First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Feb 15th, 2016Someone from Omaha, NE writes:
Okay, something has changed this year and NOT for the better. I had to move from one provider to another because of my insurance coverage. I moved to a provider that changed 5 out of 7 medications in the past 8 months and when I went to pick up my pain medications I was told by the pharmacist that I would have to see the doctor first. To see if we can change your last 2, the pain meds and the sleeping pills. So, he said I will see if he can see you. Well 3 hours later I left and was called when I got home and told "he can see you now". I spent 2 more hours defending myself. I am not a back alley get me some drugs person and have been on pain reliever for 8 years. It took many different regiments to get it right. Right to a point where I could sleep for more than 2 hours and remain a viable active parent. I am frustrated as I went to the doctor again today and was told my chronic pain and sleeplessness was a BIG red flag. I said for what? I am a law abiding citizen that worked in a warehouse for 15 years moving over a million 70lb. boxes and as a furniture mover. I can barely pick up sticks in my yard let alone mow it. REWARDING (or using scare tactics on) doctors for belittling their own patience and making them feel as if they are ADDICTS is wrong. The FDA even has approved children for the drugs while my own doctor stated " If you are taking pain meds we need to address it, if you are taking sleeping meds we need to get you off ". I was even told by my doctor " I want to keep my license to practice so all my patience are going through this justification speech and more". Remote persons that don't know what it is like to live with pain and make decisions based on NUMBERS are wrong and I hope someday you have a catastrophic injury and YOU TO cannot sleep-may YOUR life become miserable to. I take medications to live for today and quality of life is important to me. MORE important than living a few extra miserable years. SHAME ON YOU. Chase the bad guys, you know the ones that do NOT have daily pain or can sleep, probably until afternoon. My doctor says to me " Don't you want your kids to see you work through this? I said yes but I would like to be able to play catch, walk, and clean up their clothes for them also. I want to feel comfortable standing at the oven making dinner for them without having to leave the oven unattended because my back hurt. I hope it doesn't start a fire. IF a normal nights sleep is 7-8 hours and you get 2-3 how and the hell does that improve my life or anybody around me? Some of these smart a lic's have nothing better to do then look at statistics and make decisions based on biased manipulation of data. Get rid of the bad doctors I say but also create a complaint center maybe call it "baddoctors.gov" have the patients report bad doctors, not the doctors report the bad patients as we are there for HELP. Make the doctors explain-NOT THE Recipient/Patient. This is backwards/ for crying out loud I have seen more ma -
Feb 15th, 2016Someone from Melrose, NY writes:
Okay, something has changed this year and NOT for the better. I had to move from one provider to another because of my insurance coverage. I moved to a provider that changed 5 out of 7 medications in the past 8 months and when I went to pick up my pain medications I was told by the pharmacist that I would have to see the doctor first. To see if we can change your last 2, the pain meds and the sleeping pills. So, he said I will see if he can see you. Well 3 hours later I left and was called when I got home and told "he can see you now". I spent 2 more hours defending myself. I am not a back alley get me some drugs person and have been on pain reliever for 8 years. It took many different regiments to get it right. Right to a point where I could sleep for more than 2 hours and remain a viable active parent. I am frustrated as I went to the doctor again today and was told my chronic pain and sleeplessness was a BIG red flag. I said for what? I am a law abiding citizen that worked in a warehouse for 15 years moving over a million 70lb. boxes and as a furniture mover. I can barely pick up sticks in my yard let alone mow it. REWARDING (or using scare tactics on) doctors for belittling their own patience and making them feel as if they are ADDICTS is wrong. The FDA even has approved children for the drugs while my own doctor stated " If you are taking pain meds we need to address it, if you are taking sleeping meds we need to get you off ". I was even told by my doctor " I want to keep my license to practice so all my patience are going through this justification speech and more". Remote persons that don't know what it is like to live with pain and make decisions based on NUMBERS are wrong and I hope someday you have a catastrophic injury and YOU TO cannot sleep-may YOUR life become miserable to. I take medications to live for today and quality of life is important to me. MORE important than living a few extra miserable years. SHAME ON YOU. Chase the bad guys, you know the ones that do NOT have daily pain or can sleep, probably until afternoon. My doctor says to me " Don't you want your kids to see you work through this? I said yes but I would like to be able to play catch, walk, and clean up their clothes for them also. I want to feel comfortable standing at the oven making dinner for them without having to leave the oven unattended because my back hurt. I hope it doesn't start a fire. IF a normal nights sleep is 7-8 hours and you get 2-3 how and the hell does that improve my life or anybody around me? Some of these smart a lic's have nothing better to do then look at statistics and make decisions based on biased manipulation of data. Get rid of the bad doctors I say but also create a complaint center maybe call it "baddoctors.gov" have the patients report bad doctors, not the doctors report the bad patients as we are there for HELP. Make the doctors explain-NOT THE Recipient/Patient. This is backwards/ for crying out loud I have seen more maREPORT COMMENTS
