First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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May 30th, 2016Someone from Hudson, OH signed.
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May 30th, 2016Someone from New Kensington, PA writes:
Yes I think it's messed up. I see my partner struggle every day because she is in pain and doctors don't want to do anything or prescribed anything stronger for her because they don't want there license revoked but yet they should have it revoked since there harming peopleMay 30th, 2016Someone from Antioch, IL signed.
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May 30th, 2016Someone from Urbandale, IA writes:
Tens of thousands will die if you do not drop this ******** war against pain patients. Each of you should be brought up on murder charges for taking away quality of life from those who want to live. Screw your war on drugs...IT HAS NEVER WORKED.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2016Someone from New Kensington, PA signed.
May 30th, 2016Someone from Oakridge, OR writes:
As a sufferer from CRPS, I hope my physician is able, and allowed, to treat my pain. Without pain relief, I will die from lack of sleep because the pain is that intense. CRPS is real. Pain is real. Those of us that suffer need to know that we can, and will, be taken care of by our physician(s).REPORT COMMENTS
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May 30th, 2016Someone from Pearland, TX writes:
I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia 23 years ago and managed to work s full time job and live a fairly productive life without pain management with opioids. Two years ago, I was diagnosed with CRPS and everything changed. This is the most painful syndrome known to man. I tried sympathetic nerve blocks and they did not last. I had a SCS implanted to block the pain signals to my brain. This is not a cure and only reduces my pain by about 50%. For the breakthrough pain, I do take an opioid. I can no longer work, and I have worked since the age of 14. No one wants this life. We do deserve some kind of relief without feeling like drug seekers or psychologically impaired because our pain is unbearable.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 30th, 2016Someone from Burrton, KS writes:
I am early into my Chronic pain journey of 10 years, where I managed my fibromyalgia mindfully and without utilizing a pain management system. it wasn't until 3 years ago I now had a failed back surgery, Intractable pain, degenerative disc disease etc., that I have discovered I have been naive in my belief that pain management was health 'care,' and I was viewed as a patient. Was I ever wrong. I discovered this by attempting to move my pain management closer to my work for convenience. Without counsel neither practitioner explained the 'rules.' The new pain management doctor abandoned me forcing me to a Same Day Care facility as he wouldn't cover any of my medications.. he wouldn't even provide anything for the pending withdrawal. I am now in between doctors and having to travel over 2 1/2 hours to find quality care. I have no control over what has happened to me, yet I am treated as if I do. I am forced to provide UAs when I have never broken any contract and pay for them myself. I am forced to be seen monthly for the needed prescriptions, and to pay for each of those visits as well. I don't dare ask a medical question or have a concern about the continued unmanaged pain without being seen as a 'drug seeker.' It took 3 months of request to finally get someone to do another MRI to see if something has changed so I could maybe seek a cure? I could go on and on about my disgust in the medical system, and the torture by my own government. Without my medications, I will be forced on disability from a job of 23 ears, as I cannot walk across a room let alone get out of bed. My pain is blinding unmedicated. I do hope the few doctors that are intelligent to know that these are guidelines not mandates will hang in there with us, providing compassionate care and guidance. Thank youREPORT COMMENTS
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May 30th, 2016Someone from Tucson, AZ writes:
I was dictating my letter in some sentences it refers to DEA and oranges it should have said the DEA has lost the was on drugs. Another part has the word meat it was to have read the doctor has cut me down to an eighth of what i was prescribed. In addition, what kind of care do these elected officials get when they hurt. You know for a fact it's not an and slollipop.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2016Someone from North Brunswick, NJ writes:
I'm a chronic pain sufferer, not an addict. I have CRPS, complex regional pain syndrome. There is no cure for CRPS. Without my medication I would not be able to get out of bed. I have pain 24/7. On a scale of 0-10 it's usually at 11. If you don't let my doctor treat me with my medication I won't be able to try to function, to try to take care of my family the way they deserve to be taken care of . I've had sympathetic blocks, radio frequency ablation, cuff shots.....nothing has given me any relief. Paw Please don't take away the one thing that gives me a slight chance to be normalREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2016Someone from Tucson, AZ writes:
The shame of it all is that doctors are no longer interested in caring for the patient. The DEA has been bullying doctors who treat pain patients as criminals themselves I am in constant pain and sense being changed to another doctor, they send me to a doctor who cuts meat in an eighth of what I've had prior I can no longer sit stand or sleep so what soon follows after that, is depression. There are so many more ways the dollars that are given to the DEA could be spent. All the DEA is doing is bullying doctors that are trying to help patients. If they think they have beaten the orange they are deeply mistaken. Yes there are those that have used these drugs but for people like myself and people that are suffering from chronic pain they help us live and at least participate in some activity. I can't afford to have people do maintenance on my home so I have to do it myself so I suffer even longer after I've had to you then redo my roof on my house paint the trim on my house or do any other strenuous actions or activities. Congress should take a long look at the Hippocratic Oath and read each word over and over again. They are making the medical field of pain reduction a crime.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 30th, 2016Someone from Kapolei, HI writes:
I've suffered in chronic pain for 20 years.. prior to that horrible incident that led to my injury, I struggled with endometriosis since my first menstrual cycle. Surgeries and hormones and injections were only band aids. In 2010 I found a real caring physician. . After a thorough medical review and MRIs and cat scans... I was given the lowest does of vicodin. I was able to provide attention to my children, keep my job and actually smile. Fast forward to NOW... I have been transferred to hawaii, (medical care is in the dark ages here) I am limited to only a couple physicians and they consider the opioid war a war on them. My new doctor has now given me tylenol 3 instead. . Let me break it down for you idiots... I have SEVERE endometriosis, Fibromyalgia , lupus and scoliosis. I am in pain. I have to work... rent is 3000 dollars a month here and I make 18 dollars an hour. I don't have the luxury of calling in sick with excruciating pain every other day. ALL PHARMACIES HERE ON THIS GOD FORSAKEN ISLAND play judge and jury... even with tylenol 3. Pull your heads out of your asses and realize that this "great plan" to stop drug abuse/misuse is failing us.. the true victims of your ********.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 30th, 2016Someone from Corinth, NY writes:
Don't punish chronic pain patients or the doctors who treat them. Is our quality of life not important? I've had a ten-level spinal fusion and have pseudoarthrosis, severe degenerative disc disease, scoliosis (65̊*) with kyphosis-lordosis deformity, sciatica, spondylolisthesis, stenosis, osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia, sacroiliac joint dysfunction, and neuropathy, just to name a few. I'm allergic to every NSAID I've tried (I guess I must be a drug-seeking addict), as well as morphine and gabapentin, so unless I can take opioids, I'm pretty much screwed. Please allow my doctors to treat me, not government bureaucrats.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 30th, 2016Someone from Ash Flat, AR writes:
Most of you are blaming the DEA (which is completely corrupt) or Congress (totally incompetent & self-serving) for passing this ill conceived law without considering the unintended consequences, but have not mentioned one other all important issue. The Doctor's that are en-mass shirking their responsibilities by "dumping" chronic pain patients like hot potatoes in order to cover their own butt's at their patient's expense. I had always considered Doctor's to be caring, dedicated professionals that would put their patient's well being above all else. How wrong I was. Until this idiotic law is repealed, and the DEA is put on a leash, Doctor's will continue down this unprofessional and inexcusable path.REPORT COMMENTS
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