First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Feb 17th, 2015Someone from Montgomery, TX signed.
Feb 17th, 2015Someone from Akron, OH writes:
I've been in pain management for 24 years same pain clinic the whole time . Never had dirty urine . Pill count good .never ask fory meds early . I have my whole spine herniated discs ,stenosis at multi levels I had 2failed cervical fusions . Need another one . Had low back surgery need another one after 22 years it needs done again . They are cutting my pain meds down plus they took away my dilaudid . Which I need to wash my hair and shower. I use to get 3 100mg.of morphine a day now I get 210 mg. and 4 15mg. Oxycodone . Was told I had to go to family doctor to get somas they quit writing them . So I was lucky my family doctor writes them . They are the only muscle relaxer that helps my neck and doesn't make me tired . I don't feel high ony meds because I got them increased over 24 years that's why I can't have them cut down I need them increased I have a tolerance after 24 years . Please help us or tell me where to complain too.Feb 16th, 2015Someone from Lubbock, TX signed.
Feb 16th, 2015Someone from Montgomery, TX signed.
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Feb 16th, 2015Someone from Rosalia, KS writes:
Ever night I go to bed with a pain level 8...every night I go to bed with a pain level 8....I cry myself to sleep because I am in so much pain...I take my pain medicine as prescribed....I have had surgeries and so many injections I look like a pin cushion....I am desperate...71 years old and I have no life...no medical marijuana laws in this bible thumping state...My doctor of over 20 years is so afraid of the DEA that he can not sufficiently treat my excruciating pain....I have been to Pain clinics and no help there...if we had medical marijuana...I couldn't use that and the pain medicine because of the laws...I have an upstanding pillar of the community Dr. and I am a law abiding upstanding citizen...why can't I get the treatment I need....'cause the government has decided we are no better than an addict on the streets....I am not an addict....I use for pain....all my records of 20 years reflect this...there are years and years of documentation....and still the government thinks they have a right to control my treatment...This needs to be changed for all of the poor people who have a life filled with pain.....Surely there could be something put in place...a way to sift through the street abusers vs. the legitimate truly ill sufferersREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 15th, 2015Someone from Washington, MI signed.
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Feb 14th, 2015Someone from Clinton Township, MI signed.
Feb 14th, 2015Someone from Sarasota, FL writes:
I want to add to the comments that I had already submitted: THE STEROID INJECTIONS THAT ARE DONE IN THE NAME OF PAIN MANAGEMENT MAY BE THE CAUSE OF ARACHNOIDITIS!!!!! DITTO SPINE SURGERY!!!!! READ UP ON ARACHNOIDITIS!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 14th, 2015Someone from Sarasota, FL writes:
I have Arachnoiditis which means the nerves in the spinal cord, actually the Cauda Equina, are clumping together and it causes me to be incontinent at bladder and stool along with severe pain especially in my legs. Also, since the damage seems to constantly be getting worse it has caused me to have problems with the regulation of body temperature; sadly this isn't even half of the problems that comes with the disease process they call Arachnoiditis.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 14th, 2015Someone from Independence, KY writes:
I have three herniated disc in my lower back and am in need of spinal fusion. I am very sick of being under treated by my doctor because he is scared of being investigated by the state or DEA. There are around 100 million chronic pain sufferers in the United Sates right now and many of them go without treatment because of the current laws and health costs. We need to make our voices heard on this topic and bring some sanity back to this discussion.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 14th, 2015Someone from Deltona, FL writes:
I've had my knees ware out to the point I need both knees replaced. Been on hydrocodone for about 6-7 years taking two a day a half at a time. I'm a auto body repairman they help me do my job. My doctor when I started with him was handing them out like candy to all who came. Took me almost two hours to see him now I'm always in and out no one there because of the law change. I have mri's class Rays done two specilest say I need knees. If I do it now they say I would have to change jobs because of the abuse on my body I can't stop and make the money I do now my doc wants me off the pain meds cause he's scared. People who have proof of pain should be able to get relief it's something that keeps us somewhat normal to make it through the dayREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 14th, 2015Someone from Calhoun, LA signed.
Feb 14th, 2015Someone from Algonac, MI signed.
Feb 14th, 2015Someone from Utica, MI signed.
Feb 14th, 2015Someone from Utica, MI writes:
This really hits home when someone you love, who has always been a hard worker and NEVER used drugs of any kind comes down with a debilitating disease, where the pain in almost unbearable and he's treated like a loser drug addict when he tries to get a prescription for meds that can at least give him a little quality to his life.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 14th, 2015Someone from Utica, MI signed.
Feb 14th, 2015Someone from Canby, OR signed.
Feb 14th, 2015Someone from West Covina, CA signed.
