First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Jun 30th, 2015Someone from Graham, NC signed.
Jun 29th, 2015Someone from Gibsonia, PA writes:
The medical community has completely failed chronic pain patients. Pain doctors are the most cruel and insensitive doctors you will ever meet. There is no such thing as a doctor of pain medicine yet many doctors out there put up their shingle saying they are pain doctors. It is total BS and should not be allowed. In my mind they are committing fraud and should lose their medical licenses. This is just a big money making scam. So called pain doctors would fill their patients with narcotics and opioids and turn them into addicts. At least there are some regulations regarding these drugs now, however, I have no idea if this is being monitored by anyone. I have heard the crap from doctors at some of the most prestigious hospitals in the country. Not only do these "all star" doctors have no idea how to help you, they have no problem treating you like garbage and making you feel worse about yourself. They take all of your hope away from you and squash it like you are a bug. Pain medicine is this country is a complete embarrassment. Not until the past few years has any real work been done in this area as drug companies have realized the enormous amount of money they can make. The government just started taking notice because of the money it was costing the economy to deal with so many lost work days and loss of production due to chronic pain. The saddest part of being a chronic pain patient is how your family and friends treat you. My support system is so small and getting smaller. I think the reason many people kill themselves is not because of pain alone, but the pain of having no support system in there life and all of the negative influences ranging from cruel doctors and the selfishness of people in the world today. The world has changed. Everyone puts themselves first and people with chronic pain are a nuisance to them. I wish those people can feel the pain we all do. Many of them sure deserve it.Jun 29th, 2015Someone from Bernalillo, NM writes:
This is private and should be always between the doctor and patient ONLY.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 29th, 2015Someone from Middletown, NY signed.
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Jun 29th, 2015Someone from Toledo, OH writes:
I have watched my boyfriend suffer unbelievable, excruciating pain during 3 months he had to wait to for an appointment with a medicaid approved doctor ..... Going to ER to get relief and watching the ER doctor humiliate him saying "I know what you are up to and your not going to get any pain meds from me!" So, we went to ANOTHER ER where my bf ORRS report has red flags due to us having to travel to more than one ER and he was labeled a"Pill Seeker". Of COURSE he was seeking pills... for PAIN RELIEF! UNREAL. Just like some people abuse guns, alcohol, illegal drugs, .... There will always be those who abuse narcotics but dealing with those idiots should not prevent people, with verifiable pain causes, any difficulty in getting the pain relief they need!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 29th, 2015Someone from Indianapolis, IN signed.
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Jun 29th, 2015Someone from Bloomington, IN writes:
How can the government be so cold and uncaring to take away the only relief one has when a person has chronic pain? My hope for anyone who thinks this is OK is for them to be stricken at some time in their life with an uncontrollable pain. Just because you cannot see something does not mean it is not true!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 28th, 2015Someone from Freehold, NJ writes:
This is medical torture!! I have been living in chronic pain for 8 years due to several failed back surgeries that has left me with a slew of other problems. After teying therapy and every medication out there, finally with the help of opiods I was able to get my pain to a managed level and had some quality of life. Ive been on them for years up until a few months ago. My world as I knew it crumbled. My meds were all changed, given meds I cant even afford and do NOTHING for me. This is total BS!! The DEA needs to stay the hell out of my care and every legit patient who suffers in pain. I beg God to take me every day. I am a single mom of two, My kids see their mom suffering every day. I no longer make it to their games, to dinners, can no longer stand long enough to cook a meal, play a boardgame, nothing!! I am so sick and tired of pain patients being watched like a hawk from puss teats to pill counts, etc. I have NO quality of life anymore. Karma is a b****. I hope to God each and every one of you forcing me to live in excruciating pain every dam day, will know what its like to suffer and want to give up totally. SHAME ON YOU!! Stay the hell out of my care!! My health and what is prescribed to me is between myself and my doctor. I compare the DEA to terrorists. They are no better after all. People are killing themselves left and right so they will not suffer anymore, How does it feel to know you are the cause of it?!? Makes me sick! What happened to doctors taking an oath to do no harm?!?! You've fAiled the war on drugs on the streets so your answer is to go after legit patients?!?! Forcing them into a world of unnecessary pain and suffering, if not death?!?! Karma is coming for you all,REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 28th, 2015Someone from North Royalton, OH writes:
