First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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May 19th, 2015Someone from Lyndhurst, NJ writes:
As soon as you go to a new doctor because your doctor retired, the new one starts the judgment process all over again. The fact of the matter is when you take the medicine that you need you are always being assessed. I have been a chronic pain patient for so many years now. The sad truth is that the judgment process never goes away. People seem to always believe that you are a nut and a drug addict period !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -
May 19th, 2015Someone from Aliso Viejo, CA writes:
I got hit by a drunk drive 20 yrs ago. I now have CRPS, a incurable disease that gets worse each year. My doctor was so perfect for the last 9 years, giving me just enough pain med to help. Now he's demanding to have it taken away for no apparent reason. When I ask him he says the meds don't do any good? All of a sudden after 9 years they don't do any good? I recently got laid off so now I need to be extra energetic, aware, ready to learn ne technologies, etc.; but of course, w/o these meds I feel like an old rusty tin man that can't move hardly at all due to the pain. So onw I can't work thanks to this situation, and will probably loose my home, end up on the streets and die a lonely death. All becuase someone somewhere says my prior 9 years of pain relief must have been a hallucination because pain meds don't work for me all of a sudden! THSI IS INSANE, CZRUEL, LIFE THREATENING, etc. It really is! I've been praying and praying, there's nothing else I can do. NO ONE WILL HELP ME. I'm doomed thanks to the DEA, PHARMACY and Health insurance company. Don't Kill me like this, please!REPORT COMMENTS
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May 19th, 2015Someone from Melrose, MA writes:
Imagine breaking both of your arms, being in unbearable pain, then going to the ER only to have the doctor treat you like a faker or criminal and give you NO treatment. I contemplate suicide almost every day. If not for my God, I'd be dead already. Thank you, God....... but f*ck you, America.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 19th, 2015Someone from Melrose, MA writes:
Imagine breaking both of your arms, being in unbearable pain, then going to the ER only to have the doctor treat you like a faker or criminal and give you NO treatment. I contemplate suicide almost every day. If not for my God, I'd be dead already. Thank you, God....... but **** you, America.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 18th, 2015Someone from Greenville, KY writes:
when I was 13 I fell in a barn and bent my back the wrong way and compressed my disk and over the years the wear in my back is causing my pain in 87 I blew out my dick had to have a operation now 61 and back still giving problems they said I had to go to a pain clinic / in other words the government just steped in between me and my docter another freedom down the drain no one has the right to come between me and my doctor we should all get togather and hire a lawyer and sue the government and them them this is America . we have a right to privacyREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 18th, 2015Someone from Elizabeth, PA writes:
The Government needs to get out of the doctoring business. I was in the emergency room and when I asked a doctor for something for pain he quickly said "we don't do narcotics in this emergency room." Wow, they made me feel horrible to even ask for something for the pain. I was sort of hoping for a Vicodin but would have been happy with a Motrin 800. Instead they made me try some new pain medication which made me sick to my stomach. So now I'm a guinea pig for big medicine.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 17th, 2015Someone from Greendale, WI writes:
Having real pain and not getting adequate relief, when something exists that could help, is like being tortured. It's sadistic. Anyone could find themselves having chronic pain in the future--if people knew the possible torture in store, no one would walk around optimistic about life. Please do something.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 17th, 2015Someone from Canal Winchester, OH writes:
I'm going through everything in this article and this is true the way doctors treat you. I have fibromyalgia DJD,RA and I had at less 6 abdominal surgeries in pain all the time. I'm being blackball I've never had any other medication in my urine or seen any other Dr for pain medicine not only that i walked around with rotten hernia mesh abscess on my intestines for so long a part had to be removed and i also had sepsis and was treated like a drug seeker i live in Columbus Ohio and had the last two surgeries in NY after 1scan they know what was wrong compared to Ohio 10 scan they left me to die because i was on pain medicine.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 17th, 2015Someone from Terre Haute, IN writes:
After talking to some pharmacist.Iv found out there is no state law that says a person can't be on benzos and norco. My new Veterans provider called me at my home to tell me it was my pills or his license.Clearly he is being strong armed by someone.As I've never had a single problem with my meds. And they allow me to be mobile and have a life.The pain cinics in Terre Haute In. All have horrible reviews . Clearly this is not what doctor's who supported pain med scheduling. wanted however this is what its came to and even my doctor says I need the meds.Most doctor's don't like what's happening.They have no choiceREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 17th, 2015Someone from Terre Haute, IN writes:
After talking to some pharmacist.Iv found out there is no state law that says a person can't be on benzos and norco. My new Veterans provider called me at my home to tell me it was my pills or his license.Clearly he is being strong armed by someone.As I've never had a single problem with my meds. And they allow me to be mobile and have a life.The pain cinics in Terre Haute In. All have horrible reviews . Clearly this is not what doctor's who supported pain med scheduling. wanted however this is what its came to and even my doctor says I need the meds.Most doctor's don't like what's happening.They have no choiceREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 16th, 2015Someone from Martin, GA writes:
It is a shame the way these pain clinics are allowed to treat paitients..my husband was a patient of a top notch clininc that was great and did tests,monitored health and took time to answer questions then about a year ago they started adding PA for more providers and non tests since and some of those sould have been every 3 months to monitor how meds were affecting his organs..The PAs got nonchallant about visits and went from where you used to have 19-15 min visit to 3 min maybe...the whole conversation would be hey how are you, meds doing okay? Well good no changes and we will send scripts out in a few minutes see you in 4 weeks.....and gone...literally all in one breath and if there were issues or queestions they'd hurry you up or act ****y even cut you off...husband fired them...got sick of it...REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 16th, 2015Someone from Lakeland, FL writes:
My Husband works very hard his knees are bone on bone doctor had to send him to pain management doctor in fear of what they can do to him this place is always standing room only nasty if you ask doctor to increase your pills they get smart with you and charge you every month to walk in they print out prescriptions he signs doesn't ask how you are doing nothing This has got to stop his primary doctor says he sorry nothing he can do about itREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 15th, 2015Someone from Livermore, CA signed.
May 15th, 2015Someone from Pierceton, IN writes:
I'm sick of rude doctors with God complexes. I'm tired of people being treated like they should be lucky to have their doctor but the doctor takes for granted he's lucky the patient.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 14th, 2015Someone from Port Arthur, TX writes:
Been suffering from RA for 20 years. Have pain 24/7. Am 69 years old. Why would my government do this to me?REPORT COMMENTS
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May 14th, 2015Someone from Dallas, TX writes:
I have experienced this. I saw the same pain Dr. for 8 years. I had knee surgery go bad and i got blood in the knee. The surgeon wrote me a diff. pain killer. I never took a single one and gave it back. I was awake for 7 days straight in pain. My pain Dr. calls me and requests that i come in. When i show up, his PA tells me i sought pain meds from another Dr. and i was dropped. Really? Ofcourse, Dr. Cottingham only wanted to do injections. Thats where the real money is.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 14th, 2015Someone from Wakefield, RI writes:
My wife suffers from permanent pain from adhesions from a botched operation. Her story is outlined below as Sheila T. from RI. Her situation is real and she has been on stable medication for many years. This new DEA intitiative is wrong! In the interest of saving drug abuse OD's we can't trade that for the wellbeing of legitimate pain sufferers, which is happening recently. "Do no harm" is in the hypocratic oath, and the DEA is forcing harm upon innocent pain suffers! Alleviate the pain before removing the Rx solution!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 14th, 2015Someone from Terre Haute, IN writes:
Veterans provider taking me off xanax 3mg a day cold turkey after eight years.And tapering me off of norco 40Mg a day in just 4 Weeks.I am a single parent funtioning fine.Now I worry about being able to parent or live.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 14th, 2015Someone from Taftville, CT writes:
This article made me cry because Ive been suffering with chronic back pain for 6 years now. Ive had a laminectomy in 09" and a 2disc replacement at L5/S1, spinal fusion with 39 staples! That was in 2012... Now I just found out I need 2 more discs replaced and my fusion failed, u can see the screws popping out of my bone... So now the doctor wants to go thru my hip and use bone to graft to my spine.. For years I had a doctor that would keep increasing my pain meds until one day I went to my apt and my doctor was out on an investigation for being considered a Narc doctor. .. from there i turned to the streets for help bcuz i tried pain management but i have to have another surgery and seven neuro surgeons have told me that ill always be in for yhe rest of my life.. The article is all too surreal because my chronic pain does make me contemplate suicide because no doctor Wil help me for pain... All during this the disabled patients suffer like me..REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 14th, 2015Someone from Shelton, WA writes:
My primary docor is now saying I may be referred to a pain clinic that is well known for atrosities toward people with pain. When will this stop. I am in my 60's and pain meds. are of help. I am not worried about addiction at this point. lolREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 14th, 2015Someone from Rochester, MN writes:
For years I had debilitating migraines several days a month & needed drugs to manage the excruciating pain that felt like my head was exploding. Without pain meds, I wanted to kill myself. With the pain medication, I slept or was "high" until I could sleep & wake up pain free OR with manageable pain. Neither the pain, or the pain med options were the life I wanted. If I had to seek ER care, I was often treated like a drug seeker. Did I want drugs when I wasn't in pain? Absolutely not. Did I try biofeedback, acupuncture, & similar treatments? Yes, but they gave very limited or no relief. Years later, following a hysterectomy, I have been almost migraine free. Haven't had the need for the powerful drugs I took for decades. I'm not addicted. I don't crave them physically or mentally. I'm delighted not to need them. It's ridiculous to think that people who are in real physical pain are all out to abuse these medications & will get addicted. Most wish they didn't have to use painkillers. Most want a normal life. The painkillers make life as normal as possible. People shouldn't have to endure pain, plus the stigma that the government imposes on them. Even the medical community can be unsympathetic to patients with pain. Pain needs to be treated, often with strong pain medications. Don't make people suffering have to suffer more, physically & mentally when relief is just a small pill away. Please remember that not everyone is a drug abuser. In fact most are not.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 14th, 2015Someone from Chesterfield, VA writes:
I just want to be pain free and live a normal life!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 14th, 2015Someone from Rocklin, CA writes:
Since when did we decide to go back to mediaeval times where people are made to suffer needlessly. My mom has suffered from Spondylolisthesis since she was 17 when they had to saw off a portion of her tail bone because it was protruding out of the skin. My mom has been a hard worker all her life, a nurse who took the best care possible of her patients till she lost use of her arms due to lifting patients since her work didn't have the proper equipment to assist with that she got the job done. Years later she started reporting a severe pain in her hip, this pain progressed to the point that she couldn't even get up to go to the bathroom. She went to several hospitals begging for them to find out what's wrong, each time she was met with cruelty, she was told that she was only there for pain meds. Her primary care said he couldn't get her admitted to the hospital. It wasn't till a doctor who was covering for her primary was bombarded by family fearing for her condition that she was admitted. And what did they find once they finally did a CT scan? They rushed her down to UC Davis for emergency surgery with the same doctor who belittled her the day before and told her she was only there for pain meds. The neglect didn't end there, later she would slip and fall off a ladder and was told by the hospital that they would be doing surgery on her pelvis due to several fractures and enclosed hip fracture, only to hear from angry nurses that they had to let her go, in the condition she was in? Later one doctor told her she needed a hip replacement and another said both hips, then nothing was done. She saw another doctor who performed surgery on her back said that her back was so bad given her condition walking around on a now slipping foundation. The surgery was supposed to be 1 hour and 30 min and ended up being 4 hours long. The operation left her with 76% nerve damage from her knee down and her bladder and bowl are paralyzed, which has led to several serious life threatening infections since then that continue. The screws in her back that were supposed to have been taken out less than a year after the surgery due to their size and my mom being so small are still in today 4 years later. She's never healed, they are