First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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May 25th, 2015Someone from Cumby, TX signed.
May 25th, 2015Someone from Purcell, OK writes:
Home of the brave and the land of the free....HA ..what a lying bunch of pigs. They spit on the Constitution every time they deny my right for the pursuit of happyness. No one can be happy writhing in pain and totally miserable every single day of their lives. You really think you are God who tells me what I can or can't do? Shame on all of you ,becausea percentage of people taking pain meds and OD ,compared to the percentage of people taking pain meds AND NOT OVERDOSING is far less. You know it ,I know it ,this is unconstitutional ,you know it...I also know it. Problem being we have a president who hates our Constitution...Do you..because you are taling our rights away to a happy pain free life.May 25th, 2015Someone from Purcell, OK signed.
May 25th, 2015Someone from Jerome, ID writes:
If you or someone you know has not been impacted by these policies yet, keep in mind, they or you could be at any time. Physicians are targeting patients who have chronic pain or are disabled. In order to protect themselves from these policies doctors often require a narcotics contract so a sufferer can not go to another physician for meds even if they have surgery and require additional pain meds as a result. If a patient refuses to sign the contract they refuse to prescribe meds. When they sign the contract they have to agree to drug testing even if they do not agree with it or cannot afford the test. These policies have turned Doctor's into the Gestapo - policing people's lives and acting as Judge, Jury and Executioner. These policies need to be stopped!!! That is unless you want to see an exponential increase in the crime rate. Forcing people with chronic pain and/or disabled people to seek other alternatives to pain management is in direct opposition to a doctor's hippocratic oath. Terminating meds due to refusing to sign a contract or drug testing is wrong. Drug tests are influenced by a lot of factors, medical conditions, over the counter medications, energy drinks, machine error, contamination by medical personnel, etc... These policies and contracts keep physicians from treating people who need to be treated. They are further deterring people who require ongoing medical care from going to the physician when they need to for fear of being treated as a third class citizen, being labeled an addict as a result of their pain medication dependency, or for fear of false positive or negative results and subsequent termination from medication and/or treatment. The truth is chronic pain sufferers are addicts that were created as a result of unendurable pain. Chronic pain sufferers should not be labeled by these policies. Physicians should not be pressed by these policies and in turn feel as if they should treat chronic suffers as if every pain is a result of addiction and not their condition. If the policies take away the only way they can cope with their pain and have some sort of relief to improve their quality of life you in essence have left them no other alternative but to seek other ways to ease their suffering. This will have a cascading effect reaching far into the future and will impact communities, the patient and their entire families. You aren't responsible for the inferior care, pain and suffering the low man on the totem pole will endure, or are you? Policies are not responsible for the problems that will arise, or are they?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 25th, 2015Someone from Jerome, ID writes:
If you or someone you know has not been impacted by these policies yet, keep in mind, they or you could be at any time. Physicians are targeting patients who have chronic pain or are disabled. In order to protect themselves from these policies doctors often require a narcotics contract so a sufferer can not go to another physician for meds even if they have surgery and require additional pain meds as a result. If a patient refuses to sign the contract they refuse to prescribe meds. When they sign the contract they have to agree to drug testing even if they do not agree with it or cannot afford the test. These policies have turned Doctor's into the Gestapo - policing people's lives and acting as Judge, Jury and Executioner. These policies need to be stopped!!! That is unless you want to see an exponential increase in the crime rate. Forcing people with chronic pain and/or disabled people to seek other alternatives to pain management is in direct opposition to a doctor's hippocratic oath. Terminating meds due to refusing to sign a contract or drug testing is wrong. Drug tests are influenced by a lot of factors, medical conditions, over the counter medications, energy drinks, machine error, contamination by medical personnel, etc... These policies and contracts keep physicians from treating people who need to be treated. They are further deterring people who require ongoing medical care from going to the physician when they need to for fear of being treated as a third class citizen, being labeled an addict as a result of their pain medication dependency, or for fear of false positive or negative results and subsequent termination from medication and/or treatment. The truth is chronic pain sufferers are addicts that were created as a result of unendurable pain. Chronic pain sufferers should not be labeled by these policies. Physicians should not be pressed by these policies and in turn feel as if they should treat chronic suffers as if every pain is a result of addiction and not their condition. If the policies take away the only way they can cope with their pain and have some sort of relief to improve their quality of life you in essence have left them no other alternative but to seek other ways to ease their suffering. This will have a cascading effect reaching far into the future and will impact communities, the patient and their entire families. You aren't responsible for the inferior care, pain and suffering the low man on the totem pole will endure, or are you? Policies are not responsible for the problems that will arise, or are they?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 25th, 2015Someone from Purcell, OK signed.
