First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Nov 16th, 2014Someone from Tulsa, OK signed.
Nov 16th, 2014Someone from Jacksonburg, WV writes:
i suffer from chronic pain due to ra, oa, and fibromylagia, it is unfair that ppl who are in pain cannot ger adequate pain relief, we are drugged out, we are not drug seekers we are seeking relief from physical pain,Nov 16th, 2014Someone from Niles, OH writes:
I am in a pain relief nightmare...for the past 4 years...I need someone.to hear me...PLEASEREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 16th, 2014Someone from Naples, FL writes:
Those of us who are in chronic mind numbing pain (24/7) should not be treated as drug addicts. Until the past month, I was functioning as well as I could. After a diagnosis of COPD, last month, I am even less able to function without help. My husband had to take time from work to take care of me. So, in addition to being tied to my oxygen tank, I require pain medications just to make it through the day and night. I am fortunate enough to have my husband here to help. Without pain medications, I would be in terrible shape. I have my first appointment with my pain management doctor since the new laws went into effect and I have no idea what to expect. Will I have the medications needed to make it through to the next month? I have no problem following the laws as long as they are equitable and meet my needs for pain medication? Up until this point, everything has run smoothly but extremely painfully. Not only am I scared to find out what is next, I have to worry about medication discrimination. Hopefully, everything will run smoothly albeit painfully. I can deal with that as long as the DEA, pharmacists and pain management doctors all work in conjunction with each other. Please allow me to remain on my medications and give the doctor, the latitude he requires to meet my needs and those of all of the other people who are on narcotic pain medication. Speaking for myself and all of the other chronic pain sufferers, I ask that we all work together. We are not addicts but decent law abiding people who want an even playing field. Thank you for listening.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 16th, 2014Someone from Niles, OH writes:
I am in a pain relief nightmare...for the past 4 years...I need someone.to hear me...PLEASEREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 16th, 2014Someone from Palm City, FL writes:
Action is needed. Please WAKE UP. People are dying unnecessarily. The numbers will increase until this situation is taken seriously.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 16th, 2014Someone from Saint Petersburg, FL writes:
There is something wrong with a society that penalizes doctors for helping patients in pain. This is a national crisis and someone has to listen to those of us who have suffered long enough or there will be many more suicides because pain kills, too. The sick, the ill, the disabled are NOT being listened to. Instead they and their doctors and their pharmacists are being treated like criminals. Stop the DEA and this crazy, ill-informed war on pain medication NOW!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 16th, 2014Someone from Troy, TX signed.
Nov 16th, 2014Someone from Saint Petersburg, FL writes:
My father in law's dr. After 40 years of treatment of this 87 year old man, who has survived 4 hip replacements and multiple skin cancer operations, the last one completely removing the right ear is refusing to rx tramadol. He takes allopurinol for a remote history of gout and he tells him this is his pain medication. I am appalled by this, he even has stopped rx meclizine for vertigo and told him the ENT dr can rx these. He takes BP meds , so you might just as well see a cardiologist and for the blood thinners go see the hemotologist, the dr has no business being in practice if he won't treat the patient or are these results of obamacare knowing the decrease in payment to PCP from medicare or a combination of the increase to low cost insurance coverage and the increase of indignant care. I have my suspensions. No way is it ethically acceptable to treat the elderly is such a manor. Discussted.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 16th, 2014Someone from Largo, FL signed.
