First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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May 13th, 2015Someone from Minco, OK signed.
May 13th, 2015Someone from Allyn, WA writes:
On behalf of all those who need this treatment.May 13th, 2015Someone from Eatonville, WA writes:
I suffer from fibromyalgia and arthritis and have to jump through hoops just to get a bit of pain relief! It's not fair to those of us who suffer daily!REPORT COMMENTS
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May 13th, 2015Someone from Lexington, KY writes:
My Doctor told me he was going to "ween" me off of the only pain medication that works for my chronic neck and back pain [very low dose of hydrocodone] because he was afraid of losing his license. I asked him how he intended to "ween" me off of my pain. He smugly said, "Send you to a pain control clinic." I can only afford to see a General Practitioner or the Pain Control Clinic, but not both. Guess I'll have to give up my high blood pressure medicine. Thank you Uncle Sam!REPORT COMMENTS
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May 13th, 2015Someone from San Diego, CA writes:
Living in constant pain is hard enough without the shame that is felt when an entire pharmacy full of customers is looking at you while you are almost in tears because the pharmacist will not fill your legal prescription - because they are sure you are a drug addict. Of course, that's assuming your doctor is willing to write the script. I am 38 and have been managing my pain for 15+ years. Without my medications I cannot function. With them, I was able to complete my education, obtain professional certifications and licenses, be gainfully employed, purchase my own home and support my family. Who are you to withhold treatment from me?REPORT COMMENTS
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May 13th, 2015Someone from Burnsville, MN writes:
I suffer from Fibromyalgia, depression, PTSD and need know and hip replacements. I don't receive pain medication and have to suffer. I went to pain management and was turned down because of my depression.when your in pain you become immobile and become stressed and depressed. No one should have to suffer.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 13th, 2015Someone from Wakefield, RI writes:
I've been on opioids for 10 years and at the same level of pain medications for 7 years. I've never tried to get my medication early, never sold it never used it other than the way it was prescribed. My doctor was promoted, I had to get a new doctor and no one will prescribe for me. The doctor I see (for now) wanted to send me to rehab. Everyone admits my pain is real but everyone is terrified to treat me. Pain Management programs around here treat back pain or arthritis and so will not accept me. I'd rather not crawl off and die, I'm only 53 years old.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 13th, 2015Someone from Columbia, SC signed.
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May 13th, 2015Someone from Albuquerque, NM writes:
This is turning into the society of profiling too say the least!!! Not all of humanity is a druggie! Some of us have validated chronic pain and need help!!!! The DEA is actually going to make the drug dealers rich by taking these actions! A human body can only take so much pain on a daily basis before they just can't take it anymore!!! I would rather have my family see me picking up a prescription for pain, rather than meeting someone in secret to get help for the pain. I mean really does this make any sense?! Touch up the guidelines for the Dr's, if a patient breaks contract 3x then too bad! I mean even a felon gets three chances before they get life!! We are ppl who SUFFER everyday. Some of us have lived and worked an honest life but for one reason or another our lives have changed dramatically not by choice. So Why should it be hard for honest ppl who now need help receive that help?? Why are we now looked down on for asking your Dr for help?? This is just going to create more problems than the DEA thinks, or lack of... this is just ridiculous and sad that the government now interferes with our much needed treatment!!! I thought America was the land of the free, not land of control!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 13th, 2015Someone from Athens, AL signed.
