First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Oct 5th, 2015Someone from Obion, TN signed.
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Oct 5th, 2015Someone from Fritch, TX writes:
This is crazy I feel like a crimminal.my name is hidden due to impending disability.I am a nurse. Took me 2 years before I would even accept pain medication.i have seen the addicts,the true chronic pain victoms.and have dealt with the drs.the last thing I wanted was pain meds.ifinally accepted due to I was unable to focus or concentrate.started with lots of low dose stuff.now I know the pain comes from fibromyalgia,brain tumor,diabetes neuropathy,lupus RA,degenerate spine disease,I love working. Really the state actually thinks I want disability.that is like asking would you like a icecream cone or a hotdog. No one wants to quit working.and how in the world do peeps get high off of opoids I still don't understand that.i hurt continuously at night is unbearable.i would rather not live than to have to live like this.it is not that I want to die or am suicidal.but imagine if you had constant pain. I get get nothing stringer than hydros.was sent to pain clinic.where I get urine tested and have to sign a paper saying I won't go to ER due to pain.still they just want to give nerve blocks.with me my pain is everywhere so that is alot of injections.i just want to live with minimal pain.yet I am characteristics as a long time high potency perscriptions addict.this just causes more suicide v and drug addiction.some have to buy off the street.and some are actually addicts.please reconsider.ladies could you imagine going through childbirth 24 7? With just tylenol.that is how it is for us.it is not fair that I have to suffer.because others abuse their meds. I have the tests results that prove I have pain.HELP pleaseOct 5th, 2015Someone from Fort Smith, AR signed.
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Oct 5th, 2015Someone from Kenmare, ND writes:
Please reconsider as there are lots of us out there that need these Meds to get thru the day.REPORT COMMENTS
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Oct 5th, 2015Someone from Cumming, GA writes:
I'm in sever pain every day I can't get out bed dew to a lot of back and torn rotator cuff without these meds I'm unable to work or get out a bed. We all r going to die from something. Why not let us live a life we're we r able to move.all it's going to do is make us all die or think about suside cause the pain is to much to handle.we should not be punished for those who do wrong.you can make it to we're thoseof us who do the right thing can keep our painmeds.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 5th, 2015Someone from North Scituate, RI writes:
Thank god for my doctor who understands my chronic pain. I have had two back surgeries first one was a laminectomy lumbar it was great no pain mess for a year, the about a year and a half later the pain came back but this time much worse I ended up having a spinal fusion l 3,4,5 ever since that surgery I've had nothing but pain, I also go for steroid injections monthly around the area, which has left me with osteoporosis my doctor prescribes the Minimal amount of pain mess monthly for me I take no more or less I stick to the plan, it really angers me when you see on the news about the prescription pain use over dose in this country, it should not hurt the people who are responsible with our medicine.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 5th, 2015Someone from Gilroy, CA writes:
Stop making innocent people suffer due to the stupidity of others. 1 bad apple ruins the whole bunch. Not everyone who takes opioids are addicts, drug seeking, abusing or lying. At least most found a manageable way of life working with their doctors. Now they're being turned away, refused care and left to suffer and try to find a way to just survive. Please stop this inhumane treatment of American citizens.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 5th, 2015Someone from Satsuma, AL writes:
May God continue to bless those who do not suffer from chronic pain. I've had brain surgery, neck surgery, 5 bladder surgeries, and other surgeries. I've tried everything I can that's suppose to work in the "alternative medicine category", nothing has helped. I have 3 conditions that there are no cure for. This is terrible for us that truly hurt. We are being punished by those who abuse drugs and I truly don't understand. Please reconsider some things for those of us who need pain management. I can promise you this, this ain't the life I have dreamed of since I was a child. But it is my reality. For those that think they are helping folks, yall ain't, yall are only hurting us that need help. Thanks for reading.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 5th, 2015Someone from Gallatin, TN signed.
