First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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May 30th, 2014Someone from Hillsboro, OR signed.
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May 30th, 2014Someone from Lake Worth, FL writes:
My sister is also going through this torment. Her doctors just literally "abandoned" her. Left her to suffer chronic back and neck pain, suffering from numerous aliments, now even edema. It's a disgrace to allow this to happen to people who are in constant pain. The government blatantly lied to get this bill passed, constantly reassuring that the chronic pain patients would not be effected and would get the proper care they needed, period! Where do you draw the line between taking care of the ill versus controlling them. It's an all too familiar story within our new world. What the doctors & politicians are doing is immoral, unethical, and cruel. It's a total thoughtless disgrace. Thank you very much, I cry every night for my sister. Never thought a good doctor would turn their back on someone in pain. This is very wrong.May 30th, 2014Someone from Lake Worth, FL signed.
May 30th, 2014Someone from Tulsa, OK writes:
This problem has gotten so bad that suicide is now a pain relief option.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 27th, 2014Someone from Central Islip, NY writes:
I have 3 herniated disks, piched nerves, diabetic nueropathy and I'm sick and tired of being treated like a drug seeker/addict when all I want is to not be bed ridden!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 26th, 2014Someone from Suffolk, VA writes:
I a being treated like a criminal. All because I want pain reliefREPORT COMMENTS
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May 26th, 2014Someone from Church Point, LA writes:
I was hit by a drunk driver in 1983. Since then I have had 6 hip replacements and 1reconstruction. Through the years I developed severe lower back pain and I can't pronounce all the names for it. I was told that I could not have surgery or I would end up in a wheel chair. I also have a problem with my neck and was told no surgery because I would not be able to hold my head up. After every surgery that I have had which is over 15 in the last 30 years, I was given pain medication for a few weeks and that was it. I didn't need more, my pain was gone. Now I'm 56 with very high blood pressure and heart disease. I put up with the pain for years until I decided to see a pain management doctor. I have been on medicine for my pain for over 2 years now and I am doing more with my life than I was able to do long before my last surgery. I was and still am having trouble filling my prescriptions. I even got so frustrated with it that I just stopped going. Now I am able to fill it, but I don't know how long thats going to last. Help me understand why I have to go through this at my age because someone else decided they wanted to use medication the wrong way. Why doctors and scientists created these medications to help people and now because someone decided to misuse it, we have been told we can't. I was told tens ago that the only thing for me was pain management, I thought it was another form of physical therapy, so I didn't check into it bcause I had already gone through a year of it. Had I known it was to take this medicine, I would have at least had 10 years of walking and sleeping without pain. All the people with Muscular Dystrophy, Cerebral Palsy, Cancer and many others. Do you really think these people care about what you or I think of them, when they wake up every morning if they went to sleep that night with so much pain. They are looked at like drug addicts, that is so wrong in so many ways. WHY.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 24th, 2014Someone from Johnson City, TN writes:
5-24-14 PHYSICIANS BEING THREATENED WITH THE RED FLAGS & INCONSISTENT RULES OF THIS NEW SYSTEM. I was a member of the health care community for many years before a medical condition retired me. I personally know physicians who feel very threatened with losing their license or their practice. All because they are doing what they have taken an oath to do. Doing what they have gone to school to do. Some of these esteemed physicians have ran private successful practices for years with zero issues. They have practiced smart yet compassionate medicine. These same physicians are afraid to ask questions. Afraid of being targeted. It is a witch hunt. I have never seen anything like this & I was around when HMO's came into rule. And lest we forget the patients... I know there are patients who abuse the system. I have read the stats on the number of opioid scripts in TN. If these numbers are true, then it is terrible. But as I have heard commented. These rulings are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. What about the true long term pain patients? What are we to do? Without & suffer? This ruling in Tennessee as I have read it, these guidelines that all physicians are to adhere to. All versions, which, may I say are all different in language & threshold numbers. Has one common message. All long-term pain patients must either do without relief, which for some, means no quality of life or normal existence. These patients must leave their primary doctor, which in some cases is a long term/ long documented medical history. They must now be funneled thru a pain management clinic. And may I add the long term pain patients medical history, even if meticulously documented, DOES NOT MATTER. When you are flagged in this system, that history means nothing. It seems to me that these Pain Management Clinics stand to benefit the most from these regulations. And I have not even touched on the pharmacists, especially the small town drug stores. They are targeted & forced to accept unfair limitations. And they are the ones who must stand behind counter & look into the sad hollow eyes of a patient they have dispensed meds to for years, living in their community,knowing well their ills, and tell them they either cannot fill their script or they do not have the proper numbers of meds to fill it. It seems to me someone with some common sense needs to step into this whole mess. Because from my view, the common sense & decency are illusive in this matter.