First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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May 31st, 2016Someone from Buffalo, NY signed.
May 31st, 2016Someone from Los Angeles, CA writes:
Pain is ruining my life and im 70 doc will not give me enough meds to get thru t day or even have a lifeMay 31st, 2016Someone from Madison Heights, VA writes:
I have been blessed to receive the care that I have, up to this point. I'm feeling like I am on this locomotive bearaling down a track taking me to a place fabricated by government regulators who are determined to undermine my medical care. This reeks of politics. We MUST respond as a group or we will just become some tragic statistic!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 31st, 2016Someone from Riverview, FL signed.
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May 31st, 2016Someone from East Falmouth, MA writes:
Taking pain pills away from chronically ill people is unethical. I understand abuse. There is a grey area. People with diseases that depend on these drugs, myself for 20 years is only going to cause a mass suicide. You need to listen. Give doctors the right to treat each patient individually. I HATE taking pain Meds. I don't have a choice. Before you Create another problem deal with this one Correctly. We have a heroin problem not an Opiate problem.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 31st, 2016Someone from West Bend, WI writes:
I had my entire abdominal muscles cut out down to the pubic bone because of cancer tumors and a big piece of mesh to hold my organs in now just skin and mesh. I have 2 young children as well. I live in chronic pain. I can't take anti-inflamatories because 14 years before I had gastric bypass and with that you can't take them or you get ulcers of which I had. I can't take oxy anything because that too gave me an ulcer. I dont doctor shop, I follow all rules, lock up my medication, only use one pharmacy, and pass all my surprise UAs. Have been a ginnea pig for several drugs including NSAIDS that I wasnt supposed to take, got sick from them followed by additional pain from ulcers, or had my stools turn almost white from tramadol from liver issues. Finally found a regimine that worked and was stable for 2 yrs. Still had a level 3-4 on pain scale daily or higher if I was active most the day. But I managed and learned to balance my routine not to increase dosage. Now I have been cut drastically and my bed is once again my only comfort zone. Right when my kids are out of school. Too young to venture on their own and because I can't be that "super mom" other school mom's judge us and leave my kids out of playdates etc. This has affected all of us. I still have a crappy quality of life and so does my family because of me. Now once again I spend my summer in bed and kids with having to be isolated because of me. I didn't ask to get a rare cancer no doubt from the toxic chemicals in all that we eat, drink or breathe thanks to goverment who allows poision in everything but I deserve treatment since there is no other surgery or means to fix my pain unless technology can grow new muscle with nerve endings or turn me into the bionic woman. Walk a mile in my shoes. I want to see you cry in pain as I cant even walk a mile.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 31st, 2016Someone from Holly Ridge, NC writes:
I have continuous acute pancreatitis and sphincter of oddi dysfunction- IT CAUSES A PAIN WORSE THAN EVEN CANCER (Dr David Whitcomb, UPMC-Pittsburgh, PA). If you think us suffering with this pain from our own organ actually eating itself alive, is something totally controllable, YOU TRY IT FOR JUST AN HOUR!!! I guarantee that you would be screaming in agony! Many already do commit suicide JUST DUE TO THE PAIN!!! If you take away the only option we have, we are dead in the water!!!!!! The only other option we have is a 33% success rate, VERY CONTROVERSIAL surgery called THE TP/AIT, which ONLY A FEW ARE CANDIDATES and, it, THE TP/AIT, is a total pancreatectomy with auto islet transplant, so they remove your pancreas, DO NOT GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE- YOU ARE INSTANTLY MADE A BRITTLE DIABETIC, they melt down your pancreas, then extract islet cells from it, amd inject that into your liver duct... CREATING ANOTHER POSSIBLE ISSUE!!! And, it takes an entire year (IF you are one of the LUCKY ONES, altho many are made EVEN WORSE OFF Y THIS LAST DITCH ATTEMPT)... So you go an entire year trying to regain some semblance of your life POSTOP... A year... just to recover from this ATTEMPT AT LIFE... And, that is "IF" it even works,... And "IF" its even successful for any real amount of time at all), because for many, their issues can come back after only a very short time after having this horrifying procedure. Children have pancreatitis also. Some go to the ER and their parents are told that their child must be an alcoholic in order to be siffering from this disease... BECAUSE WE HAVE SO FEW KNOWLEDGABLE PANCREATIC DRS!!! We have to constantly beg for help at facilities all across this nation!!! I dont know how foreigners deal with this, as there are only 12 major pancreatic ctrs worldwide-with 10 of them being located here in the USA! LOOK- JUST BECAUSE ER DRS DONT HAVE A CLUE AS TO WHAT THIS DISEASE ENTAILS, NOR HOW TO P R O P E R L Y TREAT A PANCREATIC PATIENT, AND... JUST BECAUSE OUR GOVT SOLD US OUT FOR DEMOCRATIC VOTES, leavinv our entire nation left wide open to the mexican drug cartels- who also have infiltrated Canada as well, and JUST BECAUSE OUR GOVT ALLOWED FLORIDA (Jeb Bush's disasterous drug mess) TO POP UP PILL MILLS EVERY WHERE, AND OUR GOVT ALLOWS GANGS TO NOW TAKE OVER ALL OF OUR CITIES, AND PREY ON OUR YOUTH, IS NO REASON TO MAKE THE TRULY ILL SUFFER!!!!!!!! GO AFTER THE SOURCE: THE BORDER!!! THE CROOKED PEOPLE BEING PAID OFF TO ALLOW DRUGS TO COME IN--- BUT DO NOT KILL US SICKLY PEOPLE.. DONT WE SUFFER ENOUGH? THIS IS THE MOST INSANE THING IVE EVER HEARD OF IN MY LIFE...(punishing SICK people, because of nothing they have done whatsoever)!! ISNT IT BAD ENOUGH THAT MOST DRS GIVE US THE 3rd degree, AS WE LAY SUFFERING LEVEL 10 PAIN,... And all because they just CANT BELIEVE IT IS WHAT IT IS, AND, DONT RECOGNIZE WHAT THEIR ROLE MUST BE, AND HAVE TAKEN ON THE ACT OF NEGLECT RATHER THAN "CARE", BY THEIR SERIOUS LACK OF PROPER INVESTIGATION INTREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 31st, 2016Someone from Salem, OR signed.
