First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Jan 24th, 2017Cindy S. from Dumfries, VA writes:
I need help..I'm in VA. I have chronic pain 24/7 it's getting to where I can't stand it..I have neurapthy compound fracture, osteoporosis, and now they think I have RA.I broke my pelvis , broke my collar bone.Im a mess and I can't stand it..I can't find a Dr. That understands how bad I hurt..I don't have a life..My pain isn't going to go away and it can't be fixed..I'm 63 and I hope I have years to live .But I don't have a life because of my pain..There has to be help somewhere.And the FDA needs to understand and help and back off...Cindy -
Jan 24th, 2017Carol B. from Fort Edward, NY writes:
While my situation is a bit different than what the above article describes, I am afraid that since losing my NP of 17 yrs that now I will be cut off from the very thing that keeps me functioning daily. I have RSD or CRPS in my rt upper arm and whole side which I have been dealing with for 21 yrs with little if any medication, it wasn't until my low back started failing me that I required something for severe pain & I was prescriibed Viox, which really did the trick, until they took that away, and then I had a bout with some horrific female problems added & I was prescribed, norco at the ER which I noticed and I relayed to my PA helped my back pain. Then after losing my home in 03 I sadly developed FM & was diagnosed with it in 06' Now with all over pain and a new NP I felt hopeful She precsribed my HBP pills, Lyrica, Cymbalta & of course not all in one visit. Further the days were becoming unbearable and after researched on line I inquired that perhaps a long acting opioid may get me out of this agony I so sadly tried to live in. I was given Kadian 100mg avery 12 hrs finally after failing with the Fent.patches, and it really was the answer . I apologize for the lengthy comment But must say that now since my NP retured in Dec 2015 I am at the mercy of a new MD in the network who ic claiming that the very thing that keeps me going is hurting me & increasing my pain. I have found no literature to that effect & I feel the upper article is the very cause of them wanting to discontinue my regimen . Please stop making those of us with REAL pain suffer fro reasons that are not our fault. I have so much documentation over the past 20 years to show my unfortunate need of these meds & just wish that the Govt could somehow make it not so tough on our providers thank you P.S.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jan 24th, 2017Carol B. from Fort Edward, NY signed.
Jan 24th, 2017Someone from Suamico, WI writes:
In need of pain pills or pain management. I have papers on my injuries. My recent doctor of 38 years dismissed me,all because I recently got into an argument with her and she called my doctor and said I was drinking,and not only that she said that I was begging her to go over to her apartment. YEAH RIGHT! I choose to keep my friends to a minimum. Please contact ,email at homeREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 24th, 2017Someone from Suamico, WI writes:
In need of pain pills or pain management. I have papers on my injuries. My recent doctor of 38 years dismissed me,all because I recently got into an argument with her and she called my doctor and said I was drinking,and not only that she said that I was begging her to go over to her apartment. YEAH RIGHT! I choose to keep my friends to a minimum. Please contact ,email at homeREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 24th, 2017Someone from Suamico, WI writes:
In need of pain pills or pain management. I have papers on my injuries. My recent doctor of 38 years dismissed me,all because I recently got into an argument with her and she called my doctor and said I was drinking,and not only that she said that I was begging her to go over to her apartment. YEAH RIGHT! I choose to keep my friends to a minimum. Please contact ,email at homeREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 24th, 2017Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
I suffer from chronic pain due to a surgeon who made mistakes in a gastric bypass surgery which caused 20 more abdominal surgeries...I also have 2 ruptured discs in my back and recurrent pain from an accident where I fell on black ice due to the negligence of the store which caused a broken tibia fibula and ankle as well as the ruptured discs. I have days where I cannot move, days where I throw up for 48 hours until the ER can give me nausea meds thru IV and fluids to stop the dry heaving. Having pain medication and injections in my neck and ankle allow me to work and live a somewhat normal life. Please let doctors do their jobs or you will find many more people on disability and unable to live as normal a life as possible. Thank you.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 24th, 2017Someone from Seattle, WA writes:
Wherefore to some, when being abed they betake themselves to sleep, presently in the arms and legs, leapings and contractions on the tendons, and so great a restlessness and tossings of other members ensue, that the diseased are no more able to sleep, than if they were in a place of the greatest torture. This is why I need mine, severe RLSREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 23rd, 2017Someone from Westminster, CO writes:
