First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Oct 31st, 2015Someone from Mesa, AZ writes:
Do not punish the chronically ill because of the stupid actions of others. I feel that this is a push by the insurance industry to stop payments to treatments that work for many. If a patient signs a contract with a doctor to use drugs as prescribed and in accordance with the manufacturer, the Doctor should not be held liable of any misuse. Doctors are being frightened into not prescribing drugs that work and this must stop. Let the doctor practice medicine. Any laws that restrict a doctor from doing something is a law that practices medicine without a license. -
Oct 31st, 2015Someone from Canton, OH writes:
It is ridiculous to go through what you have to so you don't have to be in pain. Doctors treat you like drug dealers not patience.REPORT COMMENTS
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Oct 31st, 2015Someone from Howell, NJ writes:
There are so many on this petition and on multiple other petitions I have come across that are pleading to our government, the ones on the receiving end of these letters, the ones who were VOTED into congress by the PEOPLE YOU ARE TO SERVE AND PROTECT!! So tell me, why is it that our government, the DEA, CDC, PROP, and the FDA are reigning terror into every doctor across this country, why are all of you INTENTIONALLY CAUSING PAIN AND SUFFERING onto us chronic intractable (PAIN THAT WILL NEVER GO AWAY) pain patients who are LEGITIMATE PATIENTS WITH DEBILITATING CONDITIONS, WITH MEDICAL RECORDS TO BACK IT UP! What our leaders are doing is cruel, inhumane and unethical!! There were so many things I once enjoyed doing, since my medications were reduced, I have zero quality of life. My dr conti ues to give me all these different, horrible medications that do not work for me, he continues to inject me with steriod injections EVERY MONTH! It's all I can do to walk to my car after he's done, I get in and break down in tears for the hell I'm being forced to live. I never wanted to have to rely on medications to ease the pain. But after years of therapy, surgeries, epidurals, steriod injections, massage, discograms, discectomies, after tears of being given all different kinds of meds to find what worked for MY BODY, NOT YOURS, I was finally given a muscle relaxer, soma, one at night and for the first time I was able to get a good night sleep as the tension and spasms in my back eased up. That was taken from me almost a year ago. I was also given the correct dose of an extended release medication and the correct dose of the immediate release medication. THAT HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM ME EIGHT MONTHS AGO!!! Since then Ive been given lower doses, and different meds once again to try, something I've been thru years ago with no success. For the first time in four years my dr made me feel like some dam addict because I asked, pleaded to be put back on what works. MY BODY, NOT YOURS, IS PHYSICALLY , MENTALLY AND EMOTIONALLY EXHAUSTED!! I want to so badly give my dr a good piece of my mind, if I do that I risk the good ole 'your discharged, or I can't help you no more" ********! And I know there will be NO FINDING ANOTHER DR BECAUSE THEY ARE TURNING THEIR BACKS ON THOSE WHO ARE LEGIT CHRONIC PAIN SUFFERERS!! I've calked Sen. Menendez's office every day this past week, EVERY DAY, only to get the voicemail, of which I've left plenty of messages. NOONE RETURNED MY CALLS! YOUR CONTINUED NEGLECT, ABUSE, MISTREATMENT, AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST LEGIT PATIENTS WILL BITE YOUR*****HARD ONE DAY. You have THOUSANDS OF DEATHS ON YOUR HANDS, NOT OVERDOSE DEATH BY SOME ADDICT, OVERDOSES FROM LEGIT PATIENTS WHO REC'D INADEQUATE PAIN CARE! KARMA IS COMING!REPORT COMMENTS
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Oct 31st, 2015Someone from Hatfield, PA signed.
Oct 31st, 2015Someone from San Antonio, TX writes:
My wife is disabled. After 30 years as a nurse she was forced to have orthopedic surgery that was unsuccessful and left her in constant pain and unable to continue working. When her pain medication, hydrocodone, became a schedule 2 drug, prescribed in triplicate or whatever, her physician ceased her pain medication and she's been without since. Her doctors constantly want to inject her with cortisone shots and other similar treatments none of which have been effective for her and which are very costly even with insurance. She managed her pain well with hydrocodone and carisopridol (sp). Now she just has the muscle relaxer and the occasional ibuprofen and it limits her greatly in her daily life. We know she responds well to the hydrocodone/muscle relaxer combo. She can almost function semi normally around the house with her pain managed by this time tested, economical and effective painkiller. She didn't take them daily, only when she needed to function semi normally for typical grandma type stuff. We so wish our government and physicians would cease causing her to go untreated because of the abuse of painkillers by some. She's a 30 year veteran of the medical profession. She doesn't drink or do drugs. She isn't in any danger of becoming an addict. But it would be nice to see her in less pain and able to do more with the grandbabies without being labeled a "drug seeker".REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 31st, 2015Someone from Pueblo, CO writes:
Don't know why our government is restricting people from getting pain relief. It is wrong to keep people who have chronic pain in that condition.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 31st, 2015Someone from West Mifflin, PA signed.
