First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Mar 18th, 2013Someone from Grand Rapids, MI writes:
After 2nd cervical spine surgery ended up with 24/7 7-8/10 pain on average with episodes of 9/10. Pain doc was demeaning. I would cry a week before appt. when asked for something stronger the told me they could not help me. That's the short story. The longer story is horrendous. I wanted to kill myself because of the pain, the verbal abuse and neglect. -
Mar 18th, 2013Someone from Salem, OR signed.
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Mar 18th, 2013Someone from Marathon, FL writes:
I have witnessed, first hand, the suffering of my seriously ill daughter due to the DEA's war on legal pain relief medicines. Permenantly and 100% disabled, due to muscular dystrophy and rheumatoid arthritis, she must still jump through hoops like a trained dog, to get relief from the pain that never goes away. Her doctors and pharmacist understand her situation but the US DEA couldn't care less about the suffering they have caused this wonderful young lady and so many other, seriously ill patients like her. Shame on the DEA and all who support their inhumane policies.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 17th, 2013Someone from Hilliard, FL writes:
Why is The DEA treating pharmacies like Drug Dealers?? The DEA is Making It So Hard To Get A Legal Prescription Filled. Last month I Drove For 4 day's All Over Jacksonville Florida, Before i Finally Found A pharmacy That Had the Medicine in Stock. The pharmacist told me the DEA is creating a shortage in the medical supply chain. This should not happen in America.I guess The DEA Has Moved It's Failed war on drugs to The legal drugs so many disabled people living in chronic pain need. The DEA is causing American people to suffer. Will you help stop this suffering. I know when it comes to my health I want my doctor making choice not the DEAREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 17th, 2013Someone from Cohoes, NY writes:
This is exactly what is happening to me.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 16th, 2013Someone from Knoxville, TN signed.
Mar 16th, 2013Someone from Gulf Breeze, FL signed.
Mar 15th, 2013Someone from Mount Pleasant, SC signed.
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Mar 14th, 2013Someone from Angola, IN writes:
Being treated unfairly because of chronic pain, where there is clear medical evidence for and diagnosis and cause, just makes everything hurt even worse. Please help! I haven't done anything wrong and I don't ever plan to, either. I am just a regullar person who got hit by a car and then some. Please, help, I don't do anything illegal and won't ever, but I would like a doctor to really be able to help me sincerely without fear and mistrust in their eyes eventho they diagnosed me and have the MRI's etc. and know but my doctors are not confident in pain treatment not because of me, but because they are afraid of something else but I and others bear the brunt of whatever is making them afraid to treat us properly, soundly, and as pain free as possible. The doctors take it out on the patients, probably unconsciously but maybe they are just angry anyway and dont care how they treat a chronic pain patient, especially one that never caused them any trouble. Please help, it is so wrong for me to be labled humiliatingly, so caulously, and snap discriminated. A doctor or you reading this who could get hit by a car would not want to be treated poorly and unfairly either, there is no reason for it. Please help us all in this situation. Thank you.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 13th, 2013Someone from Indianapolis, IN signed.
Mar 12th, 2013Someone from Maysville, WV writes:
Pain management companys in america are a gross ripoff. They perscribe off label drugs that cause more pain. They lie on there reports. $1600 urine test to get a $5 bottle of pills? corruption is everywhere. 13+ years of severe chronic constent intractable pain, 3 failed spine surgeries. Its a never ending night & day mare for my family and me. We have the worst health care in the western world. Poisoned and lied to from cradle to grave.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 11th, 2013Someone from Elizabeth, CO signed.
Mar 11th, 2013Someone from Hilliard, FL writes:
I suffer from Chronic pain & The DEA Is Treating pharmacies like Drug Dealers. I Cannot Even Get My Legal Prescription Filled Anymore Because Of The DEA. WILL YOU HELPREPORT COMMENTS
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Mar 11th, 2013Someone from Hilliard, FL writes:
I suffer from Chronic pain & The DEA Is Treating pharmacies like Drug Dealers. I Cannot Even Get My Legal Prescription Filled Anymore Because Of The DEA. WILL YOU HELPREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 11th, 2013Someone from Berea, KY writes:
My husband has lived with chronic pain for over 10 years. I have seen him go from being a very active and outgoing person to one that goes days without leaving the house because of his pain. In the state of Ky if you are a pain patient you are pretty much out of luck. You will be treated like a criminal and if you need to change doctors for any reason, you won't even be able to get an appointment. Even primary care physicians are refusing to see patients if they suffer from chronic pain. This is beyond ridiculous.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 11th, 2013Someone from Chaplin, KY writes:
I have suffered from chronic pain for a decade now. Because of new legislation in my state, finding a doctor willing to treat chronic pain conditions, I live in constant pain. I have very little quality of life at this point. Many doctor's in our state are afraid to treat patient living with chronic pain. Please stop punishing the doctor's brave enough to treat us, and stop punishing those of us living with debilitating pain conditions.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 11th, 2013Someone from Harwich, MA signed.
