First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Apr 11th, 2016Someone from Holton, MI writes:
Unfortunately, we have the same problem in Michigan... Husband has spinal cord nerve damage plus a heart condition. Suffering from the pain is causing more heart damage. Quality of life for both of us has dropped dramatically. This is a night mare............... -
Apr 11th, 2016Someone from Ashland, NH signed.
Apr 11th, 2016Someone from Land O Lakes, FL writes:
I am a Retired War Veteran and also Retired VA Employee that has relocated after my two sons graduated from college to Florida "So I can put my feet in sand while I Can". I am a Spinal Cord Injury patient that is not paralyzed yet but will be in future and that is why I wanted to feel sand between my toes, What I did not know before relocating two years ago was the nightmare of finding a FLORIDA PAIN MD to continue my current dosage of pain medications and decreasing my dosage so low that I could not function ,also would not review my medical records of failed pain interventions, failed procedures,failed surgeries etc. Until last month I was traveling back and forth from my pain Doctor of over 5 years to get my pain medications and continuity of care so I could function almost like a human again. Yes, every other month traveling back to TN and Florida was not only "hard to travel 11 hours in my car" but financially hard due to travel costs but loss of 1/4 of wife's income cause she had to go from full time to PRN status as a RN. My wife had to travel with me because of my injuries so she to had to change her job status to work as needed based upon my 5 day trip to TN every other month. Also, the FL pain clinic who cut my scripts over half could not tell me which pharmacy would fill my scripts and take insurance. Retired Veterans have awesome medical insurance meaning script co pays are very low costs. So after spending five hours on road to find one Ma and Pa Pharmacy to fill scipt that day but I had to pay out of my pocket 600 dollars for one script cause they don't take insurance, First of April my wife stated we were going to try Tampa General ER to have me admitted so I could obtain FL Pain MD thru them and then be able to get scripts thru their hospital pharmacy. I was hospitalized over 7 days and when discharged I learned they would not honor no MD out of Tampa General but Tampa General do not have Chronic Pain Clinics so I am out of mess now waiting to go back to TN so I can get good pain management for a legitimate diagnosis, get pain Medes with insurance and most of all I can live life like a human again, I have more to my story about Fl Pain MD and pharmacies that you would be more outraged to know but need more time to write my book, Please help cause I am causing my family pain by having to see me sit on couch all day, loss of my memory, and exacerbation of my PTSD cause of increase pain that I don't want to lose my wife. I served my country for 18 years and then helped Nash VA Veterans and this is how a Vet should be treated along with others who suffer from neurological trauma etc. My other story is about why I don't go to VA hospital! Trust me VA had me committed cause I could not get any help and my wife is a very skilled RN told them I was going thru DT,s and my HTN out of range plus pain exacerbated my PTSD and I did not need To be committed but admitted and then got discharged with no pay disorder and eveREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 11th, 2016Someone from Land O Lakes, FL writes:
I am a Retired War Veteran and also Retired VA Employee that has relocated after my two sons graduated from college to Florida "So I can put my feet in sand while I Can". I am a Spinal Cord Injury patient that is not paralyzed yet but will be in future and that is why I wanted to feel sand between my toes, What I did not know before relocating two years ago was the nightmare of finding a FLORIDA PAIN MD to continue my current dosage of pain medications and decreasing my dosage so low that I could not function ,also would not review my medical records of failed pain interventions, failed procedures,failed surgeries etc. Until last month I was traveling back and forth from my pain Doctor of over 5 years to get my pain medications and continuity of care so I could function almost like a human again. Yes, every other month traveling back to TN and Florida was not only "hard to travel 11 hours in my car" but financially hard due to travel costs but loss of 1/4 of wife's income cause she had to go from full time to PRN status as a RN. My wife had to travel with me because of my injuries so she to had to change her job status to work as needed based upon my 5 day trip to TN every other month. Also, the FL pain clinic who cut my scripts over half could not tell me which pharmacy would fill my scripts and take insurance. Retired Veterans have awesome medical insurance meaning script co pays are very low costs. So after spending five hours on road to find one Ma and Pa Pharmacy to fill scipt that day but I had to pay out of my pocket 600 dollars for one script cause they don't take insurance, First of April my wife stated we were going to try Tampa General ER to have me admitted so I could obtain FL Pain MD thru them and then be able to get scripts thru their hospital pharmacy. I was hospitalized over 7 days and when discharged I learned they would not honor no MD out of Tampa General but Tampa General do not have Chronic Pain Clinics so I am out of mess now waiting to go back to TN so I can get good pain management for a legitimate diagnosis, get pain Medes with insurance and most of all I can live life like a human again, I have more to my story about Fl Pain MD and pharmacies that you would be more outraged to know but need more time to write my book, Please help cause I am causing my family pain by having to see me sit on couch all day, loss of my memory, and exacerbation of my PTSD cause of increase pain that I don't want to lose my wife. I served my country for 18 years and then helped Nash VA Veterans and this is how a Vet should be treated along with others who suffer from neurological trauma etc. My other story is about why I don't go to VA hospital! Trust me VA had me committed cause I could not get any help and my wife is a very skilled RN told them I was going thru DT,s and my HTN out of range plus pain exacerbated my PTSD and I did not need To be committed but admitted and then got discharged with no pay disorder and eveREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 11th, 2016Someone from Longmont, CO signed.