May 25th, 2015Someone from Rockdale, TX writes:
I am a 59year old woman and have been dealing with chronic pain for years now. I have tried suicide several times due to this. I can't get any help no listens and at this point I really fear that the society and county that I work for for thirty plus years don't give a******about the elderly we are a burden to them and the government so that just as soon we die and then so many things are solved. They don't have to give us our social secuity, medicaid ect. So they have said no more pian meds let them suffer and let them die and we don't have to give up our seats in the government and can keep eating our steaks. Well I hope they all choke on there next bite. They even cut my income after I pay out eighty percent of my income I have seventy dollars left to buy food for the month the government should be a shamed especially if you live in Texas,REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 24th, 2015Someone from Denham Springs, LA signed.
May 24th, 2015Someone from Madison, WI writes:
I've been struggling with chronic pain for over 5 years. I have tried every medication under the sun for my pain, including medications that my doctor outright told me I should not take because it could cause my poor mental health to get even worse and this medicine is known to increase risk of suicide which due to already having depression for most of my life and the fact my pain is so bad sometimes suicide seems like a viable option for relief from my pain...I can't understand why my life was placed at risk for this new, under tested medication. I've suffered migraines, allergic reactions and still had no relief from my daily pain. My doctors all agree opiate medications have been helpful but my primary doctor wants my rheumatologist to prescribe my opiate meds, she wants pain management, pain management wants my primary to prescribe. All my doctors agree opiates have helped me but due to government's needless intervention on my medical care, none of the doctors want to the ones to prescribe them to me. I should note I've never abused drugs, illegal or prescribed, I take a very low dose, I've never failed a drug test or broke any components of a narcotics contract. Yet I suffer everyday due to the decisions of people who don't even hold a medical license over the opinions of my doctors who specialize in my disorder. I'd like these legislators and feds or whoever thinks they have a right to interfere with my life and right to proper medical treatment, to suffer with chronic pain for a month and I bet they would be begging for any help or be ready to commit suicide. I should also add that I'm 32, at the prime of my life and before this disability struck I was working 2 jobs, going to school full time while making the dean's list every semester and had my whole future ahead of me. Now I'm a louse on disability and rather than getting me to a functioning level, whether that be on opiates or whatever, so I can get off the government's tet and go back to work, instead I'm in constant pain everyday and being treated like a junkie. I hope all of those in government who like to think they're know my body and life better than me and my doctor, I hope one day you or a family member will suffer from chronic pain and you will be treated like a drug seeking junkie. I hope you have chronic pain so bad that you have to crawl to the toilet because your pain is so intense and I hope you experience the feelings of complete despair, hopelessness, suicide ideation me and countless others experience because of your lack of experience and expertise in chronic pain. And I wouldn't wish this pain or my life on my worst enemy, so I guess where you can see where I place these idiots on my list of people in this world.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 24th, 2015Someone from Lubbock, TX writes:
I am treated as a drug fiend by my doctors. Drug testing and pill counts....my pain is not being properly addressed because the dea ties the hands of the doctor's with the power and knowledge to treat me. This has stop. I completely understand self medicating just to survive.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 24th, 2015Someone from Norwalk, CT signed.
May 24th, 2015Someone from Columbia, SC writes:
I've been unfairly moves from my home abused by my doctors pharmacies police neighbors family and am tiredREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 23rd, 2015Someone from Terre Haute, IN writes:
Indy va social workers email mock suicide pictures of vets who can't get there meds.The cboc clinics around the state are not much better.Don't complain and make there day amusing .Just take the pain.If you complain your provider might flag or blacklist you.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 23rd, 2015Someone from Chicago, IL signed.
May 23rd, 2015Someone from Bettendorf, IA signed.