Feb 14th, 2015Someone from Wheat Ridge, CO writes:
I have suffered for many years with pain and thus far am being treated for it. My physicians, however, is concerned about the way this country is going about dealing with both Doctors and patients. Many Dr. Office's will not even write prescriptions for narcotics period the end! What kind of place is it that binds the hands of a Physicians from providing treatment of any ONE kind flat out? Drug addicts on the street will still get the drugs they are looking for and it is the average person that will be left at home in misery and contemplating suicide like one person I know already did, and others have considered. So to the men and women of Congress, let the Doctor treat the patient, and you get on with actually doing something helpful for a change.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 14th, 2015Someone from Oviedo, FL writes:
I am a 49 year old female and I had my first low back surgery when I was just 19 years old. I have since had 6 more back surgeries and a cervical fusion. I have severe degenerative disc disease, neuropathy in my left foot, severe scar tissue in lower back that is causing arthritis and several other back issues including 2 current herniated discs. I have been with pain management for a long time and along with SEVERAL procedures done on a regular basis, I.e., spinal injections, cervical injections, procedures to deaden the nerve, etc. I also take pain medication that helps me to continue with some quality of life. A year and a half ago my pain management Dr. Told me one day that he has to wean me off my pain meds just because he didn't like me on those meds anymore. So needless to say I went and found another Dr and explained my situation to her. I told her that I have to be on the pain meds to have any quality of life and to keep up with my 2 children. The new Dr agreed with me and said, "Some people just really need to be on pain meds." Well, here I am just 1 year later and now after this Dr has done every possible procedure she could do on me and thousands of dollars later, she says that the DEA has her hands tied and she can no longer write my prescriptions for me and discharged me from the practice just like that! I have been so depressed and stressed out because now I have just a month to find a new Dr before my meds run out and I go I to major withdraws since I have been on the same meds for over 4 years. I have always used the same pharmacy, complied with all office rules, passed all UA's given and was just treated like a piece of trash off the street when she was done with me. I am just at a loss for words over how terrible these Dr.s can get away with treating patients who are truly in pain and need their medications. I am now in frantic mode trying to find a new Dr that will take me on before March 7 when my meds are due again.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 13th, 2015Someone from Hersey, MI writes:
I suffer chronic increasing pain. I am in Florida and cannot get pain medication. So I suffer every day, praying when I get home I can get my Rx. I have no quality of life, pain rules me, not drugs. My Rx. makes it possible to lead some kind of life. Otherwise I am in constant pain and absolutely refused any pain meds. Feel like I am being punished.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 13th, 2015Someone from Hersey, MI signed.
Feb 13th, 2015Someone from Commerce, GA writes:
The whole patient should absolutely be treated and the current restrictions and threat to Physicians to treat suffering patients is abusive, negligent, and detrimental to healthcare.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 13th, 2015Someone from Rome, GA writes:
SEVERE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND DEGENERATIVE DISC DISEASE. HAVE TO TRAVEL 60 MILES EVERY MONTH JUST TO GET MY PRESCRIPTION...I AM OVER 65 YEARS OLD AND STILL WORKING FULLTIMEREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 13th, 2015Someone from Roxboro, NC writes:
I have been in chronic pain for 10+ years and it has recently reached a point in which it is destroying my life, however none of the Dr's I have seen in the past 2 years will do anything at all to help control pain so I can have my life back. I already take NSAID's (most days more than any human should take on a hope and a prayer of relief), have done countless hours of physical therapy, have had surgery that only worsened the problem, and everything else. I know what works for me as it has worked numerous times short term and that is pain medication. It allows me to have my life back and a quality of life that is much better than I currently have due to chronic pain interfering with everything I do. Every Dr has tried to make it out as if it is in my head, I even had one call me an addict because of the medication my surgeon had me on AFTER surgery and during the 6mo after surgery in which I was suffering from complications FROM the surgery that required a second surgery to fix. Because of that and the fact that the surgeon wrote prescriptions for odd amounts to last odd numbers of days, sometimes a week, sometimes 3 weeks, sometimes 2 weeks, etc, I have been "red flagged" as I was told at an ER during a major flare up and because of that I'm classified as an addict by the state. THIS IS WRONG!! I never should have been classified as anything considering I had surgery and complications and now I'm suffering with increased pain due to a botched surgery a failed attempt to fix it and now I have developed severe anxiety that is also going untreated. Dr's are nothing but money grabbers now days that think anyone who says the word "pain" is automatically an addict or a criminal and that is WRONG!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 13th, 2015Someone from Bloomfield, IN signed.
