First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Jun 2nd, 2015Someone from Wakefield, RI signed.
Jun 2nd, 2015Someone from Henrico, VA writes:
People with chronic pain are going through a lot that people who don't have pain don't understand, your quality of life is gone. Yes we have to take pain pills to help us, but probably most of us if we didn't take them we would be in the fetal position and wouldn't get up. We have enough on our plate we don't need to worry about our prescriptions. All I can say is they need to walk a mile in our shoes.Jun 2nd, 2015Someone from Dexter, NY signed.
Jun 2nd, 2015Someone from Helena, MT writes:
What are the people with chronic pain to do? How are we supposed to continue on with our lives when chronic pain makes it nearly impossible? Is suicide a better option for the DEA? Maybe they will just let the chronic pain sufferers sort the problem out themselves....? Through suicide, through illegal means of obtaining relief, through black markets, and alley ways? What are we supposed to do? How long are we expected to hold jobs and be productive members of society if there is absolutely no help for us. I agree that abuse is a problem, but why are the people who use their prescriptions as advised by their doctor being treated like criminals? Why are we looked at like addicts if we request some help relieving pain? For God's sake, at least wait until new medications are established before taking away our rights to live a productive life. How can I explain to my son why Mommy cannot play with him because she is in too much pain? Do you want to be the one to do it? Do you want to look in his sad 2 year old eyes while he cries and begs for me to play with him? It's unfortunate for not only me and the millions of others living in chronic pain, but it is also unfortunate for our children, our spouses, our employers, our co-workers, and our friends (if you still have those). Everybody that lives in chronic pain knows that friends don't stick around long when they realize you cannot do the things you used to be able to do. Tell me, DEA, when will you end this suffering? After thousands of suicides? After thousands of divorces and people loosing their children too? After addiction is non-existant? If not now, when? I want to know if I should wait patiently or just end my suffering now.... TELL US! Find me at www.fibromyalgiafilesblog.comREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 2nd, 2015Someone from Birmingham, AL signed.
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Jun 2nd, 2015Someone from Tucson, AZ writes:
The DEA needs to let the THE MEDICAL experts do the jobs they trained for. The DEA needs to stick with the illegal drug users and sellers of HAROIN, COCAIN, LSD, MOLLIES, SPEED, CRANK, CRACK, CROKODYL, SPICE and the rest including ALL THE DUI AND ALCOHOL RELATED DEATHS that happen each and every year! Why do legit DO get punched for doing their job and ALCOHOL SALES ARE still LEGAL? Can you see what's TRULY HAPPENING HERE PEOPLE? I won't say that the DEA was bored or in fear of being fired in the near DOWNSIZING that almost happened there 3 years ago! Or that they are pressured because ILLEGAL DRUG SALES AND KICKBACKS FROM THE SAME WERE DOWN BECAUSE Doctors WERE MEETING PA IN SUFFERERS NEEDS with LEGAL prescriptions! just sayingREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 1st, 2015Someone from Billings, MT signed.
Jun 1st, 2015Someone from Mesa, AZ writes:
I am 54 yoa., I have chronic avascular necrosis of both hips and both shoulders. Also I have degenerative disk and vertibreae disese, spinal osteophites, bulging disks,severe osteo arthritis of the right ankle from an injury at 6 yoa. 1 year ago I was recieving 150 mg time realease morphine combined with 80 mg oxycodone a day and that kept my quality of life exepable. I was on that dosage for more than a year and I did not need more even though my tolerance kept building. I excepted the fact that I would have to live with pain. As I live alone with no help and am disabled life was difficult at best. then these Drs. get threatened by the dea and only want to prescribe 10 mg of oxycodone 4 x's daily and 30 mg of morphine a day. no where near what I NEED FOR ANY QUALITY OF LIFE. basicaly they are forcing me to seek street drugs or become a heroin addict, its alot easier to get than to be subjected to the drs crap!! and the drs treat you like a drug addict anyway so whats the difference?? the difference is you save money, time and if your going to be treated like a drug addict you may as well be one!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 1st, 2015Someone from Sturgeon Bay, WI signed.