I just ask that the people who give our doctors greif live one day. With the pain Iam in from being hit on my motorcycle 12 surgeries on my left foot each one has made it worse feels like a red hot rail road spike. Hammered into the side of my foot just one day then they would leave all of us aloneREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 28th, 2015Someone from Midland, TX writes:
I have a 4 year history of pain from abdominal adhesions, a surgery in April 2014 that removed them finally relieved this pain. They warned me they can return and 3 weeks ago I felt the pain again, I saw a local Dr a few days ago that actually told me "Adhesions don't cause pain, you're probably just constipated". I've lost 9lbs in a week because it hurts to eat, but I guess that's all in my head too.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 28th, 2015Someone from Saint Paul, MN writes:
I just get tossed from doctor to doctor. They don't believe a 22 year old could actually be in pain. they assume it's all in my head even though I'm diagnosed with scoliosis- with Harrington rods, spondolytheisisosis, and pars defect which hurts like a *****. The meds allow me to live a semi ordinary life.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 28th, 2015Someone from Carmel, ME signed.
Jun 28th, 2015Someone from Port Richey, FL signed.
Jun 28th, 2015Someone from Carnegie, PA signed.
Jun 27th, 2015Someone from West Plains, MO writes:
http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2011/Relieving-Pain-in-America-A-Blueprint-for-Transforming-Prevention-Care-Education-Research.aspx. Tell it to your judge on judgement day. Life is very short. The day will arrive when you also be deceived. How can you sleep at night?. Talk to a few pain patients! You have been misled. But I think you already know that. We were told to work beyond our physical limitations at a young age. As I said previously, you can't do to much more harm than you have already caused. Taking a chance on getting threw those pearly gates and risking hell on the other side sounds tempting when pain pushes beyond 8. You do it your way. If you are truly wanting us pain patients to die and save a few bucks on the system, we are not that weak. As you already know. I respectfully wish that you would do your own research and see for yourself the truth. I prey you will sleep well and remember us that suffer . Sincerely J SandersREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 27th, 2015Someone from Naples, FL writes:
Apparenltly, hospitals in America can treat patients like non-humans, deny them treatment and even send suicidal patent's home to kill themselves. And there are NO repercussions whatsoever. I had Lumbar Plexitis and completely lost the use of my right leg. I went to the ER 4 times in one month, in excruciating pain. At this hospital (NCH in Naples, FL) I was threatened, lectured, scolded, and treated like a criminal. Every time, they sent me home with no diagnosis or reasonable treatment options. I became suicidal, and told a doctor there. He threatened to lock me up with no pain management, then sent me home. I was back a few days later, under the Baker Act (suicide risk, mandatory 72 hour stay). Steroids could have stopped the damage from becoming permanent. But they didn't even consider that my pain was real, and therefore didn't try ANY treatment other than pain medication. I am now permanently crippled and have lost everything. I am forced to be dependent on Disability income and now have a family member as my caregiver. Tried to sue the hospital and formally complained to every agency I could find. But nobody will do anything. It seems that our hospitals are now allowed to deny treatment to patients, even if there is nowhere else for the patient to go. Doctors and nurses are now trained to discard patients who complain of pain but no immediately identifiable cause for such pain. Even if the patient dies, the hospital will not be legally blamed, and most attorneys won't take a malpractice case because it is too difficult to prove that the hospital is at fault. In may case, the hospital staff had put nearly every local attorney on retainer, creating a conflict of interest for anyone who wanted to sue them.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 27th, 2015Someone from Indianapolis, IN signed.