First, understand that I am not at all insensitive to those struggling with addiction. It is a real disease which leads to many deaths, and I get the importance of making sure opioids are not being over-prescribed or ?passed out like candy?. But if there's one thing we can all count on when it comes to our government, is that they will almost always take things to the far extreme. The purpose for the new CDC guidelines are meant to give physicians a general idea of what to go by, but still be able to use their own judgement when treating the individual needs of their patients (hence the term 'guideline'). Unfortunately, doctors are now under constant scrutiny, intimidation and harassment by the DEA who are treating these guidelines as lawful requirements, to the point where they can no longer treat their patients suffering from life-long illnesses and/or permanent injuries involving chronic, debilitating pain and are genuinely in need of some type of opioid medication just to make life livable. There are many ailments in which alternatives to pain medication cannot help on their own. These patients are the least likely to abuse, misuse or overdose, yet they are being put into the same box as those who use opioids for no other purpose than to feed an addiction. New doctors are being 'programmed' to disregard individual situations and assume everyone's an addict, and anything the patient says regarding their condition, or medications they cannot take for whatever reason, is ?drug-seeking behavior? and they?re just lying in attempt to get drugs. I am a chronic pain patient. The disease I have is complex and multi-symptomatic, both autoimmune and neurological. There is no cure, and the only 'treatments' are still experimental, and more often than not, leave patients worse off than they were to begin with. I never thought those of us who used their medication responsibly for legitimate reasons and did not abuse it would have anything to worry about. After all, I'd been seeing the same primary care physician for years, had a good doctor-patient relationship with established trust. He genuinely cared about my health and never over-prescribed. I went in for my annual checkups, plus 2-3x per year for regular "med-check" visits. You can't get more honest than that! Despite all of this, and despite having the medical records to back me up, he can no longer prescribe my medication, and starting in February I will have to go to a pain clinic every 30 days (I can barely get out of the house as it is), see a doctor I've never met and give a urine sample. I've been coming across more & more horror stories from patients living in other states where these laws went into effect a year or so earlier; patients like me who were honest and had done everything by the book, now being treated like common criminals, talked down to as if their condition is their fault, or not even a serious condition to begin with. Some were even cut off of their meds completely after getting false positive test results from their urine samples. This is due to applying older methods of urine testing which are often unreliable in order to cut costs- something the DEA, as well as anti-opioid "extremists" don?t take this into consideration. There are ways to spot addiction and help drug addicts without making life even worse for those of us already suffering. These measures taken are inhumane and far beyond unreasonable.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 23rd, 2017Sandy D. from Pomfret Center, CT writes:
Please take care of the patients you have been trained to care for! That oath should guarantee that you will do your best!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 22nd, 2017Laura S. from Waldport, OR writes:
It's disgraceful that our Doctors have to cow toe to the DEA and follow the Patient Safety Committees rediculas guideline wrote by one doctor and her staff of non medical personnel. These guidelines are creating increased street drug sales, over dosing and death from street drugs and an increase of suicide rate of persons with wide spread chronic pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 21st, 2017Someone from Eagle Lake, MN writes:
My 34 year old daughter was born with fused bones in her feet which in turn caused her legs to compensate by developing WRONG. This was misdiagnosed until she was 17 years old. 5 surgeries later she is still in pain, and not just bone pain but nerve pain caused by the surgeries, one of which was botched and she was told by 2 doctors that it was healing well and she walked on it for 2 years before another doctor told her it had never healed properly. She was finally put on Fentynal patches 3 years ago and was doing well until her doctor decided she didn't need them anymore. On top of that he told her not to take Tylenol or ibuprofen because she had damaged her liver by using them for so many years prior. She has tried all the other options suggested...yoga, acupuncture, cortisone shots, etc. All to no avail. She is treated like a subhuman when she goes to her doctors. She has asked about having her legs cut off because she's become so desperate but unfortunately she was told this wouldn't help because of the nerve damage. And Lord forbid if you have another issue come up that might need pain medication because they assume you're lying and put little effort into discovering what the problem is. I listen to my daughter talk about suicide on a constant basis. But if she dies of suicide it won't count as a drug overdose so all is good, RIGHT!!! Evidently, according to the DEA, nobody suffers any longer from extreme pain unless they're dying of cancer. That is quite an accomplishment.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 21st, 2017Ronnie J. from Lakewood, WA signed.