Jun 1st, 2015Someone from Carmel, CA writes:
enforce illegal selling of the drugs, rather than abruptly stopping our pain meds with no guidance, referral, or medical help, In other words, DEA, DO YOUR GOVERNMENT JOB!!! Don t subject suffering people on disibility or only able to work with the aide of painkillers because you get presure from families of O D full of guilt. . People who use prescription medications illegally and recreationally account for all the deaths, disabled people using a presribed medication for years rarelly , if ever od.What are you going to do when the stats. come in of raised suicide rates of people who can t bear a life in pain. Then who s civil liberties will we trampled on to bandage a must greater social crisis (illegal drug abuse) to appease the most vocal , and profitable constituates for the government. We disabled people have civil Rights TOO. The drug contracts, urine tests, mandatory monthly visits are humiltateing and make many in our community feel even more powerless. Additionally, a chonic pain patient, many of whom are disabled, or elderly and cannot afford these new rules, are the last people who should have to endure this amount of physical travel!! the disabled ,elderly, and chronic pain sufferers of the who fought for such things as a wheel care ramps so they could independently travel are once agin being told to go back into their corner of isolation and poverty! In other words, they don t matter! DEA, do your real work on the war on drugs and let the physicians do theirs.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 1st, 2015Someone from Centralia, WA writes:
after 12 years of pain med treatment for spine work injury and re injury - I was sent away when my doctor left clinic. they have been weeding out chronic pain patients for years. These meds allowed me to move and function all this time, productive - Denied a meeting with the doctors of said clinic now I will be forced into crisis's that send me to ER's who will not treat me - I am frightened my life is over and soon to be in wheel chair or forced into a surgery I am told will likely make things worse.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 1st, 2015Someone from Centralia, WA writes:
after 12 years - sent away from the pain med help I was receiving with injury as basis for pain medsREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 1st, 2015Someone from Sturgeon Bay, WI writes:
what can we do about this, we the sick are so beat down by pain and all that comes with it already. Who will be our voice and fight for our rights.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 1st, 2015Someone from Noblesville, IN signed.
Jun 1st, 2015Someone from Palos Hills, IL signed.
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Jun 1st, 2015Someone from Bealeton, VA writes:
I do not take pain medicine on a regular basis, but when my chronic neck and back pain get out of control I usually end up being admitted in the hospital with uncontrollable high blood pressure, ok which getting my pain under control is vital to bringing down my blood pressure. Last week I was put in ICU because instead of treating the intense pain from 2 previous cervical surgeries, they were trying to treat the symptom, and avoid the cause Of the spike. Living without regular pain management is slowing slowly going to kill me and continue too deteriorate my mental and emotional anxieties and stress. These laws or regulations make people living in pain give up on trying to get treated because of the stigma and paranoia it causes doctors and pharmacies, not to mention the public. You will have no idea what being crippled with pain feels like. I am not an addict or even dependant, but these tyrannical obsessions are focused on arrests, rather than helping those who become dependant, addicted, depressed anxious and just want to live a normal life. The money spent on all these arrests would be better spent closing the market on illegal activity by treating those addicted, rather than uproot the whole system, causing more people to turn to illicit dealings to self medicate because our policies are not aimed at helping anyone but rather are creating political platforms that will continue to feed an agenda that is killing its law abiding citizens who didn't ask for their medical conditions. What happened to the rights the patient? Where is our opportunities of protection and prosperity?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 1st, 2015Someone from Camby, IN signed.