Feb 13th, 2015Someone from Cumming, GA writes:
I think if I were to commit suicide in this situation (and I would, as I have no intention to live with severe pain if it ever comes to that), I would do it on the legislature's doorstep, with a farewell letter to make sure they knew what it was all about. And maybe signs too. Or maybe in front of the local news station. That would be a dramatic in your face statement they couldn't ignore.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 12th, 2015Someone from Dolan Springs, AZ writes:
Until the number of legitimate pain patients committing suicide, surpasses the number of people who die because they abuse drugs, nothing will change. I'm a former cop, a number of years ago, I investigated a number of deaths by chronic pain patients. Most were suicides, but they weren't obvious, and most weren't listed as suicides. When most people give up fighting with doctors, fighting with pharmacists, and being treated like a drug addict, they don't people to know they gave up, for several reasons. The deaths I looked into were overdoses, single vehicle accidents, where something wasn't right, and one suicide by cop. He created a situation, then pointed an empty gun at police. Watch the suicide rates, you'll be shocked by the increases, then remember, many pain patient deaths wern't counted as suicides.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 12th, 2015Someone from Dewitt, MI writes:
This law is doing more harm then good! It has made it damn near impossible for people who suffer from chronic pain to get any relief because doctors would rather cut them off then go through the hassle of writing a physical script. Not to mention most doctors rely heavily on their nurse practitioners to treat patients and now they don't have the authority to write scripts for decent pain medications. Another huge issue with this law is if your dr or dentist is sick or out of the office you have to wait for them to get back to work or go to the emergency room. This law is stupid and needs to be thrown out!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 12th, 2015Someone from Maspeth, NY writes:
I have been a pain Patient for 15 years. My Doctor now because of laws in PA, wants to stop me meds. I have had 11 surgeries, back, knees, hips, etc. I have failed back surgery, failed knee replacements, due to RSD, Arthritis, without these meds I can not function enough to take care of myself. Please help people with chronic pain, legitimate pain. My records over 20 years shows I tried everything.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 12th, 2015Someone from Beacon Falls, CT signed.
Feb 11th, 2015Someone from Lumberton, NC signed.
Feb 11th, 2015Someone from Corpus Christi, TX writes:
My mom ha so been living in pain for most of my life. I'm tired of watching her suffer.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 11th, 2015Someone from Corpus Christi, TX writes:
I read a segment that the AMA posted saying, most doctors falsely blame the DEA for not allowing physicians to prescribe narcotics.REPORT COMMENTS
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Feb 11th, 2015Someone from Amarillo, TX writes:
I have had two back surgeries and suffer from polymyositis. Most days my pain is barely tolerable. I don't understand why patients are expected to 'tough it out' when there are medications that will help. Must we all start buying the drugs we need on the street? The patient and doctor should be the only ones involved in the decision to prescribe needed pain meds.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelFeb 11th, 2015Someone from Evans, CO writes:
I proudly sign this petition! As a violent accident being drug by a quarter horse years ago, I've suffered 11 spine related surgeries, I lost my career of a divisional manager of a finical firm after my 7th surgery. I've been a chronic pain patient for over 8 years. I have been let to suffer when in fact I had broken bones in my spine that were not treated or even investigated..I was looked at with a physdo addiction... I actually drove over 80 miles, far beyond the distance and time I normally can sit..only to be received by the DEA diversion as another poor victim of the laws they must hold up to prevent addiction! If I'm to be placed on a contract that states: One false positive and I can be denied my medacations. If I were to loose my medacations in a life long period of time, I can be left to suffer and again not treated at all. If I show any "subjectively opinionated" signs of addiction I can be left to suffer. If I feel I need to be fully treated, not just pain meds or I've grown tolerant of my meds I can be LABLED an addict and refused treatment. I am not allowed to leave the state for longer than 30 days. I can not receive a vacation fill, or can I receive a 90 day fill from my doctor to save money. Here is an example of that law; if my father became ill and was on life support, and my doctor appointment was 4 days from the day I needed to leave to see my father and say goodby, I would NOT have the right to do so with medications in hand! I lived through the COLORADO flood in 2013-14 and was trapped inside a city that my doctor does not have an office. I had no buffer to see me through this time of uncertainty the lanes of travel would open. I would go into severe withdrawals, life threatening. If I went to the ER I would be viewed as an addict and dismissed. I know this because the TWO times I've been to the ER for flight or flight violent pain I WAS TREATED AS AN ADDICT!! Without the attending physician even looking into my case! I did have more than broken bones! If you look at the list above we pain patients must adhere to you'd think I was reading a natzie war poster. The DEA treated me as a poor little girl they felt airy for but " THEY NEED A JOB"! My state reps have not returned my calls even tho their aids called it TORTURE what we are living.REPORT COMMENTS
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