First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Feb 23rd, 2016Someone from Hendersonville, NC writes:
I have never none any one that didn't die in horrible pain. People standing and blocking the doors to intelligent thinking with their prejudices from the past need to keep this in mind. Their turn might be next ... They'll have to go to the phamacy and be treated like a criminal with only 3 months to live. -
Feb 23rd, 2016Someone from Beaumont, CA writes:
Terrible disgusting the dea are now playing doctor of course these people are ignorant, and have no idea of the pain the blue collar workers endure breaking down their bodies from demanding physical labor from employers who violate every osha law to save money at the expense of their workers health The people who write these laws sit on their fat asses all da,y never did heavy labor ,a day in their lives. something must be done now! to be treated like a drug addict every f'kin time i go get my pain medication is demeaning for a 45 years of heavy labor i cant help it if i need them and they ( the meds) workREPORT COMMENTS
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Feb 23rd, 2016Someone from Claremont, NH signed.
Feb 23rd, 2016Someone from Sun City, CA writes:
I signed this petition a year and a half ago. Things a just gotten worse. I don't think anyone is reading this petition. Really sad that people with real pain are being blamed for the rise in heroin abuse. You can stop prescribing all opiates but I bet it wouldn't help the addiction on the streets.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 23rd, 2016Someone from Calabasas, CA writes:
It's absolutely disgusting that today's physicians that have practices that manage severe chronic pain patients are being put under the microscope and being told, by the government who are not medical professionals, how to prescribe medications. These patients that have been with the same physicians are now being told that they need to lower their quantity and dosages of pain medications because of new laws in 2016. These physicans are utterly afraid of being highlighted by the government for prescribing real pain medications that allow their chronic pain patients some quality of life. Now in 2016, every one of those patients are being told that they need to lower the quantity and dosage of the life saving medications because their doctor is afraid to continue to prescribe the previous quantities and dosages because of the new changes in the laws governing pain medications in 2016! What are disabled chronically in severe pain patients supposed to do now? We are NOT pain medications seekers! We only use these medications to give use some shread of dignity and quality of life. Now our government is telling the physicians to tell their chronic pain patients that they can't prescribe pain medications like that they had in the past and they must lower the dosages and quantities out of fear of standing out to our government. What are we, as chronic pain sufferers supposed to do now? We only need these medications to live some quality of life, we are NOT junkies! Why are we being made out to look like we are? I only wish every day of my life not to be in so much pain! I don't want for one second to have to take pain medicine, but it's them or have little to no quality of life. I choose LIFE, but our government now is not giving me much choice. Now, I have to decide daily what are the most important tasks I have to complete and which I can accomplish with the amount of medications I'm being allowed. I am NO longer able to complete my daily tasks because I am severely limited by the chronic pain caused from the extremely limited amounts of pain medications I'm allowed on a daily basis. Why is the government butting into places that they don't belong! So now, people that have authentic, medically identified problems that can NOT be repaired by surgery, are told that the pain medications that were their only option