Oct 31st, 2015Someone from Fountain Inn, SC writes:
I'm a cancer survivor. I should have kept the cancer! I look and feel like I was attacked by a chainsaw-wielding maniac, but it was just an oncologists or three. The cancer might have killed me...probably not, but possibly...but I wouldn't have to look forward to spending the rest of my life in severe, chronic pain. I do though, because doctors are peeing in their panties with fear of doing their jobs. Look, if I worked at McDonalds and a guy came in and ordered 3 big Macs every day for lunch, it doesn't mean I don't have to do my frikken job and serve him the big macs, even if I suspect he might be becoming addicted to them, and even if I notice some weight gain going on. If doctors are too afraid of the DEA to do their jobs they should find another line of work. It's ridiculous, not to mention unethical and cruel. Thanks DEA. Thanks for letting cancer survivors suffer just to keep a pill away from a junkie...who will find some other way to get high anyway, just give 'em a minute. I should show them a picture of the carnage I'm living with under this shirt and see if they think Advil is gonna do the job.I'd prefer performing mastectomies or other amputations on them and telling them to take ibuprofen and see what they think of that. Any volunteers, any doctors or DEA agents want me to cut something off of them so they can test they're philosophy on pain management firsthand? Didn't think so. But if anyone has a "come to Jesus moment" I'll gladly perform your surgery. I'll be here. Not like I'm going anywhere since everything HURTS. And of course, performing chainsaw surgery on these unethical creatures is physically impossible for me, but none of them were ever going to become all noble and martyr themselves by volunteering to go through what they allow ppl to suffer through every day. Yikes, the karma that's gonna smack these ppl upside their unethical little noggins is some mean stuff. Wouldn't want to be them!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 30th, 2015Someone from Akron, OH signed.
Oct 30th, 2015Someone from Chandler, AZ signed.
Oct 30th, 2015Someone from Allison Park, PA writes:
I am tired of people who are truly in pain and need pain medication can never get treated with out hassle or not at all. Yet the drug addicts can get it no problem or can just say hey I am a drug addict and get methadone ( which is still a pain medication ) no problem, no questions asked. You are targeting the wrong people and we are tired of suffering because of it. My mother had 2 back operation with fusions. That is fusing your spine together and it can no longer move there. The second operation the doctor admitted he messed up and now she is disabled. First she had to fight to get disability. Yet again someone can say hey I am a drug addict and can not keep a job because I am a druggie or even the drunks and again, they get the disability no problem and right away. These people choose to take these drugs or drink. You dint choose to have a disability!! You are a druggie because you wanted or want to be. Yet people like us who choose not to do drugs but now have gotten hurt or sick can not get medication or disability with out fighting tooth and nail for it. You people are so backwards. My mothers doctor just retired and he gave her, her pain meds. She went to a new pcp and was told oh no i cant give you anything you have to got a pain doctor. The doctor handed her a number and said call here. She calls and its a damn drug rehab! She went to a pain clinic in the hospital, she took all of the documents saying ahe is disabled, took her mri and they told her oh she dont need pain med!!! She cant even walk with out crying and if she does go anywhere like the zoo with her grandson, she has to use a wheelchair!! WHo are you to tell disabled, TRULY DISABLED people that they dont need pain medicine when they are in constant pain!! Go after the drug addicts. So what if people may have to be on them for the rest of their lives. They at least can live a life with out horrible pain. They are not worried about getting addicted, They are worried about trying to live their life with out wanting to die because the pain is so bad. Put your effort towards stopping the Drug addicts and not the people who dont ask to be in pain all the time.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 30th, 2015Someone from Chandler, AZ writes:
Some one always abuse something but that doesn't mean everyone does. Their are lots of patients I know who need their pain relieved.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 30th, 2015Someone from Wilmington, NC signed.