Jan 20th, 2017Someone from Somerville, AL writes:
Dea, you have no right to tell well educated doctors who have studied years to learn as much as any person can to know just what meds and how much a person needs for whatever he or she is suffering from. I have severe pain. Chronic and acute. My doctor just got in trouble because he did write what was needed. He was passionate about his job. Didn't over perscribe but had compassion for his patients who were in severe pain. God willing every 1 of yall shall feel the pain of all of us you are hurting and killing. The n you will no longer have your job so we will just have to see if the next batch of yall will stay out of doctor patient confidentiality. You all need to now. Its not right and probably not even legal but if it is it shouldn't be!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 20th, 2017Someone from Johnson City, TN writes:
I suffer so terribly from several conditions that will never get better, I have been treated like I was subhuman and left doctors crying. I have been told that I was lying because I was acting so nervous. Yes of course I'm nervous I'm in a lot of pain and I'm scared to be ridiculed by a doctor agin. My quality of life is very ruff for me to handle and I'm praying for something positive to happen for people in real pain. Right now I live day to day. I cracked the bones in my foot over the weekend and I don't feel comfortable going to the doctor. I am scared that as soon as I tell them tmy conditions and what happened to me they will turn away from me and treat me awful agin.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 20th, 2017Someone from North Hollywood, CA writes:
My doctor just refused to give me a perception for one of my most helpful medicines that I take on a regular basis, because the government is giving him problems over his prescribing medicines that the government lists as interacting. Well no******they interact. That's why they work. My doctor has spent his life studying medicine. Up till now, he has been helping me live the best life my body will allow me to have. I have a crippling genetic muscular condition and I live with constant pain and many other issues. For those that abuse the medicines, I'm sorry for you. But why should I suffer more because you make bad choices? The government has no right to decide my medications, and the way I live the rest of my life. You are not my doctor! Get out of my health care when you know nothing about me! This is not your job!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 20th, 2017Someone from Columbus, OH writes:
My experience has been that as soon as they hear the word pain they turn a deaf ears I fell and broke my tibia and tore my meniscus and could not get a doctor to do an mri or even treat the pain. So I worked on a broken leg for 3 months until they finally agreed to do an mri. No meds and I cannot take NSAIDS due to a duodenal ulcer that I have had since high school. And didn't know it was a "sign" till I read this article. At what point does this become inhumane? They won't even giveyour 80 year old mother pain meds and she has severe arthritis Are the afraid she will ruin her life at this point? It's ridiculous.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 20th, 2017Someone from Columbus, OH writes:
My experience has been that as soon as they hear the word pain they turn a deaf ears I fell and broke my tibia and tore my meniscus and could not get a doctor to do an mri or even treat the pain. So I worked on a broken leg for 3 months until they finally agreed to do an mri. No meds and I cannot take NSAIDS due to a duodenal ulcer that I have had since high school. And didn't know it was a "sign" till I read this article. At what point does this become inhumane? They won't even giveyour 80 year old mother pain meds and she has severe arthritis Are the afraid she will ruin her life at this point? It's ridiculous.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 20th, 2017Kim W. from Ogden, UT writes:
Because there are so many abuses and deaths from people who have no need of pain relief, who are just escaping ordinary life rather than live it and contribute, because they're overdosing in record numbers, the fires are heating up quickly. It's frightening...for those of us who suffer and have no other way to help ourselves. Those of us in legitimate pain who follow our pain plans to the letter, never abuse the system, just need our small bit to help us survive life. Those who, without opiates are left with such a low and crucifying quality of life, it isn't life worth living. And brothers, there are a lot of us out there. And growing in numbers each day. It's the rage to campaign against opiates, and sadly, those who need them are weak, suffering, usually barely living one day to the next. Here, when we need a voice the most to protect ourselves, we haven't the energy or strength to fight any longer. We're just trying to live without