First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Oct 13th, 2015Someone from Nashville, TN writes:
I live in TN the worst state to live in when you're dealing with pain 24/7 pain I have my neck c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 during the spine both wrist bone spurs cyst around my spine scoliosis spinal stenosis l5 degenerative degenerative disc disease degenerative joint disease I have his correct on both sides there is no gap six kinds of cyst growing on my head that are crushing my health I have no gap pelvic bones crack baby is cracked both knees are bad nerve damage they can't fix my neck because this the sister wrapped around like a band around my neck and my spine 11 plain 24/7 hours a day 7 days a week also have MS and a number of other things now my doctors trying to cut us back don't make sense you said they are making me do this that's BS they scare the doctors now you don't want to live in Tennessee in pain they change the laws here so many times its not even funny I'm sad.then changed my medicine to Ms cotton and it's making me sick I've been sick for 14 days now I called no response. -
Oct 13th, 2015Someone from Ashtabula, OH signed.
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Oct 13th, 2015Someone from Clinton, WA writes:
SO, you take the baby out with the Bath water. Swing highly to the Extreme Side of this Issue. The DEA. is basically saying we are ALL ADDICTS, and ABUSERS. There is a Balance here. So, Since they did NOT really know what to do.. They labelled us ALL... AS CRIMINALS ! THIS IS A OUT RAGE. I HAVE PAIN 24/7. IT EFFECTS MY MIND.. AND MOOD.. WAKE UP DEA.. STOP BULLING THE DOCTORS... AND LET THEM DECIDE....REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 13th, 2015Someone from Conway, SC writes:
At 45 I have deal with chronic pain for most of my adult life. The MRI show the problems and have been treated by family Doc for many years but prior to his retirement I was referred to a PM Doc. I was taken good care of for most of the 13 years I was his patient. The last 3 years or so I was constantly "encouraged" other treatment options Rather than the simple and effective medication he prescribed since day one of which gave me a quality life I could manage....if you are in actual,real true pain, then you understand. But the "bad seeds", twisted media reports, federal & local government bs changed my doctor and every doctor as it became what society expected & not my actual health care! Then his blessing came...I lost my insurance & he refused to prescribe something available in generic form or an affordable alternative. ..yes $2850 for one of 2 meds I was taking. ..so my current family Doc made a valid effort to help me get some quality of life with an affordable medication all of which he was encouraging pain management again due to all the issues he had to deal with to prescribe me pain meds. So I have dealt with all the stigma and BS that one encounters when by no choice of my own am a pain sufferer!! At the end of the day it's all about money and politics! What happened to putting the patients & healthcare first?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 13th, 2015Someone from Aurora, CO writes:
As a chronic pain sufferer for 12 years, the limitations placed on pain medication weigh on me every month when I need to refill medications. I feel like living with the pain is enough undue punishment for anyone. I have always used my medication responsibly and take it as prescribed. If there was any other non-narcotic medication that could control my pain, I would be delighted to use it instead. My biggest worry is that chronic pain patients whom are denied medications will commit suicide because they can't deal with the severe unrelenting pain. So, in order to reduce the number of overdoses in addicts, the only solution we can come up with is to deny the people who need it to control pain and to be functional, thereby causing them to overdose instead? The addicts still find a way to get it, the chronic pain patients don't. I just think that there has to be a better solution to this problem. Can we fund more research on new pain medications? Or can we find a new policy to easily transfer our pain medication records to a new doctor when necessary? I'm sure with all of the people this effects have some good ideas. I don't know what the solution is, but in needs to be better than our current plan, to phase out all pain medication.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 13th, 2015Someone from Oklahoma City, OK writes:
I was in a plane crash in 1986 had fusion to burst fracture of L2 vertebra. I have suffered for 30 years. I have taken various meds. Last year the fusion fell apart. Last month it hit me. I now can't walk next door and back without setting down. Pain Management Dr's must have me on a black list because no Dr will ever look at my charts. When they do they are astonished at the damage but send me home with nothing.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 13th, 2015Someone from Gold Canyon, AZ writes:
When has it ever been a good idea for someone like the DEA to dictate to Doctors what they should do. I went to Vietnam to try to stop the spread of communism and now it here via the DEA.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 13th, 2015Someone from Pinckney, MI signed.
