First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Nov 24th, 2015Someone from Temple, TX writes:
600 Drs in Temple, Tx @ Baylor Scott&White and a cover crackdown on helping chronic pain patients, it's a violation of the Hippocratic Oath they take and of our basic human rights!! -
Nov 24th, 2015Someone from Temple, TX writes:
600 Drs in Temple, Tx @ Baylor Scott&White and a cover crackdown on helping chronic pain patients, it's a violation of the Hippocratic Oath they take and of our basic human rights!!REPORT COMMENTS
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Nov 23rd, 2015Someone from Ogden, UT writes:
This petition is 100 % correct ! The doctor's live in fear of the DEA. I live in fear of my doctor that he might stop prescribing to me based on possible lie's that I am a drug seeker. Some pain patient's, whom took opiod's for pain fell victim or their doctor. Their doctor sent them away and stopped prescribing them opiods. These pain patient's shortly after took their own life. That scare's me that I am at risk of suicide becuase I might not be able to cope with horrible pain if that were to happen to me. Second, I have Manic Depression so I would be double the risk of committing suicide. Brenda.REPORT COMMENTS
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Nov 23rd, 2015Someone from Florence, AL writes:
I went to a pain doc that had me on the pain patch and a pain pill, sorry don't recall the name, it was very strong. He also gave me clonapin and two antidepressants.My prescriptionfor one of my antidepressants ran out and I called his office repeatedly for 11 days to get him to write and other. He had told me I could never stop this med unless I did it gradually. The 11th day I went to his office and ask if the prescription. was ready. He came out and told me he would no longer be my doc because I had harrased the office by calling everyday for my meds. I was so sick at that point that I was throwing up every hour on the hour. I had never taken any of those kind of meds before, no pain, or antidepressants.I trusted the doc to "Do no harm", But he did. And later I found out he had done may folks this way. Dropped them with no warning of legitimate reason. I went to the hospital to get off all the drugs and it was the worst thing I ever experienced. I can't imagine hell being worse than detox. And if I could have found a doc to take me (I have medicare+fibro/chronic fatigue+ have shingles outbreaks every 5-8 weeks since I was 18yrs.old.),I would not have had to go through that hell. And it changed me. I can't explain how it changed me or why. But it did. I never feel like me, or truley happy or trusting anymore. Alsmost as if I am waiting for something terrible to happen, every minute of my life. No true peace, ever. And I blame the antidepressants for that. And all I ever wanted then and now is for my pain to be better. I have had pain all my 63yrs. I am not "old", but this pain is. Now I take the weakest prescription pain med available because no one will give a,ything better. I also take 12-to. 20 ibuprofen a day. And this just barely gets me up and out of bed, not the house, the bed. I do have a good day once in a while for which I am truly grateful. But they are few and far apart.All because of pain and anxiety. Please will someone get this right and just help our pain. I have been through p.t.many times, have changed how I eat, have taken all the antidepressants on the market,(and they all make me sick) I have cooperated and done my part to get better. One month I went without my meds because I was taking my pills and the bottle fell off the sink into the commode. But I didnt call for more because I knew they wouldn't write more.. and I understand. .and got very sick. I don't want to take a dozen pills 4 times a day. I just want pain meds, because thats my problem, I am in pain. Every minute every day. And I don't mean minor pain, pain bad enough to stop me from having a life. And no one should have to live like this. Not when there is something to help.And seriously,,addiction is the least of my worries. Losing my family and life, now that is something to worry about. Ok thats all, I just thought I should say this , and I hope someone listens and does something about it.REPORT COMMENTS
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Nov 23rd, 2015Someone from Salt Lake City, UT signed.
