First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Nov 9th, 2015Someone from Hot Springs National Park, AR signed.
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Nov 9th, 2015Someone from Buffalo, MN writes:
I have a very bad case of scoliosis. Thats bad enough. But now im suffering from siatic pain. Its more than i can handle.I need pain meds but my Dr wont give me anymore. do i have a legal right to have my pain controlled?Nov 9th, 2015Someone from Bessemer, AL writes:
I have Fiormanal stenosis of the spine which not only affects the bone of the spinal column, but also the nerves. Look it up, it isn't very pleasant, And can result in paralization. I also have other spinal issue which compound one another. I get spinal injections, but any doctor will tell you the injection will not take away all pain, they are to help your medication work better. So far, the only injection that has worked, is the injection to block nerve pain from sciatica. Even with pain medication, my quality of life has been affected. The medication is too help me cope with the pain, but never takes it completely away. These medication for the chronically ill are as important for any quality of life,and should be looked upon the same add gunning a diabetic insulin, or a hearty patient hearty medications. I need every pill i get. I do not sell or give them away. When my pain is severe, all I can do its lye in bed and cry. When a person had document proof like x-Rays, and mri's, there should be no problem getting medicine. I don't like having to take the medication, fought it at first afraid of what it would do to my body and addiction. Now have come to terms with the fact that i need the medication as I cannot stand the pain without. I sometimes can't hardly stand it with. I could go on and on, and wish that people could feel what We feel even for half a day. I guarantee you they would be selling passion medication. I understand there is an opioid epidemic, but this is not the fault of pain sufferers or the doctors that responsibly prescribe. Get rid of the pill mills. Surely you know where most of them are. You are going to far in the opposite direction of trying to regulate this opioid problem. Surely there are better ways too regulate. You cannot discount those of us that just want to live out our lady years comfortably. I beg you to do more research and stop making ìt sho hard for those whom are suffering. I have had this chronic pain for thirteen years, and have trief everything at my disposal. There are no surgeries our procedures that can take my pain away, only things that can help me cope, and passion medication is one of them. Please stop hiring us, and let us get the help we need. If I were JFK, I'm sure i could get a shot in the rear as many times a day as needed for my pain. Stop abusing the lower class citizen, and lets work together to find a strategy that works for all. The kids that want to take opioids for a high will get their high. I see so many young people on heroin now It's scary and sad. You are only making the problem worse by sending people to the streets. A person in a lot of pain can be a very desperate person. STOP HURTING THE HURT AND HELP. if not, you are creating a generation of addicts and suicides.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 9th, 2015Someone from Dallas, OR writes:
I have been blessed to have found a Nurse Practitioner who has a passion for Fibromyalgia are how to treat it. She has been a guest speaker all over the world about how to take care of patients who suffer from this debilitating disease.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 9th, 2015Someone from Tacoma, WA writes:
It took 21 yrs of trying various medications for pain until I was given oxycodone 5 Mg. I never went over my dose....as a matter of fact would only take them if absolutely necessary. All of a sudden the clinic says they wont be prescribing opiods for chronic pain. I have 4 arthritises, severe problems with C spine, fibromyalgia, neuropathy and the list goes on. I had cancer and was offered pain meds all the time and didn't need a.lot but now I feel like the clinic said. FU#% YOU. My insurance doesn't cover pain clinics, pain patches or any damn help for pain. If something doesn't happen soon there's either gonna be suicide s or lawsuitsREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 9th, 2015Someone from Cary, NC signed.
Nov 9th, 2015Someone from Salina, KS writes:
I've been blacklisted here in Kansas, I have medical imaging to show that at 39 that I'm in severe chronic pain all the time, I can't even sleep a full night, and the damn conglomeration of ComCare refuses to help. Do either butt the hell out of what gives me some miserable attempt at a life or legalize suicide because at this rate, who the hell wants to live in bed in pain?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 8th, 2015Someone from Clackamas, OR signed.