May 31st, 2015Someone from Aberdeen, WA writes:
I've been in pain now for most of my life. I go see a pain management Dr every month. My pain was in no sense under control before you passed new laws. That has even further reduced my drs ability to treat me with dignity. I now live my life from a bed. I can't go out and do anything because my pain level is so high that my body can't function. I don't know what you feel gives you the right to tell a Dr how to do their job. They are the ones seeing us suffer. Will you come and see me suffer? I truly doubt it, you don't have a clue what it is like having to live with Interstitial Cystitis. I have no lining left in my bladder, so if your wondering what this must be like. Take a normal paper cut that you have accidentally forgot you had and squeeze lemon juice on it now times that by about 1000. That is the surface of my bladder. And you are telling me that I can get by on pain meds that they give to someone that has a chest cold. Please take a hard look at the law you have just passed. And think "What if I was to become a chronicly pain patient what care would I want my Dr to give me? Care that I would get if I just had a cold or better?" Because that is what you are putting your Mother and Father thru. They have the same rules and restrictions I do. If any of your loved ones become sick have cancer so many drs hands are being tired because of this new law they couldn't give the proper pain relieving meditation that they once could give. Please see it in your heart to change laws. I'm willing to answer anything you have to ask. I just would like you to know I wasn't having my pain controlled before because the laws were already tough. Now my pain management Dr can't really do her job, and I'm the one left in need crying. So your hurting me! Please help the one that needs help and votes!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 31st, 2015Someone from Terre Haute, IN writes:
I believe we are in the end of times.Are own senators who should no the constitution vote against the 2 amendment at the United Nations should be tried for treason.They care less who suffers.They give themselves raises and and to hell with anyone else they have god like complexes.We are following suit with other nations in this prescription drug war.DDD HIGH GRADE STENOSIS BULGING DISK SELF FUSED DISK TWO BAD KNEES CERVICAL DEGENERATION SO BAD THEY CAN'T DO SURGERY I COULD GO ON. LOST MEDICAL RECORDS AT VA WHEN FILING CLAIM.PAIN IS A !!!!! I HOPE ALL WHO ARE IN PAIN FIND RELIEF.IF YOUR ONE OF THE ABUSERS OR JUNKIES THAT CAUSED THIS MESS GO TO HELL OR GET HELP!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 31st, 2015Someone from Phoenix, AZ writes:
So my liver doctor tells me I have Cirrhosis of the liver, and I'm lucky if I live 2 more years. In case no one knows, Cirrhosis of the liver is a plethora of symptons and bodily issues similar to having aids. When I was asked what my biggest issue was, I said daily pain that moves to every part of my body. After all, every part of your body is very dependant on your liver making sure every organ is working correctly. When I asked for pain meds, the doctor said no. And besides, his statement: You've damaged your liver, and some discomfort is to be expected. And he did not want me to become addicted to the pain meds. Well isn't that interesting...I have 2 years to live...if I'm lucky and he's concerned about me becoming addicted. So much for living out the rest of your life with a semblance of quality. I have so much pain, the two years left in my life can't come soon enough.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 31st, 2015Someone from Spokane, WA signed.
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May 30th, 2015Someone from Sligo, PA writes:
chrons and lupus paients suffer from un curable pain there is no other alternative when not treated for pain have no quality of life and suffer , what are you to do, why should you be treated in such demeaing ways because you are ill and in pain? i know my husband refuses to go to doctors due to being treated as a seeker??? he had same dosage of meds for years used responsibly and some how he is unfairly labeled??now he suffers and really has no quality of life, it is wrong. drug addicts will always be able to get drugs but patients are the real victims. i live in pa and am concerned for the patients who need treatment not harassment and violations of their rights, because doctors are afraid to treat patients and I cant blame them but I think they need to stand up for patients in need not cowar to the deaREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2015Someone from Tarrytown, NY writes:
Its getting out of hand - Why is the ones that try and do the right thing get punished.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2015Someone from Castle Rock, CO signed.
May 30th, 2015Someone from Bend, OR writes:
I feel that by the DEA to regulate opiate abuse, I can see why you would want to curtail black market sale of narcoticss. However, what happens to elderly people who have a plethera of health issues and need opiates at times to help with chronic pain. Why are you punishing the elderly if you are going after the major drug dealers. We are not drug dealers, we are in pain as we get older the more we need these prescriptions Please do not threaten our doctors to not prescribe opiates to their patients. This is the government getting in the way and hurting the elderly once again. Why care if an elderly person becomes addicted, is that so bad if they don't have long to live anyway??REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2015Someone from Bend, OR signed.