bleeding. Those of you out there who are strong enough, you need to fight back, we need ever voice able to speak, we need to have these voices heard just like we got them heard once before back in the sixties, because that's where most of us who truly suffer come from, that era. Starting this year Medicare has put a cap on the milligram (not pills or number of pills of differing strengths, they're going right for the jugular and placing it against the milligrams of relieve we use to maintain quality of life); and looking at their numbers, it seems they have all determined we need very little. The number cap is far lower that most chronic pain sufferers who are lucky enough to find treatment obtain. This month, all over this country, old people, crippled people, the suffering, the poor -- the ones whose lives are barely worth living in the first place -- are going to go to their pharmacy with their med scripts they've used for ten or twenty years and wait their typical hour or so for it to be filled only to be told it won't be filled. That's it's denied, they exceeded a milligram limit. Very few of them are even going to understand what is happening. Some of them, the older ones, the ones who really can't fight back, who live alone with pain, they'll go home empty handed, not understanding Medicare's new legislature, and not understand as well how badly and how horrid it is going to be when they start to withdrawn off of ten years of medication cold turkey. This writer believes we will have quite a number of them die, old, suffering, many trying to call their doctors or just to comprehend what's going on, and when the withdrawals strikes they'll become more confused, less able to help themselves, and a lot of them will die of seizures, whole body seizures, after all the other pleasantries cold turkey withdrawal offers. Now, I have lost two close friends, young frieds I tried to cousel knowing what drugs do to peole, and they've died, they overdosed and I've gone to the funerals and I've felt my heart breat for them. But the blowback from this rising tide of needless death is going to hit hardest not the abusers, but the old ones, the battered and broken and crippled. They will suffer for this. The young will just find another way to get their next hit. The irony is the reason they can abuse these drugs are people are aging, the drugs are needed, badly needed, and they're easier to find and steal and swindle. It's become easier for them to get their hands on these meds and abuse them because those of us who fought in Vietnam and those of us who have just been hammered by life, we're getting older now and record numbers of baby boomers are discovering what the words chronic pain actually mean. There are no alternatives out there, folks, there are no miracle drugs, there isn't exercise or diet or yoga treatment that is going to do a damn thing for real, vivid, burning, chronic pain. Only opiates. There's been no research for true alternatives. It's all we have. Opiates. The opiate plant has a receptor that is designed to match up with a receptor in the human brain, and beyond that it has no other purpose in the world. God put it here for those of us who fall to chronic pain. Horrid pain. That's it's purpose. And there aren't alternative treatments. Nu-rotten as I call it. Give me a break, it does nothing and why bother? There is only one place to turn, and we didn't create a world where only opiate and opiate type drugs can save us from suffering inhuman pain. As these laws get tougher and politicians work to bring down the numbers of those abusing opiates for votes, as the fires get hotter, I clearly foresee a lot of us opting to end out lives rather than each and every day, day after day after day, suffer sometimes ungodly pain. And as we're buried, we'll just be labeled suicide, what a slob to blow his own brains out -- this guy, just make sure he doesn't get buried in sacred ground. We were young in the sixties when we organized against wrongs, against a worthless war, a lying president, against racial prejudice and so may other causes. We had energy and purpose and drive. These new laws -- and people they are coming, we are seeing only the tip of the iceberg in the new Medicare milligram cap -- they laws are going to stack one atop the other until there'll be no way out of chronic pain. And no one's going to care. Hero senators are going to pass bills denying strong pain relievers and be applauded for saving addicts while those who are old and broken and cling to these drugs for their last and precious quality of life, just enough to go on living and not chose death, just enough to endure -- we are going to suffer and suicide and die in back rooms alone in silence because unlike it was back in the day, we haven't the energy to fight back. We're barely staying alive. So those of us who are facing this reality, I guess we have to appeal to anyone who will come to our aid, those of us who can fight, we