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First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.

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  • Mar 23rd, 2016
    Someone from New Middletown, OH writes:
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    I have spondylolisthesis, was born with birth defect of spondylosis where spine was never fused, in January of 2014 was told my spine at L5S1 slipped off, causing severe pain. I opted for the spinal fusion thinking that I would be pain free afterwards but it only made the pain worse. A year later, I had the hardware taken out to see if that was the cause and that didn't help. I tried nerve blocks, a lot of physical therapy, water therapy and now, the only thing that helps me get out of bed each day and minimally take care of my 4 year old son and 10 year old daughter, my husband does most of the running because I am still in a lot of pain that I sit in bed a lot but without the meds, I will be completely bed ridden. The meds take away about 80% of my pain, which helps me have some type of life. I never abused drugs and I never was sick or went to the doctor until this happened. Now my doctor is telling me that he needs to start weening me off the opioids because the government says he has to and when I asked him where I go from here and what do I do now about the pain, he said, "call governor Kasich". I am being thrown away and my life is going to end. I'm going to be in bed all the time and miss out on my children's lives because my quality of life is being taken away. I took my prescription the way it was prescribed and now I feel like I'm being labeled a drug abuser. I want the government or governor Kasich to tell me what I'm supposed to do now! How can the do this?? My life is just as important as theirs is and I deserve a little relief rather than none at all. I never abused drugs and I never asked for this medical condition!!!!!
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  • Mar 23rd, 2016
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  • Mar 23rd, 2016
    Someone from Hartland, WI writes:
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    I am so tired of being in agonizing pain..crying and wanting to die because doctors who I tell I'm on Buprenorphine,believe that I am not to be prescribed narcotics. This is untrue, actually my pain tolerance is lower than normal, and the best part for the dr is no matter what they give, the bupe knocks out the euphoria. I just need more pain meds 2-4x erg patients because of bupe. SuboxoneTalk Zone Dr. Junig is expert and I've been clean for 9 years and I am tired of being treated like a junkie, every time I have a real need for pain relief (broken hand, abcess teeth not responding to antibiotics). Even giving birth! So I should get nothing while in surgery? Would you do that? Go through a procedure without any pain relief? This is brutal and archaic. There is no stupid war on drugs..or a drug epidemic..it's a people suffering epidemic because the government doesn't know how to stop making up stupid laws that hurt ppl instead of helping them. Dear government go on vacation, I am sure the world will survive and maybe even party themselves without more laws shoved down our throats. Next will you tell me what my occupation should be or who I am? Government: you are slowly taking all of our choices away. I'm tired of pain and laws and I don't want to even deal, live anymore. So hurt and frustrated! Nobody cares!
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  • Mar 23rd, 2016
    Someone from Dayton, TN writes:
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    Until the medical community can find sufficient treatment for pain/chronic pain, (& provides COST EFFECTIVE options for getting off of opiod pain medication!!!) these patients need relief and opioid pain medication works for WAY MORE PEOPLE than the medical community will admit. I have faith in you, medical community, that you can find a treatment that works like insulin or blood pressure medication, for those of us that suffer from chronic & debilitating pain. Until then, please don't take away the only thing that is helping us live life.
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  • Mar 22nd, 2016
    Someone from Sarasota, FL writes:
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    Only those who know real pain,should make laws regarding pain !! The 8 to 12 year graduates of the medical pain management field (whom have battled cronic pain themselves)have a right to change or make lawfull decisions as to PAIN management!
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  • Mar 22nd, 2016
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  • Mar 22nd, 2016
    Someone from Rochester, NY writes:
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    Use of street drugs will put chronic pain patients at risk. Some will be at a much greater risk for suicide. The AMA and some staff within the CDC voiced opposition to the new CDC guidelines limiting the use of opiate prescription pain medications to acute/short term pain, cancer patients and terminally ill patients. Many people live with chronic pain who cannot tolerate the non opiate options (e.g., Cymbalta, which has significant side effects for some and is not effective for many). It is possible for a chronic pain patient to take a prescribed opiate pain medication as prescribed or less, i.e., to use it appropriately, not misuse it or abuse it. Close involvement by a qualified physician is key since, over time, tolerance can increase. Multimodal approaches work best. However, to withdraw the option of including opiate pain medications in a multimodal approach is, in my professional and personal opinion, inhumane. I understand the concern regarding overdoses. Using the electronic controlled substance prescription tracking system should suffice to prevent people from seeking prescriptions from multiple sources and prescribers should use good judgment since their licenses and legal/financial interests (i.e., malpractice) are on the line. Opiate medications should always be a last resort option and, when used, should be used as part of a multimodal approach (i.e., use of pain relieving supplements such as magnesium, tumeric w/ curcurcimin, myofascia trigger point PT, dry needling, massage therapy, acupuncture, etc.).
