First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Aug 21st, 2014Someone from Broxton, GA signed.
Aug 21st, 2014Someone from Winchester, NH signed.
Aug 21st, 2014Someone from Littleton, NH writes:
Have suffered with chronic pain for the last 10+ years. Had a drug program that was working for me. Did not eliminate all the pain but the pain was tolerable and I could function. Now the DEA has made it so difficult for me to get the drugs I need. Doctors are afraid of losing their licenses that they will just tell you too bad can't help you. I go to a pain clinic but now they are also falling under the DEA's cuts. I wish these people who are supposed to be watching out for us would have to suffer the pain I do. I guarantee that things would change. When did we become so uncaring in the country that we let people suffer to the point of just wanting to kill themselves to end the pain. This needs to stop!! I am sorry that there are those that abuse these drugs. Those people will abuse something, I guarantee. So, I must pay the price for those who just want to get high. Shame on you DEAAug 21st, 2014Someone from Hudson, NH signed.
Aug 20th, 2014Someone from Cornville, AZ signed.
Aug 20th, 2014Someone from Winter Park, FL writes:
I would like to say as a chronic pain patient with 4 bulging disk in my back and and 2 disk's have 2 degenerative disk's in my lower back and 2 bulging in my neck with bone spurs. And I can't get the pain meds I need anymore so that leaves me with no life but lots of pain and it's not far that people with ligitment pain with mri's can't get there pain meds and now they have the drug mortering system it should make things easyer buy the DAMN DEA needs to but out of this so people with legitimate pain can live a some what decent life. The dea needs to deal with real drug dealers and leave us alone but it to bad they have bullied all the pharmacy's but it needs to be fixed soon and people need to do a class action lawsuit to tell DEA.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 20th, 2014Someone from Apple Valley, CA signed.
Aug 20th, 2014Someone from South Boston, VA writes:
Make the decision for yourselves and your health, not mine or others.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2014Someone from Sparks, NV writes:
Ive been strong most of my life.Worked since i was 13yrs old. College educated. I became ill when i was workin.Rheomtoid,Diabetes, degenerative disc, ended up getting fired for calling in sick.I applied for SS and i retired. I was put on many steriods and pain pills. It helped my life tremendously.I could walk again and be with my children n grandchildren.I had a life and i was happy. Now I got cut off my pain medicines.Its been 7 Months now and no doctor will even give me Tylenol or ibuprofen!I'm back in isolation in bed. I can walk or do normal stuff like hold a coffe cup.Type hurts my fingers. I'm treated like my pain is a lie. even though I've been diagnosed . I want to die or hope to die to end this excruciating pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2014Someone from Crawfordville, FL writes:
Im a 55 yr.old conic pain patient.I've had ,9 (nine) total hip replacement s! I was ran over @ 15 yrs of age. We don't choose this type of life. We just try to make the best of it. The label we receive at times are not Fair.just like the label we reciprocate ya'll with! We're not the bad guys. Just the hurt one's.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2014Someone from Huntsville, AL signed.
Aug 19th, 2014Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
The medication that I was taking is suddenly unavailable to me,it was cut in half.I was on same dose for twelve to fifteen years. I have had four major spine surgeries and I cannot stand or walk/failed surgeries over 40 years.i was an athlete,no drugs and my spine is destroyed. My wife and son have abandoned me.So I live alone in a condo with my dog and pay people to grocery shop,walk my dog. I was a successful investment broker and near Olympic type boxer,weightlifter,a Horatio Alger story. Without 3-5 pills a day taken away in an America that I do not recognize. If my beloved Father were here he would tell you...."Danny does not care for any pills."REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2014Someone from Royal Oak, MI signed.
Aug 18th, 2014Someone from Eldon, MO signed.
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Aug 18th, 2014Someone from Donalds, SC signed.
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Aug 18th, 2014Someone from Boone, IA writes:
This is ridiculous that the DEA has control, I agree it is none of their business and for when I go in to talk to the doctor and be labeled behind my back, PLEASE You try going through the pain as much as I put up with it, what happened to doctors treating patients right! This right here isn't, like I always say I have a lot more better things to do in my day then to go see the doctor, if you think if something that I already have like ibuprofen, Morton worked for me I sure in the hell wouldn't go see the doctor! I know my body, I know how much pain i can handle, but when I go in to go get help and finally now from a surgeon agrees with me, i understand that their are people out there too look out for, but if you had to go through the pain I deal with everyday you would agree with me that it affects the daily activity's and that label would change, just know that most people including me out there shouldn't have to have labels be put on us. It's not right, we never asked to have back problems, or knee pains that will affect most of us for the rest of our life. We need a change specially for the ones who suffer Real joint, knee ect... Pains. I don't ever encourage pain medicine use or any other medicines but now that I experience it, I know how it feels to suffer from knee pain and have the same go on with my other knee and have to live with that for the rest of my life.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 17th, 2014Someone from Houston, TX signed.