at this juncture, are now being told that it's too bad, no more pain medication for you! I only wish that I could have surgery to repair my compression fracture, severely pinched nerves, and lack of a spinal disc due to a slip and fall. I have severe osteoporosis in my spine, hips and knees. I was all ready to have surgery even though the physician told me I would be in intensive care for a week and another week in regular care after I had surgery to repair the compression fracture. He called the day before and told me that the review board canceled my surgery out of fear that I would become paralyzed when they went to drill into my spinREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 23rd, 2016Someone from Sayreville, NJ writes:
WHAT A F****KING BUNCH OF HYPOCRITS YOU ALL ARE! JUST SAW ON THE NEWS, THE MAYOR OF NY IS PUSHING TO ALLOW HEROIN ADDICTS TO SHOOT UP THEIR HEROIN WITH THE HELP OF NURSES AND DOCTORS!! WHAT THE F***!! ADDICTS WHO BREAK THE LAW, WHO DONT FOLLOW THE LAWS, WHO ABUSE ANYTHING THEY CAN TO GET HIGH, DO NOT FACE CONSEQUENCES FOR THEIR ACTIONS ANYMORE. THEY ARE TREATED LIKE BABIES WHO DO NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR CHOICES. THEY ARE GIVEN ALL KINDS OF TREATMENT OPTIONS, ALL DOORS ARE OPEN AND THEY RECEIVE THE MOST COMPASSIONATE CARE,HELL THE GOVERNMENT EVEN GIVES THEM CLEAN NEEDLES TO SHOOT UP WITH. MEANWHILE, THE LAW ABIDING CITIZENS WHO ARE SUFFERING IN SEVERE NEVER ENDING PAIN FROM DEBILITATING CONDITIONS THERE IS NO CURES FOR ARE BEING DENIED OUR LIFE SAVING MEDICATIONS, ARE HAVING DOORS SLAMMED IN OUR FACES, ARE BEING FORCED TO THE STREETS FOR RELIEF, PAIN DOCTORS ARE TURNING THEIR BACKS ON US, LEAVING US NOWHERE TO TURN. MANY LEGITIMATE CHRONIC INTRACTABLE PAIN SUFFERERS ARE KILLING THEMSELVES DUE TO INADEQUATE PAIN RELIEF. CHRONIC PAIN SUFFERERS DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT OPT FOR SURGERY! JUST READ ON THE PAINNEWSNETWORK.ORG PAGE THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS DENYING PAIN MEDICATION FOR POST OP CARE!! -THE NEW TORTUROUS GUIDELINES STATE NO OPIODS ARE TO BE USED AFTER SURFERY OF ANY KIND AS THESE KILLERS IN CONGRESS, WHO SIT BEHIND A DESK PUSHING A PEN, WHO HAVE ZERO DEGREES IN MEDICAL TREATMENT OF PAIN, FEEL A PERSON HAVING SURGERY IS TO BE SENT HOME WITH IBUPROFEN. WHAT GIVES YOU PEOPLE ANY RIGHT TO HARM A HUMAN BEING AND NOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE!? I WILL NEVER ALLOW ANY SURGEON TO CUT INTO MY BODY AGAIN! YOU ARE DISCRIMINATING AGAINST THE WEAKEST HUMAN BEINGS WHO ARE DISABLED AND SUFFER IN CRIPPLING PAIN. WE DEMAND YOU MAKE YOUR MEDICAL AND RX RECORDS PUBLIC!! OH BUT WAIT, HOW STUPID OF ME TO FORGET, YOU ALL HAVE YOUR PRIVATE DOCTORS AND PHARMACIES IN YOUR BACK POCKET, HAVE ACCESS TO ANYTHING YOU NEED AS THESE VERY INHUMANE GUIDELINES DON'T APPLY TO THE KILLERS IN CONGRESS OR THE DEA. WHEN THE DEA MAKES A BUST, JUST WHERE DO ALL THE OPIODS GO? SURELY NOT IN SOME EVIDENCE ROOM..YOU ARE ALL CORRUPT AND I HOPE SOMEONE HAS THE BALLS TO BE THE WHISTLEBLOWER AND TAKE YOU ALL DOWN. THE CHRONIC PAIN COMMUNITY IS NOT GOING TO GIVE UP THE FIGHT SO EASILY. WE HAVE RIGHTS IN THIS COUNTRY AND YOU ARE VIOLATING THOSE RIGHTS. YOU ARE FORCING LEGITIMATE PATIENTS TO TAKE THEIR LIVES DUE TO INADEQUATE PAIN RELIEF AND ITS WAY PAST TIME WE PUT AN END TO THE TORTURE. THE PENDULUM HAS SWUNG WAY TO FAR. WE ARE NOT ADDICTS OR PILL SEEKING JUNKIES AND WE DESERVE TO HAVE A QUALITY OF LIFE! ID RATHER BE DEAD THAN FORCED I TO SOME ADDICTION TREATMENT CENTER AS I AM NOT AN ADDICT. PROP AND THE PHOENIX HOUSE BACK THE CDC DEA AND GVMNT WITH $$$$ . YOU ARE TRYING TO FORCE LEGITIMATE PAIN PATIENTS INTO THOSE ADDICTION CENTERS BY TAKING OUR MEDS AWAY, ONLY ITS ALL BLOWING UP IN YOUR FACE AS MANY MANY MORE INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE TAKING THEIR LIVES. HOW DOES IT FEEL TO HAVE BREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 22nd, 2016Someone from Granger, TX signed.