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Feb 15th, 2016Someone from Omaha, NE writes:
Okay, something has changed this year and NOT for the better. I had to move from one provider to another because of my insurance coverage. I moved to a provider that changed 5 out of 7 medications in the past 8 months and when I went to pick up my pain medications I was told by the pharmacist that I would have to see the doctor first. To see if we can change your last 2, the pain meds and the sleeping pills. So, he said I will see if he can see you. Well 3 hours later I left and was called when I got home and told "he can see you now". I spent 2 more hours defending myself. I am not a back alley get me some drugs person and have been on pain reliever for 8 years. It took many different regiments to get it right. Right to a point where I could sleep for more than 2 hours and remain a viable active parent. I am frustrated as I went to the doctor again today and was told my chronic pain and sleeplessness was a BIG red flag. I said for what? I am a law abiding citizen that worked in a warehouse for 15 years moving over a million 70lb. boxes and as a furniture mover. I can barely pick up sticks in my yard let alone mow it. REWARDING (or using scare tactics on) doctors for belittling their own patience and making them feel as if they are ADDICTS is wrong. The FDA even has approved children for the drugs while my own doctor stated " If you are taking pain meds we need to address it, if you are taking sleeping meds we need to get you off ". I was even told by my doctor " I want to keep my license to practice so all my patience are going through this justification speech and more". Remote persons that don't know what it is like to live with pain and make decisions based on NUMBERS are wrong and I hope someday you have a catastrophic injury and YOU TO cannot sleep-may YOUR life become miserable to. I take medications to live for today and quality of life is important to me. MORE important than living a few extra miserable years. SHAME ON YOU. Chase the bad guys, you know the ones that do NOT have daily pain or can sleep, probably until afternoon. My doctor says to me " Don't you want your kids to see you work through this? I said yes but I would like to be able to play catch, walk, and clean up their clothes for them also. I want to feel comfortable standing at the oven making dinner for them without having to leave the oven unattended because my back hurt. I hope it doesn't start a fire. IF a normal nights sleep is 7-8 hours and you get 2-3 how and the hell does that improve my life or anybody around me? Some of these smart a lic's have nothing better to do then look at statistics and make decisions based on biased manipulation of data. Get rid of the bad doctors I say but also create a complaint center maybe call it "baddoctors.gov" have the patients report bad doctors, not the doctors report the bad patients as we are there for HELP. Make the doctors explain-NOT THE Recipient/Patient. This is backwards/ for crying out loud I have seen more maREPORT COMMENTS
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Feb 15th, 2016Someone from Warner Robins, GA signed.
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Feb 15th, 2016Someone from Mound, MN writes:
I have been suffering from Chronic-Intractable pain for 10 plus years. My questions are, Are you people DOCTORS? Do you have actual medical degrees? I am pretty sure the answer to both of my questions is NO! I would really like to know what gives you the right to make rules as to how my personal doctor can treat me. You do not know anything about me or my disabilities, what we have tried and failed, NOTHING about me but MY doctor does and he has the education on how to properly treat me. I am not a drug-seeker or an addict by any stretch. It took us years to find what works to keep my pain at a level that I can now have some semblance of a "normal" life most of the time. Do you realize that by what you are proposing the doctors do will create a whole new epidemic of suicides from not being able to get relief from their chronic pain that we all live with 24/7? We are HUMAN BEINGS and have the RIGHT to be treated as such by our doctors and emergency room doctors. You people really need to to educate yourselves on exactly what chronic-intractable pain is and how horrifying it is to live with it before you go and decide how we should be treated and what drugs we are allowed to take or not to take.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 15th, 2016Someone from West Plains, MO writes:
Kimberly, you dont have to give the idiots a reason to pull a med. They make them up as they go. As for the risk and benefit of a med, i myself would rather lose a few years on life than suffer the longer life. Besides that there not as harmful as led to believe anyway in proper dosage. They think were idiots and we believe that crap. Been to va and i know. Wish you luck and all on here.REPORT COMMENTS