Oct 30th, 2015Someone from Ellenton, FL writes:
Congress please listen as I tell you the story of a Mother of a Disabled Veteran. Imagine if you will, your small child crying out in the night to you for help while in the throws of a nightmare....you don't reply. You do not go to them immediately to help calm and assist him. You are not allowed even go to them. This is how I feel every month when my daughter calls me from the VA Hospital in tears because a doctor refuses to understand her pain and despair. She can't make them understand what she is going through. The four crushed vertebrae in her neck have left her unable to live a normal life. She never knows what to expect when her primary doctor treats her like a second hand citizen and a low life. And refuses to give her more than a weeks supply of pain medication. Please reconsider using this generation of Veterans as scapegoats in your battle against drug abuse. There are other ways and there are other options. Thank You.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 30th, 2015Someone from Marlow, OK writes:
Not everyone abuses medicine that's why they call it medicine not drugsREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 30th, 2015Someone from Jacksonville, FL writes:
This is ridiculous! Even the CDC states on their website that painkiller prescribing has leveled off since 2010 and we've seen a decline in related deaths over the last decade! That current initiatives are helping, yet they want to make it so true chronic pain sufferers, most of whom have tried everything conceivable prior to opioid usage, remain in agony?! They've already taken appropriate measures to weed out "pill-seekers", this is going overboard! The government is overstepping and getting too involved in what should be an extremely personal relationship: Doctor/Patient. Especially when alcohol is far more detrimental to the public, causing many more deaths per year. I am truly sorry for those who have lost loved ones to addiction, but that does not make us addicts! And let's not forget the severe consequences, even death, of stopping opioid use cold turkey or drastically changing doseage, something the FDA guidelines advise against, which the CDC seems to want to force chronic pain sufferers to go through! This is between a Doctor and their patient, NOT the government! And why in the world does the CDC have any say in this matter? Chronic pain is NOT a disease (the root cause of said pain may be, but just because we require pain medication as treatment does NOT make us addicts), addiction, yes, but not chronic pain! Quit acting as if they are one and the same! They have already implemented a system to reduce people simply getting opioids for recreational use, and as I mentioned above, they state on their website it is working! This is plain discrimination against chronic pain sufferers. Haven't we been discriminated against enough already?!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 30th, 2015Someone from Biloxi, MS signed.
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Oct 29th, 2015Someone from Roslindale, MA writes:
Doctors have an obligation to treat their patients' pain without government interference. Pain patients have the right to be treated with dignity. We are not drug addicts. Addicts will find a way to abuse substances. We patients do not take illegal avenues to obtain medication. The "opioid crisis" is not created by pain management patients and their medication - it s a heroin crisis and it's been going on for many, many years. Substance abusers begin their long road to addiction by first drinking/abusing alcohol. Alcohol is the problem and gateway drug.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 29th, 2015Someone from Phoenix, AZ writes:
I was taken off my meds with no help for withdrawl they just don't care period!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 29th, 2015Someone from Saint Francis, MN signed.
Oct 29th, 2015Someone from Bloomington, IN writes:
This concerns absolutely EVERYONE in America who labors under the belief that they will receive opiate based PAIN RELIEF, as an ACUTE EMERGENCY PATIENT- that the DEA may NOT STOP at shutting ONLY the PAIN MANAGEMENT doctors, doctors who empathize with their chronic pain patients and the physicians who decided AGAINST turning their opiate DEPENDENT(not ADDICTED) patients into Suboxone ADDICTS, the DEA and our government has passed SO MANY LAWS RESTRICTING THE PRESCRIBING OF PAIN MEDICATION, the American people WILL BE LUCKY if they find an ER doc to give pain meds out IN THE ER WITHOUT BEING HARRASSED!!! And they aren't stopping with pain medicine....REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 29th, 2015Someone from Lebanon, KS writes:
My doctor just explained to me that within a couple years they will not be allowed to prescribe pain killers. He hopes a new president will address both the ever increasing cost of prescription meds and ridiculous limitations being imposed by the FDA.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 29th, 2015Someone from Chandler, AZ signed.