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Feb 22nd, 2016Someone from Calabasas, CA writes:
It's absolutely disgusting that today's physicians that have practices that manage severe chronic pain patients are being put under the microscope and being told, by the government who are not medical professionals, how to prescribe medications. These patients that have been with the same physicians are now being told that they need to lower their quantity and dosages of pain medications because of new laws in 2016. These physicans are utterly afraid of being highlighted by the government for prescribing real pain medications that allow their chronic pain patients some quality of life. Now in 2016, every one of those patients are being told that they need to lower the quantity and dosage of the life saving medications because their doctor is afraid to continue to prescribe the previous quantities and dosages because of the new changes in the laws governing pain medications in 2016! What are disabled chronically in severe pain patients supposed to do now? We are NOT pain medications seekers! We only use these medications to give use some shread of dignity and quality of life. Now our government is telling the physicians to tell their chronic pain patients that they can't prescribe pain medications like that they had in the past and they must lower the dosages and quantities out of fear of standing out to our government. What are we, as chronic pain sufferers supposed to do now? We only need these medications to live some quality of life, we are NOT junkies! Why are we being made out to look like we are? I only wish every day of my life not to be in so much pain! I don't want for one second to have to take pain medicine, but it's them or have little to no quality of life. I choose LIFE, but our government now is not giving me much choice. Now, I have to decide daily what are the most important tasks I have to complete and which I can accomplish with the amount of medications I'm being allowed. I am NO longer able to complete my daily tasks because I am severely limited by the chronic pain caused from the extremely limited amounts of pain medications I'm allowed on a daily basis. Why is the government butting into places that they don't belong! So now, people that have authentic, medically identified problems that can NOT be repaired by surgery, are told that the pain medications that were their only option at this juncture, are now being told that it's too bad, no more pain medication for you! I only wish that I could have surgery to repair my compression fracture, severely pinched nerves, and lack of a spinal disc due to a slip and fall. I have severe osteoporosis in my spine, hips and knees. I was all ready to have surgery even though the physician told me I would be in intensive care for a week and another week in regular care after I had surgery to repair the compression fracture. He called the day before and told me that the review board canceled my surgery out of fear that I would become paralyzed when they went to drill into my spinREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 22nd, 2016Someone from East Elmhurst, NY signed.
Feb 22nd, 2016Someone from Dandridge, TN writes:
I am watching my partner suffer cruely with his pain daily. He had a bilateral total knee replacement (that's both knees at the same time) 3 weeks ago. He was on 90 mg a day of Hydrocodone while in the hospital then released with a prescription of the same to taper down over 30 days. We followed the dosage instructions and he is out of medication today, after only 3 weeks. We had tapered him down to 40 mg a day and now he is going cold turkey since his dr cannot prescribe any more until 30 from the first prescription. THIS IS NUTS!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 22nd, 2016Someone from Lexington, KY writes:
Dear Sir or Madam: I have chronic pain due to a combination of genetic diseases. I resisted starting opioids for several years but my functionality was being compromised. Four year after my initial diagnosis, I followed my physicians treatment plan, which included this class of medication as well as facet blocks and physical therapy. Recently, I moved to Kentucky. I was summarily taken off of one of my medications. Although I had some pills remaining, I was not permitted to withdraw gradually. It was a tortuous experience. Just recently, I suffered a bruised rib. Because I am on certain medications, I was refused pain treatment for the traumatic injury. Is that sensible? Regardless of my baseline medication, this was new and traumatic. Moreover, not only did I have to endure the refusal to treat my injury, but the attitudes that many health personnel now have toward those who need these medications. I believe the term is "insult to injury." My daily pain quotient was extreme. What amazes me is that my record of treatment with the medications is documented and demonstrates my responsible use according to my doctors orders. And this at such treatment facilities as Weill Cornell Medical Center and Beth Israel Hospital. It is easily accessible and I would be only too glad to authorize it. I am sure this is the case with many, many legitimate chronic pain patients. Why not include this approach as the battle against the abuse of these drugs goes on? Why paint all who need these medications as addicts, causing - yes, causing - the suffering of legitimate chronic pain patients? I'm sure you've heard many such comments, and my hope its that you will consider the ordeal such a discriminatory approach is forcing upon vulnerable Americans. Thank you. Clarice Taylor BellREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 22nd, 2016Someone from Punta Gorda, FL signed.