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 23rd, 2014Someone from Port Charlotte, FL writes:
Thank you for your time, your patience and hopefully positive changes you are able to create for us survivors. I'm 36 now... Happily Remarried now with four children, which in 2012 at age 34 we finally delivered our lil Blessing ... She was born most incredibly Sweet. I had all four natural deliveries and always shied away from any form of anything in my body that wasn't naturally healthy. She is my fourth Blessing, as I had three children with my Ex Husband if 15 years. Although happily our brand new Daughter was my Second Husband's first and only child. He wasn't supposed to conceive, which he eagerly tried for 8 years with his Ex-Wife. We were ultimately Blessed and also in awe when we were told. He also works at our local Justice Center and loves it dearly. We LOVED our lives, until sadly, four months after our Daughter's birth, I went to have a dental extraction in a Tampa, at an out patient surgery center. Which that day is just one more haunting one for our Family. I suffered cardiac arrest, due to their negligence, which they didn't even know I was dead for the first 4 minutes, then another 4 minutes they diligently worked on me doing CPR. I suffered 8 minutes of anoxia brain damage ( lack of O2) with so many memories lost, along with much more...SO much Worse.. They lied and covered their mistake up. I began having severe migraines the first time in my life just two day's after, which we found out were partially TIA's and seizures,then along with the severe body pains of this very active happy woman who used to smile daily and ran nearly 3 miles each morning. And severe neck and spine problems the next week. It was worse.. Then in Sept 2012..Just 3 and half weeks after that mundane surgery day....My Stroke at age 34! No one could of imagined,as I worked at this Hospital, too! And even was sent home days prior to that,cause of my age being so young.. They learned it can and did happen though... It was due to severe inflammation, cause my right carotid artery was inflamed from ALL the damages I went through.. I was vomiting and couldn't move my left side, along with my my face slumping and words jumbled.My head hurt so immensely and with a new baby.. This shouldn't happen.. we were supposed to be happiest! The nerve damage I live with from them saving my life that day was incorrectly performed. I now , for the REST of my life have bad nerve damages from my C-1 down to my T-2 and my head tilts from cervical dystonia, caused by an overdose of general and local anesthesia How Horrible.. I was beautiful... Then two day's after my stroke I suffered a seizure following a EEG in the Hospital.. wonderful. Yes.. more brain damage there, along with more agony for our Family, as I couldn't use my left side, speak from not only the stroke's damage, yet the damage from that surgery's intubation to my vagus nerve in my throat, which I still have issues eating these day's. Along with a fractured rib from that CPR then and what heREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 23rd, 2014Someone from Port Charlotte, FL writes:
I'm 36 now. Happily Remarried with four children, which in 2012 my Blessing was born. She is my fourth and my Second Husband first and only. sadly four months after her birth I went to have a dental extraction in a Tampa out patient surgery center, which that day is just one more haunting one for our Family. I suffered cardiac arrest,which they didn't even know I was dead for the first 4 minutes, then another 4 minutes they dilgiently worked on me doing CPR. Worse.. They lied and covered up. I began having severe migraines and then TIA's, alng with body pains and neck problems the day's after, then in Sept 2012..My Stroke. Cause by severe inflammation,cause by right cartoid arerty inflammation, nerve damage from performing CPR incorrectly and damage from my C-1 down to my T-2. Horrible.. Then two day's after my stroke I suffered a seizure followoing a EEG in the Hospital. Yes.. more brain damage, along with more agony for our Family as I couldn't use my left side, speak from not only the stroke's damage, yet the damage from that surgery's intubation to my vagus nerve, along with a fractured rib from that CPR and entire body pain cause I suffer central nerve damage, along with migraines, and so much more new medical issues. I will NEVER work in the medial Field again and help others I once had.. It's been nearly 2 years now and since then we have to drive ALL over God's creation in our County to make an attempt to have the one thing that makes my life more at ease..My pain medication's. I