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  • Mar 22nd, 2016
    Someone from Largo, FL writes:
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    Why is the government not hearing or listening to the anguish of millions of people who are suffering in pain. This is the epitome of pure evil to deliberately inflict pain, suffering and death on people who suffer from chronic pain. Millions of people are all lumped together as drug addicts and doctors are labeled as dealers. This is beyond comprehension to myself who has chronic pain but has never taken illegal drugs. Who in CDC and DEA will be prosecuted for causing the elderly, and Vets that will commit suicide because of excruciating pain? Has anyone looked in detail at the so called epidemic and statistics? No one is denying that there are problems but because the CDC and DEA is on some kind of power trip and does not know how to deal with the problems, so the easy way out is to punish millions of people across the board? This is not a democracy when no one gets to vote on a topic that affects millions of people. This is a Communist way of controlling medical needs of patients. You might as well say there is no heart disease, cancer, diabetes, or any other major illness and take those medications away. This needs immediate attention before many lives are lost in vain. Pain patients just want to live their lives with some kind of dignity, and it's heartbreaking to hear the government will not allow them to do it.
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  • Mar 22nd, 2016
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  • Mar 22nd, 2016
    Someone from Garland, TX writes:
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    Once again legitimate patients who deal with pain on a daily basis are being victimized by the actions of those criminals who choose to sell the drugs on the street. Punish the lawbreakers! Don't punish the patients who suffer with pain or the doctors who are trying to help them
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  • Mar 22nd, 2016
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  • Mar 22nd, 2016
    Someone from Fairbanks, AK writes:
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    It is totally unfair the way us chronic pain patients are being treated by the doctors. It's embarrassing when you go to the ER and get accused of seeking pills when you didn't even mention anything about pills or wanting pills but they assume that's what you went there for. I don't abuse my meds or sell them, I need them so I can function and go to work everyday. If I can't have my meds than I can't work, I have no one to support me so what's the since in going on with your life if you're in so much pain that you can't even function? The DEA needs to keep their nose out of the doctors business and let them continue taking care of their patients.
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  • Mar 22nd, 2016
    Someone from Fairbanks, AK writes:
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    It is totally unfair the way us chronic pain patients are being treated by the doctors. It's embarrassing when you go to the ER and get accused of seeking pills when you didn't even mention anything about pills or wanting pills but they assume that's what you went there for. I don't abuse my meds or sell them, I need them so I can function and go to work everyday. If I can't have my meds than I can't work, I have no one to support me so what's the since in going on with your life if you're in so much pain that you can't even function? The DEA needs to keep their nose out of the doctors business and let them continue taking care of their patients.
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  • Mar 21st, 2016
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  • Mar 21st, 2016
    Someone from Suffolk, VA writes:
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    Two months ago, I went to the E.R. with severe r. abdominal pain, and in short order was accused of "drug seeking" - yet I hadn't even asked for any pain medication whatsoever! A half-assed work up was done, including a ct scan, and I was told by the charge nurse that there was "Nothing at all" wrong with me, she then added - sarcastically, with a $hitty smile on her face, "No opiates for you today, sorry you wasted your time!" I was shocked at how I was being treated! I RIPPED the I.V. OUT of my arm, blood went everywhere... good for them! They want to treat me like a junkie...here...mop up my junkie blood! I then took a taxi to the Navy Hospital (where I should have gone in the first place!) The Dr. could tell by my vitals, as well as by the look on my face and the was I was moving / or not able to move - that I was in a great deal of pain. He immediately ordered - and the nurse administered - 1mg dilaudid for pain. It didn't completely take away the pain, but I was SO grateful for the relief it did offer! The doctor listened to my symptoms, and within 2 hours, an ultrasound, c.t. scan, and MRI, it was determined that I had a dilated common bile duct, a dilated pancreatic duct, and a tumor. WOW. But - the other hospital just said that there was "Nothing at all" wrong with me (...oh yeah, I was "drug seeking", my bad!) I was admitted for further testing. After several different radiological tests, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer... three days after being accused of "drug seeking" by the other staff at the first hospital. I am in shock, and trying to deal with my anger that I will be leaving my kids - 14, 11, & 9 - without a mother. I'm trying to fit in as much fun times with them with what time I have left - a year, maybe 18 months. I have hired a lawyer, and the first hospital will be held accountable for their outright negligence. Really?!! It's PATHETIC how those nurses and Doctor got such a rush out of "busting" a percieved "drug seeker"- PATHETIC how they were so damn intent on proving I was drug seeking - that they couldn't or WOULDN'T focus on diagnosing and treating ME, the PATIENT, the PERSON. F them! Part of me says they're not worth my precious time - in court and not with my kids. But I want them to know how wrong they were. I want to rub their faces in it, actually. I don't think they'll change, though. The habit of refusing to treat pain, and to label those in pain "drug seekers" will continue long after I'm dead. PATHETIC.