Oct 13th, 2015Someone from Port Orchard, WA signed.
Oct 13th, 2015Someone from Kaufman, TX writes:
The way doctors treat them is just wrong. My wife is unable to get pain management since she was given medication after having two major surgery's. She has suffered from chronic pain for nearly 20 years, but they will not help her.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 13th, 2015Someone from Plaistow, NH signed.
Oct 13th, 2015Someone from Johnstown, PA writes:
Im 29 with degenerative joint disease...i have a 6 year old and a 2 month old baby boy...some days the pain is so bad i can barely pickup my sons. U suffer from migraines from trying to always block out the pain and saddness from not being able to do normal ADLs without chronic severe pain everyday and night. It affects my sleep...my eating...my work ethic...my relationships...i cant believe at 29 my health is so poor. Im embarrassed and afraid to talk openly about my pain and get rude treatment when i see doctors for pain relief. I shouldnt have to feel this way and i shouldnt have to fight for pain relief.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 13th, 2015Someone from Westford, MA writes:
I agree with other comments about the stigma and increased suffering of chronic pain patients as this legislative witch hunt over the so-called "opiate crisis" shrieks hysterically from every news report. Addicts die because they illegally choose to take unregulated street concoctions of unknown dosage that can include anything from corn starch to strychnine. Punishing people who are already in horrible daily pain will not stop heroin addicts from dying. It will cause more people to end their own lives when their pain becomes too great--pain that was being managed with proper opiate dosage under their doctor's care. (And yes, PROP drs., opiates are effective in many types of pain. That's why they've been used as such for thousands of years!) I believe that money is driving a lot of this legislation. Pain patients are being commoditized. Pain clinics are pretty much assembly lines of invasive, painful, often damaging billable procedures that can cause cartilage damage, adhesive arachnoiditis, horrific side effects from expensive, ineffective, non-opiate substitutes and they aren't helping a lot of people with pain. But, these clinics are being pushed as the standard treatment for chronic pain. New rehab laws are in the wings for opiate-treated pain patients that will provide a whole new stream of revenue on that end as pain patients are increasingly being grouped with addicts. Lots of money to be made while pain patients and doctors are threatened and bullied into silence. I don't think we've seen anything like this since the McCarthy era. Why are legislators and PROP dictating what should be a conversation between doctor and patient?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 12th, 2015Someone from East Bank, WV writes:
I have been under control pain managementThe Sims 1993I'm not here to make a comment and this I'm certain groups of people all I have to say is I wish it would all walk a day in my shoes get out from behind a desk get out there Mercedes take a look at the public i only have dreams of being pain free and able to earn my own keepREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 12th, 2015Someone from Norfolk, VA writes:
These sadists getting free health care are killing us. Damn the Obama administration.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 12th, 2015Someone from Merrimack, NH signed.
Oct 12th, 2015Someone from Toledo, OH writes:
I've been suffering in major pain since 2011 2 spinal fusions from a car accident I received great care when I lived in NC, but since relocating to Ohio I've been treated horrible by pain doctors. They only want to do more surgery putting in a nerve stimulator saying that is the only thing that will help because they don't do pain medication. Wow we all don't abuse our meds and to force additional surgery on us that may not work especially since you've had similar treatment is unheard of. This needs to be addressed and stopped we just want to live functional lives and not be judged or talked to like we are worth nothing.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 12th, 2015Someone from Goshen, IN signed.
Oct 12th, 2015Someone from Modesto, CA writes:
I've had pain for years because of a broken Herrington rod in my back the screw is broke and now I have spondylosis. Every month the pharmacy has a issue filing my prescription and I have to make two or three trips there to receive it.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 12th, 2015Someone from Columbus, MT signed.