Nov 16th, 2014Someone from Youngstown, OH writes:
I have chronic pain and this is discrimination to me. Hell I would rather eat marijuana or use CBD oil but it's not legal where I live.REPORT COMMENTS
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Nov 16th, 2014Someone from Sweetwater, TX writes:
I have chronic pain. To me this is discrimination. We go through alot with chronic pain and deserve to be treated like anybody else.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 16th, 2014Someone from Harvey, LA writes:
chronic pain takes joy out of your life. I cannot afford to hire people to do the things I can no longer do. I cannot work in my garden which I used to love to do. I cannot go out and do the things I used to enjoy doing. My medical care should be between my doctor and myself not the DEA. I resent them collecting information on me without my permission. I am with that person that said we should start a class action suit. I am also a care giver for a spouse that has stage 4 cancer who has a hard time getting pain meds from the oncologist. She does not abuse them she has asked for pain meds twice in two years hardly an addict. This is so wrong on so many levels. We must fight the fight. Should we get the ACLU involved?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 16th, 2014Someone from Marionville, MO writes:
People who suffer from chronic pain are not drug addicts. Yes, they may become physically addicted, but they are NOT addicts! We use pain medication because nothing else even comes close to working and, in most cases, all it does is take the edge off so we can function on a semi normal level. Severe chronic pain causes the person to withdraw from life. They stop doing the things they enjoy. They stop going to family functions. They stop working. They die inside because they have no hope. Why punish the person who is already suffering physically and mentally? Is it really going to keep drugs out of the hands of drug dealers and real addicts by making it where a doctor can't treat their patient? NO! And the truth of the matter is, this is the fault of doctors. The doctors who over medicate their patients and hand out pills like they are candy. And, not just pain meds. Benzodiazipin, proven to kill you from withdrawal, is handed out like Halloween candy. Why isn't it on the DEA's hit list? Yes, people suffer from anxiety. However, there are proven, natural ways to treat it. I have never found a natural "remedy" to treat severe chronic, life long, pain. Exercise, yoga, meditation, hot baths, ice packs, the list is endless. Yet, we can't do those things at work. We have to wait until we get home to baby our screaming bodies. Why remove a drug, that has minimal side effects and allows a person to have some type of life, from the people who truly need it? Makes no sense to me. Now, let me tell you my story. For 15 years I had a doctor that handed pills out like they were candy. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, an anxiety disorder, and depression because I had severe leg pain. I was on darvicet, loricet, ativan (8 mg a day), flexeril, soma, and 2 antidepressants. I took my meds as they were prescribed - 4 times a day. I never filled them early, I never sought out a drug dealer. After 15 years, I came very close to killing myself, on purpose, because I couldn't live like I was any longer. I checked myself into rehab. Not because of the pain meds, but because there was not a safe way for me to stop taking the ativan. It was the best thing I ever did. That was 8 years ago. I have had to take pain med off and on since then for various health and dental reasons. Now here's the kicker... When I'm not in excruciating pain, I DON'T TAKE THEM! I don't need them. Even after all those years of being on them, I am NOT a drug addict. See, there's the difference. A switch didn't flip that caused me to crave narcotics or other drugs. Currently, I suffer from degenerative disc disease, spinal stenosis, and SI joint dysfunction. I work, I do what I can with my family and it's because I take 1-3 hydrocodone 10 mg a day (on a good day I don't take any). See the difference here? When I'm not in debilitating pain I don't take them. The majority of chronic pain sufferers are the same way. When they aren't in pain, they don't take them. Yet, the DEA, is goiREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 16th, 2014Someone from Gainesville, FL writes:
I have chronic pain due to sacral nerve scarring (probably due to lifting patients during my years as an occupational therapist; my pain management physician believes a leaking intravertebral disk caused the scarring) and interstitial cystitis. The pain is constant, 24 hours per day burning as if someone was holding fire to my vulva. My bladder feels as if I am being scraped internally with sharp knives. I know this sounds impossible, but this is the most accurate way I can describe my pain. Neuropathic pain ("nerves gone wild" is the way I describe it to my friends, my humorous riff on "girls gone wild"--ya gotta laugh!) is the most unimaginable, nightmare pain, like Hell. I sometimes wonder if I'm really in Hell, paying for something horrible I did in another life, because I've been such a good person in this life. Anyway, I could not survive without my narcotic pain medications combined with neuropathic pain meds: Opana 30 mg XR twice a day with 10mg 3 times a day immediate release as needed, plus Topamax and Lyrica (meds for neuropathic pain) This