have to shout with voices loud, we have to fight for us and our brothers and sisters and are about to be left behind. Somehow the point has to be made: yes, we must lower the numbers of deaths and the tragedy of addiction which is spreading like wildfire due to a country already divided against each other with such ferocity not seen since the civil war, and poor with no where to go and no way out, and jails filled greater that any other country on the planet -- those are the causes of addiction and overdose. And now, my friends, we, those who are in chronic never ending pain, get to pay the price. We'll be the unheard voice. How do you fight a government when your barely able to fight to stay alive? There a darkness coming no one is going to talk about where silent suffers who sit in the dark, having been made to feel unclean as lepers for seeking relief, who pray just for the end of day and hope for sleep to escape the never-ending pain they never asked for or deserved -- they'll have no voice. I guess if you can organize, if you can do it, fight back. All of us who are able, fight back for our kindred who suffer as we do. Fight for our rights or we're going to loose the right not to life without burning in pain each day of our life. God's Pity, I fear what's coming. Whoever titled this blog, yes, how true, save the punks killing themselves and addicting themselves, BUT FIRST DO NO HARM.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 20th, 2017Someone from Hammond, LA writes:
Yes, the pendulum has swung too far. I have many documented issues to justify my need for opiate prescription pain medication. I am already on the highest dose of Mobic and Neurontin available and am in constant intractable pain without also taking opiates.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 20th, 2017todd c. from Jay, FL writes:
Believe it or not, the General Public for the most part are very much aware of the dangers of getting addicted to opiates. If not someone they directly know then it's always a good friend of a friend Who's had Such An Awful Time coming off of that stuff! I hear ALL of this information , in mixed company of course. I sit and listen to somewhat endless stories, and to me it basically falls into two categories: you have people for every kind of real pain imaginable that desperately search, for long periods of time too for a decent doctor to either try to fix whatever the problem is or at least get medicated enough to have somewhat of a decent quality of life. Then there is a Very Large and growing population , that despite ALL of our greatest efforts somewhere along their lives someone gives them an opioid to deal with some type of stress , and unfortunately they like the feeling and seem somewhat doomed to compete with that first feeling of release by increasing and increasing the dosage to obtain the same effect which we all know will never really happen anyway. And here I sit, a year ago i had a very serious car wreck, even declared dead at the scene but they were able to bring me back. Long story short, I had seven or eight burst fractures from S1 up... a broken back, we won't even discuss the neurologic deficits i have to work at every single day I take my meds as I'm supposed to, yet my pain management dr recently retired, so here i go again in search of a doctor that will take the time to look at ALL my records and come up with a plan for me. I have known so very many people to turn to the streets in search of what they need but i can honestly say that i never have... I would truly hate to live alife like that its just not me. the DEA I think should have to consult with the md's, the do's and other doctors, not the other way around.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 19th, 2017Jennifer J. from White City, OR writes:
I'm sixty been taking my pain meds for over ten years.never asked for early refill or had to go up in strenght!i take a kemp drug!dobyou no what that does to my hair?well don't have enough to pull out for what your doing to us!You have know idea what pain I'm in!! I thought my family members fought for or freedom?now I have high blood pressure!So now I'll die having a stroke!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 19th, 2017Shane T. from Butte, MT writes:
I'm a chronic pain...I live in butte mt and am a paraplegic been on pain meds for 8 yeara...my pain dr died now can't find a dr who will take me cause of the dea I'm tired of people screwing it up for everyone who needs it...REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 19th, 2017Someone from Big Bear Lake, CA writes:
Propaganda is the name of the day. Been in chronic pain ten years so far.Have no income so people percieve I am a drain on society. Go to small clinic local pharm even ER always same thing DEA. So at this point screw the pharmacies Walgreens CVS Dr W Yeh(his partner Dr. Mckenize apparently herion addict). They don't tell you that on the web.Dr Knapik where I was going. Will live in pain but what goes around comes around. One day they all will be pain even if its the day they die.Sincerely hope they go through this issue of DEA will not let you have anything for the pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 19th, 2017Billy A. from Santa Cruz, CA writes:
I'd love to see a comparison between a Chronic Pain Patient's responsible use of medications to control chronic pain and others who consume alcohol "casually." The potential for abuse? The justification of increasing use? Stats on DUI injuries and deaths, lives ruined by alcohol used to deny the casual drinker their casual consumption. This is what the pain patient hears. Stats on Heroin use and overdose and medication abuse via the black market are thrown in patient's faces as the reason they will no longer be prescribed. How many responsible chronic pain patients are ruining their lives and families and crashing their cars? How many Politicians, DEA and DEA employees, Pharmacists, Doctors, etc., would call the comparison invalid, because they consume alcohol? Where is the media coverage defending these patients being denied, under-treated and their decomposing quality of life? Where are the Doctors who are not afraid to advocate for these patients? Hypocrisy at it's best. You're not an alcoholic? We're not junkies.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 19th, 2017Someone from Buchanan, GA signed.
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Jan 18th, 2017Someone from Charlotte, NC writes:
I lived a normal productive life until transvaginal mesh surgery in 2009. I worked 40 plus hours a week in retail management. I had a great very active life. The hell began the moment I woke up in recovery screaming from pain! I went back to work in pain after my recovery period. The pain continued, I passed kidney stones frequently. I kept saying to my doctors something is wrong! Three plus surgeries later I suffer horribly EVERY DAY . I lost the ability to have intercourse with my husband do to the pain. I cannot empty my bladder or bowels normally any longer. Walking any distance is a thing of the past. Sitting is painful, standing for any length of time is painful. After my mesh removal in 2012 I had to seek pain management. It doesn't remove it all together ever but the feeling of being on fire from the inside out is reduced. Self catheterization is my only relief and option to purge my body from urine. I would not wish this suffering on any one. I went to my normal pain management doctors a few days ago. I was told that the dosage I have been on for a year and a half is too high for the standards! I have to reduce my medication! My first thought is I CANNOT cope with this! I cannot live like that. I want those individuals sitting on boards that are making these life altering debilitating decisions on what is best for all of us to live one day, one week, one year! Walk in my shoes and experience the pain and suffering I have been dealing with since I was 48 years of age. To loose your dignity when you get a random drug test at your own expense. To be looked at and checked like a child for your drug levels. Are you over medicating? Pain management is HELL! It is the me's of the world's only option other than just check out all together. The crazy thing is that board that just made my pain medication decision is probably the same board that said the product that ruined my life was safe! There has to be a halt to this interference in our health. Pain management isn't a one stop shop and treatment for everyone. One dose is good for all !. The expense is astronomical. We just don't decide to become disabled and check out of society for pain medication! I have started the reduction in my meds and bed is going to be my only option in life. Please put a stop to this! You are going to have people like me that have followed every rule and guideline left with no other option but look for other resources for our much needed medication. This is opening up a whole host of issues. You will create a market greater than the legally obtained prescription drugs we have gotten in the past. Individuals will take advantage of these horrible guidelines and more people will die on black market drugs. Stuff that only God knows what is in it. I never thought I would ever experience anything like this in my lifetime. The mesh put me in need of the drug's and now I'm told one dose is good for no matter what has happened to you. I need two more surgeries. I cannot imagine how ruthless that will be with medication being with held because one dose is good for that too!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 18th, 2017Someone from Kingman, AZ writes:
This is ridiculous as to how hard it is to acquire pain mess, yet I can go to a pot store and buy pot. I can drive in pain mess, on pot I would go over the side role and that would be it. Now I have to join a group wooed going to charge me and arm and leg to get a list of Dr.s who will prescribe? There's something wrong with this picture!!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 18th, 2017Someone from Kingman, AZ writes:
This is ridiculous as to how hard it is to acquire pain mess, yet I can go to a pot store and buy pot. I can drive in pain mess, on pot I would go over the side role and that would be it. Now I have to join a group wooed going to charge me and arm and leg to get a list of Dr.s who will prescribe? There's something wrong with this picture!!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 18th, 2017Someone from Duncanville, TX writes:
That's BS,you have a Hollywood actor who died on oxytocin and alcohol abuse,so they whine to the white house pain pills are bad.Have you look at the stats, alcohol related deaths 166,000 a year,to pain pills at 10,000 a year. Most of the deaths are high school kids or rich getting their kicks. People with pain need these drugs to get though life everyday.You band pain pills,you need to band alcohol 1st., if thus is really about protecting people than make alcohol illegal.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 18th, 2017Dawn C. from Youngstown, OH writes:
This is inhumane to do this and is taking away our rights as human beings to live a pain-free lifeREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 18th, 2017Someone from Youngstown, OH writes:
I have suffered for years with degenertive disc disease it's now threw my entire back, I have been to the pain clinic for a year, every doctor known to man, now at 58 I have been sent to another pain clinic, they didn't talk much about my back problem just about the pain meds. And dismissed me sending me to a surgen now who wants to stick medal rods and screws in my back and most of the time this never works. They waited so long and never hear what I'm saying I now have sever nerve damage to my spinal cord, surgery won't take that away, I used to live a normal life but now just getting threw the day is a problem, and no one hears my cries for help I didn't wake up one day and say I want to have debilitating pain, but this is the life I have to live now no one wants to live this life, and with no management for pain I would not want to be here any more just to lay in bed and not be able to move.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 18th, 2017melody c. from ringgold, GA writes:
I have had this exact problem for years and years now! I am a Chronic Pain Patient and I must say as such I have endured more then anything the problems stated in this article here! I have a lot of medical problems such as 6 screws and a metal plate in my left foo, a torn rotary cuff with bone spur on top off just this one issue, they refuse to fix it because guess why I Smoke Cig. Then there is my cracked vertebra which they operated on and filled with silicone stuff plus one bulging disc, Now if that isn't enough I have arthritis in my spine awful arthritis so I'm told. Hum then there is the Fibromyalgia and arthritis plus I have clocertrictic Colitis or U.C. for short. Oh but it doesn't end there. I shattered both heels at the same time years and years ago 1996 so my left ankle is also wired together to just make me walk! That's not all my medical issues but that is a good start! Now since that point in 1996 I've been called a drug seeker, a liar, someone who is doctor shopping and a horrible patient. I am now in pain management again mind you and I hate my life to be honest! I am made out to be a CRIMINAL and it isn't fair to be frank because I already have to deal with family thinking this is all just me wanting drugs bad enough yet to have strangers talk about me as if I was a criminal I think beyond blowing ones mind! Even the pharmacist's looks at you like you are a druggie and should get off the meds! Ya Ive had enough and don't know why at my age now the dang Government is acting like I am also a drug dealer or taker or a criminal too boot! At what point do you just get sick of it and end it>>>Hum IDK but trust me I've been so sick of it that I cry and cry and CRY for God to just take me home and end all of it! Yes the government has made my life even worse then it was before every since the big famous folks OD'ed I have been put through the ringer! If I could sue all their asses trust me I would but guess what Ya Can't! I've been threatened time and time again by Pain Management Doctors and they have released me for real! They call it non compliance and there is not one damn thing a person can do about it! I just wait out the time and find me a doctor who does get what I have been going through! I suffer all the time in pain even with the meds and without them I live in emergency rooms>>>Does the Government care>>>NO! They are not suffering, They have no clue what it is like to be in my shoes or my families shoes! This is dangerous what they are doing to folks! My poor MOM died Bonnie McKinney and she died a miserable death because she suffered those last couple of years and ya know what she had CANCER and it was small cell Cancer. After they found what was hurting her FINALLY it was too late she lived exactly 4 weeks to the day they figured it all out! She kept complaining she was hurting! She did go to the so called Doctors>>They retired right before she found out what was going on! Oh Well is what you folks say well I'm a daughter without a mother and I can tell you that if it was your MOM you would think differently trust me! Anyways I am not going down without a fight! I think the government needs to stop playing doctor and start running the freakin country because as far as I can see ya are pretty worthless at it!