Nov 8th, 2015Someone from Beecher, IL writes:
Quit treating true chronic pain patients like drug seekers and criminals!! Some have no quality of life without pain medication. You are destroying what little quality of life they have by allowing the government to be involved in what should be a decision between a patient and their Doctors!! First do no harm is turning into a joke!! Yes this is harmful to the chronic pain community!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 8th, 2015Someone from Louisville, KY writes:
I have been a chronic pain patients since December of 1991 after a back injury at work (for which I never received a dime of workers compensation pay because my so-called attorney didn't help). I've had 2 failed lumbar fusions (they failed because I am in worse pain than I was when I was injured) and have been scrutinized, ridiculed and made to feel ashamed of asking for help. It's help that I and all human beings rightfully deserve. We deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. We deserve to be heard. We deserve to receive proper care for our illnesses and injuries.REPORT COMMENTS
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Nov 8th, 2015Someone from Irving, TX writes:
I faced a backlash from the VA on my pain medication script due to stricter government guidelines despite a decade of treatment history with no issues what so ever. This is a total unfair treatment of a combat injured Veteran.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 8th, 2015Someone from Verona, NJ writes:
As a person with 2 very painful conditions, reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD) and sphincter of oddi dysfunction (SOD), both can cause intractable pain and only opioid medication has been able to calm my severe pain. Limiting the type of medication a doctor can prescribe will leave many people like me without the help we need. That help allows me to function a little, i.e., be with company, cook a little, and visit friends, all of which i couldn't do before having the proper pain medicine. This truly will limit quality of life for too many.REPORT COMMENTS
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Nov 8th, 2015Someone from Weed, CA writes:
I am 54 and am up to being about 10% disabled. That is, about 10% of the time my pain level is too high to physically walk 100 feet. I have severe bone spurs. Imagine the stem of a rose with thorns. That is what parts of my skeleton are like. My life has been becoming increasingly a nightmare. I can't keep a regular job due to flare-ups and have been sufffering from poverty. My condition is specifically excluded from those worthy of receiving disability. Even at my current level of pain, I would rather deal with it than be a junky. This has been contributing to severe depression. For depression, all the doctors want to do is give you narcotics! The whole system is insane. If you want to know the real reason why doctors are forced not to write scripts for pain, here it is: There are powerful people in our government/bureaucracy who are involved in the heroin trade. Remember "Air America"? A year of so before the Oliver North scandal we were purchasing narcotics from Nicaraguans an hour south of LA and my crazy connection told me it was all being shipped by military transport straight from Nicaragua. In Afghanistan, we are an important part of the heroin trade. I had a conversation with a man who was in military intelligence in Afghanistan who claimed he had actually seen palettes of heroin loaded into American military helicopters in Afghanistan when I had this conversation with him. Powerful forces control the heroin trade. Using subtle means, they have made it so that millions who suffer from chronic pain cannot get proper medication and are forced to buy street drugs$ It's like the drug testing thing. The reason we drug test for marijuana is to make people switch to methamphetamine, which won't show up on a drug test. Those who control illegal drug trade work actively within our government to increase their profits. Drugs are a horrible problem, but our current "cure" is worse than the disease. I think a person should be able to self prescribe pain medication in some way. If they do though they should lose their driving privledges and be forced to 'toe the line' legally more than normal citizens.REPORT COMMENTS
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Nov 7th, 2015Someone from Clark, NJ writes:
I suffer SEVERE deadly attacks from Pancreatitis requiring strong pain meds, and It's becoming impossible! People with this disease DIE excruciating deaths from unimaginable pain. And doctors are terrified to help us! What does that leave the desperate patient? To turn towards the streets or commit suicide. THIS is why there is a massive Heroin epidemic supporting enemies of this country!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 7th, 2015Someone from Warren, MI writes:
I pray that those that pushed these useless law's get caught up having to deal with them themselves. Be it them or someone they care about.REPORT COMMENTS
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Nov 7th, 2015Someone from Tyler, TX writes:
I have chronic pancreatitis, and all I have to say is look at the prognosis. In some states it is legal to possess marijuana and its neighboring state not to. I have quit marijuana in order to get treatment for the debilitating pain caused from this disease that I am dying from. I am 28 years old. If you actually even read these things, I would love to set up a meeting with you concerning my case and discuss it face to face. I believe in our country and I am a patriot. As a patriot I feel I am being bastardized and quite frankly I feel like a criminal because of the way I am treated army pain management clinic (which isn't some hole in the wall doc in the box.) Junkies If they don't make a choice to go to rehab will kill themselves off and the people who need it will continue to be law abiding citizens. I have my whole life ahead of me if I have to live in pain the rest of it, what is the point of living it? Come on.REPORT COMMENTS
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Nov 7th, 2015Someone from Houston, TX writes:
Well the doctor has become an extension of the DEA. You sign the paper that states they're only looking to see if the meds prescribed are being taken. The doc says he cant continue pain meds because he found pot in your system. Well I didn't consent to that. That whole test was a lie and the intent of it. Doc then offers to shoot you up with steroid injections at thousands of dollars a pop all the while know that steroids will damage your bones and joints even further. And the doctors who have their own labs are racking it in on these drug test. Checking seniors for LSD,angel dust and such. And who pays for what the insurance deems not medically necessary ....that's right the patient So let's see the patient has his treatment halted and maybe even blacklisted. He's offered a much more expensive treat that may or may not work and will make his condition even worse. All the while the patient is being billed for test he cannot pay and so his credit is ruined and bill collectors harass him. This is what the deal is. Your doctor is not your friend. In fact he just became your worst nightmare. 57 DisabledREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 7th, 2015Someone from Burlington, NC writes:
I have been living with Fibromyalgia since 2013 I have no health insurance denied the Obama care plan denied disability 3 times denied Medicaid can't work haven't slept all night in 3 Carpel tunnel in my wrist this disease control my life 24 hrs a high blood pressure pain swelling which will keep me down for several days depressed anxiety panic attacks I stay to myself because of my limit abilities to function hurting while I am writing this can't open a simple can soda memory really bad can't focus I am only 42 I was very healthy before thisREPORT COMMENTS
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Nov 7th, 2015Someone from Albany, NY writes:
I have been witnessing more and more pain patients turn to heroin to treat their pain because they can no longer receive adequate pain management. Pain doctors in upstate New York no longer use narcotic pain medication as an option, though in some cases that type of treatment is the only thing that works effectively for a particular pain syndrome. Patients have been abandoned. New pain patients are suffering, turning to the streets for treatment. Doctors' close mindedness and opiophobia are partly to blame. The laws do not tell the doctors they cannot prescribe. Instead, these doctors make the choice to serve patients through the lens of self-centered fear. Another issue is that pain management doctors are more interested in installing electronic stimulators into spines and hips, which are not evidence-based for every pain syndrome. More money is to be made this way.REPORT COMMENTS
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