combination does not make me "high" at all, just tired, but it enables me to work full time! Without it, I would be dead. I could not survive my pain without these medications. I just can't believe that the DEA is trying to interfer in the doctor/patient relationship and stop physicians from prescribing! My pain management physician hgas been treating me for four years and knows me very, very well. He has tried three blocks, two of which did nothing; the last one made my pain much worse. I have Googled blocks and found that my experience is VERY common. Blocks don't work! I have also Google spinal nerve stimulators, and theyonly work for 50% of paitents and only for the first year, after which they stop working and start causing autoimmune problems. And patients can't find any surgeons to take the stimulators out at that time. Congress, please stand up to the DEA. The DEA is "cops gone wild"--too much power, not enough knowledge. Stop the DEA! Empower the doctor -patient relationship.REPORT COMMENTS
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Nov 16th, 2014Someone from Redford, MI writes:
I have documents to prove what's wrong with me I have been put on a list for no reason at all and I would like this stuff removed off of my medical records because I am suffering from a joint disease my body is being put back together about him for reconstruction of the back my toe my neck now my hands what am I supposed to do to keep the pain under control I was in a pain control clinic and all they want to do is offer you medical marijuana shots if you don't take the shots you don't get your pain control and that said that we have to suffer because somebody else's stupid things to do you want to do with their medicine every time I get a urine test all my medicine that I was giving was in the air right now I am suffering because I have been on put on a these people are being put in databases database and it's sad to be in a database because all you doing is trying to get help I had to find a spinal care doctor to help me and that's sad that we cannot live my life in peace and go hang free they want to spend billions and billions of dollars all on these research is but we can't get the help that we need that's very sad I rather die than be in pain everydayREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 16th, 2014Someone from Brooklyn, NY writes:
The pain management doctor I have been seeing for more than one year refuses to continue treating me. He has told me that I should find another doctor. On my last visit he cut my medication. I have Lupus, RA,osteoporosis, spinal stenosis and many other conditions cause me to suffer from cronic pain ChaseREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 16th, 2014Someone from Mesa, AZ signed.
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Nov 15th, 2014Someone from Amarillo, TX writes:
DEA's Rannazzisi acknowledged that no one knows how rescheduling hydrocodone-containing products would ultimately affect patients. Nevertheless, he said, "we don't believe that there's going to be an issue with the patients getting those drugs." - See more at: http://www.ashp.org/menu/News/PharmacyNews/NewsArticle REALLY? Just read the previous postings you've received for this petition. 100% of eligible patients with confirmed pathology causing chronic, long term pain have been CUT OFF from the medications that helped prior to this rescheduling. Doctors STOPPED entertaining the idea of pain meds for fear of DEA prosecution. Please REPEAL this decision NOW!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 15th, 2014Someone from Tucson, AZ writes:
I have a lot of pain in my muscules and nerves because of CFS. Also I have arthritis and bone spurs and degenerating disks in my neck and back, but I have to take ibuprofen because Drs. are afraid to give pain meds. The ibuprofen is often not enough for my pain levels.REPORT COMMENTS
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Nov 15th, 2014Someone from Cape Coral, FL writes:
I was told to take an anti-inflammatory for pain when my Doc refused to fill my ultram prescription, so I took one aleve, even I stated I was allergic, they didnt care, I had a severe allergic reaction at work, my Boss wanted to call 911, instead i left and got benedryl, just in time, cuz my throat was closing up, I reported it to my Doc at my visit, he still injected me with cortisone, Thank God I had benedryl on me I had to take it on the way home, I had a butterfly rash across my face for three days, The Doc obviously thought I was lying about the allergy, and almost killed me, all because he was afraid of the FDA new Rules, I still suffer everyday in chronic pain, and Im not a Drug Addict, But Im treated like one, This has To STOP.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelNov 15th, 2014Someone from Peoria, AZ signed.
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Nov 15th, 2014Someone from Orange Park, FL writes:
I am lying here with chronic back pain, after moving around for a few hours. Today it has been 8 days that I have been unable to have my medication filled. We have cowards and judge mental know it all in charge are our lives. I refuse to accept this. Americans need to stand together and win this battle over pain medication Government control. Accidents, illnesses, surgery, etc., can happen to anyone at anytime. We must take back our rights and our freedom of choice and control.REPORT COMMENTS
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