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Jun 27th, 2015Someone from Saltsburg, PA writes:
People drink alcohol. Some become alcoholic's Does the government blame alcohol company's or people who sell alcohol? No. People smoke. Knowing the dangers of smoking, people continue to smoke. People know the dangers of tanning and not using sunscreen. Is the government going to arrest those who tan? No. Why not? Because there is a thing called FREE WILL. As others have said, vilifying Physicians and patients for real medical conditions, is simply wrong in every way imaginable. Facts: (1) Chronic, Noncancer Pain Boosts Suicide Risk - Large-scale studies show that at least 10 percent of suicides ? and possibly as many as 70 percent ? are linked to chronic illness or unrelenting pain. (2) Untreated Chronic Pain can cause the unthinkable. I'm not going to list fact after fact. Just listen to what one physician said: Dr. Daniel Carr, director of the New England Medical Center, put it this way: "Some of my patients are on the border of human life. Chronic pain is like water damage to a house - if it goes on long enough, the house collapses," [sighs Dr. Carr] "By the time most patients make their way to a pain clinic, it's very late." What the majority of doctors see in a chronic-pain patient is an overwhelming, off-putting ruin: a ruined body and a ruined life. (1) http://www.ednf.org/news/chronic-noncancer-pain-boosts-suicide-risk (2) http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-01-24/news/os-chronic-pain-suicide-20130124_1_chronic-pain-patients-chronic-illness-rheumatoid-arthritisREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 27th, 2015Someone from Corbin, KY writes:
all new to me i had no idea! My back is shot from hard labor!I live in Ky,here no pain meds period unless your dying or just had surgery,spine shots an nerve blocks!they need new statistic,people who kill themselves from from untreated pain,sadly this is looking like best option for some of us! good luck to you allREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 27th, 2015Someone from Calhoun, LA writes:
A month ago I was totally degraded, disrespected, and treated absolutely horrible by a PM Nurse Practitioner. I had my pain medicine cut to practically nothing and was accused of being an addict. This has happened to a number of people I have spoken to as well. Those of us who live with chronic pain simply have NO voice! This abuse of patients by doctors MUST cease!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 27th, 2015Someone from Silverhill, AL writes:
My brother is a war veteran who goes through intense pain every day due to his hardships from being in Iraq. I am appalled to know how difficult it is for him to see a military doctor. He ended up having to see civilian doctors who took him off of his medication. The way we treat our veterans makes me sad and sick.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 26th, 2015Someone from Stillwater, NY writes:
My France's appointment for pain management has been canceled. They will see him but no doctor there will write his hydrocodone prescription that he has been taking since he was hurt at work in 2009 and was diagnosed with a chronic pain condition called RSD (CRPS). They told him that his best bet is to go to a drug addiction clinic to be taken off hydrocodone. Basically saying that he's a drug addict.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 26th, 2015Someone from Shelbyville, TN signed.
Jun 26th, 2015Someone from Bonita Springs, FL signed.
Jun 25th, 2015Someone from Saint Petersburg, FL writes:
Pain meds are needed for certain conditions. Refusing surgery as the pain after could be worseREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 25th, 2015Someone from Saint James, NY signed.
Jun 25th, 2015Someone from Cranberry Twp, PA writes:
This is population control for our government to kill off people with disabilities. They know what their doing don't worry I'm sure nobody in congress or government have any problem getting these medications. And the rich can just buy what they want. It's not we the people it's where's the money!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 25th, 2015Someone from Tyrone, PA signed.