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 18th, 2017Dellwen H. from North Port, FL writes:
I have been suffering from back pain.for many years now do to a work related injury. Criminalizing, the very people who rely on some of these medications need them . they're is for sure a problem with the people who have no business even getting tnem.it starts whith the Dr's I have. Been taking the same amount for over four years .it drastically helped the overall quality of life for me.the only sufferers are once again, the true victims. .REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJan 17th, 2017Debra E. from Ventura, CA writes:
I injured my back last month and couldn't walk from the pain. So I went to the ER. They gave me (20 count) 10mg hydrocodone. This allowed me to get up and go to the bathroom and most personal care. When they ran out over 7 days later I followed up with my doctor who refused to give me any pain medication. I am in so much pain and can not walk because the pain is too much, let alone put my shoes on. Once before I injured my back and it took 3 weeks to heal. I have received pain medication only a handful of times over the last 30 years for spine related pain. My neck was fused in 1983 from an auto accident did not pursue treatment seriously until last year. This was my first MRI and here are the results that my doctor had when he refused to treat me with any pain relief. Postsurgical changes are seen within the upper cervical spine with cerclage wires noted posteriorly involving the posterior tubercle of C1 as well as the spinous process of C2. The cerclage wires also appear to involve the inferior aspect of the occipital bone with suggestion of possible partial resection of the occipital bone. There is a more soft tissue density with a few foci of hypoattenuation within the surgical bed, possibly reflecting the surgical material. Correlation with the operative report is suggested. There is fusion of the superior articular facet of C1 with the occipital condyles bilaterally. There is near-complete fusion of the lateral masses of C1 and C2 bilaterally. The articular masses at the C2-3 level are also essentially completely fused bilaterally. There is fusion of the right facet at the C5-6 level. My point is that the doctors who treat the poor are often inexperienced (those that are completing residency) and they lack the confidence and skill to make good medical decisions. My doctor is only a Physician Assistant and has far less training than a doctor has. With our current National Healthcare system only the poor will suffer with this restriction on pain medication.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jan 17th, 2017Sandy R. from Katy, TX writes:
I'm in too much pain to go into my story right now & I'm sure my sentiments have already been expressed within the comments others have already posted. However, I will say that I'm SURE this issue has NOTHING to do with the alleged concern that a small % of people are acquiring opiods for recreational use and out of that small groupy an even smaller group could potentially take them often enough to develop an addiction and out of that smaller group an even smaller group could conceivably develop some sort of affliction caused by their social use of pain medication. Here's why... 1. Big Pharma doesn't have to put the addictive component to the medication...that's done to create repeat customers & increase revenue. 2. One alcoholic beverage induces a MUCH greater altered state of mind than a pain pill. In fact, alcohol causes over 39% of traffic related DEATHS but there's no talk of anyone doing anything to limit or restrict access to alcohol...the government makes too much money on that! 3. Consider all of the other substances that have adverse health effects that aren't even in question such as tobacco, sugar, GMOs, pesticides, chemtrails, fluoride....I could go on & on but I really need to wrap this up. I'm equally sure that all of this restricting access to the very medications that make it possible for MANY of us just to get out of bed to brush our teeth and shower without anyone's help is all about the "agenda 21" depopulation 'plot' (no punn intended).REPORT COMMENTS
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