May 12th, 2015Someone from Moscow, PA writes:
I now know the truth about Pain Management Doctors and General Practitioners when it comes to treating pain. It's pretty ugly. I've always respected my Doctors until now. I have a serious pain issue and because I asked for med's, I am treated disrespectfully and judgmentally. I have 2 full ruptured tendons in my rotator cuff, needing an entire joint replacement. 4 surgeons agree, I am disabled and in legitimate pain. None will prescribe me a pain med. I have been to 3 PM Dr.s and they suggest I get surgery instead. NO ONE WILL OPERATE ON ME UNTIL I AM 60 (I am 56). Each PM office treated me like I was a drug addict searching to get high - instead of searching to manage my pain. It's easier to buy street drugs than go through Doctors to get meds !!!! I understand there is a drug culture out there that warrants policing, but please, until someone has abused your trust with rx's, do not treat patients like drug dealing addicts. Trust is a two way street. I have come to be very leery and distrustful of all doctors now and have learned my lesson. Those who need the drugs cannot get them (legally) and those who abuse them, can. Go FIGURE. MAD IN AMERICA.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 12th, 2015Someone from Riverside, CA writes:
I suffer with osteoarthritis and have since I was in my 30's. I'm now on strong pain medication and condition has gotten worse over time. I need my pain medication and fight every month to get it. The pharmacy will now only refill on the last day of previous script was filled my insurance company will allow three days before the last refill. When I go to get my refill most time they are out of my medicine. So I spend the driving to 4 or 5 pharmacys to find my medication. I must find that day. I'm out. It's the last day. They won't hold the script early they file three days early they don't reorder there supply. Even though they see me each month. Nice ! If they had always refilled three days before. I would have extra medication to last while they order what I need. The order takes 4 days. Of course if there's not a shortage out there. For the last year I would have 12 Fentanyl patchy and I would have 116 Nucynta tabs. I would have enough to last though a shortage or time for the to reorder. But the pharmacist are so Afraid of the DEA. That there not making good decisions. They are opening there selfs for law suits. If there is a shortage and I do not get my medication and they could have made it possible for me to have extra. Now I'm at the emergency room being treated for withdrawal symptoms the pharmacist will be held responsible. I WILl SUI ALL THE PHARMACIST THAT TOLD ME. "WE ONLY WILL REFILL ON THE LAST DAY OF THE BREVIOUSE REFILL" I already tired of running around from pharmacist to pharmacist All because the DEA is out of control. Someday their family is going to be in need of pain medication to. Someday you may need this kind of medication. Are u going to wait. ???REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 12th, 2015Someone from Locust Grove, VA writes:
I'm suffering more than ever and trying to raise 2 children with debilitating pain. Without my pain medication I'm not sure what I can do or how to function daily. Even before the new regulations it was a struggle daily....now, ??????REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 12th, 2015Someone from Salt Lake City, UT writes:
The DEA is creating a culture of fear & despair & are out of control, practicing medicine without a license. My brother recently lost his nearly 5 yr battle with Cancer. The first several yrs, the drs would only prescribe low doses of Percocet, which is insane! Their assertion was that they were cconcerned he would get addicted. First off, who the heck cares when every organ in his body was riddled with tumors "too innumerable to count"? That is ridiculous & obscene to have made my baby brother suffer that way. Moreover, drs have determined that people who suffer from.severe prolonged or chronic pain, DON'T become addicted. Even if they did, what does it matter to someone who is DYING! I AM SO ANGRY that they made my brother suffer unnecessarily. The DEA is on a power trip and they need to be reined in, stopped & controlled, instead of them controlling doctors, pharmacists & patients, especially pain patients. Talk about shades of 1984, Big Brother is here! What SHOULD be controlled, is the out of sight fees pain clinics & drug companies charge. Pain clinics are charging 10 times more than their counterparts in other fields, and are getting away with it, because the DEA is making other drs too afraid to treat pain. They are enabling these clinics to exploit the situation. There's nothing else to call it but extortion, because they control meds and force patients to submit to unnecessary and obscenely expensive procedures and frequent office in order to get their meds. The DEA is fostering a monopolistic and exploitative "specialty" in medicine that is tantamount to hucksterism, flim flam, a shakedown, a legalized con game. Shame, shame, shame on them, and shame on you if you empower them and allow this travesty to continue. Pray that God doesn't make u suffer as patients are sufferingREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 11th, 2015Someone from Albany, KY signed.
May 10th, 2015Someone from Spicewood, TX writes:
living with pain is difficult enough without having to deal with other peoples judgements and or philosophy. I want and should have the freedom to have a pain free, quality life, without the law or the insurance companies scrutiny.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 10th, 2015Someone from Superior, WI writes:
Pain patients are in desperate need of help. The DEA has put the fear of God into doctors and pharmacists who are afraid to treat us with painkillers. We are treated like we are working for drug cartels. Please help us so no patients in pain commit suicide to escape their pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 10th, 2015Someone from Belle Center, OH writes:
I had Bladder cancer, and I put it in GODs hands, and now I am Cancer free! Thank you GOD!REPORT COMMENTS
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