First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Aug 25th, 2015Someone from Dallas, TX writes:
I originally feel, crushing both kneecaps and herniatingthe discs. I was on 10 mg to 20mg Norco every four hours for almost two years. I never became addicted. When I didn't need it anymore I had already cute down on it myself and I just quit taking it. As a result if the fall I have degerative discs for which I periodically rely on the same dosage of Norco for a period of time and then stop taking it. I recently had a car accident and broke both bones in my arm at the wrist. I am in horrible pain. I NOW find, since this new law, that I'm limited on how many pills I can have a month and today when I got my 2nd RX for them, I found the Dr cut it down to 7.50 mg! I am in this incredible pain due to the fact that I couldn't be operated on and just got a cast on my arm because I have no insurance. This injury always requires plates and screws so as if that weren't enough, now I can't even control the pain! The Dr told me this injury would be more painful and take about a year to heal due to no operation but because of this paranoia that legitimate patients are going to become drug addicts, he is cutting down on something that is so necessary at this period in my life. I am so angry and this is do wrong! I won't need this forever but I need it now! And many will need it the rest of their lives! Please do something to protect we legitimate patients and allow us to have the pain medication we need! -
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Aug 25th, 2015Someone from Linesville, PA writes:
I am not a drug addict!!! I am 80 and suffer chronic pain. What right does the DEA or FDA have to interfere with my doctors evaluation of my suffering.. is this some conspiracy to get us to kill ourselves because we cannot get adequate pain relief. Someday they will be in the same position and then will want pain relief. With proper med I can do for myself . Without proper Ned's I am useless to aver one including meself.REPORT COMMENTS
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Aug 25th, 2015Someone from Janesville, WI writes:
I have had chronic pain issues since I was about 27 years old due to degenerative disc disease and now spinal stenosis and osteoarthritis. I am on 30mg ms-contin twice per day and 20mg oxycodone HCL uoto 6 times per day for breakthrough pain. And yes, I need every bit of it. What I am tired of is being treated like a drug seeker by the Resource Nurse, Nurses and even pharmacists! My doctor doesn't treat me this way thankfully! My point in all of this is to tell the DEA to stay the hell out of patients private relationship with their doctors! I understand that there are things happening with people abusing their meds but I'm NOT one of them! Sending all that are going through the same thing much Love and many Blessings. I wish to manifest this into our realities: We will NO LONGER be treated like drug seekers and the DEA will stop putting fear into our doctors that they will lose their licenses for treating their patients! First DO NO HARM is what they are taught when they go to Medical School. They want to abide by this; most of them; but they can't when the DEA is breathing down their necks! Stop the madness! PLEASE!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 25th, 2015Someone from Park City, KY writes:
Please stop harming the people that need pain management. I was in a pain treatment clinic for a year then all because of one person's not me stupid mistake I lost much needed care. I suffer from a rare brain disorder and many other health issues. This is wrong and inhumane to be treated like some criminal for seeking medical care.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 24th, 2015Someone from Iowa City, IA writes:
I just got home from a dental appointment that involved 2 major extractions (including cutting out root tips). I have chronic health issues that keep me in chronic pain (5 herniated discs, severe arthritis, vitamin deficiencies causing pain and ulcers in my mouth & on my body, etc.). My Internist gives me 30 Vicoden per month. The past 2 days I had a tooth abscess that went into my jawbone...I had to take pain meds every 4 hours, at twice the usual dose in order to simply not be screaming. When I asked the dentist for 19 Vicoden (which he's routinely given me in the past) to make up for what I used for the abscess, he accused me of "drug seeking." I have never abused this medicine; I never took a Vicoden until I was 45 years old! This inane freak-out about abuse/addiction is HURTING people! Certainly doctors & dentists are more capable of assessing a person's need for pain control than the DEA! So put the decisions back in their hands, and keep the government out of it.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 24th, 2015Someone from Monroe, WA writes:
Have multiple cronic pain problems in lower back from major injuries and from botched surgeries to major injuries caused by defective parts used for hernia repair. I am being forced to have another surgery if I want to continue on my medicine. I have reponsibly taken my medicine for 23 years now and am having to find another dr now? I am so stressed I feel sick to my stomach.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 24th, 2015Someone from Murrieta, CA writes:
Chronic pain causes depression and depression leads to suicide. I would rather be dead than live a life of suffering. PLEASE let the Doctors do what they were trained to do. The DEA should be fighting the drug dealers on the streets not the Doctors. PLEASE DO THE RIGHT THING!!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 24th, 2015Someone from Raleigh, NC signed.
Aug 24th, 2015Someone from Park City, UT writes:
I have had chronic pain due to a painful autoimmune disease, fibromyalgia, and chronic migrInes for 10+ years. I do everything to try to keep my pain tolerable but pain medicine has proved critical to my quality of life and ability to function. How do I know that? Because for the last few years I have had to go without much pain treatment and it is literally making me consider options that I would never before - this war on legal drugs is ruining the quality of life for many people and certainly not helping in the area against illegal drugs. Please help me and millions of others get the treatment we need!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 23rd, 2015Someone from Hesperia, CA signed.
