First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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May 30th, 2016Someone from Castle Rock, WA writes:
Chronic PAIN is an epidemic. Don't punish the pain patients. -
May 30th, 2016Someone from Columbus, OH signed.
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May 30th, 2016Someone from Ellenton, FL writes:
#PATIENTSNOTADDICTS - It blows my mind how bad this is getting. Surely at some point the government will get off their butts and do something about what is now becoming a crisis in my mind.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2016Someone from Sebastian, FL writes:
Im in the same boat as most of you. I suffer from chronic back pain, fibromyalgia, and endometriosis. Im from Illinoi, when I lived there I never had any problems getting pain control. My primary care dr. was able too write my scripts. I've had four back surgerys from an injury falling at work in my mid twentys. Im now 42 so I've been on narcotic pain meds for17 years. She gave me 125 mg feyntinol patches and Percocet tens for break through pain. Since moving too Florida eight years ago I've been in hell. Im looked down on from pharmacies and treated like a scum bag from the drs here. Im going too pain management what a laugh. Im currently waiting on surgery number five. Last month my dr cut my meds in half with the excuse of its necessary for better pain control after surgery. I have no problem being cut down a little gradually he lied too my face saying he was taking one of my 30 mg oxys away and taking me from 60 mg oxycontins too 40 mg. Had no problem with that. Left looked at my script took me down too 30 mg oxycontin and 20 mg oxycodones. Have two weeks until the month is up and Im out. Been trying too get an appointment for ten days now. No-one has called me back. Hed said if theres any problems please make an appoimt with me. Im not a drinker or illegal drug taker. No one deserves too be treated this way. The minute the pharmacy sees what you need they give you that look and either dont have that med or quanity ext.... unless there are major changes with the DEA we will all suffer not even sure why pharmacist have the right too judge or refuse too fill a legit script. Somedays Im in so much pain I feel I don't want too go on, its so unnecessary too suffer like this.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2016Someone from Bridgeville, PA writes:
This is such a promising relief to see that somebody is doing something about it.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2016Someone from Pierz, MN signed.
May 30th, 2016Someone from Slidell, LA writes:
I have had every treatment there is,including surgery. 2 days ago i broke my back again. nobody wants to treat me so i lie in bed screaming all day. Who do i turn to now?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2016Someone from Weslaco, TX signed.
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May 30th, 2016Someone from Montgomery, AL writes:
Being allergic to NSAIDS is a sure sign of addiction? People can be allergic to anything and allergies are more prevalent now than ever. Leaving thousands to suffer because someone somewhere without a medical license thinks they know better than a patients Doctor is insanity. I believe this is bureaucratic practicing without a license.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 29th, 2016Someone from Glen Allen, VA writes:
This has gone too far someone needs to help defend other pain patients who are not even able to stand up for themselves. This is supposed to be the land of the free and the home of the brave but, nobody gets a say in their own healthcare and everyone in the medical field is afraid to write prescriptions to chronic pain patients. How can anyone with chronic pain pursue a happy life with out effective relief. ice pack and advil....... get real.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 29th, 2016Someone from Cincinnati, OH signed.
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May 29th, 2016Someone from Cary, NC writes:
It is EASY to distinguish between an addict and one who uses their pain medication as prescribed a LOOK at the patients History, then treat each patient with compassion and respect accordingly!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 29th, 2016Someone from Florence, MS writes:
Unintentionally these new regulation are forcing people to suffer terribly. I believe these new policies are forcing people to street drugs,which is the true problem in the first place. Treat addition if it's an issue,dobt force harm on the elderly and chronically ill.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 29th, 2016Someone from Phoenix, AZ signed.