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Oct 29th, 2015Someone from Ocala, FL writes:
PART 2 OF MY COMMENT! When it comes to money/cost, it?s $85. Mth for me to suffer much less, or $350. To $500. Mth For that plus other methods I?d LOVE to be doing. And how about when we want to take a trip? We now have to arrange the whole trip around filling pain medicine IN our county, IN TIME for the trip. I?ve had to leave days behind others to wait. Jesus Christ......how much are you putting us through to stop a FEW street dealers because lets face it, what your doing isn?t working. You want to stop the crooked Dr?s...get under covers to go into THEIR offices and investigate THEM. Instead of targeting EVERY Dr, Pharmacist and EVERY patient out here! I?ve left many pharmacies in tears, FEELING like a street junkie! Gone to up to 13 in a day to try to fill it. MISSED work. (PAIN) I have NEVER taken more than prescribed, do NOT take for a high, do NOT abuse them. I DO recall first starting pain meds and feeling the amazing feeling of the terrible pain slowly fading to DOABLE within an hour. The gnawing, throbbing pain that ruled every minute of my day, lessening, going away. Then thinking what an idiot I was to not get help sooner. AS I have always helped addicts, street people, etc.........I KNOW all the DEA is doing is raising street prices, causing normal, NON law breaking people to desperately seek illegal drugs, help (I DO NOT), depression and suicide increasing at frightening rates. Let alone, those on these meds daily will develop PHYSICAL dependency, MUST wean off when stopping. PHYSICAL dependancy is NOT ADDICTION. NO different than weaning off of anti-depressants or other medicines. These actions, laws are TERRIBLY hurting many, even KILLING them, the INNOCENT patients. SO the abusers, the law breakers, the MAGGOTS that are making OUR life?s hell, are affected LESS than us and albeit THEY may deserve it all, WE DO NOT. IT IS NO BUSINESS OF THE DEA OR GOVERNMENT HOW I GET HELP WITH MY PAIN AND PHYSICAL PROBLEMS!!! I am STILL uninsured after Obamacare, I own a few things, so NEVER qualify for assistance. I can NOT afford other treatments NOR work at my pain levels WITHOUT pain relief, am at risk of losing what I have worked so hard for from working much less and NOW being denied help and treated like a dam criminal. It is UNJUST and UNCONSTITUTIONAL and I say we ALL start a lawsuit for the damages caused by these laws. Physical, mentally AND emotionally. And BTW....what the hell is HIPA for??? To keep you people OUT of my health records, problems, PRIVATE matters! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I will NOT be treated disrespectfully ANYMORE, I will NOT tolerate it anymore. I, as MANY, DO NOT deserve it.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 29th, 2015Someone from Ocala, FL writes:
I WORK hard, have ALL my life. Raised 3 sons alone, done the work of men and destroyed my back! I?m a VERY proud, respectful, high morals woman. Don?t drink, don?t even smoke pot (THO would try for pain IF allowed here!) I?ve rescued animals for YEARS, I help the homeless, take food to people sleeping in a park, I am insanely busy.......yet now spending hours a mth to fill a prescription and being treated like a street junkie, disrespectfully, embarrassingly. I?ve lived ?healthy? all my life, yoga, healthy food, NO junk food, etc. It took me YEARS of suffering to finally get help with severe chronic pain. I've been ANTI drug all my life, HELPED drug addicts get help, HELPED fight the abuse of drugs. THAT is what hindered me in getting help once I developed chronic pain. My family, friends stepped in, sending pages of the damages of chronic pain on a person. I'd leave work, bend over, sit in my car and cry, break down. DAYS crawling into bed, normally VERY active, lying to people ?I was busy? as I didn?t want anyone to know the truth, MY health problems. I HATED the thought of using medicine, but also HATED what the pain was doing to my life. It was/is controlling my life. It is hard enough, depressing enough to deal with it all, but now to be treated like a street junkie is HORRIFIC. My Dr is great, the pharmacist have been 90% rude, judgmental (I fortunately don't 'look' crippled, bent over, YET), won't fill them and so on. I had a PUBLIX pharmacist (Ocala, Fla, Churchhill Square) tell me "you can't be in much pain as your not taking high blood pressure pills!" Does HE know I have a defective heart valve? That my BP has ALWAYS ran LOW, now it's 'normal', higher? BETTER YET, IS IT HIS JOB TO DECIDE WHAT I SHOULD BE ON? My Dr was furious with some pharmacist. The Publix at View Park Commons, that I asked for consultation 2 days ago, blew me off the SECOND I said Lortab (LORTAB, not even the higher strength drugs). Walgreens (Ocala at 36th & Maricamp) DROPPED me after yrs there last Oct, when laws change. NEVER filling early, NO ?flags?, I look and act like a business woman (no offense, don?t ?look? like a druggie). I now drive by SEVEN pharmacies, across town to a Publix where the pharmacist, Roger, Cindy, Justin treated me like a human being, a patient, WITH respect! It took OVER 15 pharmacies to find them, just a place to treat me normal, respectfully. UNDERSTAND the effects, hardship being put on us (AND them) trying to get medicine. I had even taken my MRI?s to some, records of chemotherapy, ETC trying to get ONE to treat me as a PATIENT! How ABSURD is this for us, the TRUE patients? The MILLIONS not in it for ?fun?, addiction, abuse. The MILLIONS trying to work, reclaim or maintain some normalcy once pain rules your life. Being uninsured, I?d take, LOVE, chiropractic care, acupuncture, even surgery so hey DEA.....how about offering us THAT kind of help? When it comes to money/cost, it?s $85. Mth for me to suffer much less,REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 29th, 2015Someone from Chandler, AZ signed.