Aug 23rd, 2015Someone from Temecula, CA writes:
As a chronic pain patient for almost 20 years I've been very lucky (re: this issue) until recently. Now I'm afraid of a horrible withdrawal, even more intense pain and added costs as my pain dr is insisting on drastically reducing my meds (even non-narcotic muscle relaxant ) and seeing me in 10 days instead of 30. I'm a patient who's said no to the additional meds I was taking for breakthrough pain more than I've said yes. I've weaned myself off meds without being told. I even asked to get off the narcotics a few years ago and it was disastrous. I also suffered with pain for the first 8 years without narcotics - my point is I do not have any history of been a "pill seeker" and my medical history fully supports my current regimen which is being ripped away from me. I had a very low quality of life before all this ... This just increases stress which increases pain... PLEASE stop the DEA's misguided "war on drugs". It's really just a war on patients that are already battling enough.REPORT COMMENTS
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Aug 23rd, 2015Someone from Auburn, CA writes:
I have chronic pain from fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis. I hate when doctors lie to you and say there worried about you getting addicted when you could go to rehab if the addiction was out of control. I am physically addicted to fentanyl but not mentally addicted. I have gone a few days without it and was fine except for my pain. To me if someone has pain that will never go away due to disease it should not matter if they get addicted because they will be happier that their doctors are actually treating them and caring instead of the doctor doing nothing in fear of losing their license. I am 17 and have decided I want to become a physician. I love to help people and I know what people are feeling/going through.REPORT COMMENTS
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Aug 21st, 2015Someone from Salem, OR writes:
I am 58 year old navy veteran honorably served my country and now because the VA Health system quit giving me pain meds july 2014. Now I am considering End of Life Hospice care so I can pass without pain so severe since 2002 that without the pain management drugs which work wonderfully and allow me to function normally, I became a Certified SCUBA diver on the same medications I am now being denied. If you experienced this pain for 5 minutes you would understand, I deal with it 24 hrs a day and it never stops.REPORT COMMENTS
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Aug 21st, 2015Someone from Freehold, NJ writes:
CHRONIC PAIN PATIENTS MATTER!!! I am thru with my rights as a citizen of this country being stomped on because I suffer with chronic intractable pain caused by several failed back surgeries and a slew of other excruciating conditions. Just got my brain mri results the other day, Ive been having many anxiety atracks with what the results are. My dr called me before and basically told me to ignore the results. Results that show I may have MS. How does a Dr just ignore findings?!?! The DEA has put enough scare tactics into our dr.'s that they dont even want to treat you properly anymore. I told my dr why are legit patients being forced to suffer?!?! He ignored what I said and went onto something else. My gut is telling me because I stood up for myself, when I go for my next visit, I wouldn't doubt I'll be told he cant help me no more. Our healthcare in this country SUCKS when it comes to pain sufferers. Ive given up hope. I cant live like this anymore. The reason for the rise in heroin and deaths is be ause YOU are forcing LEGIT pain sufferers to turn to the streets, Then when they overdose because they could no longer get the controlled meds they needed, the sufferer is looked upon as an addict, instead of someone who could no longer live in pain. Medical terrorism at its finest, brought to you by the good ole USA! Id pray for your souls, but I already know where those forcing others to suffer are going.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 21st, 2015Someone from Westerville, OH writes:
I have 2 failing organs, have suffered in severe acute & chronic pain for over 16 years. EDs, hospitals, doctors & pharmacists alike refuse to treat chronic pain. They all say it is bc they fear the DEA. They discriminate, humiliate, and create tactics to avoid proper treatment. I have been told that by a doctor that my medical treatment was unethical. I have lived with this illness since birth, diagnoses confirmed. I am tired of being torchered & suffering needlessly. Yet they are concerned I will die from the pain. Change needs to happen now!REPORT COMMENTS
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Aug 21st, 2015Someone from Tucson, AZ writes:
17 years of severe pelvic pain caused from Endometriosis. The last 8 years I have been under contract and random drug test to recieve pain management... It saved my life. Within the last year the Endometriosis took a drastic turn for the worse. Under the advise of my Gynocologist I underwent a hysterectomy, removing mu uterus, both ovaries, and Fallopian tubes at age 30. RIGHT after surgery my Gynocologist refused to give me proper pain relief. I suffered through pain like I have never felt before... Worse than childbirth. He told me he would not give me more pain medication even though my pain docter had RX a higher dose for recovery. He told me I was too used to narcotics and had to just deal with the surgical pain. He refused to release me to my husband and to the access of the proper medication that was RX by my pain doctor at home until I could walk and fake that I was not in sever pain. Now almost recovered I still feel pain. Not as bad as before. Not by a long shot, and have reduced my medication significantly. But I am traumatized. How can I trust any other doctor now other than my pain management doctor? How?REPORT COMMENTS
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