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Feb 15th, 2016Someone from Craig, CO writes:
Chronic pain patients are humans not animals- we deserve respect. I worked all my life in a career -dental hygiene-that I can no longer do because of chronic neck pain. I have had shots,radiofrequency ablation and a three level neck fusion. I have tried to return to the workforce in a different setting -front desk,using my 20 years of experience in a field I went to college for and worked hard at. I was maintaining on tramadol and then used hydrocodone at night due to continued neck pain headaches and inability to sleep. My doctor started weaning me off all meds saying it was the meds that were causing my headaches. I got off everything and the pain and headaches intensified to where I could no longer pull myself out of bed or function. The daily pain, not sleeping, headaches that mess with my vision and overall ability to function as a dignified human where stripped away. Doctors refusing to help manage my pain issues only makes the whole process inhuman- I am not an addict, i have never asked for increasing dosages and I have always followed the rules. Why now is it ok for me to have to quit my job and not be a functioning member of society due to pain not being managed. I guess the DEA wants me to suffer in bed and just commit suicide- this is the only way to relieve my suffering. What happen to do no harm? What happen to compassionate care in the United States? It is so disappointing to me that as a collective healthcare community we have allowed this to happen. What about elderly pain patients, veterans, patients that need pain meds to just survive their daily functions of life? Treating us all like drug addicts solves nothing and removing our access to pain meds solves nothing. I bet you will find high rates of suicide in pain patients in the next couple of years. It is a complete travesty of healthcare dictates in our daily lives and,suffering- I wish anyone making these rules could sit ONE day in my shoes- extreme headaches and vision problems that makes any daily functioning impossible -plus try to exist on 3-4 hours of sleep a night. For the first time in my life I am thinking of moving to another country so I will be treated with compassion and understanding -it is 2016- as a nation we are moving in the WRONG direction when we fail to help people in pain with diagnosed and supported NEED for pain relief. So sad and in excruciating pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 15th, 2016Someone from Seminole, FL writes:
Somewhere, somehow, someway, somebody has run the train off the tracks. I have looked at the problem at hand from as many angles possible. I tried to look at it from all the different perspectives as fairly as possible. There is a group of people getting caught up in the effort to combat drug abuse. These are legitimate, honest, and contract compliant pain management patients. Many suffer every day and have exhausted all efforts to manage their pain. The use of opioids in this group of people has not been a problem. It's the drug abusers & people looking to abuse R.X. meds that have brought all the negative attention to light. I doubt the damage done to pain management patients can be undone, however somebody should really asses the situation better.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 15th, 2016Someone from Wilmington, NC writes:
I am in the same predicament as thousands of Americans.I am a disabled vet and the DOCTOR took away all my pain meds with no alternative treatment offered even thiugh i have never violated any of the "pain management rules, and condemed to constant severe pain because she says the "risks outweigh the benefits" my quality of life is absolutely horrible and I struggle with suicide regularly becase the pain is so severe. I am agrown adult,I know what the risks are,and the benefits of having some quality of or not is not HER call to make!!!! its inhumane!!we dont even condemn animalss to a life lke this. I should be able to tell her "no you cannot have a martini or a glass of wine because I have decided for you that the risks outweigh the benifits. That is ridiculous.and thats not even an adequate anology because what I am dealing with is life and death. Something has got to be done!!!! People who have legitamit pan issues do not deserve to be CONDEMMED.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 15th, 2016Someone from Linwood, MI writes:
I would rather live ten happy, normal years with my family on pain meds than 5 years of them watching me lay in bed in misery.REPORT COMMENTS
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Feb 14th, 2016Someone from Howell, NJ writes:
THIS IS HELL! THIS IS F***ING TORTURE! I AM A LAW ABIDING CITIZEN OF THIS GOD DAM COUNTRY. I WORKED HARD AND PAID MY FAIR SHARE OF TAXES TIL MY DISABILITIES TOOK IT ALL AWAY. IVE BEEN DOWN THE FAILED SPINAL FUSIONS ROUTE, TWO IN FACT THAT HAVE LEFT ME WITH SUCH F***ED UP NERVE DAMAGE DOWN MY RIGHT LEG I CAN'T F****ING WALK. I HAVE MULTIPLE DEBILITATING CONDITIONS. NO F***ING CURES FIR ANY OF THEM. IVE BEEN DOWN THE ROAD OF PHYSICAL THERAPY, EPIDURALS, ALL KINDS OF INJECTIONS, ALL KINDS OF MEDS. OPIODS ARE THE ON,Y THING THAT TOUCH THIS F****ING PAIN. I CAN HARDLY SIT IM IN SI MUCH GOD DAM PAIN. MY RIGHT LEG FEELS LEG FIRE ANTS ARE CRAWLING ALL OVER IT AS MY FOOT FEELS LIKE ITS BEING PRICKED WITH A ZILLION BURNING PINS. MY BACK FEELS LIKE ITS BEING CRUSHED AND I AM HAVING A VERY HARD TIME F****ING BREATHING. THIS IS TORTURE AT THE HANDS OF THE GOVERNMENT!! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO TORTURE INNOCENT CHRONICALLY ILL PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THOSE WHO ARE CHOOSING TO SHOOT HEROIN AND YOU CANT STOP IT FROM COMING INTO THIS COUNTRY!! I AM F***ING FURIOUS AND IN A VERY BAD WAY RIGHT NOW..I WISH GOD WOULD TAKE ME AND END THIS TORTURE. I DONT F****ING DESERVE THIS. I FOLLOW THE DAM RULES. I HAD A QUALITY OF LIFE U TIL YOU TOOK IT AWAY. KARMA WORKS AND I TRULY BELIEVE YOU ALL WILL KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE TO BE TORTURED OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE WILL BE AND WHEN THAT DAY COMES, YOU WILL DEEP,Y REGRET THE HARM, PAIN AND SUFFERING YOU ARE INFLICTING ON HUMAN BEINGS AND FOR WHAT!?!? YOU PEOPLE ARE NO BETTER THAN THE ISIS TERRORISTS, DO YOU THINK THIS IS SOME KIND OF GAME!? YOU ARE F***ING WITH THE WRONG PEOPLES LIVES. UNTREATED CHRONIC INTRACTABLE PAIN KILLS, IT PUSHES PEOPLE TO THEIR BREAKING POINT AND THERES NO TELLING WHAT WILL HAPPEN. YOU CAN TAKE YOUR INHUMANE RESTRICTIONS AND SHOVE THEM UP YOUR ASSES. I DO NOT F****ING DESERVE TO BE TORTURED LIKE THIS...NOONE DOES BUT EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU INTENTIONALLY INFLICTING THIS HELL ONTO US. THIS IS CRUEL, THIS IS BARBARIC, THIS IS INHUMANE AND IT IS F*** ING TORTURE!! HOW DO YOU ALL JUSTIFY YOURSELVES KNOWING YOU ARE PUSHING PATIENTS TO THE BREAKING POINT AND DEATH!! WHEN KARMA HITS YOU, AND YOUR BODY IS BEING RIPPED APART FROM EXCRUCIATING PAIN, YOU BETTER BEG GOD FOR FORGIVENESS!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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Feb 14th, 2016Someone from Maricopa, AZ writes:
I too am a victim of chronic severe pain and my pain has not decreased just because they decided one day that they wanted to regulate my still valid pain contract. I cry not fair to interfere with my patient doctor contract, my right to privacy and right to care.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 14th, 2016Someone from Athol, MA writes:
The contemplation of suicide is not hyperbole. I recently turned to alcohol because I could not take the pain. After three days I was very seriously planning my suicide just to end the pain. Being disabled at age 33 is enough to deal with. I spent 9 days in a mental health ward. Add shame and feelings of worthlessness, not being able to provide for my family and severe long term chronic pain and you have a recipe for suicide and self harm. I am thankful for my family, they helped bring me back from the brink of death. Others are not as lucky. Having made it back I still deal with the egregious lies and fear-mongering surrounding treatment of chronic pain in a system that boils down to denial of both proper medical care and improved quality of life.REPORT COMMENTS
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Feb 14th, 2016Someone from Mound, MN writes:
I am having a hard time understanding why all the government agencies like the DEA and the CDC feel the need to interfere with the doctor-patient care of chronic pain patients. Are any of you people doctors? Are any of you chronic pain sufferers? Chronic pain is a frightening and horrible thing to live with 24/7 365. I know I have tried numerous different drugs throughout my 10 year journey before we found what worked best for me to have some sembalance of a normal life. Our doctors get to know us and need to be able to treat us as need be without every govt. agency telling them what they can and can not do or prescribe. Keep this up and there will be a new crisis on your hands, a huge rise in suicides because patients with chronic pain can not get the care they need and no longer can handle the severe pain they are living with. Are you ready to have that on your conscience? Give doctors back the right to treat the patient as they were taught. We deserve it as we too are human beings!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 14th, 2016Someone from Columbus, MT writes:
As a Chronic Pain sufferer of 20+ years, I'm in fear for my future and the future of all persons who suffer with chronic pain. With US government agencies stepping in and controlling doctors and dictating what a chronic pain patient can and cannot take in reference to opioid pain medication is not fair! We deserve to have some kind of quality of life, and if that means we need to take opioid medications to achieve this then we should be able to without any interference. Please stop putting so much pressure on our doctors, and let them decide what we need for pain control. The DEA should be going after the illegal drugs that are out on the street and the dealers. The CDC should continue being the Centers for "Disease Control" NOT "Pain Control"! Don't put us in any more pain than we are already in. We are human beings and don't like being treated like we are getting treated. Let us have our Doctor-Patient relationship back and let the doctor and patient decide how to manage our healthcare!REPORT COMMENTS
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Feb 13th, 2016Someone from Ridgeley, WV writes:
As a chronic pain sufferer we shouldn't have to worry about receiving pain relief and that means opioid pain medications! We didn't choose the health issues, and its already hard enough. When I hear the debate and problems occurring with physicians reach to prescribe it worries me. We need to have the right to take what controls our pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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