Feb 22nd, 2016Someone from Somerset, WI writes:
I have had moderate to severe chronic back/shoulder/hip pain for 3+ years. X-Ray scans show only mild scoliosis and marginal loss of disc height, but I believe that there is much more that is wrong, with the level of pain that I have. I asked for an MRI and was refused. Asking for stronger pain meds does no good, and make them think you are a drug-seeker. All the aspirin in the world does not put a dent in my pain. I've been through months of physical therapy, chiropractors, and exercise regimens, all mostly useless. Doctors try hard to make light of the situation. Their number 1 priority seems to be to NOT give out any pain pills. I mean who cares whether they help the patient or not, as long as they don't have to give out any pills. Apparently it's ok if a patient kills themselves, as long as they didn't take any drugs. How screwed up is that? Almost every day I think about killing myself. Is it really better to live in constant, chronic pain, than it is to take a handful of pills a day?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 22nd, 2016Someone from Massillon, OH writes:
I have endometriosis stage 4. Degenerative disc disease. And kidney stones and thats just the top of it and my family/pain dr who i was with for less then 3months has been shut down i have been in pain mng for over 12ys.and now im left hanging in the balance. I do not even want to live with this pain. And no where will help. No hospitals. My own pharmacy that ive been loyal to for years never fill early always the same scripts same dr. Told me not to come back in. What do i do?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 22nd, 2016Someone from Jackson, NJ writes:
What I don't understand is how you killers are getting away with the intentional HARM, PAIN AND SUFFERING you are INFLICTING ONTO INNOCENT HUMAN BEINGS WHO ARE CHRONICALLY ILL WITH DEBILITATING CONDITIONS THERE IS NO CURE FOR!! I go onto sights such as the NINDS, or the NIH to research the MULTIPLE DEBILITATING CONDITIONS I HAVE. For instance, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome/RSD - according to the NIH AND NINDS this condition is also known as the SUICIDE DISEASE. Do you have any idea why that is? BECAUSE OF THE INTENSE SEVERE NEVER ENDING PAIN IT CAUSES! These sites clearly state that OPIODS such as morphine and oxycodone will help to LESSEN the pain, along with possibly PT and also psychtherapy, because this disease can cause anxiety and depression. Ive tried the PT route, even tried massage, chiro, accupuncture, epidurals, two failed spinal fusions, nerve blocks, facet injections, trigger point injections, NSAIDS and every non opiod pain reliever. Opiods were my LAST RESORT and boy what a relief it WAS! I was on the SAME DOSE for eight years with SUCCESS until last March when all my meds were lowered to INEFFECTIVE DOSES. I am now back to the beginning, my dr playing medication roulette giving me scripts for anything except what WORKED!! The NINDS strongly suggests that opiods are detrimental in the healing process of this killer disease there is NO CURE FOR! Just because you idiots in congress, the DEA or the CDC put limits on the amount of pain meds the suffering can have, doesn't mean our pain is going to be controlled by those limits. In FACT, TAKING AWAY MY OPIOD MEDICATION HAS CAUSED MY PAIN TO INTENSIFY TO THE POINT I AM BEGGING GOD TO TAKE ME! I have a family and kids who love and depend on me. Im not some criminal breaking the law looking for a fix! STOP TREATING ME AS SUCH! Your continued ignorance, neglect, abuse and discrimination against INNOCENT LAW ABIDING CITIZENS IS A TRAVESTY! People like Jane BALLANTYNE,director of PROP has ZERO knowledge of severe chronic pain, she us an ADDICTION DR, so why is she dictating to the millions of chronic pain sufferers how to treat our pain!? ITS ALL ABOUT THE $$$$ I/WE HAVE RIGHTS TO MEDS IN THIS COUNTRY, WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO TREAT OUR PAIN WITH DIGNITY AND RESPECT, WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO A QUALITY OF LIFE, GET OUT OF OUR HEALTHCARE! STOP THE DAM STIGMA ON LEGITIMATE PAIN PATIENTS! #patientsnotaddicts. DO NO HARM!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 22nd, 2016Someone from Franklin, NH signed.
