First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Sep 8th, 2015Someone from The Villages, FL writes:
i have read many comments and my heart pours out to all who suffer, as I do. Our words have made a change listening to one other. We are not alone. We all suffer from different disabilities that has changed our lives, and have impacted relationships with friends and family. My husband is a physician, living with him in chronic pain for over fifteen years, he still has no idea what my pain feels like. It is something you can not explain to people who do not suffer. I think this is the problem with professionals we see to help us. It is rare to find a physician who has experienced the same disabling pain because they them selves can not work. I want to make this clear, we are not doctor shopping to get drugs. We search for a doctor who is patient, understanding, genuinely cares enough to help guide us to a quality of life we all deserve. Chronic pain patients do not abuse meds, because if we did, we know that it will be taken away. We will not add to our own suffering. Every one of us are different depending on what our bodies can handle, on pain scale. Our pain fluctuates from second to second. Doing to much activity one day, a good day. We suffer more the following two days. It is most important that we receive supportive mental health. I know when I am stressed, my pain levels increase dramatically. I honestly do not think health car providers know how much they impact our pain levels. This is the grey zone that needs to be addressed. When treated badly by professionals, they make us suffer more. This compounds the problem, then we enter more visits to the doctor, doctor degrades an individual, mental distress happens, more pain we feel. A circle with no end. I am profoundly ****ed off how we are treated. I am with all who suffer, and continue to speak out, I know we can make a difference. Some one has to listen with compassion and help make a difference. Please help change this profound problem! -
Sep 8th, 2015Someone from Mandeville, LA writes:
I'm sure I haven't suffered the full list of indignities levied at pain patients, but I have fought through my fair share. From the monthly urine testing, to the scrutinization of pharmacists, to the eventual blacklisting by Walgreens (more on that below), to being accused of being a pill seeker. The list goes on, as I'm sure it does for all of us. Walgreens abandoning me turned out for the better, in my case. I now go to a small, family owned pharmacy, where they know my name, and at least pretend to care about my wellbeing. Four years ago I moved from Indiana to Louisiana. I was shocked at how difficult it was to find a doctor willing to treat me. I don't know if it is just a Louisiana issue, or a southern states issue. I don't care, either way it needs to end. Doctors are petrified of drawing the DEA's attention, to the point that they will deny even listening to a patient's complaint. You are promptly told that they do not address pain of that level, do not write prescriptions for pain medicine, and that the patient should find a pain clinic. WHAT!?! Since when did certain parts of my body become something separate that my general practitioner won't even consider?! Preposterous! All of the local pain clinics in my area refuse to prescribe any medication other than injection. So, unless you have disc/back/neck problems, you're out of luck. I finally found a clinic I have been going to ever since. It is an hours drive one way. The government recently put into place restrictions on doctors giving patients prescriptions that are postdated. I used to see my doctor every three months unless something came up that needed attention sooner. I am now required to travel every month to see my doctor, just to get my prescriptions filled. This is a waste of my time, money, and very limited energy. This is a waste of my doctor's time, and the clinic's resources, that could be helping another patient, one who might be in urgent need of a doctor's attention. My doctors are also restricted from phoning or faxing in my prescriptions, so I MUST go every month. To not go means extraordinary pain, and physical withdrawal from the medicines (which further amplifies my pain). Recently, the DEA has further restricted pain doctors, by telling them that if they prescribe pain medicine along with anxiety medication, or certain other controlled substances like Adderall, they will be scrutinized. Any doctor in their right mind would take that as a serious threat. Most pain sufferers also suffer from mood disorders. Who wouldn't?! We are in constant pain, and our lives are taken from us! Most of us are forced to lay in bed, and watch our lives slip away! We get to lay in bed, and think about all the things we are missing out on, all the things we wanted to do, or see. Anyone who says they wouldn't slip into depression is being dishonest with themselves, and everyone else. I also take Adderall because the constant pain zaps my energy levels. I haveREPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 8th, 2015Someone from Hollis, NH writes:
I have already been toretured to the brink of suicide by the nazi culture and thewir policing up and culling of lefgitimately disabled people and their fraudulent fabricatiuons that render permanently disabled people confined to a bed indefinitely and now probnably til I die. I cannot feed my pets or do house maintenance or auto mechanics... NOTHING. I got a masters degree in technology and they still wanty me sidelined waiting in the coffin queue. I bare witness to heaven all of those who have made a business out of us will pay with their souls before the one true GOD. I feel sorry for all you cowards. Sell outs. Losers. Pukes. Cant even help someone pleading for mercy. YOU MERCILESS ANIMALS... YOUR DAY WILL COME !REPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 8th, 2015Someone from Racine, WI writes:
Very limited guidelines and screening for new doctors as far as mental health and competency goes but now profiling patients is normal and part of med school. This needs to stop, too many suffering and deaths because of this not to mention ER staff not taking complaints seriously causing problems and death then denying it. Totally ok for the staff to get an attitude and display a clear superiority (or inferiority.. imagine how much better it would make him/her feel to treat someone "better" than them in say looks like complete trash) but the moment you mention past pain meds or start crying you instantly get a label in your file. Not impressed. Select all and delete, insert new guidelines and screening and omit this DEA nonsense.REPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 8th, 2015Someone from Inver Grove Heights, MN writes:
I have had Dystonia for all my adult life & it causes very painful spasms & twisting of the muscles in the neck & shoulders. I have found treatments, other than pain meds(surgery & Botox injections) but many people I know live with debilitating pain that has no other relief except from pain meds. They all feel they are treated like drug addicts, told their symptoms are all in their head(it is a most definite neurological movement disorder) & become more depressed & stressed causing a vicious cycle for them. Until other treatments like medicinal marijuana are available these patients deserve proper, kind, understanding treatment from their physicians & offered something for their pain, not be passed on or told to just suffer!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 7th, 2015Someone from Redding, CA writes:
I have lived with chronic back pain since I was 22. I'm now turning 28, and still being treated as a drug addict. I have had doctors tell me I'm too young for this much pain, and that I must be there to get drugs. Of course all drug tests come back clean. EVERY TIME.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 7th, 2015Someone from Arlington, TX writes:
I have chronic pain from migraine and neck pain by whiplash for 25 years caused by auto accident from drunk drivers in second times. Thanks to drunk drivers for ruin my life! Thanks to alcoholic still selling everywhere! I had been taking brand name of lortab for 25 years. Helped me a lot and made me feel better. Able to activity my life Now it's no longer on the market and change to generic name, hydrocodone. It doesn't help me that much. Make me more depression and difficult time with my life over severe pains. Had to quit my job. Downhill my daily activity. It's unfair for me and people too who still suffering without pain meds if you consider to stop then I want to die so everybody will too. I can't stand of the pains for the rest of life anymore! I have right to need pain meds for pain relief what I need and help me to control the stability my life! Why not to remove all alcoholic off the shelves and close all bars and package stores too? It's worst one too. Not good for your health or short your life too. What's a point? Need to stop that and help us to need pain meds for pain relief what is good for us. Drug sellers are not our problems. That s DEA's job to arrest them. Why do we paid so much taxes for? Do their job!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 7th, 2015Someone from Bella Vista, AR writes:
I live with chronic pain from a severe form of degenerative disc disease. I would take Norco at 3 pm and 8 pm. Helped . No one wants to treat a patient like me. I feel betrayed, alone, abused, and completely helpless. And yes, do not want to be here any more. I recognize my future health is only to get worse. I use pain meds. I do not and never have abused pain meds.As a disabled professional RN I am appalled and ashamed of how healthcare treats fellow human beings in pain. It is an unfathomable thought, simply put- crueltyREPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 7th, 2015Someone from Troy, OH writes:
Just sinse when has it been legal for a doctor to just cut their patients off if they have a bill for $30 dollars and they cut u off if you plan to pay it on your next visit and this new thing of having a nurse practioner do the work of a doctor is a joke and should be illegal especially if they are no licensed like a doctor and they have absolutely not a clue what he is doing and neither does this licensed doctor have a clue of what she is doing and she's foreign. Andrew silz and Dr paguna madireddy 280 looney rd. Piqua Ohio step 201. Very rude also. Needs to be looked into they are rude and unprofessional. I have had chronic pain sinse 1992 in my hands, back, head and neck and i sufer severe anxiety and depression along with otbernREPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 6th, 2015Someone from Bella Vista, AR writes:
I live with chronic pain from a severe form of degenerative disc disease. I would take Norco at 3 pm and 8 pm. Helped . No one wants to treat a patient like me. I feel betrayed, alone, abused, and completely helpless. And yes, do not want to be here any more. I recognize my future health is only to get worse. I use pain meds. I do not and never have abused pain meds.As a disabled professional RN I am appalled and ashamed of how healthcare treats fellow human beings in pain. It is an unfathomable thought, simply put- crueltyREPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 6th, 2015Someone from Chattanooga, TN writes:
I have lived in pain most of my life. In my 20's the pain only got worse year after year. Now in 2012 I was so sick and hurt I was force to not be able to work. I have worked since the age of 14. I worked in the health field taking care of others. I got my C.N.A and did this line of worked for about 15 years. My back is all messed up, I have carpal tunnel, a long with a very long list of health issues like fibro. I have a have be fighting for disability for 3.5 years when I have more then enough to prove that I can't work. Even Dr.s medicine medical reports pictures etc. Very Sad world we live in my children boyfriend myself and family all suffer because I can't do much and am in pain and don't get the treatment medical or medicine wise.REPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 6th, 2015Someone from Bothell, WA writes:
Suppose we should just drop dead and get out of the way.REPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 6th, 2015Someone from The Villages, FL writes:
moved to Florida over two years ago, leaving behind great doctors in Mn. That know me and are supportive through over a decade suffering from chronic pain, Pudendal Neuralgia and interstitial cystitis. We moved to Florida for a job opportunity for my husband. He is a physician working for the same clinic that has tormented me. I had never expected preferential treatment because I was his wife. Over two years this is what had happened. Dismissal, disregard, patient profiling, discrimination toward my chronic pain, emotional abuse, failure to collaborate with my physician in Mn. Failure to meet the needs of psychiatric care, having enormous anxiety and depression, not treated. Developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in such fear not to seek help any where. This is an issue that needs to be attended to promptly, or I fear suicidal tendencies will grow and will become an epidemic. Physicians should never get away from harming there patients!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 6th, 2015Someone from Lowell, MA writes:
Patient profiling also comes into play when doctors refuse to acknowledge an injury solely on the basis of the patient having anxiety disorders. This is not only a violation of the Hippocratic Oath but also a patient's right to competent medical care. Being told, "Oh, you have PTSD. I wish I saw that before so I could have saved us both time by not seeing you," almost cost me the ability to walk!REPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 6th, 2015Someone from Hershey, PA writes:
The DEA keeps INSISTING they are only targeting pill mills and Drs that are directly causing/adding to the overdose problem. I am a great example of a patient that may get a legit Dr flagged by the DEA. I'm only 36, cannot function at all in my life without pain meds, and am on very high doses of some of the strongest meds. So let's say they do target my Dr. Where does that leave me? It's no wonder many patients in my situation have suicidal ideation. This is 100% a civil rights issue for all chronic pain patients and needs desperately to be corrected!REPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 6th, 2015Someone from Sevierville, TN writes:
I must start off by saying that their is a bad drug abuse problem. Somehow, on a scale that is unprecedented 2 n e thing we have ever seen. It is going 2 take all of us to save our people. I said that to say this, in all the legislation that has passed, all the arrest that have been made and all of the drugs that have been seized are all great accomplishments, but none of these things as great as they are have changed my condition. I found my Dr in 2000 and he knows me well. I am very vocal and present in my treatment.I suffer from chronic cluster headaches, if you don't know how sever this is, just search it in google and YouTube. I am average guy I submitted a disability app through the internet and was approved in less the 1 month. As I said, I am an average guy, and if I suffer from this, chances are, a lot of other people r as well. So to me, that means they are having their meds cut in half even though they were helping them.REPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 5th, 2015Someone from Bristol, TN writes:
To whom it may concern. The people who decide how chronic pain patients have I sure never experienced themselves. Since they can not control the influx of drugs that continue to pour into the country they have decided to make themselves out as hero's for controlling prescription drug use in America. Guess what? You haven't stopped nothing but the ability for people with legitimate pain issues to live with with ant quality of life. Actual pain inflicted Americans are now treated as criminals or addicts for simply seeking relief from unbearable pain. Every time our government sticks its nose in and politicians start to get their 5 minutes on the news front then things tend to go to hell. We live in a world now where everyone is offended by something or the other and where we are forced to accept homosexuality as politically correct but speaking Gods name in our schools or public is not. Every time our government steps in they do more harm than good. Look at how prohibition allowed a group of low level thugs and bookmakers to become the largest organized crime syndicate in the world. Now they want to say no person needs no more than a determined amount of pain medication and I'm here to tell you this is simply hogwash. A persons pain level, their size and the amount of time they have had to endure medication all needs to be taken into consideration. Please remove our government from medicine and let the Dr. Do what they were trained to do without fear from a regime type government. I am willing to bet that at least 85% of these so called prescription drug champions take them themselves but of course they have private physicians, you know the do as I say and not as I do crowd. This whole thing is political and the only people people getting hurt are the ones that hurt everyday. Bunch of CowardsREPORT COMMENTS
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