have nice, kind and thoughful Doctor's who are legit, yet always have that bad feeling when I am observed from every Pharmacy, as my regular Pharmacy isn't always given their orders,due to our DEA's strict emotionally abusing Laws. I feel my life has already been a pure Hell since then and One thing I would love to do is go back, although I/we cannot, so I suffer crying and agony, especially when I'm not able to have my legal rpescriptions filled, which are never on time and I stretch out fearing that day before, or when I am told "no.. Sorry they haven't come" Or even better.. " go to another Pharmacy".. passing the buck, right?! My situation could always be worse, yet I feel more saddened at many other people within my Community who may and are suffering much worse. I've even given up my prescription when another customer and I went to have ours filled around the saem time and ONLY a short amount left, so I was the first one to drop off my prescription and truly.. I had several left and offered my order for them.. why should it have to be this way DEA? You have honest hard working good, decent people out here and we all do understand how you must feel, yet have to back off some and see it from our eyes..Our children's eyes when I can't go for walks in the evening now.. It took me months to walk,talk, move again and make sense of my words.. and I struggle at times still, although I try and do my best, so I have now have more emotional problems from trying toREPORT COMMENTS
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May 21st, 2014Someone from Franklin, OH writes:
It is just a shame that people that are really in pain, can not get there pain medication, due to all the people that are abusing the system. That is unfair to use regular citizens that truly need pain relief, and doctors don't wanna help us, because of the abusers out there that so called doctor shop!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 21st, 2014Someone from Omaha, NE writes:
I dread the day that I lose my caring and compassionate doctor to retirement. I suffer from chronic pain from multiple PROVEN medical issues. I cannot function on a daily basis unless I am on pain management. I believe that patients who are seeing one doctor for pain management need to be left alone. I believe that there needs to be a central database to be able to identify patients who are "Dr. Shopping" as there are people who are taking meds for the wrong reason.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 20th, 2014Someone from Warsaw, MO writes:
I just lost my doctor who is an incredible, caring and compassionate doctor I've ever known. Even though her practice is grown so much, she isn't making enough profit to continue. I am terrified of not being able to find a new doctor that really hears what I have to say and seen all my body has endured and care about the pain that controls every minute of every day. I'm alive because she wants the best for me. How do I find a new doctor who isn't afraid to treat me with meds that make life tolerable. I have a right to be given pain meds. I DO NOT abuse them, but I do survive with them. Anyone have suggestions?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 20th, 2014Someone from Santa Fe, NM writes:
Medicine is supposed to be Scientific! People are suffering every day and considering suicide because they are denied Pain Medication! This is getting worse. Doctors need too be educated about pain, they are unaware or the numbers and statistics of addiction. I ma tired of our health Policy being dictated by ignorant politicians, and doctors who repeat old wives tales. MY life is ruined because my pain was not taken seriously! I have nerve damage that significantly impairs my life, because A Dr. who I found out later had a drug problem decided a ruptured disc, was "All in my head"! My Current Pain Management Doctor, Perhaps the only Accredited PM Physician in the State has told me "Never argue with the ignorant"! I am so tiredof being judged, accused, and denied care. Due to my "All in my head diagnosis" I am now a cripple! In Pain every single minute of every day! This should be criminal! Our State Pharmacist is not too bright! We have a a high rate of Heroin addiction here, it has nothing to do with legitimate pain patients. Heroin is easier to get than pain meds. They won't address allof the negative esocial issues that lead ot addiction or provide treatment. Instead they focus on Legitimate pain patients, low hanging fruit! Causing us unspeakable pain and distress. This would be considered torture in any civilized society, yet every day legitimate patients are denied pain meds. Women and minorities are more likely to be ignored and denied medication!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 20th, 2014Someone from Stanford, KY signed.
May 20th, 2014Someone from Knoxville, TN writes:
I have been in pain managment for 10 years and recently the state mandated reduction of the amount of medication (200 mg morphine ) means I am in constant pain. My pain was being controled on my previous amount of meds, now the state says that is too much and so I suffer. My quality of life is just existing. I can no longer do any of the things I enjoy, I rarely leave my house.i have considered moving to a state that at least has an intractable pain law, that actuallt allows its doctors to treat pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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