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Oct 12th, 2015Someone from Camano Island, WA writes:
My mother suffers from neuropathy, degenerative disc, arthiritis and fibromyalgia. She takes lyrica, cymbalta, and a host of other meds. She also takes norco. Her original doctor allowed her up to 3 a day which she never took. She arrived here, no longer able to work, per the doctor, and they reduced her to two norco a day.....no problem. Then the doctor reduced her prescription to 45 a month, still allowing two a day, but not every day. He told her "if you need more just let me know. " The weather changed, it got cold and damp and she got to where she needs two a day again. He refused to fill and she had to wait a week for an appointment with nothing for pain. This is a 60 year old woman who splits her pills in half as soon as she gets them as she only takes a half at a time. On warm sunny days she doesn't take any. The fact that you are treating patients like this is disgusting. I can only hope that, for your sake, all of you involved in PROP and the FDA do not have to spend your last years in chronic pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 12th, 2015Someone from Hartford, KY signed.
Oct 12th, 2015Someone from Dacula, GA writes:
I have dealt with pain for 10 years, i am now 29 years old and ALWAYS FACE JUDGEMENT from doctors who think that because of my age i should "BOUNCE BACK". thats not how Chronic Pain works it makes u a slave and i am imprisoned by it. Please help me.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 12th, 2015Someone from Fontana, CA signed.
Oct 11th, 2015Someone from Meridian, ID writes:
I am so very fortunate to have had the same physician for 30 years who follows my pain and treats me. I am the victim of a spinal cord injury 30 years ago that left me a quadriplegic with some arm movement and almost intact sensation. I have been diagnosed with Central Pain Syndrome by a pain clinic who told me they couldn't prescribe me enough pain meds to get me by. After 25 years my doctor put me on a small dose of methadone and backup oxycodone for when the pain is too bad and I am as functional as I can get now. I am so lucky to have a caring, open-minded but ageing doctor who may retire soon and I dread the day. So many people can't find doctors who really care and will write the pain scripts. People care but nobody is willing to go the extra mile. Doctors, how about some compassion?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 11th, 2015Someone from South Plainfield, NJ writes:
I was hit by a drunk driver when I was 27. I'm now 38 and I'm in crippling pain in my back and neck. I can't even walk to the park anymore. I've had to reduce my hours at work, barely make any money now, lost all my friends because I am in too much pain to ever go out. This has affected every aspect of my life. Of course I'm seeking pain killers I'm dying in pain! My life is ruined and no one will help me. All these BS methods do not help. I can't even do PT without an opioid medication to help block the pain! So I stopped that too. I wish I died that day because living in this country, I will live out my days now as a poor cripple in unbareable pain. I might as well just put a gun in my mouth and end it all now then to to on like this anymore.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 11th, 2015Someone from New Kensington, PA writes:
Talk to the government. They are the ones that want you beholding to them.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 11th, 2015Someone from Citrus Heights, CA writes:
It is a complete travesty. My 70 yr old mother was addicted to pain meds and we went to her dr for help. He dropped her as a patient. I'm in horrible pain daily, I've completely quit taking meds because it is just easier to deal with pain than it is to be judged and told I'm lying. The health care system is all about money and everyone for themselves. It's disgusting and appalling that drs are no longer helping patients with real issues.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 11th, 2015Someone from Worcester, MA signed.
Oct 11th, 2015Someone from Salt Lake City, UT writes:
I Ana chronic pain patient. I have been on opioids for over 11 years. My doctor of 15 years was targeted a year ago. I can no longer get my pain meds from my primary care doctor, who knew me before chronic pain. My sudden onset of chronic pain was due to a hysterectomy that destroyed my spine. Now I have had to reduce my opioids over the last year. I am barely surviving. Now, no one will prescribe the one opioid I am taking to survive. I have tried coming off the last opioid several times now, and am in unbearable pain. I no longer sleep at night, but in patches. Before all of this happened, I was able to lead a life with some quality. Now, I only see the end, for I cannot "fix"the pain I endure. And no one will help me. All I can foresee is torture and the end of my life. I am only 41 years old. I have been in severe chronic pain since I woke up from that surgery, at age 30. My doctor can no longer treat me for fear of losing her whole career. My doctor has a family to care for. The pain clinics I have sought help from, do not want anyone on opioids. They are not even up to date on the best ways to treat patients. In fact, going into one, makes one feel as though they are guilty before proven innocent. I cannot live being treated as a problem instead of a human, who happens to live with valid pain issues. I would rather die than go on with a life filled with more torture. I can barely live with the torture I feel every minute of my life,now. Where are my rights to quality of life? Why is my only choices more torture or death? I hope someone reads this who can and will make a difference. Many of my fellow chronic pain friends, are dying at an alarming rate now. I can only see that I may be joining them if things don't change, and rapidly. My life matters. All life matters.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 11th, 2015Someone from Indianapolis, IN signed.