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Nov 23rd, 2015Someone from Las Vegas, NV writes:
Just isn't fair the way we the one's who need it, get the short end of the stick and get treated like a drug seeker. (So wrong)This need to be reviewed and STOP the madness, people will end up dead cause of this unfair, stupid rules in place. Punish the one's who deserve it, not the ones who are actually in need. WAKE UP AMERICA AND FIGHT BACK, THIS NEEDS TO BE STOPPED AND STOPPED "NOW"!REPORT COMMENTS
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Nov 23rd, 2015Someone from Haverhill, MA writes:
Planning suicide in the very near future. Putting us to sleep would be more humane. They gave up trying to fix all the damage I suffer from. They recommend psychological counseling to help me accept chronic 8 plus pain. I have never been on anything stronger than tram Adil. But now tramadol is also reclassified as a narcotic. Apparently, kids gain access to large quantities and use it to get high. All of this is because White America is suddenly concerned that white kids are dying from heroin What does that have to do with grandma's chronic pain. My children have stopped calling me because they can't bear seeing me suffer with no end in sight. I will die alone and in severe pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 22nd, 2015Someone from Clovis, NM writes:
We must get together and stand up for ourselves on this issue. Those of us truly suffering from chronic pain are being discriminated against because of actual drug abusers who will get their high no matter what the government says. I have another petition going right now aimed at the CDC and their new opiate guidelines. Please let's all get together and do something.https://www.change.org/p/david-tauben-md-stop-government-control-of-your-health?recruiter=425114238&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_for_starters_page&utm_term=mob-xs-no_src-no_msgREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 22nd, 2015Someone from Boise, ID writes:
So let me get this straight. I got to the doctor he screws up causes a spinal cord stroke and a spinal cord injury that leaves me in pain 24/7. I have been with the same management doctor for pain management for about five years now. four neck surgeries to stop the shooting pain down my arm. nothing works there is no other surgery that can be done I did have a life a job no criminal record No Jail time. You cant sue the doctor because you cant fine another doctor to say it was a mistake but its ok to screw someone life up accident or not for life and they have to live with pain every day. I cant walk very well. so what pain management i do get is going to be taken away due to no fault of my own what country is this? I get looked at as not a real person but some druggie TRUST ME IF I COULD DO IT WITHOUT THE DRUGS I WOULD. I have tried every day for two years to beat buck this physical therpy water therpy this dosent work like that the more i push the harder it pushes back at me. I dont take anymore then I need I never run out before I am due. I dont go from doctor to doctor. and you want me to take on more pain for someone who has broken the law stolen drugs to get high. Tell you what you find a way that I can have there body and I will get them off drugs and I wont have pain. Now you do that and I will take you up on your offer. Oh wait you cant do that. You dont trust the doctors to tell you have I have a condition that they know is terminal. if you cut my meds I will be doing what ever I can to get cancer so I can life because with out the meds I have no life thanks for signing my death warrant guys. I am even scared of putting my name on this for fear of getting on someones list how sad is that. I cant even be honest. How far have we slipped we are arguing about bring in other people and your going to fail the people you already have.REPORT COMMENTS
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Nov 21st, 2015Someone from Shawnee, KS writes:
as of right now if the government are gonna tell me no more pain medications and a pain management clinic flat out told me we are not going to treat you basically saying F. U then i authorize any and all including me that needs pain medications if i have it i will help you if you help meREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 21st, 2015Someone from Bountiful, UT writes:
I am scheduled to have surgery in December to remove the cause of my pain (essure permanent birth control coils have migrated INTO my ovaries!!!!), yet my doctor refuses to treat my pain until then because "a month and a half is 'long term' and narcotics aren't meant for long term"... I was told to take tylenol for my sharp stabbing abdominal pain that drops me to my knees. How is this right?!?! Someone who is truly in pain and will be taking care of the problem can't get help but adicts can?!?!?!?! It is almost like they want us all to turn to the streets. I refuse to do so. I shouldn't feel like breaking the law is the only way I can be free of pain until my surgery. I should be able to get the proper treatment from my doctor.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 21st, 2015Someone from Gainesville, FL writes:
Sad really- what about the doctor who goes to the bar on his day off to watch a football game only to leave drunk----difference? No one can judge another truthfully unless your wore their shoes.REPORT COMMENTS