Aug 17th, 2014Someone from Crawfordville, FL writes:
I've had three back surgery's and the pain before during and for a time after, the pain was unbearable. If these people want to put pressure of doctors who help chronic pain patients, I pray to God that they have to endure the same pain but with nothing to control the pain. Let them see what's going on. You can't play God and expect that what you put out won't come back around.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 15th, 2014Someone from Roseville, CA writes:
Im am a nurse in california. I am appalled at the DEA and am super mad that they have any rights to your medical records at your own dr office and pharmacy. Pain is the 5th vital sign. It is none of there business what u take or why you take whatever you have been prescribed. Americans must stand up and fight for their right to pain control. Thwy are not professionals in the healthcare field and as such should have no say or access to your records. If you are in pain you deserve relief and if your doctor is trained to control your pain then thats his job. This must come to an end. Frustrated and mad. Where is our privacyREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 15th, 2014Someone from Crestview, FL signed.
Aug 15th, 2014Someone from West Mifflin, PA writes:
Doctors who ignore or turn their backs on patients with chronic pain, push us into an unbearable corner. I have personal experience of being turned away and made to feel like a drug seeker as opposed to a patient seeking pain relief! It drives the patient deeper into depression. I've isolated myself all summer. My house, family,friends, finances & marriage are falling apart. I was successful in my career prior to my back injury. I never did drugs before in my life until my failed back surgery. I was prescribed better pain medications when I only had 1 bulged disc. After surgery, I leaked CSF fluid for 24 days before the surgeon agreed to schedule an MRI. Every call I made to him complaining of the typical spinal headache and increased pain, made me feel like a drug seeker. Since the botched surgery, I now have 3 herniated discs, one of which is broken and pinching L5 sI nerve. I feel like my chart is flagged that I am nothing but a drug seeker. My surgeon, family doctor and physical therapist all feel I need pain management doctor. My pm doctor told me I need to learn how to deal with my pain and move on with my life. So, I lay in my bed and cry. I can see why people turn to drug dealers on the street. And...I'm close to calling my ex-brother in law and asking HIM for help. Atleast I know I wont be turned away.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 14th, 2014Someone from Jacksonville, FL writes:
This country is not about freedoms it is about small but powerful elitists who think they can decide what is best for us we are able to and should be allowed to go to a dr and not have to beg for pain medications if there is documented proof and evidence just remember the universe will decide the fate of egotistical cowardly individuals.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 14th, 2014Someone from Spring Valley, CA writes:
I was told in 1994 I had severe scoliosis & sciatica & after a # of years chronic lumbar sacro with osteoarthritis I'm not an addict so I'm rarely proscribed any pain pills or take any pain pills ever I took 1 whole or 1/2 nor co for 2 weeks cause now I have AS spondylitis & Dr. says I he can't give me pain pills cause their addicting .The pain is unbearable mostly at night .I know my symptoms cause me to think of surgery now often.I think cause my body can't deliver nutrients it needs so I'm going bald now .REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 14th, 2014Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
There are no words available from yours truly to describe this DEA situation. America is no longer a free country. With pain meds,I could walk short distances,without the dose I was taking I am housebound,worthless. Tried to relocate to Arizona and it is even worse. Why not arrest and imprison people who steal meds.become high,resell them and so forth. However,treat persons who are in genuine chronic debilitating 24/7 hell.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 14th, 2014Someone from Phoenix, AZ signed.