refusing to work on her anymore to fix the issue and yet they refuse her anything to help with the pain of living with a broken back. She cannot stand for more then 10 minute intervals. She cannot go to the movies with her kids or grandchildren, misses out every holiday, birthday, graduation and other important life events due to pain. The only life she knows now is being confined to her bed due to pain and the pain meds she's been allowed barely keep her out of pain. Every doctor treats her like she's a criminal, when they are the ones who did this to her! They took her life away! They refuse to do anything to fix what they've done the least they can do is keep her out of pain. This form of treatment or should I say lack thereof is unprofessionaREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 14th, 2015Someone from Rocklin, CA writes:
Since when did we decide to go back to mediaeval times where people are made to suffer needlessly. My mom has suffered from Spondylolisthesis since she was 17 when they had to saw off a portion of her tail bone because it was protruding out of the skin. My mom has been a hard worker all her life, a nurse who took the best care possible of her patients till she lost use of her arms due to lifting patients since her work didn't have the proper equipment to assist with that she got the job done. Years later she started reporting a severe pain in her hip, this pain progressed to the point that she couldn't even get up to go to the bathroom. She went to several hospitals begging for them to find out what's wrong, each time she was met with cruelty, she was told that she was only there for pain meds. Her primary care said he couldn't get her admitted to the hospital. It wasn't till a doctor who was covering for her primary was bombarded by family fearing for her condition that she was admitted. And what did they find once they finally did a CT scan? They rushed her down to UC Davis for emergency surgery with the same doctor who belittled her the day before and told her she was only there for pain meds. The neglect didn't end there, later she would slip and fall off a ladder and was told by the hospital that they would be doing surgery on her pelvis due to several fractures and enclosed hip fracture, only to hear from angry nurses that they had to let her go, in the condition she was in? Later one doctor told her she needed a hip replacement and another said both hips, then nothing was done. She saw another doctor who performed surgery on her back said that her back was so bad given her condition walking around on a now slipping foundation. The surgery was supposed to be 1 hour and 30 min and ended up being 4 hours long. The operation left her with 76% nerve damage from her knee down and her bladder and bowl are paralyzed, which has led to several serious life threatening infections since then that continue. The screws in her back that were supposed to have been taken out less than a year after the surgery due to their size and my mom being so small are still in today 4 years later. She's never healed, they are refusing to work on her anymore to fix the issue and yet they refuse her anything to help with the pain of living with a broken back. She cannot stand for more then 10 minute intervals. She cannot go to the movies with her kids or grandchildren, misses out every holiday, birthday, graduation and other important life events due to pain. The only life she knows now is being confined to her bed due to pain and the pain meds she's been allowed barely keep her out of pain. Every doctor treats her like she's a criminal, when they are the ones who did this to her! They took her life away! They refuse to do anything to fix what they've done the least they can do is keep her out of pain. This form of treatment or should I say lack thereof is unprofessionaREPORT COMMENTS
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May 14th, 2015Someone from Jasper, AL writes:
This is the Gods honest truth, my dr just "cut" me because the DEA is putting the squeeze on him, he says.... Why don't they just throw all of us chronic suffers in a GAS chamber and turn it up, at least it wouldn't be as agonizing..,because we're useless anyway without our meds, I don't like taking a pill to have a halfway productive life no more than a diabetic likes taking shots or high BP patient likes taking a pill or so a day..REPORT COMMENTS
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May 14th, 2015Someone from Irwin, PA writes:
THESE NEW LAWS ARE OBSURED. SINCE MY PCP RETIRED I CANNOT GET MY PAIN TREATED & HAVE STOMACH BLEEDING FROM OTC MEDS. I KNOW OF 2 PEOPLE THAT GET & SELLS THEM, & 1 ADDICT THAT HAS NO PROBLEM GETTING THEM. THE TRUE ADDICTS STILL KNOW HOW TO GET THEM, BUT NOT THE PEOPLE THAT REALLY NEED THEM.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 14th, 2015Someone from Hamburg, MI writes:
Without my pain medication I wouldn't be able to get out of bed, let alone get through the day. With my medication I'm able to have some kind of life.REPORT COMMENTS
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