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Sad really- what about the doctor who goes to the bar on his day off to watch a football game only to leave drunk----difference? No one can judge another truthfully unless your wore their shoes.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 21st, 2015Someone from Oroville, CA writes:
Dea needs to be stopped. They are only making work for themselves. We don't need them. Libertarians have some good ideas. It is getting more difficult each mo.to get my meds. I'd like to see these guys go through the agony some of us go through on a daily basis. Most of us as a result of working our asses off over many years prior to laws protecting workers. Like many, I have MRI's supporting this, but some guy with 6 mo. Law enforcement training knows better than a physician with 8 yrs. training. The new rules cut back our medication by 25% in California. My pain hasn't decreased by 25%. If anything I need a little more. I realize there are people who get these meds and sell them. Patients like myself have never shared one pill. Ca. has just instituted an assisted suistide law for the terminaly I'll. Are us pain patients going to be next? Not for me, the only unforgivable sin. So is black tar H from Mexico our only viable option? Not for me, just sayin. Perhaps proof via MRI could be a prerequiste to pain medication. These guys have to stopped immediately. They are tying the hands of doctors pharmacists and drug companies. They just keep chipping away. Thanks, mikeREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 21st, 2015Someone from Riva, MD writes:
It is obscene that the government is putting the lives of the 5% who become addicted to opiates above the 95% who do not. I was recently diagnosed with degenerative disc disease with herniated and bulging cervical discs. Opiates are effective in lowering my pain. I should not have to jump through hoops to receive appropriate medical care. I certainly should not be threatened with having my opiod medication withheld if I refuse to take part in epidural steroid injections which have not been proven to be safe or effective. If my pain can be managed with a few pills a day why on earth would I risk being paralyzed, killed or put in even greater pain with arachnoiditis? I realize that the pain management doctors line their pockets with the money from these injections but surely it is unethical for them to withhold medication from patients for refusing to participate in shots with medication that has not been approved by the FDA for this procedure? It reeks of blackmail, doesn't it?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 21st, 2015Someone from Harts, WV writes:
the dea has no right what so ever making medical decisions on what a doctor can a cannot write this makes me sick because fda pedal nsaids that is all doctors want to give because of the dea here were going to give a pill that will cause a heart attack or stroke it is also going to burn out the lining in your gut and intestines but no no on proper pain pills because you will get addicted or are a drug seeker every american citizen has the goddamned right not to hurt and these stupid nsaid should be made illegal this crap has killed more people than opiates ever has the dea has no right to make medical demands because they have no medical diploma they need to do there job keep the drugs away from or borders and drug dealers from getting rich because that is all that has happening every one has the right not to hurt and every one has the right to proper pain pills the only reason the dea is doing this is because the street price will go up ten fold the dealers will get richer which makes more money for the dea to confiscate our government has got way out of hand and way to big for damn pants we do not need a fbi dea cia hls atf and 30 other federal bureau task forces when they all do the same damn thing and could actually do there job instead of spending billions and wasting time trying to communicate with the 30 other task force this is stupid if whisky and tobacco are legal and nsaids are being prescribed like skittles we have the right to proper pain pills if s doctor cannot tell a junkie from a person in pain they do not need to be a doctor this addiction crap is getting way out of hand if a junkie goes to a doctor to get pills which is stupid because they can buy them easy with out wasting there time at a hospital they take an oath to do no harm but will send a sick drug addict the medical industry created out the door this is a slap in face of every citizen in america addict or not they so what the government is saying is that if i am in pain or i am hurt to not go see a doctor because doctor say right away are you trying to get pain pills we do not give those if a doctor does not give them then there must be some other place that does they must be legal to just buy then should i just look for any nasty house on the wrong side of town how many lives have the government killed because of this******some one going to a hospital and being treated like a criminal that has left because there were not being treated right went home and died because of this i think the government are the addicts they have become to addicted to the power and it needs to stop now the government and the federal task forces were not meant to take or make laws and choices on what a doctor can give or what a citizen can have they were meant to keep criminals smugglers dealers shut down not to pass laws that go against our rights this violates more than 1 this is considered cruel and unusual punishment the government does not own our bodies we can smoke and drink buREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 21st, 2015Someone from Grovetown, GA writes:
