitimate pain patients here in Arkansas who have been completely cut off because of peoples greed?
Most of the people who die from drug over doses or street drugs were already street drug addicts. They had multiple medications and alcohol in their systems. 27% of people with chronic back pain did not abuse their medications and are still alive. But have been severely incapacitated by pain. We didn’t run to a hospital begging, we didn’t hurt ourselves to get medications and we didn’t go out and buy street drugs but we are being neglected by doctors. I would call that malpractice and the most inhumane treatment we could ever receive.
Doctors are now saying, “they will loose their license” or “that it’s against the law now to prescribe pain meds.” I won’t go see an anesthesiologist or get shots in my back, which only deteriorates bones, even more because I am a diabetic. Diabetics do not take steroids or get steroid shots in their back.
Nor will I be given a medical marijuana card to purchase something that is a federal crime to use, own, or possess. But I guess the revenues from sales, taxes, tickets, imprisonment, court cost, county lockups, people loosing their homes, jobs, families, and vehicles will benefit the states.
2.5 years ago I weighed 163, active all day, grew a garden every year, kept my house spotless, cooked meals, done laundry, walked ½ mile a day, took care of my husband who is a heart patient, washed my car, walked my pet, mowed the lawn with a push mower, worked in my flower beds, drove my own self to doctor visits, grocery store and church every Sunday and maintained a very fulfilling life because the pain medication I took managed my pain so that I could maintain some normalcy to my life. When I first started the medication, I was still on the same amount when a doctor decided to take me off because their clinic lost 15 doctors in 2017 and they wanted patients to come in every month so that they could charge insurance companies to make up the loss. My great grandmother lived to be 95, my grandmother lived to be 94, and other grandparents lived to be in their late 80’s. I don’t see myself reaching those goals because when you are no longer active, body parts will eventually shut down.
Now I am practically bed ridden, weigh 210lbs, loosing all muscle mass, heart and lungs getting weaker every day because of lack of activity and doctors who just all of a sudden decided in 2017 to take me off my pain medication that I had been taking for years. I am not able to sit for very long or stand on my feet for more than a few minutes. I have had multiple x-rays and MRI done on spine, hips and legs since 2005. I have had one hip replaced, have vertebras that are collapsing on each other, putting pressure on nerves that run horizontally in my back and have lived with this since I was born. I am loosing all the cartilage in my spine. It is a generational disease and cannot be cured. There is no surgery or fix for my back.
So now I am living in excruciating pain daily, have lost my ability to be productive and the doctors do not care about my well being or anyone else’s. I am no longer able to take care of myself and I am becoming a burden to my husband.
Is that any type of life worth living? All because people want to blame drug companies and profit off of somebody. Some of us respect that the drugs were made to threat pain. I do not pity the ones who were ignorant or had a doctor that was a pill pusher.
What will it gain me and thousands of other patients with debilitating chronic pain? Nothing!
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