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Apr 11th, 2016Someone from Grand Junction, CO writes:
I am waiting on surgery, of which it was to be done on April 5th, but my blood work showed low plateletts 72 was the reading. Your website mission statement speaks exactly what has been my experience. This will be my 4th lower back surgery. So of course they have spoken just what your site describes, about being called a pain pill seeker. In that they are correct because the pain is very very difficult to endure, Please help me. I await your your response, will answer more questions then.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 10th, 2016Someone from Visalia, CA signed.
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Apr 10th, 2016Someone from Woodbine, NJ writes:
I have a bulged disc and arthritis is lower back and on SS disability. .My orthopedic DR was giving me a script for 60 Hydrocodone that I would make last between 5-6 months, now I can't get that.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 10th, 2016Someone from West Columbia, SC writes:
Due to an auto accident in 2006, my life consist of daily pain, I have a Syrinx in my spine, I spend every day trying to keep my pain under control...The accident was not my fault, I did not choice this kind of life. I was told when the Doctors found my problem, that it caused sever nerve pain, and I WOULD HAVE TO BE ON PAIN MEDS THE REST OF MY LIFE...I do not abuse them. I think it is VERY WRONG for the Goverment to say what I need medically, they need to stick to politics and stay out of my personnel life....My doctor is slowing taking me off pain meds, I don't know what I will do, I suffer on them, but they do at times make it bareable....Please don't make everyone suffer due to the abuse of a few!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 10th, 2016Someone from Fort Wayne, IN writes:
Its so extremely frustrating to listen to the DEA and especially the Allen County Health commisioner here in Fort Wayne speak of the "Do No Harm" oath all doctors must pledge to,and then hear of all of the countless amounts of people pleading for help because of the extreme misery and suffering everyone is going through because so many peoples Dr's being shut down,and my point is I have seen Law Enforcement and elected officials cause soooo much m9re harm and misery than all of these Dr's combined? What kind of logic is that? And then you go online or to the evening news etc to get and idea of were they can go for help next and 1 example is with the Allen County Health Commisioner,Dr Deborah Mcmahan only shrugging her shoulders saying there will be no help offered except for giving them a phone # for a rehab center? Seriously? What has everyone done to deserve such cold hearted treatment....we are human beings,what have we done to deserve that? She has no clue,she thinks we are ALL just perfectly healthy pill junkies? We need to remember that these people are elected....and it may take a little while but I promise,what goes around comes around....The most shocking lesson lately I have learned that there always people in every city,some more than others,that the elected officials of that city just simply DO NOT care about at all,and that just means if you need help,you better figure a way to help yourself because they couldnt care less....REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 10th, 2016Someone from Milwaukee, WI writes:
I found out this week from my doctor who did 3 failed back surgeries that the government wants him to stop giving me pain pills. My doctor, Yash Pannu said he will start slow and then what? I'm in severe pain every day I lay in bed every day I am 42 years old I have four children I don't smoke I don't drink I don't know what I will do without pain pills I do not want to take street drugs but the pain is so bad what will I doREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 10th, 2016Someone from Adams, WI writes:
I FORMALLY REQUEST,a total of 20 human beings,5 relatives of people who have had to loose loved ones because their loved one has choosen death as there only means of stopping their physical pain,due to your forced restriction,10,chronic PHYSICAL pain human beings,&5 of our doctors,,experts in the field of pain management,TO GET A ALL EXPENSE PAID TRIP To WASHINGTON TO MAKE ALL AGENCY;S INVOLVED IN TAKING AWAY OUR MEDICINES EXPERT KNOWLEDGE ON WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A HUMAN BEING LIVING IN PHYSICAL PAIN EVERY SECOUND OF EVERY DAY,,,TO EDUCATED THEE OBVIOUSLY UNEDUCATED ON THE TORTURE,INHUMANE,AND WILLFULL DEATH ARE GOVERNMENT HAS CAUSED..Again,,U GUYS STARTED THIS WHOLE MESS,,,THE o.d.,'s,THE HEROIN EPIDIMIC,,FALSE FENTYLN PILLS,,U ARE ALLL TO BLAME..U BULLIED YOUR WAY INTO OUR PRIVATE MEDICAL AFFAIRS BACK IN 2000,,,U SAW HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE USING MEDICINES,LAWFULLY SCIENTIFICULLY DESIGNED MEDICINES ,,NOT DRUGS,,,BUT U SAW HOW MANY HUMAN BEINGS WERE TAKING NEEDED MEDICINE AND U IGNORANTLY ,WITH NO RESEARCH,,THOUGHT IN YOUR IGNORANT HEAD ,,,OMG THEIR TAKING TOOOO MANY,,,'' A LIE,, A DELUSION,,BUT NONE THE LESS U FREAKED MR.GOVERNMANT,,,,FALSELY BELIEVE THERE WERE TOOO MANY OF US ON MEDICINES,,not even acknowledging with medicine advancing they are now able to find new illness thru imagery,I WATCH ON CNN AS THE SENATORE FROM W.V. SAID THE WORD EPEIDEMIC TO HIM ,,MEANT THE GOVERNMENT WAS NOT IN CONTROL,,,ITS IS ABOUT CONTROL TO U,,,AND THAT IS EXACTLY THE MOMENT U FAILLED US MR,PRESEDENT,,BECAUSE FOR THE MEDICALLY ILL WITH PAINFUL MEDICAL CONDITIONS,,IT NOT ABOUT FORCED CONTROL,,,IT ABOUT FORCED SUFFERING,,TO US ITS ABOUT HUMAN SUFFERING YOU HAVE WILLFULLY CREATED,FALSE DATA BEING USED TO LITERALLY KILL US,,,SOO U FALSELY ACCUSED OUR DOCTORS,,U LET THE DEA GOT UNLAWFULLY NUTS ON HONEST,EDUCATED DOCTORS,,AND INTURN DOCTORS STARTED DROPPING LEGITIMATE PHYSICAL ILL HUMAN BEINGS BY THE 1000'S.Now here is were u all failed us,,,instead of see us as human beings in physical pain,,who have now lost our only MEDICINES,, that made our lives bareble,,u approached this like a politician,not a human being in physical pain.Tell me Mr.Ron Kind,,,what do u do,,when u break a limb,,or u Tammy,,what do u do when u break a bone,,or u Mr.Obama,,as a normal humanbeing u seek any means possible to stop the physical pain from your painful MEDICAL CONDITION,,,ALLL NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS DO THAT,, but u all FAILED to see us as humans,,,u saw us as numbers to be controlled,,to be lessene'd,,,didn't u??!!!!!U r lessening us alright ,,by torture ,then death,,,wth is wrong w/u people??!!Sooo now u have 1000's who have been forcible dropped by there doctors for legitimate pain full medical conditions,,,what do u think there gonna doo???AS NORMNAL HUMAN BEING THEY ARE GOING TO TRY AND STOP THEIR PHYSICAL PAIN FROM LEGITMATE MEDICAL CONDITION BY ''ANY MEANS POSSIBLE,''' HEROIN,,FAKE FENTLYN PILLS,DEATH ETC....U MR..GOVERNMENT HAS CREATED THIS WHIOLE MESS,,AND KILLED GOOREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 9th, 2016Someone from Evansville, WI writes:
I h@ve heard horror stories how people with pain are being treated for their pain. For anyone who commits suicide their blood is on the dea!!!!!!!!!!!. Shame on the sea for doing a poor job on the fight against. They are over correcting the problem. And force doctors to do harm to patients. Its ironic I see so many commercials for bad drugs and not one of them is an opiate. Its all these newer drugs with worse side effects that what's its originally prescribed for. Then another channel at the same time have lawyers offering compensation to ones who have trusted in the newer medications and now either have passed away or a member of their family has. Doctors and the drug enforcement administration know opiets have less side effects than many of the newer drugs and anti inflammatory medications do. When will the drug enforcement administration do the right thing and educate parents, children. Instead of sayin no no no pain relief for you today. I wouldn't wish my pain on anyone. But if for one day.....no for one hour they need to walk in our shoes they need to feel what its like getting out of bed in the morning barely being able to walk!!!!!!!!!!!! We didn't ask for this!!!!! I doubt if anything changes all we can do right now is have a voice. Thank you.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 9th, 2016Someone from Sweet Home, OR writes:
Methadone is safe. There's always going to be people who are either very very stupid in their use of drugs (any drug) or who are beyond help abuse wise. The rest should not be denied but because of them. Doctors don't have crystal balls and shouldn't have to pay for some idiots unwillingness or inability for what ever reason to follow doctors prescribing orders. Methadone imo is the safest because it comes on slow and is steady, doesn't incapacitate you... METHADONE Advantages * Excellent absorption - Bio-availability 41% to 90% * No known active metabolites * High potency and lipid solubility * Long administration intervals 24hrs * Less tolerance with repeated dosing than other opiates * Cost - methadone costs $40 -80 a month for 40-80mg (clinics $400 month) * Less psychotropic effects, minimum abuse * Incomplete cross tolerance * Antagonist of NMDA - useful in neuropathic pain * No histamine release Disadvantages * Social stigma (most common) * Withdrawal (my problem, not yours) http://www.aatod.org/resources/frequently-asked-questions/ "Methadone treatment has no adverse effects on intelligence, mental capability, or employability. Methadone treated patients are comparable to non-patients in reaction time, in ability to learn, focus, and make complex judgments. Methadone treated patients do well in a wide array of vocational endeavors, including professional positions, service occupations, and skilled, technical and support jobs. Methadone patients are lawyers, engineers, secretaries, truck or taxi drivers, roofers, gardeners, teachers, salespersons, architects, computer programmers, etc. One recent study tested methadone patient's cognition, perceptual and motor functioning, reaction time, and attention, as well as performance of automobile driving behavior. It was concluded, confirming previous findings, that methadone maintenance treatment does not impair functional capacity."REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 9th, 2016Someone from Newburgh, IN writes:
I have been left to fend for myself. My pain clinic found an old opioid in my urinalysis. It was a mistake BUT the prescription was in my name. I was forthwith and my honesty got me kicked put of every health care system. We are treated like criminals. I have proven, for years, that I was taking my opioids as prescribed. I accidentally took the old medication and I was kicked out and referred back to my PCP. which the clinic knew I no longer had, and was actively looking for a new PCP! This is a true case of harming the patient. To leave your patient without the medication they need to lead a half decent daily life is more than just inhumane. I've read many comments on our animal treatment. The fact is, most animals are harmed by the lower dosage of meds we, as humans take. The doctors who over prescribed should have been held responsible. We, the patients, rely on these meds to get out of bed with less pain. I have also read many comments of others turning to suicide. Sure, I get it. Especially the elderly. They live in such pain they don't leave their home because the pain is unbearable and they choose murder/suicide because the pain is too much to bear. . Many of us have more issues. Disease that has no cure. Many of us cannot take NSAIDS, yet this is the number one flag or prescribers....this is a joke. I have great faith in God,but I have been where these people are...suicidal thoughts are sure to enter the mind when one lays in bed or on the sofa in such debilitating pain, rejected by the very doctors they have trusted, they see no other way out of the daily nightmare, we, as chronic pain patients feel. I can't express enough how the government needs to re-evaluate the doctor patient relationship and the pain of the patient. I had a doctor change because my doctor didn't want to lose his license. The new doctor added a 4th pill to my regimen without instruction or physical exam! I am currently taking this med because I was honest but the monopoly on pain clinics needs to change. The owner of these facilities have a turnover rate of office staff that proves they most certainly a doing wrong and HARM to the patient. If a patient is with a clinic for little more than one year, they are booted out the door. Anyone else experience this? I am a chronic pain patient. I have several diseases that do and do not have to do with pain meds. I will be fighting my case all the way to the Capitol if it gets me the help I need, the help we all deserve. There needs to be systems in place for those of us who need and rely on these meds. Identify and provide them with a cardifferent carrying member ID,so they can move on when they feel they are treated unfairly and choose their own next caregiver. Pain clinics don't examine us. They toss a script at you and treat you like a criminal. When they decide they can no,longer make money from you, they drop you, rudely and level you in harm's way. It's clinics like this that needREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 9th, 2016Someone from Dennis Port, MA signed.