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May 22nd, 2015Someone from Roanoke, VA writes:
This is usa ! Not nazi germany , red china , or communist russia. I suffer horrendous pain around the clock for so long , I will have to kill myself because the government dea , fda , & local health dept's & doctors will not prescribe narcotic pain meds I need to help me get out of bed , bathe ,& eat. They insist all alternative non- narcotic meds are best , but are absolutely ten - twenty times worst dangerous side effects to my body. Narcotics have long history of little side effects & safer than all other meds for pain that DO NOT WORK... govt lawmaker will answer to god for killing us with these bad meds , while safe narcotics are available. They should all be punished by our lord jesus for the suffering & killing the only lives we had. I am also very knowledgeable that when they ever experience this kind of tormented suffering they would finally understand how inhuman it is & plus dont worry because they will get massive amounts of narcotic meds when they need them... and still keep us regular , unimportant usa citezens suffering at the same time they are out of pain , happy & going on with happy life they deprive us of... I hate thepeople that did this to me , that has me lying in bed continuously in pain praying the lord to take me from this eternal hell of living in inhuman pain. PAIN PAIN PAIN SUICIDE PAIN. Thank you all fir doing this to my life. I never want to see or cause pain to any human , nor animal. But I orsy GOD to punish all of you with same pain you all have inflicted on so many millions of us legitimate horrific oain sufferers. Im alresdy in HELL. I PRAY TO SEE ALL IN HELL WITH ME !!!!!!!!!!!!! I will make stmt in front of white house I love , by protesting the inhumane treatment to me & millions of pain sufferes in usa , by setting myself on FIRE , to die out of my misery & pray a wake uo call to change draconious narcotic laws to help the millons of American pain patients from pain & suicide. Plus degradation of their rights & humanity to live without comtemplating how & when to kill themselves too! To also end their agonony of no life because of pain. Thank you my govt for killing me !!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 22nd, 2015Someone from Rome, NY writes:
What a rat race. It's as if legit pain patients have no rights to relief anymore. Denying pain relief for true documented pain conditions is the same as taking away a diabetics insulin. Makes zero sense and it's a crime against my rights for pain control and or management.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 21st, 2015Someone from Brooklyn, MD signed.
May 21st, 2015Someone from Paradise, CA writes:
I am speaking up for my rights as a chronic pain sufferer. I have had 3 spine fusions which the last one left me with a whole in my spinal cord and I had to have my spinal cord untethering to keep me out of a wheel chair, but I will suffer with pain for the rest of my life and I'm only 54. I suffer every day with pain in my cervical and lumbar area's which can only be managed with pain medications and no further surgeries can be done in my case. If I were denied pain medication I would not be able to function in my daily life to take care of my own self. I am over whelmed at the thought that our government has the power over my life in such a way as to deny my use of pain medications without a real alternative other than unmanageable pain. All the men and women who have dedicated their lives to developing medications that can reduce and relieve pain will have been for not. To knowing deprive those of us who suffer every day of our lives would be cruel and unusual punishment. If the powers that be are going this direction then stop all medications of any kind. But make sure you legalize assistant suicide because the demand for that service will increase at an alarming rate.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 21st, 2015Someone from Biloxi, MS writes:
I have sense this DEA information tactic more so than anything.I also noticed that the forms you are forced to sign also forfeit any and all rights to privacy as well as Dr. Client privacy. THIS "forced" METHOD SHOULD IN ITSELF BEING COERCERSION SHOULD BE ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONALLY INVALID FOR USE TO ENACT REGULATIONS OR LAWSREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 21st, 2015Someone from North Hollywood, CA signed.