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May 30th, 2015Someone from Denver, CO writes:
I watched my daughter suffer agonizing paid after surgery for a broken let that requires plates and screws.When the surgery was complete and she complained of pain in the recovery room she was told they wouldn't give her more because they didn't want her to become addicted.The DEA has intimidated doctors to the point that they won't help people who truly need it out of fear.This has to stop.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2015Someone from Beaverton, OR writes:
Here I am just a few months after a 3 level Cervical fusion. I have been told that due to the arthritis, bulging discs, stenosis and bone spurs in my thoracic spine I will be in chronic pain pernanently. But despite this my surgeon no longer wants to prescribe pain meds and is sending me to one pain clinic after another that "doesn't prescribe opiates." I have been told that I need to find a PCP. But everyone (I've called 14 in my area) I have spoken with tells me I need to see a Pain Clinic. Ironically every Pain Clinic I have spoken with says I need a PCP for pain meds. I asked the last Dr. I was referred to (at a pain clinic) why after dropping $80,000 with my surgeon that they seemed to be passing the buck. I just got a look from him that said volumes and a parting response, "no comment." Seems hopeless.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2015Someone from Fallbrook, CA signed.
May 30th, 2015Someone from Columbus, OH writes:
I believe that the dea should.be abolished. I beleive it is waging a war on drugs that it could never win and in that battle there are casualties. Unfortunately being a pain sufferer is one of them. Being a chronic pain patient myself I understand the frustration. Being looked at as a junkie even by the most informed.people. Does anyone truly believe the policies are working?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2015Someone from Caribou, ME writes:
After being with the same health care center/provider for the past 9 years, my PCP accepted a job elsewhere, and my continued care was appointed to another doctor there at the same facility. I have lived with debilitating pain for 10 years now and have always exercised great caution with the use of pain medications. With that approach, my PCP put me on Tramadol 6 years ago after a very long and painful journey of being prescribed, but getting no relief and/or adverse side effects from Cymbalta, Lyrica, and every anti-depressant under the sun. While the Tramadol does not make me pain-free - and I would never expect that result from any medication - I have never misused/overused my prescription, and I've never called for an early refill; And yet, when I met with my "new" health care provider last week, he begins by telling me that he's apposed to the use of narcotics for pain and that studies show that they actually end up causing analgesic nephropathy... I cannot speak for other people's experiences, so I told him about the quality of my life prior to 2009 and how, because my pain, which was consistently at a level of 8-10, how, with the use of Tramadol, it was reduced to a manageable level of 4 on a good day, and a 7 on my worst day. I told him how reducing my pain allowed me to do the unimaginable; return to school - at the age of 50 to get my BSW degree (social work). Over the past 6 years, I have never asked for a dosage increase and I've always utilized complimentary holistic approaches. On days when the pain was worse than others, I used those approaches even more so, rather than increasing my Tramadol dosage. However, my new doctor spent 10 minutes of our first appointment explaining to me that he was afraid of being sued or losing his license and wasn't going to have it come back and bite him in the --- and so now he has reduced my Tramadol dosage and will continue doing so until I am off of it completely. In it's place he prescribed me a "sugar pill", (i.e., placebo...) which my pharmacy doesn't carry and was mystified as to why my doctor even think they carried it. The pharmacist told me that the only way he knew to get this particular drug was ordering it on the internet. I've never ordered a drug online and I'm not not starting now. The timing of this couldn't have been worse - junior year finals at school. In two short weeks, I went from being a full-time student with a GPA of 3.8 to a student who has ended up having to take a medical leave from school because my pain became unbearable and unmanageable as a result of the reduction in my pain medication. It broke my heart and my soul to accept that I would not be graduating and that my future, which once looked promising and hopeful, now looks bleak and hopeless. I worked all my life to raise my two sons and put them through college, but now I may have to accept that it's the end of the road for me. I will not live like this everyday; unable to walk, to take a shower, or to even picREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2015Someone from Viroqua, WI signed.
May 30th, 2015Someone from Dallas, TX writes:
I want to see the same people from the dea and the fda ten years from now and see them handle no pain medsREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2015Someone from Dallas, TX writes:
There must be a way to screen those with real pain through MRI's and documentation and those with paper cut hurt so bad I need to get high.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 29th, 2015Someone from Clarksville, TN writes:
my WIFE IS UNABLE TO BE TREATED FOR ACUTE CONDITIONS AT THE ER AND LEFT TO SUFFER BECAUSE OF A PAST HISTORY OF OPIATE ABUSE. SHE NO LONGER USES OPIATES BUT WHEN SHE IS IN PAIN WE ARE POWERLESS TO DO ANYTHING FOR HERREPORT COMMENTS
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