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May 31st, 2016Someone from Ontario, CA writes:
We, the legitimate pain patients that are monitored monthly, need our medication to have some quality of life. Think about how many suicides there will be when you take them off their medications that are giving them - and their families quality of life. Imagine waking up every day feeling like you just had surgery- imagine this happening to a person in your family or worse- you. I wish you could spend one day in my body. I have CRPS- I'm sure you don't even know what it is. I have it systemically- meaning throughout my my nervous system. Please think before acting like we all are street drug abusers or pill poppers- no one I know wants to be on opioids , we just want quality of life!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 31st, 2016Someone from Huntsville, AL signed.
May 31st, 2016Someone from Peachtree City, GA writes:
Chronic pain is no joke! Don't violate my human rights & civil liberties!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 31st, 2016Someone from Youngsville, NC signed.
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May 30th, 2016Someone from Methuen, MA writes:
Please give me my dependence not addicted drug back so I can function again with 8 chronic illnesses to raise my familyREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2016Someone from Roslindale, MA writes:
It truly isn't fair that we are being denied treatment because of drug addicts; most of whom use heroin which is an opioid and has always been illegal and the DEA hasn't put a dent into. Yet law-abiding pain management patients are being punished for what's being called an "opioid epidemic" We have a right to humane, proven treatment. Diabetics must inject insulin with syringes yet common sense says they're not the reason for IV drug abusers and having treatment withheld. This has to stop before more are driven to suicide because they can't perform basic everyday ADLs. This has to stop; it's becoming worse than treatment in third world countries.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2016Someone from Dallas, TX signed.
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May 30th, 2016Someone from Little Chute, WI writes:
I have been labeled a drug seeker for no reason and have since not had a day of relief. I am in constant pain and don't want to live like this. this is going to push those who just want a normal life pain free to street drugs or death. Stop teaching our doctors how to not treat a patient this is getting ridiculous. Our Dr are supposed to help us not abandon us.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2016Someone from Perkasie, PA signed.
May 30th, 2016Someone from Vermillion, MN signed.
May 30th, 2016Someone from Independence, MO writes:
Our pain medication patients are being shoved to the streets. With 12 yrs of records, MRI's, injections, procedures, etc. and the doctor turns a blind eye, to it, due to pressures from DEA, and CDC, etc. Let the man do his job, without interference, by those that do not know, what a person deals with. To many, this act will send them straight to heroin, or anything else that will allow one to have a moveable/mobile existence. Being in bed, all the time, is no way to live. Please act, and help. Thank you. MO-SIGNEDREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2016Someone from Twentynine Palms, CA signed.
May 30th, 2016Someone from Taunton, MA signed.
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May 30th, 2016Someone from Sumiton, AL writes:
I am a pain patient. I have dealt with several compression fractures, Osteoarthritis, and depression. I have had 1 doctor actually back me out of all I have seen, But he retired. Now I cannot find anyone that will take me. I have even been told "I hurt too much for the problems I have or that I have no pain tolerance." That was said in one sentence by a UAB neurologist!!! I can't find a pain doctor that takes my insurance, and I cannot afford to private pay.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2016Someone from Londonderry, NH signed.
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May 30th, 2016Someone from Dover, NH writes:
I am now writing a book about my 25 year battle with RSD/CRPS and the stigmas attached to an otherwise healthy successful person.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2016Someone from Paradise, CA writes:
You cleaned out the pill mills and the few corrupt doctors but now you are hurting real patients real doctors real families that are all just trying to get & give good medical care for those suffering in pain everyday every night of every month year after year to the point it makes you wish for death. So please let us have our doctors that actually care to lessen our suffering so we can stop wishing for death stop killing ourselves because every access to pain medications is being cut off. Look at the increased drug use on the streets the increase of chronic pain patients dying of heart attacks & strokes from unrelieved pain. Those that are & will continue to find pain relief in death by suicide. Stop the unnecessary death we want to live but so many left without relief just can't. Is there no empathy no compassion left in anyone anymore? That you would continue to target the weakest unable to fight back of patients & their needed doctors? Stop the Heroin stop Chinas Lethal Fentynal that arrived just in time for prohibition on opioid pain medications entering the country.REPORT COMMENTS
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