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May 21st, 2015Someone from Rockton, PA writes:
DO NOT BUY HEALTH INS FROM GEISINGER HEALTH INS. MEDICARE D .DO NOT USE GEISINGER INSURANCE COME RENEWAL TIME. THEIR BOARD OF DIRECTORS MAKE THE DECISIONS ON YOUR MEDS, NOT YOUR DOCTOR. Its discrimination again the ill, it's wrong, Geisinger Insurance ignores what Dr.s write on the Rx and will not pay for your med's. If the Drs. prescribes 40 tabs their rules are only 30 tabs, you can appeal etc. but most cases you will not win the appeal, they have no compassion whatsoever for the patient in pain. At this point you must go to the Dr. again to write another Rx or pay for it yourself, they don't care if you need to drive 100 miles to your pain clinic. With some pain meds, they state their board of directors make these decisions %^&!, they will not cover a 10mg dose but will pay for the 20 mg dose? this sounds like an shady agreement with a drug company. We are paying for these Dr. visits, driving 100's of miles round trip paying for gas, paying for the drug tests, the Rx, they all have a nice game going playing on the ill making millions of dollars while the ill are suffering, this is barbaric, how can this be happening? Of course these board of directors no doubt have their own personal doctor who will personally visit their home, give them their pain medication (probably whatever they want) and they don't give a damn about the chronic ill patient, it's all money to them These board of directors make these decisions and they have never met you, they just decline paying for their share of the meds. This is wrong, corporations have ruined our country.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 21st, 2015Someone from Lawrenceburg, TN writes:
I have been suffering from debilitating, chronic pain for many years. Every doctor that I have seen has told me that I NEED pain management. Finally, when I have borrowed enough money to see a pain management dr and made the excruciating hour long drive, I was seen by a 20 year old nurse practitioner. She treated me like I was a nuisance and would not even read the carefully written out notes that I had prepared. Despite the fact that I have scans showing extensive damage, she latched onto the idea that ALL of my pain was due to nerve compression and prescribed 2 percocets aday and some awful medication called gapabentin. Three hours after my initial dose of gapabentin,I literally became paralyzed. I could not voluntarily move my body. I could not scream. I could not call for help. At the same time, my left arm began waving uncontrollably and my eyeballs started rapiy rolling up and down back and forth and all around in my head. I heard bizarre sounds. I was TERRIFIED. I DONT KNOW how long this went on for until I finally lost consciousness, but I wome up alive. Thank god. I was still ,AM still, in pain. I cried all day. I called the pharmacist, who told me that I had an allergic reaction and not to take this or any other medications in that class. Ever. I then callef the drs office, and spoke with rheir answering service. This was nearly a week ago.I still have yet to hear back from them. In addition to my usual pain,my head has been throbbing and I have had sore eyeballs and left arm. My daily allowance of the two percocets provide me with a mild amount of relief. Of course, they only last for a few hours, so the rest of my days and nights are spent in agonizing pain. All because some nurse just out of school is afraid I may get high off of pain meds that actually work. Interestingly enough, opiod pain medications are among the safest , cheapest and most effective medications on the market. These dangerous replacements ,such as gapabentin, have FAR more side effe ts and cost way more than traditional pain medication. The argument that treat ing pain causes addicts and puts "drugs" ,on the streets is preposterous. And its dangerous. How many people have to suffer before this insane witch hunt is called to a screeching halt?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 21st, 2015Someone from Rockingham, NC writes:
I have been in chronic pain for 16 yrs. I took NSAIDS till I had VIOX mess me up from ever taking any of those meds again. I was swollen all over my body runny eyes & nose all the time, then found out it caused stroke even death. So now I can't take NSAIDS. I swell up after about three days to point can hardly wear my shoes. So I'm on opiates to control my pain. I admit I've had it pretty good thru the years...then that scam called a pain clinic is insisted upon or I can't get relief. I go & they want me to take shots that don't last & for every day that I got any benefit I suffer with tears & rocking wanting a way out...So we're don't want nerves burned ( after all they do grow back & I've not heard any good report from anyone had it done), their shots don't work, & I can only take opiates & it has been various levels of problems. They range from pharmacies not wanting to keep my med on hand & fill my script in timely manner to now Dr wanting play games to see if I'm a addict, & reducing the amount that works to sub control of pain cause they have a fancy new word. Then return me to a previous level that with break thru pain med makes my life ok but this time treats me like criminal only allows me base med, screw me if need break thru med. Here I was thinking I had a care plan between to opiates that I switch between so get pain coverage...But I was mistaken I have was told also that it was DEA & legislature plus facility policy that this change was to happen. That was crap because unless something besides hydrocodone has been ruled on I'm not affected by that change cause not on it!! DEA chilling of Drs/ clinics/pharmacies/manufactures hurts the chronic pain person. They are going to be people who abuse drugs...They are people who abuse potato chips...I'm in chronic pain, this most likely the rest of my life unless an operation relieves it, which no promises there, & I have genetic markers that my body process opiates at a faster rate that normal...I am so screwed if that can't get it together somewhere so I can get what I need to make life tolerable...not pain free, cause there is none of that...just so I don't mind getting up out of bed to live the best life I can. Not a wonderful but the best I can. I need my meds!!!! Oh and as a side note what the problem with a freaking 70 or 80 year old getting addicted...They take a pain pill for pain, they are already scared & conscientious about addition do they barely take out unless need it...give the elderly their meds!!xREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 21st, 2015Someone from Vancleave, MS signed.