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Apr 9th, 2016Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
Are the kids from Flint going to be called drug addicts and made to suffer from the pains from lead poisoning ? Many environmental hazards and diseases cause chronic pain, are you doctors ? You judge trail and jury don't we in pain have rights for due process? You accuse us of being addicts because of an illness . How is one even a doctor to determine end of life ? Many of my loved ones in my family have died early , I too am now at that time , will I live or die are you a doctor? Can even a doctor tell me when my time is near ? I have no doctor because they aren't allowed to treat my illness Chronic pain because of you . You have no claim on my body yet you deny me medical intervention as you force me to have mandatory health care insurance . This is unjust treatment of the chronicly I'll, untreated chronic pain is torture like it or not you are abusing us , you are profiling us you are wrong .REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 9th, 2016Someone from Adams, WI writes:
First Off,,''amen,'' freehold n.j.,2nd,,god rest his soul,,North Pole Alaske,3'rd,,r.i.p. Angelo,from Michigan. 52 very wise men,men of high moral character,who understood,,There are somethings mankind has no moral,humane right to decide,such as how much any human being is to suffer in physical pain,,but u Mr.President,U mr.senators,u Mr.dea,,U mr.lunatic cdc employee,, seem to think u have some divine righ to decide who is to suffer in physical pain and for how long..Do u not realize it is literally IMPOSSIBLE,,,IMPOSSIBLE,,TO PHYSICALLY FEEL THE PHYSICAL PAIN OF ANOTHER!!!,,, yet,,again u believe some lunatic,a 37 year old lunastic from the cdc,who is incapable of compassion,emphathy or humane treatment.Exactly the type of so-called man who ran Eugenic, and Pennhurst., As I mentioned earlier,52 MEN OF HIGH MORAL CHARACTER,,WROTE,,'''When ANY form of government becomes destructive with their ,''just powers,''it is the right,the duty of ,''we the people,'' to alter or abiolish it..U,,Mr cdc,dea,hhs,,has broken that law our founding fathers of high moral character,who literaly fought for our country and DIED, establish laws our ,''elected,'' politicians were suppose to follow in order to maintain a humane,lawful government,U dea,cdc,hhs,,have abused your ,''just powers,'' and have literally WILLFULLY killed people,,I say willfully because the physically ill WARNED U,,YEARS AGO,,not to restrict our doctors and our medicines or u will be harming and killing the physically ill,,but u did it anyways with NO REGARD FOR HGUMAN LIFE!!!!! U ALONE HAVE CREATED THIS WHOLE MESS,, by willfully taking medicines away from the legitimately physical ill,u have created this heroin mess,the ,''fake'' pill mess,,this alledged ,''addiction,'' mess,'' if that is even a real issue,,,or just another deluision of your lunatic cdc man,,,By not understanding what it means to be a HUMAN BEING in physical pain,,u have created this whole mess yourselfs..let my tell u ,,any NORMAL HUMAN BEING,,,WHO IS IN PHYSICAL PAIN WANTS TO STOP SAID PHYSICA;L PAIN,DAHHHHH,,ANY NORMAL HUMAN BEING WILL TRY ANYTHING TO STOP THEIR PHYSICAL PAIN,,DAHH,,,IE,,,HEROIN,FAKE FENTANYL PILLS,, ''EXPEREINCE HAS SHEWN,THAT MANKIND ARE MORE DISPOSED TO SUFFER,WHILEST EVILS ARE SUFFERABLE,THEN TO RIGHT THEMSELVES.BUT A LONG LINE OF ABUSES&USURPATIONS PURSUEING INVARIBLY THE SAME OBJECT EVINCES A DESIGN TO REDUCE HUMANBEINGS TO ABSOLUTE DESPOTISM,IT IS THE RIGHT,THE DUTY TO THROW -OFF SUCH AGENCY'S AND PROVIDE NEW GUARDS!!!!52 MEN WHO FOUNDED THIS COUNTRY NEW 310 YEARS AGO,,GOVERNMENT AGENCIES WOULD DO WHAT U HAVE DONE IN THE LAST 5 YEARS,,,Y,,HOW COULD THEY POSSIBLE KNOWE UR AGENCIES WOULD ABUSE THEIR POWER AND WILLFULLY HURT INNOCENT PEOPLE,THE PHYSICALLY ILL,,U KNOW HOW,,BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD WHAT IT MEANT TO BE HUMAN,,,HUMANTIES,,,IDIOTS,,BUT THEY ALSO OBVIOUSLY KNEW WHAT IT MEANT TO BE A HUMANE PERSON,,,SOMETHING YOUR AGENCIES,DEA,CDC,HHS,,,KNOW NOTHING ABOUT!!!!some of your employeeREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 9th, 2016Someone from Three Rivers, MI writes:
My wife's Dr. has just begun the process of lowering her pain meds. At this time We don't know what is going to happen but I do know that my wife who has several incurable diseases cannot live without pain medication. All the things pain clinics do does not help. She's tried everything! Even with her pain meds she still has pain but it's tolerable.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 9th, 2016Someone from Freehold, NJ writes:
As I sit here in tears from overbearing pain, no sleep all night, im watching my local news and just heard lawmakers are trying to get medical marijuana approved for f***** menstrual cramps!! WTF!!! I exist in severe debilitating pain from MULTIPLE conditions there is NO CURE FOR but b/c I'm not on my deathbed yet my conditions don't qualify. MENSTRUAL CRAMPS....REALLY!!!! While I know they can be very painful, they do not last but a week long maybe a little longer. What about people like me who have diseases that cause severe debilitating pain and it never goes away!?!? Conditions like DDD, severe stenosis, cervical disc degeneration, fibromyalgia, three herniated discs, osteoarthritis, complex regional pain syndrome/RSD aka the SUICIDE DISEASE, pancreatitis, cholecystitis, migraines, two FAILED spinal fusions that left me with severe nerve damage, radiculopathy, neuropathy, ..Each condition alone causes severe pain..The CDC GUIDELINES, THEY ARE NOT LAW, NEED TO BE BURNED! I have heard of 15 suicides in the past four days from LEGITIMATE chronic intractable pain patients who had their meds lowered to INEFFECTIVE DOSES or totally stripped of them causing them to go into severe withdrawal and they took their life. IS THAT THE ANSWER TO YOUR HEROIN PROBLEM..TO KILL US OFF ONE BY ONE!? I have been permanently disabled since 2008, Is forcing LEGITIMATE pain patients to the streets for relief, getting god knows what, or worse KILLING THEMSELVES DUE TO INADEQUATE PAIN RELIEF your plan to fix social security!? I URGE MY FELLOW PAIN WARRIORS TO JOIN OUR FIGHT AGAINST THIS INHUMANE MISTREATMENT, THE ABUSE, NEGLECT, DEGRADING AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST INNOCENT LAW ABIDING CITIZENS WHO ARE EXISTING IN SEVERE PAIN! Chronicpainrights.com. or on facebook chronic pain rights support Here's a newsflash for you corrupt murderers in congress, the DEA, CDc and FDA, and you MR. OBAMA..GET THE F*** OUT OF OUR HEALTHCARE! WE ARE NOT F***** ADDICTS, WE ARE LEGITIMATE PAIN PATIENTS THAT YOU HAVE TAKEN OUR RIGHTS AWAY! YOU ARE ALL GOING TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE MANY LIVES LOST B/C OF YOUR ACTIONS, YOU WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE INTENTIONAL PAIN HARM AND SUFFERING YOU ARE INFLICTING ONTO US, KARMA WILL GET YOU..YOU WILL REAP WHAT YOU SOW!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 9th, 2016Someone from North Augusta, SC writes:
Also might i add i was beat by a man from age 15 to 20 yrs old. He continuously beat me raped me controlled my whole life for 5 yrs n in those 5 yrs i was rapidly punched in my head. Hit in my head n back with broom sticks metal rods. I was strangled many times n thought i was dead. I was punched kicked stabbed n endured many broken bones black eyes bruises over my entire body. Forced to give birth to 2 of my children in a motel room alone cause he took phone cord locked me inside room while i screamed n yelled n pleaded for help after birthing my babies he then call someone who he new wouldnt help me to take me to ER n threaten my n my childs life if i said a word and all the abuse n pain i indured for them 5 yrs no one once helped when i screamed for help no one once noticed my bruses n scars or the fear in my face or my voice. So i no alot of pain n health problems i now have at 30 yrs old still exsist from 15yrs ago n with age gets worstREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 9th, 2016Someone from North Augusta, SC writes:
Its a shame i have server chronic back pain from a bone disorder in my back. I have a disease called hydroidnysist which cause my glands in my arms and my inner thighs were they dont work i get huge knots that are exstreamly painful to the touch and i cant walk when my legs swell they swell to the size of golf ball knots after days sometimes a couple weeks they bust and drain infection ive had 6+ surgeries in 4 yrs and i suffer from server depression n anxiety as well due to my back pain plus all the operations within the 4 yrs i was taking a good bit of meds only because each surgery i conducted MRSA which is contagious n can be fetal now after 6 yrs of continuous medication i no longer have a doctor and having an exstreamly hard time finding one. Im tired of living in pain n fear of one day not veing able to deal with my pain. Im sick of being judged by me needing meds for my disordersREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 9th, 2016Someone from San Clemente, CA writes:
I was hit by a drunk driver breaking my seat of the track. I split my face open, fractured teeth, smashed knee caps. Since Then I have been in severe pain. Neck surgeries, immune system problems and now viral infection of the spine so severe I can't sit and yet I am being denied the medicine to make life bearable. The addicts will always find a way to abuse, but the rest of us are just in severe pain without proper help. I can guarantee that the people that need the help like myself would rather be doing anything but using pain meds. It is unbearable and not healthy for me to suffer in this much pain. PLEASE HELP US!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 9th, 2016Someone from Mullens, WV writes:
I have suffered from chronic pain for years and just last month, I was told to find another doctor for my meds. I have taken Motrin, Iodine, Vioxx, Celebrex and other anti inflammatory drugs and as a result have had acid reflux disease and ulcers. My nights are long and painful. I have osteoarthritis, DDD, PDA and suffer from several past back injuries. The junkies have made it hard for me to get relief. I can't do any activity without suffering repercussions. Now I can't find any doctor. What am I supposed to do???REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 9th, 2016Someone from Midlothian, IL writes:
I'm a cancer patient also I have a huge wound in my chest cavity from a mesh implant that got infected I have been on pain meds for 3 years and I have alot of problems with pharmacies questioning my scripts accusing me of forgery it's awful. Yesterday I had CVS call me and say my doctor hung up on them,they were calling to verify he wrote the script. I used to take my scripts there all the time but the last 6 months they didnt have my kind of pills in stock and the pharmacy had all new people working so they didn't recognize me. It's been a nightmareREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 9th, 2016Someone from Rio Rancho, NM writes:
My wife has suffered for years and has been treated horribly. It is hard to watch someone suffer and then watch a system that is supposed to help victimize her even more. My wife has had to seek mental health therapy to deal with what her condition and medical professionals have done to her life.REPORT COMMENTS
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Apr 8th, 2016Someone from Lansing, MI writes:
How can they dictate my Healthcare? If this is Government Controlled "Universal Coverage" HealthCare Insurance, ie; #Obamacare I don't want it! I have Legal Medical Records/Images that support the necessity for treatment! I was disabled based on my medical/physical condition! Forced suffering is a Human Rights Violation & Was HIPPA Violated? Dr's licenses were dangled in front of them so to comply with "The Recommendations"!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 8th, 2016Someone from Leighton, AL writes:
My l4 and, l5 are herniated I can't get no Dr to write me higher than 7.5 I take 4 10 s a day is there any help also was diagnosed with fibrmyalgiaREPORT COMMENTS
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Apr 8th, 2016Someone from Prescott, AZ writes:
Have had chronic paIn since 2002 from an accident. Have been on everything from hydrocodone, oxycodone, oxycontin, and 8 years of methadone. Am afraid of what could happen at my next visit pain managent visit april 14th. We chronic pain patients are not drug addicts and are only trying to have a relativly "normal" life. Our government entities need to be realistic and allow us tax paying citizens to be left alone and survive. You have made it such that our pain management doctors are running scared and beginning to make it so, at least in my case, we would be screaming in pain. This is not right, we have rights and will vote out politicians who will not support us surviving as well as possible.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 8th, 2016Someone from Prescott, AZ writes:
Have had chronic paIn since 2002 from an accident. Have been on everything from hydrocodone, oxycodone, oxycontin, and 8 years of methadone. Am afraid of what could happen at my next visit pain managent visit april 14th. We chronic pain patients are not drug addicts and are only trying to have a relativly "normal" life. Our government entities need to be realistic and allow us tax paying citizens to be left alone and survive. You have made it such that our pain management doctors are running scared and beginning to make it so, at least in my case, we would be screaming in pain. This is not right, we have rights and will vote out politicians who will not support us surviving as well as possible.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 8th, 2016Someone from Cabot, AR writes:
The DEA has gotten too big for it's britches and has overstepped it's legal bounds ! They nor anyone else for that matter, should tell a doctor how to treat their patients. My best friend and I suffer severe and chronic back pain and now her doctor has told her she can't have Soma anymore for the spasms. And I believe I'm next. The DEA is punishing chronic pain sufferers who use pain medications because of their losing war on drugs ! Patients who suffer such severe pain if they can't get the meds. to control pain will began committing suicide. Is that what you want U.S. Government? Sadly, things don't usually change until someone has to die! Tying doctors hands to treat their patients abolishes the Hypocratic Oath. When patients suffer with such severe pain there is no quality of life. And, when there is no relief from the pain because they can't have the strong pain meds. to make the pain cease .......there is no life, liberty, or pursuit of any happiness.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelApr 8th, 2016Someone from Adams, WI writes:
25,000 letters have been sent to our president,& senators,yet,,everyday u violate our right to humane treatment,,and force to many to name into physical pain every second of their day..U mr/mrs.senators have cause more death,more physical suffering them any pill every will.Your ignorance has killed people,yet u all still insisted,,and I quote a senator from W.V,,''were not backing down,''.like this is a control issue for u/with no fore thought as to what u have done to the physical ill w/painful medical issues,,What u people refuse to acknowledge is the reality your decisions have killed people and unneedlessly cause soooo much physical suffering by willfully taking away our MEDICINES,,u see our medicines as terrible ,''drugs,'' to be controlled,,,We,,the PHYSICAL ILL W/PAINFULL MEDICAL CONDTION SEE THEM EXACTLY AS THEY ARE,,,LAWFULLY,SCIENCETIFICALY ARE ,,,''MEDICINES,'',no different then insulin to a diebetic,or nitro to a heart patient..Our doctors see them as MEDICINES, not some terrible drug as your cdc lunatic has portayed them..Another REALITY,, he is unable to see,,our MEDICINES,,were developed by up standing men,doctors,not some crack chemist off the street..They were developed 100 years ago by doctors,educated respected chemists, men of high moral character developed our MEDICINES..yet u choose to believe some lunatic cdc man,who could not see reality thru his delusional state..By law,our MEDICINES are chemically,lawfuly different from any street drug, so REALITY dictates our MEDICINES,,,ARE MEDICINES!! Due,''word count,we need to point 1 reality u need to recognize today in order to stop 20 people, according to your own stats,20 people this week-end from being forced into choosing death as there only means of stopping there physical painThe reason opiate prescribing has gone down but death from o.d. has gone up is obvious to us chronic pain people..What u politician have done,to the REAL MEDICALLY ILL W/PAINFUL MEDICAL CONDITION have taken away the only MEDICINE that lessen'd there physical pain,,THUS FORCING THEM TO A LIFETIME OF PHYSICALPAIN,NO,,NORMAL HUMANBEING WOULD WANT TO LIVE A LIFE TIME IN PHYSICAL PAIN,EITHER THEY BECOME CRIMINAL AND GO THE STREET,OR,THEY STOP THE PHYSICAL PAIN BY THEMSELVES,THRU DEATH,BY TERRIFYING THEIR DOCTORS,OR UNNEEDED RESTRICTION THUS DENIEING ACCES TO THERE MEDICINES,,NOW LISTEN LOUD AND CLEAR HERE,,THEIR STILL IN PHYSICAL PAIN!THE REALITY IS EXACTLY THAT,,U R FORCING THEM TO LIVE A LIFE IN PHYSICAL PAIN EVERY SECOUND OF THERE LIFE,THESE DEATH HAVE ''NOTHING, TO DO W/.OPIATE WITHDRAWLS,,AND HAS EVERYTHING TO DO w/PHYSICAL PAIN BEING FORCED UPON THEM BECUASE U MR/MRS SENATORE TOOK AWAY THEIR MEDICINES!!.AND REFUSE TO ALLOW CORONERS TO DOCUMENT THEIR DEATH AS ,''DEATH DO TO UNTREATED PHYSICALLY PAIN,FURTHERING YOUR COMPLETE DISRESPECT FOR OUR DEAD BY NOT HONORING THE TRUE REASON FOR THEIR DEATHS.IVE READ YOUR SO-CALL EXPERTS REPORT BLAMMING DEATH ON SUICIDAL IDEATION FROM OPIATE WITHDRAWL,TREPORT COMMENTS
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