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Feb 22nd, 2016Someone from Franklin, NH writes:
My roommate and I are going through exactly this form of discrimination. We were forced to change Primary Care Physicians because we live in New Hampshire but our previous Doctor was in Massachusetts. We broke no laws and followed our prescriptions to the letter for almost 10 years - the last 5 of which were across state lines. Please help, this has to change.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 22nd, 2016Someone from Franklin, NH writes:
My roommate and I are going through exactly this form of discrimination. We were forced to change Primary Care Physicians because we live in New Hampshire but our previous Doctor was in Massachusetts. We broke no laws and followed our prescriptions to the letter for almost 10 years - the last 5 of which were across state lines. Please help, this has to change.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 21st, 2016Someone from Denver, CO writes:
The DEA has no business in my health care. It's just another redundant, over-reaching alphabet agency trying to justify its existence. This time they've gone too far. The day I let a useless, parasitic federal tax burden of an agency dictate my health care needs is the day I renounce my citizenship. They like so very, very many local to federal agencies need to be reminded that that their continued existence is in the hands of the American people relevant to our Consent to be Governed. The public officials/servants that we allow to exist do so on our dime and at our behest. It's time to begin educating people and cleaning house. This useless, presumptuous, self-serving and corrupt dinosaur is among the first that must be eliminated along with the equally corrupt (and illegal) IRS. I mean you've got to be kidding me! The "War on Drugs" has become the illegal invasion of my unalienably private health care matters? And why? So that a parasitic, tax burden of a worthless federal agency can continue to feed off of the American tax dollar? It's time to shut this down.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 21st, 2016Someone from San Marcos, TX writes:
I am a patient with numerous "invisible diseases", and without getting my pain medications each month I would be literally bedridden. As it is, these diseases have affected my relationships with my husband and my children and grandchildren. Please don't take away the only thing that gives me the chance to at least get out of bed sometimes and interact with my family. As it is my marriage is very rocky due to my pain issues. What is it going to take to allow doctors to treat their patients in a way that they have a quality of life??REPORT COMMENTS
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Feb 21st, 2016Someone from Midlothian, VA writes:
I want to comment to my co-associate and professional nurse P450 from Texas. To the many of you who BELIEVE in a few years SUICIDES will increase. Have you heard of Obamacare and incentives to Medicare. Physicians are NOW BEING PAID to stop treating medical conditions such as intractable pain which are CHRONIC. We are talking HUGE INCENTIVE checks, and scientific knowledge shows that the SAFEST treatment for intractable pain are opiates. I hate to tell you people the past six months alone statistics SHOW over 9,000 deaths from SUICIDE due to these ridiculous recommendations by the CDC and FDA. The overdoses are non pain patients who are using prescription medications as FELONY USE. Sorry you died but who the hell told you to obtain this stuff on the black market or street. Credible pain patients do not SELL medications nor leave them in a medicine cabinet for theft... SUICIDES HAVE ALREADY broken the tens of thousands and these physicians can be sued for negligence and worse. Obama you need to be found for treason not just on this but on many counts. DO NO HARM RIGHT...REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 21st, 2016Someone from Memphis, TN signed.
Feb 21st, 2016Someone from Tulsa, OK writes:
Drs have the right to TREAT their patients. They became Drs for a reason. NO ONE but your Dr., including Insurance companies,DEA,etc can or should treat patients. They don't have medical degrees nor do they know the specifics of a person's illnesses and injuries or what allergies, etc they have. This is a disgrace. I just shake my head at all of this!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 21st, 2016Someone from Littleton, CO writes:
Our doctors have failed us! The medical establishment has failed us! Sure, the a__holes in the DEA are the primary offenders. They're the ones who spread the lies and distortions, harass physicians, and scheme constantly to deprive anyone and everyone of the ability to obtain effective pain relief. They're fanatics, who continue to claim that Prohibition was a grand success and they want nothing so much as to recreate that disaster, but this time for prescription medication, especially the opiates. Since morphine and related drugs are the most effective pain killers known to man, the DEA's restrictive policies represent a disaster for millions of chronic pain patients. But the DEA shouldn't be able to do this. They're stupid and ignorant, a bunch of uninformed thugs. Read their propaganda pieces. They can't even lie effectively. The DEA has tried many times in the past to take over medical practice, using a variety of pretexts, but until now doctors have fought back. No one, they declared, should have the right to manage patients, other than the doctors themselves, least of all a bunch of ignorant, fanatical bullies. And, until now, the doctors have won. This time they've lost. They allowed the DEA to divide and conquer, threatening and intimidating individual physicians, especially those in solo practices, who felt alone and vulnerable. One by one, the DEA overpowered doctors, making them too fearful to stick up for their patients, too timid to speak up and to contradict DEA falsehoods. Organizations like the AMA, who should have gone to war over this issue, released tepid statements that did little to stem the takeover. Now the DEA is in control, setting limits on pain medication and forcing providers to make drastic cuts in their patients' treatment. Doctors who resist are subjected to disciplinary action. It's a disgrace and patients shouldn't tolerate it. If your doctor no longer treats your pain effectively and compassionately, find out what official policy is in your state. Many states have explicit requirements for doctors to treat pain. If your doctor doesn't do this, maybe you should find a lawyer. And stay alert. Don't pass up an opportunity to expose the DEA and its activities. We're in a war with those fanatics and we may not win it. Things may have gone too far for that. But we should at least make sure those bastards know they've been in a fight.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 20th, 2016Someone from Livingston, LA signed.