Oct 29th, 2015Someone from Lawrenceville, GA writes:
The actions of the DEA AND GDNA have caused countless deaths and inhumane suffering to legitimate pain patients . This is clearly human rights violations of chronic pain patients. We are being treated like drug addicts and criminals by a society that is supposed to be enlightened and compassionate . It is not our faults that people are abusing these drugs and the way that these institutions are handling this is , as always , absolutely wrong! The DEA , CDC and the GDNA are the very ones that have caused the demand on the back market for these meds because now these piece of crap drug dealers can charge outrageous prices because they now the pain patients can't get their meds. The irony of this is that this has not kept people from dieing in fact it has caused heroine use and deaths to sky rocket NY about 1500% because people cannot take the relentless, terrible, horror movie pain 24 hours a day , 7 days a week , 365 days a year! Chronic pain is a very real condition that affects over 100 million people in America, so why in this age of modern medicine and enlightenment are legitimate pain patients being treated so poorly? Also the DEA AND GDNA go in and threaten doctors and pharmacist and tell them to not write pain med prescriptions or they will pull their license!!! What gives them the right or the qualifications to do this!!?? Do they let doctors tell them how to breach a house when they are taking down criminals !!?? NO!! These institutions are acting like the new gestapo ...speak up America and all of you Doctors and pharmacist train your staff and you yourselves start taking videos with your phones and CCTV when these people come in and threaten you and violate your and your patients rights and pots them on youtube. This is the only way we can show America how our rights are being violated.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 29th, 2015Someone from Demotte, IN signed.
Oct 29th, 2015Someone from Howell, NJ writes:
I called Senator Booker and Senator Menendez yesterday, both were conveniently out of the office. Spoke to two people who I gave an earfull to. Are you people in congress ignoring the pleas, the heartbreaking stories, the petitions, and this is not the only one. Stop ****ing hurting those who are living in severe pain. Let our doctors treat our pain any way they see fit! ADDICTION AND CHRONIC PAIN HAVE NO ****ING BUSINESS EVEN BEING IN THE SAME SENTENCE !! The stigma all of you have created on the chronically ill, labeling us all as addicts and pill seekers is a travesty ! WE ARE NOT ****ING ADDICTS! WE MAY BE DEPENDENT ON OUR MEDS, MEDS WE HAVE BEEN ON FOR MANY YEARS, MEDS THAT HELPED TO RELIEVE THE EXCRUCIATING PAIN WE LIVE IN AND GAVE US SOME QUALITY OF LIFE. THERE IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN ADDICT, WHICH IS SOMEONE WHO WILL DO ANYTHING TO CHASE THEIR HIGH, SOMEONE WHO IS DEPENDENT DOESN'T CHASE ANY HIGH, IN FACT WE DO NOT EVEN GET HIGH, WE GET RELIEF. You all may find yourselves thrown horrific curveballs that leave you in unbearable pain, I wonder if you would get the treatment and meds you need so you can continue to work, continue to have a quality of life..I find it very hard to believe that you all are in such perfect health..Just how many of you have pain meds in your cabinets at home??? I BET MANY OF YOU DO!! The DEA, CDC and all of you in government need to get the hell out of my healthcare. i can not live with this pain much longer. God forbid something should happen to me, Ill make sure my family knows that my cause of death was due to the mistreatment, abuse, neglect, discrimination brought on by our government. You get people in the CDC and those in PROP tooting their loudmouths about addiction and lumping us all into that category. SHAME THE **** ON YOU! I am so dam mad right now, everyday is a struggle to plant my feet on the ground after only having two hours sleep. There are many on this petition who say they wouldnt wish their pain on any of you. Me, I am the exact opposite ~ I WANT YOU TO FEEL WHAT I FEEL EVERYDAY, I WANT YOU TO KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE TO HAVE YOU WHOLE BACK FEEL LIKE ITS BEING CRUSHED BY A STEAM TRUCK ROLLER, MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE TO STAND UP OR STRAIGHTEN UP, I WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE TO HAVE YOUR HIPS BEING SCRAPED ALONGSIDE THE CONCRETE AND TO HAVE ELECTRIC LIKE SHOCKS RUNNING DOWN YOUR LEGS INTO YOUR FEET. I WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE TO HAVE YOUR BRAIN FEEL LIKE IT IS SQUEEZING THRU YOUR SKULL, MAKING YOU VOMIT AND LIGHT AND NOISE INTENSIFIES THAT PAIN..I WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE TO BE TREATED LIKE AN ADDICT AND A CRIMINAL! I HOPE THAT DAY COMES SOON TOO. BACK OFF AND LET OUR DOCTORS GIVE US THE MEDS WE NEED. THIS WAS ON LEGIT PATIENTS NEEDS TO STOP. THE CHRONIC PAINERS ARE NOT BACKING DOWN, WE WILL UNITE AS ONE AND BE BRINGING OUR VOICES TO THE FOOT OF THE WHITE HOUSE DOORS. WE ARE ANGRY, WE ARE IN FOR THE FIGHT OF OUR LIVES AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO STOP UNTIL YOU BACK OREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 29th, 2015Someone from Las Vegas, NV writes:
My doctor which is a pain management doctor told his patience that he could no longer treat them because the FDA was coming down on him for doing his job and caring for his patients making sure that they were comforpatientsdealing with their pain, he wasnt over medicating but he could no longer deal with pressure from the FDA. So i had to leave him after seeing him for 10 years, only to get a doctor that told me the his office would not prescribe the medication that i was on and that i had to find another doctor that would. So, i want to find a doctor that i didnt know if he would help me or not only to be told that im fat and that was that problem even after he looked at my MRI and saw the i have 4 bulging disc as well as a degenerative disc disease and pinched nerve he still wouldnt prescribe the medication that i need he cut my medication down to almost nothing and said to start physical therapy 3 times a week. How a i suppose to even get out of bed i was having bad days and hard times with the medication that i was getting before but i could at least get out of bed and clean my home. The pain is like being stabbed in the back and goes down my legs. These doctors are not trying to do anything but HELP their patients make it through the day without wanting to die, were DOES the FDA get off telling the doctors that they are not to prescribe medication to a patient when they have NO IDEA WHO the PERSON is or their medical history. The best doctor i ever had that actually cared about his patients has cut his practice down to almost nothing because the FDA wouldn't leave him alone. I dont want someone who knows nothing about me making medical decision for me what the FDA is doing is wrong they want to stop street drug users but by them making doctors afraid to do their job its only making people look for other options i'll die before i start using street drugs and i dont care if marijuana is pushed to be legal im still not using that crap my doctor, Dr. Harb is the best doctor in my opinion and would like to go back to him but the FDA won't leave him alone and thats wrong he only wants to help his patients. Sheryl Montana from las vegas, nv.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 29th, 2015Someone from Gilbert, AZ signed.
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Oct 29th, 2015Someone from Reading, PA writes:
This law is ridiculous, I would like any of these politician try to live in my shoes with the chronic pain I'm in day in a day out!! I've been working as a mason for 30yrs now I hurt my back and was in so much pain I couldn't even sleep I was prescribe 5 milligram perks for the pain which gave me an ability to keep working and providing for my family the doctor prescribe to me for 6 months before I even got an MRI to diagnose the problem which was a bulging disc and degenerate disc disease which will NEVER go away so after the doctor gets me addicted to these pain killers he says I must take a urine test ....I asked him how that would help treat my back problem since I still didn't get any kind of treatment for it ,he says it to make sure I'm taking my medication which was almost laughable when I can't even get out of bed without them so I felt it was a violation of my rights of privacy I was there to get treatment for pain for an injury and a spinal disease not to be treated like some kind of a drug dealer so he says he can no longer help me with the treatment of the constant pain I'm in..... not to mention I will no longer have the ability to go to work and provide for my family which I find a appalling I'm not a criminal I have never been arrested.... not even for a speeding ticket......so now not only am I in constant pain I go through severe withdrawal symptoms when I stop taking them which I was not told how addictive these things were so I'm worse off then when I started seeing the doctor ...it would actually be easier for me to buy them on the streets then is to get them from my doctor so the laws having the opposite affect then what these politicians want I don't take them to party ....I don't sell them to make money ...I take them so I can simply keep working and provide for my family.....so much for going to the doctor for help!!REPORT COMMENTS
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