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  • Mar 21st, 2016
    Someone from Suffolk, VA writes:
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    Two months ago, I went to the E.R. with severe r. abdominal pain, and in short order was accused of "drug seeking" - yet I hadn't even asked for any pain medication whatsoever! A half-assed work up was done, including a ct scan, and I was told by the charge nurse that there was "Nothing at all" wrong with me, she then added - sarcastically, with a $hitty smile on her face, "No opiates for you today, sorry you wasted your time!" I was shocked at how I was being treated! I RIPPED the I.V. OUT of my arm, blood went everywhere... good for them! They want to treat me like a junkie...here...mop up my junkie blood! I then took a taxi to the Navy Hospital (where I should have gone in the first place!) The Dr. could tell by my vitals, as well as by the look on my face and the was I was moving / or not able to move - that I was in a great deal of pain. He immediately ordered - and the nurse administered - 1mg dilaudid for pain. It didn't completely take away the pain, but I was SO grateful for the relief it did offer! The doctor listened to my symptoms, and within 2 hours, an ultrasound, c.t. scan, and MRI, it was determined that I had a dilated common bile duct, a dilated pancreatic duct, and a tumor. WOW. But - the other hospital just said that there was "Nothing at all" wrong with me (...oh yeah, I was "drug seeking", my bad!) I was admitted for further testing. After several different radiological tests, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer... three days after being accused of "drug seeking" by the other staff at the first hospital. I am in shock, and trying to deal with my anger that I will be leaving my kids - 14, 11, & 9 - without a mother. I'm trying to fit in as much fun times with them with what time I have left - a year, maybe 18 months. I have hired a lawyer, and the first hospital will be held accountable for their outright negligence. Really?!! It's PATHETIC how those nurses and Doctor got such a rush out of "busting" a percieved "drug seeker"- PATHETIC how they were so damn intent on proving I was drug seeking - that they couldn't or WOULDN'T focus on diagnosing and treating ME, the PATIENT, the PERSON. F them! Part of me says they're not worth my precious time - in court and not with my kids. But I want them to know how wrong they were. I want to rub their faces in it, actually. I don't think they'll change, though. The habit of refusing to treat pain, and to label those in pain "drug seekers" will continue long after I'm dead. PATHETIC.
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  • Mar 21st, 2016
    Someone from Merced, CA writes:
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    I watched my mother suffer years without a pain doctor and she cried every time she moved from severe being ravaged with rheumatoid arthritis. The one doctor who cared enough to give her medication gave her an additional 20 plus years to be around her family grandkids and feel functional enough to beat the grinding agony of bond and tissue pain beyond any description PLEASE do not turn people to streets to look for help or alcohol indulgences or contribute to warlords of drug cartels. Give peace to doctors and patients care for those hurting and managing I cannot imagine this being such an archaic belief system that we blame abusers or neglect on those responsible and living only because it's bearable DO NOT MAKE THIS turn legAl responsible protocols into something based on those irresponsible How many drunk drivers stopped legalized alcohol sales. Why punish the need when u need to find and punish the irresponsible. U will create more deaths more crime more nationwide calamity and deaths will not lower they will multiply Please think What if your child suffered. Your mother. Your father sister brother etc Don't hurt those hurting even more
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  • Mar 21st, 2016
    Someone from Bakersfield, CA writes:
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    Our Goverment would like us chronic pain Suffer's to believe the statistics they came up with recently stating that the number one cause of people overdosing is Norco, Percocet Etc. Over all other illegal street drugs combined. Well we Chronic Pain Suffer's know better don't we. We know the real reason why this may be true. The more they continue to take away or reduce our only hope for relief in life which is our Medication's the more overdosing or shall we call it what it really is "Suicides" will continue to rise because of what they are forcing Doctor's to do in this Country. Any human being in their right mind would rather go to sleep by way of Overdosing and simply not wake up, rather then continuing to suffer and live a horrible horrible existence. I really don't know how these people can sleep at night knowing the damage they are causing to not only the individual but all other innocent family members involved. May God have mercy on us all.