Feb 20th, 2016Someone from Pearland, TX writes:
As a patient with CRPS, also known as the most painful disease known to man or the suicide disease, I think doctors should be able to treat their patients as they see fit. I also have 16 other diagnoses and did not ever take an opioid until I was 52 years old. This even includes after childbirth, which is nothing compared to this pain. My first options for treatment were to remain as drug-free as possible. I spent a half $1 million last year on medical treatment and had a spinal cord stimulator implanted to avoid taking any narcotics. After two years with this illness I could no longer stand the breakthrough pain. People abuse alcohol every single day and some even go out and drive drunk and kill people. I don't understand why something like that can happen, when is that persons choice to break the law. We as patients are not breaking any laws. We should not be made to suffer because there are people out there who abuse the drugs. People with allergies have to show their drivers license now just to get allergy medications. Most chronically ill pain patients have a contract with their doctor and even are drug tested periodically. I think it's a pain patient has a good relationship with their doctor, and the doctor has a choice of which medication to give the patient, that's what should happen. If the CDC or the FDA wants to worry about people who are abusing these drugs, they should focus on shutting down some of these "pill mills." That is where the true problem lies.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 20th, 2016Someone from Mulhall, OK writes:
With the FDA heightened warning about NSAIDS causing Heart attacks and strokes, what are we supposed to take for long term pain? Tylenol can cause liver damage, Aspirin causes gastric upset and can lead to bleeding ulcers. They both are made for mild to moderate occasional pain. Narcotics when taking as prescribed by your doctor while being monitored closely by your doctor can be used safely. Untreated pain over time causes problems in the immune system, endocrine system, cardiovascular system, as well as a person's mental health. It causes unnecessary stress to our bodies. The effects of stress are well documented. It can actually shorten a lifespan. It is in humane to let legitimate pain patients suffer needlessly. Chronic pain treatment should be left to the doctors who actually know what their patients need. The doctors who actually examine the patient and know their health history and complex problems. Not by government regulations and people who have never even seen or examined these patients. We are patients NOT addicts!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 20th, 2016Someone from Oklahoma City, OK writes:
I find it sad and am furious that people with chronic pain conditions, illnesses, and injuries are treated either like children or like criminals because they need pain medication to function. I'm not an addict. I'm a person who has rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, mixed connective tissue disease, and degenerative disk disease. I'm a patient. Treat me with respect.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 20th, 2016Someone from Saint Petersburg, FL writes:
I have had 2 heart attacks and have other heart problems I have been told by 2 of my Drs that I can't take NSAIDS because of the harm they will cause to my heart. I've tried neurontin, cymbalta, and the like. I've tried anti depressants, physical therapy , injections of steroids, exercise and nutrition. I have tried so much and its all failed. Opiods are the last resort. I follow Drs orders and prescribing rules , have never been high nor do I want to be. I'm in my 50s and if I'm lucky have 20 more years left. I want them to be functional years not years being bedridden. Please don't forget the chronic pain patient and help us have some quality to our lives. For many like myself opouds are our only help.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 20th, 2016Someone from Longmont, CO signed.
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Feb 20th, 2016Someone from San Jose, CA writes:
Making people suffer is NOT the answer to this problem! There has to be a better common sense solution. Let Doctors do their jobs! An addict needs help, psychological help usually. What about the people who are thought of as addicts who are really pain suffers looking for pain relief? Making people suffer from pain is criminal and should be prosecuted!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 20th, 2016Someone from Cornersville, TN signed.
Feb 20th, 2016Someone from Ravenna, OH writes:
I suffer every day because it got to the point that I would go to a pain doctor and they would say I am sure your in a lot of pain but there is nothing I can do for you...REPORT COMMENTS
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