Aug 13th, 2014Someone from Phoenix, AZ writes:
I don't need to tell anyone what my need for pain meds are but I can tell you one thing for sure: as a conservative, I believe Big Gov't needs to stay out of most aspects of our private lives, that includes insurance and what medications our doctors feel we should be taking. If my doctor diagnoses me with something, I believe he/she has the right to prescribe a medication to aid in my quality of life, too! DEA stay out of our doctor/patient relationships! I hope you all one day get to deal with CHRONIC PAIN and see that physical therapy doesn't always work!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 13th, 2014Someone from Chowchilla, CA writes:
I would like to put each agent in my body for three days. I think they would quit their job running cry to mommy, or commit suicide!!.this article really hit home, as I am in the process of finding a physician and was treated like a drug addict piece of dirt even though I have verified patholog, M.R.I.'s,, scan, and bloodtest.I suffer from degenerated joint disease, degenerative disc disease, rheumatoid arthritis and disc that are pinching nerve on is that need to fixed, but due to my cardiac status, and get that heart failure leaky valves and I cannot get any cardiac clearance to fix any but no cardiac clearance. That's just to name a few, those aren't all of my entire diagnoses... My husband own insurance had me investigated and paid for an independent examination, the doctor they picked sent them back a six page letter pretty much telling them in a nutshell to go screw themselves, " this many amnomalities is overwhelming to say the least, and the proof is in the pudding. She should remain on the pain medicine she is on." Now? Suicide is looking better and better!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 13th, 2014Someone from Chowchilla, CA writes:
I would like to put each agent in my body for three days. I think they would quit their job running cry to mommy, or commit suicide!!.this article really hit home, as I am in the process of finding a physician and was treated like a drug addict piece of dirt even though I have verified patholog, M.R.I.'s,, scan, and bloodtest.I suffer from degenerated joint disease, degenerative disc disease, rheumatoid arthritis and disc that are pinching nerve on is that need to fixed, but due to my cardiac status, and get that heart failure leaky valves and I cannot get any cardiac clearance to fix any but no cardiac clearance. That's just to name a few, those aren't all of my entire diagnoses... My husband own insurance had me investigated and paid for an independent examination, the doctor they picked sent them back a six page letter pretty much telling them in a nutshell to go screw themselves, " this many amnomalities is overwhelming to say the least, and the proof is in the pudding. She should remain on the pain medicine she is on." Now? Suicide is looking better and better!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 13th, 2014Someone from Chowchilla, CA writes:
I would like to put each agent in my body for three days. I think they would quit their job running cry to mommy, or commit suicide!!.this article really hit home, as I am in the process of finding a physician and was treated like a drug addict piece of dirt even though I have verified patholog, M.R.I.'s,, scan, and bloodtest.I suffer from degenerated joint disease, degenerative disc disease, rheumatoid arthritis and disc that are pinching nerve on is that need to fixed, but due to my cardiac status, and get that heart failure leaky valves and I cannot get any cardiac clearance to fix any but no cardiac clearance. That's just to name a few, those aren't all of my entire diagnoses... My husband own insurance had me investigated and paid for an independent examination, the doctor they picked sent them back a six page letter pretty much telling them in a nutshell to go screw themselves, " this many amnomalities is overwhelming to say the least, and the proof is in the pudding. She should remain on the pain medicine she is on." Now? Suicide is looking better and better!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 13th, 2014Someone from Lexington, KY signed.
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Aug 13th, 2014Someone from Houston, TX writes:
I was in a car accident 8 yrs. ago and have 3 herniated disk in my back, and 4 yrs. and cromic neck pain. My Dr. says he can't give me anymore pain or muscle relaxers to help coop with the pain. I am 56 yrs old and don't need the government interfereing with my treatment. My father has cromic pain and can't sleep and is also unable to get sleeping pills or pain meds. This is ridiclous. We are not drug addicts, we have pain that is not being treated and don't know what to do.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 12th, 2014Someone from Covington, KY writes:
I'm was disabled in-the-line-of-duty as a police officer. After having Thoracic surgery to repair my thoracic spine, I was given Morphine 15mg ER and 10mg Oxycodone. Yesterday I was informed that Oxycodone will no longer be prescribed due to DEA mandate. I know take 30mg ER Morphine that makes it impossible to function and lead a normal life. I have never done well on higher doses of morphine and now I'm left with no other obtion. The DEA should never be able to overrule my doctor. The government I faithfully served and gave my body for has now become my enemy!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 11th, 2014Someone from Wichita, KS writes:
I have had a horribly painful ruptured disk in my neck for 4 months now and my doctor refuses to give me anything at all for pain. Not even a non narcotic - saying that most people have no pain at all. I have degenerative disk disease and am used to being in pain but it gets worse every time and lasts longer every time I get a rupture. I guess these doctors feel being nonfunctional and suicidal is better than being functional and maybe becoming dependent. But somehow people not in real pain don't have any trouble getting them. It doesn't make any sense. My doctor acts like I'm asking for heroine when I tell her I can't take this too much longer.REPORT COMMENTS
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