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Oct 5th, 2015Someone from La Veta, CO writes:
My adult daughter is considering suicide due to lack of chronic abdominal pain treatment and the stance the medical/pharma/DEA have taken. I have truly come to HATE your arrogant behavior. Why? Your policy of attitude in the medical schools is fascist and anti-science. and not to mention chemical poisons and metals, saturated and manipulated virus and vaccines that have no doctors or even allowable testing because the insurance corporations are only in business for profit....facts are facts...PeaceREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 5th, 2015Someone from Lake City, FL signed.
Oct 5th, 2015Someone from Tulsa, OK writes:
My wife has had an excruciating pain disorder. During that time we have spent over $100,000 in medical costs including literally hundreds of tests and medications trying to find out what is causing her pain and treat her various symptoms. The first two years her pain was so bad that she was completely immobilized by it, which caused emotional distress for her, for me and for our newborn son. Over these past years, the only thing we or her doctors have found that allows her to function as a human being is a combination of slow release and immediate release opioids. (Which we have been very careful to monitor to ensure she does not become addicted to, and her dosage has not increased over the last four years.) While I do understand that strict guidelines are not intended for patients like my wife, for those who have no other alternative to manage their pain, the actual statistics show that addiction and overdose among actual pain sufferers is extremely low, below 5%. People such as my wife, myself, and our young son are going to suffer for these new guidelines if published. Please do more clinical research before publishing strict guideline and speak with many, many more pain doctor's and patients first. I absolutely guarantee that denying pain relief would hurt more people than it helps.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 5th, 2015Someone from San Jose, CA signed.
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Oct 5th, 2015Someone from Las Vegas, NV writes:
We are real people. We work, pay taxes and vote. Our pain is real. We don't want these medications to "get high". We need them to be able to go to work and be productive members of society. It is consider cruel to let an animal suffer, so why is not considered cruel to let us suffer?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 5th, 2015Someone from Covington, TN signed.
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Oct 5th, 2015Someone from Washington, DC writes:
I have severe nerve trauma, you would never know it by knowing me, but that is because I have a doctor who is willing to prescribe medications that alleviate the pain and allow me to live the fullest life possible. Yes, I am on narcotics daily, but it doesn't impact me, why should the potential abuse by others take priority over my well-being? Blanket rules do not help the situation. Let doctors decide.REPORT COMMENTS
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Oct 5th, 2015Someone from Halls, TN writes:
I am a single mom I've been in pain meds over ten years never tested dirty or came up short.I have rupshred disk, arthritis, nerve damage.if you take pain meds away from the people who don't abuse them we r unable to get out of bed an raise are kids.please don't do that enough has changed,I don't want to lose my son to cause I am unable to move.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelOct 5th, 2015Someone from Millington, TN writes:
I am disabled with a chronic painfully disease called Hidradenitis Supertiva. I have been on the same pain medicine for 16 years. This month my doctor told me because of the new laws he cannot dispense the pain medicine any longer. He is trying to wean me off of it. I don't have an issue with what he is doing, but what I do know is because I cannot receive the pain medicine to help control my pain at a level my body can handle my body will begin to shut down and any hope of me having a semi normal life will be gone. I am 58 years old, worked 33 years with this disease I was born with. It is so sad that prole like myself, law abiding, are being forced by law to not be able to receive the medicine that keeps them alive and able to move without cring and be able to live a life somewhat normal. What these new laws have done to people like me are not helping at all what they were intended to help, but instead done so much harm to the ones that require the medicine to live. The drug dealers, illigal users will still find their drugs. All these new laws do is create a problem where there was none. Forced people like myself to endure a lifetime of pain, that cannot be controled now. Basically these laws are killing us. Maybe that was their goal all along. I am now going to be among the thousands without hope , doomed to live the rest of my life in pain, however short it may be. These laws need to be repealed now! Before it's too late for us! There are other ways to deal with illigal drugs.REPORT COMMENTS
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