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Jun 24th, 2015Someone from Chino, CA writes:
I have been on the same medications for the past 10 years. All of the sudden the doctor wants me to take a urine test. so i do. then says i cannot prescribe me any medications because i have T.H.C in my system. Well they prescribed me marinol which is synthetic T.H.C I only take medications prescribed by my doctor. but now due to federal regulations I am no longer able to get the medication that i need to lead a normal life. Now that my meds have been cut I cannot work i cannot do most daily activity's. How is this helping anyone? It is making people with chronic pain miserable. .REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 24th, 2015Someone from Lowell, MA writes:
I just have seen a new phycatrist thats degrading me and humiliating treating like the scum at the bottom of a trash bucket!?that wrong I have been hit with a machetty at age of 14just before graduating8grade I could not walk but I forced my family to guided me.then because of that very bad situation and being rsped young male only 14 ' but I have been on the most effective medication most help full happens to be a long termmedicstion known as kelatopine.2nd problem was a very bad on they change meds around 5days later off kalatopins I feel sobad about being me and felt hate so I took a 20 gaugde buck shot rifle to my he was in comma and on a respirator close to six mouths well a lot more has happed be 40soon my phycatrist actually needs one pill fer herself to calm down she's taking the only medication that stopped me from thinking I'm no good I'm losing my mind and this lady is Martha Ruth she is going to mess my 14years of feeling actually like a humen being again I was seeing a understanding phyc. But he left leaving me with a old groumpy lady thats taking me off the l meds i want her in my shoes for l f....en day she will then understand my pain and if I die because of her misstreatment my dad will make sure she pays but I don't want thatREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 24th, 2015Someone from Syosset, NY writes:
The use of the drug statute (or better said Misuse) with its draconian penalties against doctors who are not profiting through the outright sal of drugs or prescriptions has forced many doctors away from the treatment of chronic pain patients and exposed the few remaining to the whim of prosecutors and DEA Agents who are not the people who should be making the decision. Our Veterans are suffering, or elderly are suffering and men and women who have dedicated their lives to caring for others are suffering too. I am defending a number of doctors and pharmacists who are charged for running "pill mills". The Government agrees they were not doing it for profit, however the sentencing structure is so henious that these people risk tens of years in jail. Patients are protected by med mal insurance and by licensing boards. Many of these cases are "battles of experts" no one sees the patient. Part of this kind of treament relies on the patient's self report of the pain they are in. Doctors are not lie detectors. They can examine, they can drop patients when they see issues but these doctors are asked to be mind readers. Let 's not forget even drug abusers have pain. Doctors need greater protections and a better statute than 21 USC 821.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 24th, 2015Someone from South Beach, OR signed.
Jun 24th, 2015Someone from Richmond, VA writes:
I suffered a .45 caliber gunshot wound to the face in January of 2009. Last year I started with intense facial pain. It took many doctors until I finally was able to reach a surgeon that was able to treat me. After two failed surgeries, my pain remains. I am now trying to find a pain management physician who may be able to help. The first thing he did was pull up my prescription history and tell me how he will not prescribe any narcotics because the DEA monitors everyone so closely. What he did not know is that I also has three surgeries within the last year (5 total) due to 3 separate rectal abscesses. I needed up at urgent care multiple times. Also, after surgeries residents of my surgeon were prescribing the medication. On paper it looks bad. I do not enjoy taking narcotic pain medication, but it provides significant relief for my condition. It helps bring my quality of life back. Now with these new horrible regulations, patients in TRUE pain are being treated unfairly. The DEA should have a better system to where doctors can treat legitimate pain, while tracking those people who are seeking drugs. These people are literally destroying the quality of life of legitimate people in pain. This is a big issue to those of us who suffer everyday. The DEA should not be scaring physicians. Doctors are here to help people and now they are scared to prescribe certain medications.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 23rd, 2015Someone from Bohemia, NY signed.
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Jun 23rd, 2015Someone from San Rafael, CA writes:
I am in the advanced stages of Spinal Adhesive Arachnoidits, I have two failed Charite Discs in my lower spine that have already destroyed my facet joints and that are crushing my endplate, constantly cause fissure fractures, I have permanent and incomplete nerve damage that causes intermittent epileptic type seizures in my arms and legs.....but the intractable pain it causes is so severe, that Oxycodone and the extended release version OxyContin, have been the ONLY medications that take away my pain and have given me most of my quality of life back. I hate having to beg for these medications and I hate more what the media does to Demonize them without having the facts!! Morphine, Fentanyl, Dilaudid and other opiates are ALL derived from the same Poppy, have the same chemical makeup and therefore are all structurally the same as herion.....and this info has been around for the past 50 years. Less than 10% of people prescribed these meds by doctors for legitimate needs become "addicted"....it's the addicts from the stress who are the issue and mainly the ones dying. But for me, I no longer tell anyone about my spine or my meds, as I'm automatically viewed with major bias and skepticism and it's only added to my already stressful life dealing with a horrible debilitating disease so painful, it's referred to by doctors as, "Having to live a life with end stage bone cancer ......without the benefit of death." That pretty much sums it up.REPORT COMMENTS
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