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  • Mar 21st, 2016
    Someone from Merced, CA writes:
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    The ridiculous fda and Gov regulations are not understanding that people with chronic pain are not problem not are decent doctors who do genuinely care and give understanding If the gov takes this all away they t just giving drug lords and robbery and suicides and so many other severe problems I believe those stories they use against people with chronic pain are irrelevant 90% of time The people who have responsibly used meds to work be productive and survive agony are not wrong to do it legally and appropriately Do this right fad Stop beating on doctors and patients trying to do good and provide what is working to survive unfortunate suffering
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  • Mar 21st, 2016
    Someone from Merced, CA writes:
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    The ridiculous fda and Gov regulations are not understanding that people with chronic pain are not problem not are decent doctors who do genuinely care and give understanding If the gov takes this all away they t just giving drug lords and robbery and suicides and so many other severe problems I believe those stories they use against people with chronic pain are irrelevant 90% of time The people who have responsibly used meds to work be productive and survive agony are not wrong to do it legally and appropriately Do this right fad Stop beating on doctors and patients trying to do good and provide what is working to survive unfortunate suffering
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  • Mar 21st, 2016
    Someone from Merced, CA writes:
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    The ridiculous fda and Gov regulations are not understanding that people with chronic pain are not problem not are decent doctors who do genuinely care and give understanding If the gov takes this all away they t just giving drug lords and robbery and suicides and so many other severe problems I believe those stories they use against people with chronic pain are irrelevant 90% of time The people who have responsibly used meds to work be productive and survive agony are not wrong to do it legally and appropriately Do this right fad Stop beating on doctors and patients trying to do good and provide what is working to survive unfortunate suffering
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  • Mar 21st, 2016
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  • Mar 21st, 2016
    Someone from Falls Church, VA writes:
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    In 2011 from taking prednisone for a medical problem the side effect I got is avascular necrosis (bone death) in hips/knees/right shoulder. I had to retire from work at 61. I went to Europe and paid tens of thousands of dollars for stem cell treatments that did not work. I have had multiple surgeries including a hip replacement 2/15/16 because my right hip collapsed. I was told Jan. 6, 2016 by an orthopedist so much bone is dead in my legs that no artificial legs can be implanted and both knees are collapsing. I will then be in a wheel chair in constant pain and a candidate for amputations. I am in constant pain now and take tramadol because the bone when it dies the sensation is like bone cancer and the joint becomes totally arthritic. It chips and falls apart e.g. the cartilage is missing. What is to become of me? I am on medicare and have no family. I cannot afford endless trips to physical therapists and why would anyone think a physical therapist could make bone "live" or stop the bones from "collapsing"? Can a physical therapist cure rheumatoid arthritis? They play a small role in rehabilitation of certain disease or trauma but they are not magicians. Why is the person who abuses pain pills of more importance than me? A person like that gets everyone's sympathy but that person will always find some way to self destruct. Why should I be denied basic pain medication because the United States has now decided only cancer and terminal patients are in pain? I spent my entire life working in this country and now when I am old and ill I have to suffer as though I were in hell tortured by demons (or shall we compare this to the holocaust and medical experiments by the Germans on the Jewish people)? Isn't this what the USA government is doing: experimenting on the old and those in chronic pain by denying them the pain relief readily available for the family pet? Isn't what the government is doing is trying to drive the hopeless to suicide because that way the government saves the money it would pay under medicare or to veterans? That's the way I see this CDC directive. No doctor will prescribe medicines the way this CDC directive was written. He would be afraid of being arrested. The President, my congressmen, the governor, the entire federal establishment conspires to kill the old, the sick, those with intractable pain under a pretense that opioid medicine is the same as heroin. Americans object. First they came for those in chronic pain (the old, the soldiers, those with incurable disease or trauma), then they came for the next group. Who is the next group? It is you, my fellow Americans. The government has been raging since some states legalized marjijuana. This government wants total control. You've given it to them. Now take it back. Join pain advocacy groups and never cease advocacy until we get the government out of the patient doctor relationship. Raise your children with values so they do not abuse medical narcotics.