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May 20th, 2015Someone from Saint Louis, MO writes:
in July 2006 I underwent my first of three back surgeries due to a misdiagnosis for five years. Little did I know that my life was going to change so drastically and at the age of 42 I would be on disability permanently. Every day functions that some people take for granted such as taking a shower, actually getting dressed and sometimes being able to get yourself out of bed Are now luxuries instead of normalcy. In the beginning I was given pain medication that allowed me to function without suffering now I have to time when I need a refill on the only strong medication that I'm on for pain, Vicodin and hope that it's not needed while my doctor is on vacation. It's not that I had a free refill privilege prior as she would rarely give me more than one refill at a time but now I have to physically call the office and wait for the request to get to her desk then arrange for the script to be picked up that is not always a timely nor proceeds. My dr kept track of every refill request prior to changes to begin with. I currently take tramadol daily sometimes up to three times a day on a bad day that in itself does not always knock the pain that I deal with, if I need a Vicodin I have to not take a tramadol for six hours to do so. I have seen friends of mine in worse shape than I am who rely on a daily dose of a controlled prescription painkiller have to go without because the local pharmacy does not carry it on hand or does not have enough to fill a script. Doctors are getting away from prescribing pain pills because of the laws and the changes that have been made and in return those like me who suffer daily cannot get the help we so desperately need. On a good day the pain might be a level 3 on a bad day it's off the charts, imagine trying to walk, hold a pen or even pet an animal and have it feel like a hot poker piercing your skin and running itself down your nerves even that doesn't describe a bad day. I'm 50 years old now A grandmother, wife and mother who has had to miss out on various events because of the pain. I don't know how people who do not experience this kind of life can sit in judgment to make decisions that will affect us and our ability to enjoy what life we can. I wish for one day each person involved in the decision-making on prescription drugs and so forth could live the life we do. It's hard having other people who do not understand how we feel or what we go through look at us as if we are drug addicts. I can remember a time if I needed to go to the emergency room I was given shot for my pain now they are so conscious of what they give you and after having a staph infection last fall I was given 10 yes 10 Percocets on a script the reason because they were afraid I would become addicted to it. Just because our lives are controlled by pain due to various reasons doesn't mean that we should not be treated as humans, dr. shouldn't be afraid to treat their patients that are there to help their patients. It's sad to say that I honestlyREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 20th, 2015Someone from Marshfield, MO signed.
May 20th, 2015Someone from Fort Payne, AL writes:
I was injured during a surgery when I was almost dropped. The doctor and nurses didn't remember anything happening. Came out of knee surgery with fractured rib, pleural effusion and back injury. And I'm an RN. Nothing was done for me by the hospital. I am now a chronic pain patient and on disability. That's bad enough. But now because I need pain meds, I'm considered an addict by some doctors. Please stop the insanity and allow me to get the pain medication that allows me to get through my days. Stop shutting down pain clinics and punishing the few doctors that are willing to help.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 20th, 2015Someone from Isle, MN writes:
I am a chronic pain patient, I have chronic pain daily and it is terrible that we r treated like criminals. Even though I have never ever broken my pain contract, my doctor is leaving the practice do to the way they treat him and us as pain patience. Why should we be treated like absolute drug addicts when I have complied with everything I was suppose to, now I'm suppose to suffer with chronic pain because some looser sold there pills and someone overdosed! They are causing a bigger epedimic than they have ever seen, it is going to drive more drugs underground. Idiots, blooming idiotsREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 20th, 2015Someone from Flagler Beach, FL signed.
May 20th, 2015Someone from Las Vegas, NV writes:
We had a solution in medication and treatment. We are now prevented from attaining a known solution. If being deprived a proven treatment, that without it will knowlingly cause pain and suffering isn't Harm, then I don't know what is. Maybe working with us rather than against us is a starting point to a real solution and a perception change that is drastically needed for a real resolution.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2015Someone from Bloomington, IL writes:
I've lived with severe chronic pain for twenty years and can't get relief, something has to give!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2015Someone from Marietta, PA signed.
May 19th, 2015Someone from Detroit, MI writes:
I'm convinced the DEA was carrying out orders from the White House, I think the governments actions are an attempt to make Obamacare solvent, after all if a patient cannot get their medications from their doctor what's the point of going? People will have insurance but they will get no relief from their pain, then the president can say "see how well Obamacare works". I'm keeping a close eye on who is helping us and who is not and I'm not the only one.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2015Someone from Saint Paul, MN writes:
Please have mercy! Please help us! This is a horror. Rare disorders are not a character flaw but a genetic "flaw". The person in pain could be YOU doctor.REPORT COMMENTS
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