I could tell you my very sad story of how I got to be where I am today, but suffice to say that would not change anything. I am where I am like so many others, simply because I am. I have a horrible life changing illness, non cancer related that has destroyed my body and the only way I have any way of living at all is through the pain medication that I was placed on after my severe injury.\r\n\r\nWhat happened to me is irreversible and will only continue to get worse and with it so will my pain and nothing I or anyone else does will change that. The only thing that can be done for me is for my doctors to continue to care of me as they have in the past with compassion as well as continue to prescribe the medications that keep me from taking my own life due to the severe pain I endure every moment of my life...\r\n\r\n For me this is not a situation of just controlling pain, this is one in which you are keeping me alive. Take the medication away and you are putting a bullet in my head, suicide by overdose is not what you should be concerned over. \r\n\r\nFor those of us facing our lives living this way, we do not want to face it scared of the hours, days, weeks and years of unending pain you want to inflict on us because of something that we did not cause ourselves. You are asking us to live a miserable life to make you happy and to make you feel better. Quite frankly I don\'t care how you feel, you are not there with me at three in the morning crying in pain, you are home in bed asleep.\r\n\r\nI\'m not alone... We are all the same here, desperate for someone to care about us, the patient, after all without us, there would be no you, the doctor.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 21st, 2015Someone from Clarksville, TN writes:
I could tell you my very sad story of how I got to be where I am today, but suffice to say that would not change anything. I am where I am like so many others, simply because I am. I have a horrible life changing illness, non cancer related that has destroyed my body and the only way I have any way of living at all is through the pain medication that I was placed on after my severe injury. What happened to me is irreversible and will only continue to get worse and with it so will my pain and nothing I or anyone else does will change that. The only thing that can be done for me is for my doctors to continue to care of me as they have in the past with compassion as well as continue to prescribe the medications that keep me from taking my own life due to the severe pain I endure every moment of my life... For me this is not a situation of just controlling pain, this is one in which you are keeping me alive. Take the medication away and you are putting a bullet in my head, suicide by overdose is not what you should be concerned over. For those of us facing our lives living this way, we do not want to face it scared of the hours, days, weeks and years of unending pain you want to inflict on us because of something that we did not cause ourselves. You are asking us to live a miserable life to make you happy and to make you feel better. Quite frankly I don't care how you feel, you are not there with me at three in the morning crying in pain, you are home in bed asleep. I'm not alone... We are all the same here, desperate for someone to care about us, the patient, after all without us, there would be no you, the doctor.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 21st, 2015Someone from New Tazewell, TN writes:
I am 57 yrs old and have been in pain management for 5 yrs now. My doctors is now telling me due to new regulations he will have to cut my pain medication in half. Im going to go into withdraw and I have a heart condition that it may aggravate. Mabey im better off dead because ill no longer be able to move or get out of bed. Why are they doing this, is this the genocide that everyone is talking about. My doctor says he is very sorry he has to do this but he has no choice because I do not have cancer. If I knew someone that had cancer mabey somehow I could contract it from them so I will not have to go thru the horror I know that is coming. Cutting my pain meds may kill me, Can my wife and kids sue if it does ? Im afraid and don't know what to do. God help us all.REPORT COMMENTS
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I am 57 yrs old and have been in pain management for 5 yrs now. My doctors is now telling me due to new regulations he will have to cut my pain medication in half. Im going to go into withdraw and I have a heart condition that it may aggravate. Mabey im better off dead because ill no longer be able to move or get out of bed. Why are they doing this, is this the genocide that everyone is talking about. My doctor says he is very sorry he has to do this but he has no choice because I do not have cancer. If I knew someone that had cancer mabey somehow I could contract it from them so I will not have to go thru the horror I know that is coming. Cutting my pain meds may kill me, Can my wife and kids sue if it does ? Im afraid and don't know what to do. God help us all.REPORT COMMENTS
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