Oct 10th, 2015Someone from Plaistow, NH writes:
I haven't seen the same neurologist for over 20 years. He suddenly retired without letting anyone know. He prescribed my pain medication as I suffer from multiple sclerosis your generous strict degenerative disc disease. I feel like I am lost in all alone. I am trying to get into a pain clinic right now and I'm having hardly any luck getting into one. I'm beginning to feel as though people to look at me as a drug addict. I am not a drug addict! I am a 58-year-old woman who's been suffering for years in pain and opiates seem to be the only thing to relieve my pain. I have had epidural steroid injection's which help but not for long amount of time. I've been taking opiates for my pain for the last 13 years or more. I am being weaned off of these rapidly and I'm in pain. It's bad enough being in pain but going to withdrawal at the same time and feeling helpless is the worst feeling I've ever had. Somebody needs to help us chronic pain sufferers. I am sorry that there are people who get their drugs and use them for the wrong things. I am not one of those peopleREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 10th, 2015Someone from Plaistow, NH writes:
I haven't seen the same neurologist for over 20 years. He suddenly retired without letting anyone know. He prescribed my pain medication as I suffer from multiple sclerosis your generous strict degenerative disc disease. I feel like I am lost in all alone. I am trying to get into a pain clinic right now and I'm having hardly any luck getting into one. I'm beginning to feel as though people to look at me as a drug addict. I am not a drug addict! I am a 58-year-old woman who's been suffering for years in pain and opiates seem to be the only thing to relieve my pain. I have had epidural steroid injection's which help but not for long amount of time. I've been taking opiates for my pain for the last 13 years or more. I am being weaned off of these rapidly and I'm in pain. It's bad enough being in pain but going to withdrawal at the same time and feeling helpless is the worst feeling I've ever had. Somebody needs to help us chronic pain sufferers. I am sorry that there are people who get their drugs and use them for the wrong things. I am not one of those peopleREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 10th, 2015Someone from Plaistow, NH writes:
I haven't seen the same neurologist for over 20 years. He suddenly retired without letting anyone know. He prescribed my pain medication as I suffer from multiple sclerosis your generous strict degenerative disc disease. I feel like I am lost in all alone. I am trying to get into a pain clinic right now and I'm having hardly any luck getting into one. I'm beginning to feel as though people to look at me as a drug addict. I am not a drug addict! I am a 58-year-old woman who's been suffering for years in pain and opiates seem to be the only thing to relieve my pain. I have had epidural steroid injection's which help but not for long amount of time. I've been taking opiates for my pain for the last 13 years or more. I am being weaned off of these rapidly and I'm in pain. It's bad enough being in pain but going to withdrawal at the same time and feeling helpless is the worst feeling I've ever had. Somebody needs to help us chronic pain sufferers. I am sorry that there are people who get their drugs and use them for the wrong things. I am not one of those peopleREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 10th, 2015Someone from Davenport, IA signed.
Oct 10th, 2015Someone from Howard Beach, NY writes:
I am 58 year old and had 6 bone and joint operations. I suffer from cronic lifelong pain. I am finding more,difficult to see a doctor to treat my pain. When I do I get dismissed quickly and I feel the doctors seem upset with me. I don't know where to go or what to do. I never ever misused my medication. I was always willing to take,drug tests.REPORT COMMENTS
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