May 29th, 2016Someone from Goose Creek, SC writes:
I have been in constant pain for over 15 yrs. I've had ulcers, so I am not to take most over the counter pain relief. Being addicted to a pain medicine that helped me would be like being addicted to food. At my age addiction is the least of my worries. I'm much more concerned if I will be able to cook, wash dishes, or vacuum on any given day. I would really like to start to functioning instead of being someone's burden.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 28th, 2016Someone from Lancaster, SC writes:
I am a 57 year old woman and have suffered with Multiple Sclerosis for over seven years now. The best way to describe my pain is to pour gasoline all over your skeletal bones and light them on fire! I started on a low dosage of pain medication due to the fact there is no cure for MS and I didn't want to build up a resistance to a pain medication to soon, the whole time thinking if it gets worse I can increase my pain medicine. Now that the Government has decided to let DEA act as our doctors I am without hope. DEA go out and deal with the drug dealers , go out and do your job but people suffering in need of pain medication from their Doctor is not your area. These Doctors have given much of their life to medical study to practice! It is simply the most ridiculous, dictated law the government has ever come up with! Because some other person either mentally distraught killed them self or a bad criminal apple in the bunch sold his medication I have to live in horrible pain for the rest of my life! So do I kill myself or become the criminal buying my pain medication off the street? All the people that passed this Dictative Judgemental Stupid Law .. I wish my affliction disease that I never would have wished on another soul .. I wish it on you!! I will be the 60 year old grandma you arrest and make the newspapers for drug dealing when I am caught buying them on the street!! I will be the citizen here no one cared about and have to leave the country for medication! Boy was I born in the wrong century , wish I could go buy a bottle of Laudanum from back in the western days!! Oh speaking of that Laudanum sold over the counter ... where were all the druggies then? This is all a bunch of BS and needs to be fixed or I might be one of the pain killer users that you do a study on in 10 years to see how many people decided suicide rather than live in pain! Opiants might cause constipation .. but the law allows 100 different drugs on commercials for heartburn or arthritis that has so many side effects even death, or a drug that 5 or 10 years later they are saying if you have taken this drug please call this lawyer! This better get fixed and fast before the citizens of this country gets fed up!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 28th, 2016Someone from Lancaster, SC writes:
Suffering or pain should never be a optionREPORT COMMENTS
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May 28th, 2016Someone from Conroe, TX writes:
Beaurocrats have no rights to tell Doctors how to do their jobs. All of Congress,Senators,Rep...etc. are all insured to the fullest with our Tax Dollars and yet want to regulate Our Country's patients pain meds? This must be stopped in it's tracks NOW!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 28th, 2016Someone from Asheboro, NC writes:
Please help us who suffer we want to live normal lives without pain!! It's hurts to do anything go to Dr puts you muscle relaxers nothing for pain. Hard to work sleep or do anything! Imagine if you lived with daily pain every move you make hurts.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 28th, 2016Someone from Norman, OK writes:
I've been in fairly severe pain for over 55 years now. It's not about getting "high" at all. It's about quality of life. I take 7.5 mg of hydrocodone as needed for pain. As needed means I go days without taking any, bearing the pain fairly well. As needed means sometimes taking only half a pill, seeing how that half takes the edge off the pain. As needed means taking the other half of that pill, seeing how that works. As needed sometimes means taking a full dose and following that with another full dose only when the prescribed time has elapsed. A good doctor once told me, "If you take pain medicine as prescribed and only when necessary, you will never have problems with addiction." I can go weeks, sometimes a month, between doses, and I've never experienced any withdrawal nor have I ever experienced any craving for the pills. I really don't care for the heavy effects of hydrocodone, but I do appreciate taking the hard edges off the pain so that I can appreciate and participate in life, giving me some quality. To be honest, regulators are making physician prescribed (and monitored) pain medication extraordinarily expensive that heroin is far less costly and, frankly, easier to get. I am physically disabled and am on a fixed income. Law makers are creating new heroin users, benefiting and supporting only criminal drug pushing thugs, effectively removing the physician from the scene. I am not yet at that point, but I am concerned that the lawmakers will force me to that option. What a cruel thing to do to us US citizens.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 28th, 2016Someone from Spartanburg, SC writes:
I have been in pain for twenty years. It has worstened as my health and diagnoses have changed. I originally injured my back on a call as a paramedic. I had spent yrs dealing with the very people that the DEA think that they are stopping, but all that they have and will be doing is hurting those who actually have had their quality of life taken away already. Just as those who choose to use guns illegally, be it as part of a gang or whatever the reason, they will find a gun, and just like up until now, they not once stopped by the police department to say 'just wanna make sure I have all my paperwork on this before I use it', they will never do it the legal way. Thise who abuse drugs will always do it the illegal way. You will still have people breaking into.others homes, going from ER to ER, Dr.to Dr, making it themselves, or buying off the streets. All that you have done is make sure that those who ACTUALLY are suffering from pain and debillitating conditions are made to suffer even more. They are forced to watch from a distance as their children grow.up thinking that they are not important because mom or dad could never lea e the bed or chair to come watch them play football or be in the school play. They also missed graduation, and all the time feeling like a failure for not being there, but what to do? It's not like you ever get any support from these so called Dr's, they never once have said "living with pain is a true and legitimate condition and famies need to support you, and society needs to support you, instead of being conditioned to look at and treat you as a druggy. The DEA has also made it easier for some offices to do like my office, who nust had the owning physician retire, so the other Drs decided to change the way things were done. We were informed that if you have no operable spinal condition, you will no longer receive meds. That was explained to me as if you cannot for some reason receive continued treatments other and in addition to meds, you are out. Broken down they admitted it means you must make money for them to keep you. You must be able.to have regular epidurals, etc that can be claimed in addition on insurance and if you need to talk more than 15 appointment, you must pay for.2, etc. Since I have severe fibromyalgia, diabetic neuropathy, herpatic neuropathy, scoliosis, spondiolysys and a number of other chronic pain conditions, I was told I had to repeat my mri and if there was nothing operable, meaning injections, I would have to come off all meds and no longer be seen. They already know I can't, because as a type 1 unstable diabetic the injections could kill me. I have a heart,/ lung problem that affects O2Sats too. Because I am in such a high level of pain, test proved that the meds did not effect my O2Sats(tthe first thing they wanted to blame, so the first tbey ruled.out) but if im taken off meds after so long tbey can kill me, and there is nothing to stop them. I suppose that shouldnt suprise us since theevelREPORT COMMENTS
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May 27th, 2016Someone from Thomasville, NC writes:
I am 51 and due to the down market in my area I am forced to take a job on my feet all day, sometimes up to 58 hours a week. My body is being crippled and all my docs want to give me is Motrin, I also have diabetic pain but every doc is afraid to write scripts, in the meantime I feel I'm headed to disability, though was in perfect shape before this job. I just want help so bad.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 27th, 2016Someone from Oliver Springs, TN writes:
My 75 year old mother now has to pay 40 dollars instead of 10 to go to a pain clinic to maybe get her 2 pain pills a day and they may not give them to her after 15 years back surgery ect. The cdc and the Dea need to stay out of doctor patients relationshipREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 27th, 2016Someone from Sophia, NC signed.
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May 27th, 2016Someone from Monticello, FL writes:
For patients with long term chronic pain, this is a travesty. So the solution is to not give them the medication, which by the way their body NEEDS, and subject them to physical torment. I SEE. Is this NOT the reverse of their Hippocratic Oath? Because as I see it this does the patient HARM.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 27th, 2016Someone from Knoxville, TN writes:
I am a 61 year old woman, that has had double hip replacements, back surgery, next in line for a knee replacements. My life has been filled with pain for over 30 years, but I have dealt with it as best I could. Recently my whole world has come to a complete stop, as to the fact, people that have no medical training have decided that our Dr's are idiots and can no longer write medication to relieve my pain. I have missed events in my family's life that will never be duplicated because I'm confined to sit and suffer. Bad people i.e. Drug seekers will always find a way to get what they want, even if it means robbing decent people like myself of what little meds we can be given now. Who ever thought that reducing pain medication down to levels that give no relief is a idiot, in what world is this a solution? It just presents more problems!! Decent people are the only ones that this is affecting, because we do not have the energy to drug shop and run around town to find dealers to sell us what we NEED, not want to get a buzz on. If they really want to try and clean something up.. Go after drunk drivers, I'm sure more people are dying from those people on the road than overdose's, why don't you shut down bars, close down liquor stores. If your truly concerned and not just grandstanding on a topic that you know you have sick people that have a harder time fighting back. All I want is my life back and to be as pain free as I was before and I do not believe that is asking to much.REPORT COMMENTS
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