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  • Mar 21st, 2016
    Someone from Falls Church, VA writes:
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    In 2011 from taking prednisone for a medical problem the side effect I got is avascular necrosis (bone death) in hips/knees/right shoulder. I had to retire from work at 61. I went to Europe and paid tens of thousands of dollars for stem cell treatments that did not work. I have had multiple surgeries including a hip replacement 2/15/16 because my right hip collapsed. I was told Jan. 6, 2016 by an orthopedist so much bone is dead in my legs that no artificial legs can be implanted and both knees are collapsing. I will then be in a wheel chair in constant pain and a candidate for amputations. I am in constant pain now and take tramadol because the bone when it dies the sensation is like bone cancer and the joint becomes totally arthritic. It chips and falls apart e.g. the cartilage is missing. What is to become of me? I am on medicare and have no family. I cannot afford endless trips to physical therapists and why would anyone think a physical therapist could make bone "live" or stop the bones from "collapsing"? Can a physical therapist cure rheumatoid arthritis? They play a small role in rehabilitation of certain disease or trauma but they are not magicians. Why is the person who abuses pain pills of more importance than me? A person like that gets everyone's sympathy but that person will always find some way to self destruct. Why should I be denied basic pain medication because the United States has now decided only cancer and terminal patients are in pain? I spent my entire life working in this country and now when I am old and ill I have to suffer as though I were in hell tortured by demons (or shall we compare this to the holocaust and medical experiments by the Germans on the Jewish people)? Isn't this what the USA government is doing: experimenting on the old and those in chronic pain by denying them the pain relief readily available for the family pet? Isn't what the government is doing is trying to drive the hopeless to suicide because that way the government saves the money it would pay under medicare or to veterans? That's the way I see this CDC directive. No doctor will prescribe medicines the way this CDC directive was written. He would be afraid of being arrested. The President, my congressmen, the governor, the entire federal establishment conspires to kill the old, the sick, those with intractable pain under a pretense that opioid medicine is the same as heroin. Americans object. First they came for those in chronic pain (the old, the soldiers, those with incurable disease or trauma), then they came for the next group. Who is the next group? It is you, my fellow Americans. The government has been raging since some states legalized marjijuana. This government wants total control. You've given it to them. Now take it back. Join pain advocacy groups and never cease advocacy until we get the government out of the patient doctor relationship. Raise your children with values so they do not abause medical narcotic but reme
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  • Mar 21st, 2016
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    I have had my condition for most of my life, but, was finally properly diagnosed in 1999 with a diagnoses of Ankylosing Spondalytis. I began treatments only to fail on all medications in which made me sick and in some cases, hospitalized. Many times my Rheumatologist would tell me to try taking pain medication, but I refused. As four years past, after trying more of the newer medications and again found myself in the hospital only this time I began losing weight and couldn't eat. They finally did further testing and diagnosed me with ulcerative colitis. Needless to say, those so called "safe over the counter medications" that the CDC guidelines are telling the doctors to try first, I am unable to take. At this point of my condition I was also beginning to complain of pain in so many areas of my body and being told I had Fibromyalgia. I was finally talked into taking a pain medication and when I finally tried it, I began to feel a lot of relief. My journey with diagnoses doesn't end there. Just a few years back, I started having problems with swelling in my hands (deformity) along with my feet. When visiting my Rheumatologist, he explained that with recent studies, they have discovered that in a percentage of Ankylosing Spondalytis patients they end up having Psoriatic Arthritis which is referred to as spondoalarpy. These conditions are not made up, there real and very painful. In the guidelines it also states to also try Tylenol. This statemement is confussing, as a few years back they were telling the public not to over exceed a certain amount as it causes liver damage. Tylenol does nothing for the excruciating pain you deal with having my conditions. I would like to address the fact that when you talk about overdoses, who did you include in your study? Also, you stated that the number of car accidents have risen. Most car accident deaths are very rarely accidents due to a person on medication, but more so alcohol related. Last, one has to wonder now that CDC has set the new standards and have made a lot of false statements in the treatment for chronic pain, did you consult the individuals that actually suffer daily and, how many lawsuits will begin to be filed due to unrealistic percentages, choosing to give medication to those who want to end their life verses somebody who chooses to strive to have and live a quality of life. These new guidelines in our justice system would and is injustice to a chronic pain sufferer in that we were not allowed to plead our case that pain medication does relieve pain.
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