Mar 10th, 2013Someone from Mount Sterling, KY signed.
Mar 10th, 2013Someone from Georgetown, IN writes:
Growing up and living in a small town in Indiana, I have always worked in Louisville, Kentucky. I worked at a 501(c)(3) , federally and state funded health center. Working there for 27 years, most of which were spent in managerial roles, I developed a relationship with the doctor seeing me. He respected me and knew me as a person who was responsible and professional. Then, the laws changed at our health center; The reason, they changed at Kentucky's capital. My wonderful doctor said , "No more pain medications for you". We, as a facility, have decided the risk is too great that they might get investigated and not willing to.assume.the risk for our patients. Get to a pain clinic, I was told and I have been seeking care to achieve some kind of quality of life ever since. (May will be a year since I've last had any semblance of pain relief). I suffer from fibromyalgia, polyneuropathy, interstitial cystitis, restless legs syndrome, migraines, etc. Please leave our doctors alone!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 10th, 2013Someone from Land O Lakes, FL signed.
Mar 8th, 2013Someone from Puyallup, WA writes:
I live in washington state, I have been unable to find a doctor here who is willing to treat my cronic pain. One clinic would but would only perscribe morphine or methadone,I took the morphine for aprox. 6 months but the side effects were so horrible that I switched to an on line pain doctor so that I could be perscribed a medication that would ease the pain with out the severe side effects. I do not understand how the dea can make the doctors so fearful of treating real pain paients with proper medications. Do I have to move to a different state just to be treated for my illinesses?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 8th, 2013Someone from Louisville, KY writes:
i was prescribed pain meds by my doctor of over15 years. when she stopped practicing i was not refered to another doctor that continued the same course of treatment. i was informed a was a ,drug addict, ajunkie and part of the drug problem in america. one physician that i went( i have recieved no help in locating pain management doctors from my current doctor or anyone else in the medical profession) to see told me i was the reason kids were killing themselves in the street! i worked for all my life until i had to medically retire due to 2 failed neck surgeries and 3 heart attacks. my pain level is sebere due to these failed surgeries and my joint problems and fibro myalgia. someone needs to stand and represent those of use who do not use these meds in a bad or recreational way. our pain is still there and will be for the rest of our lives. that is a long time.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 7th, 2013Someone from Minneapolis, MN writes:
I have been required to sign a pain contract. This hazards my health care. It profiles patients who use narcotics. Just because your prescribed narcotics for serious injury or illness does NOT give Des. Or Nurses the right to label you chemically dependent with out proper assessment. The DEATH developed pain contracts for a tool not a requirements. To help Des. Monitor drug abuse and dependency in patients who have been asset as such. Not to be used for any patient who are prescribed narcotics. Des. N nurses need to trust and listen to the patient as well as protect their privacy. You can't tell patients by signing contract it protects patient when Dr. Is unavailable. As well as if you don't sign it you will be refused Meds. That's cohesion. Laboring patients with pain contracts hazards patient care.profiles patients for Des. To eliminate patients with lessor insurance. It will also jepordize long term n emergent care. Please contact me for further information related to this issue n legal action I am taking to protection t my patient rights.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 7th, 2013Someone from San Jose, CA signed.
Mar 5th, 2013Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
I have two bullets lodged in my spine. I went to pain clinics everywhere. None wanted to help with pain meds. I finally found a doc who did my injections and pain meds. I finally could take my sons to the park play ball with them. My life was wonderful. After 17 years the dea closed him down. I can't believe this is possible.REPORT COMMENTS
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Mar 4th, 2013Someone from Hilliard, FL writes:
I live in chronic pain and have for 8 years, and now in Florida I cannot get my legal prescription filled. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 4th, 2013Someone from Radcliff, KY writes:
yes its sad that patients really suffering are being punished. after a car wreck that crushed my face and has required 3 reconstructive surgeries and 3 more to lessen the chronic pain i was referred into pain management. all my drs communicate with each other and im only recieving pain medications from the pain management doctor. this is the united states not russia. in this country free people are supposed to be able to get care for legitamate medical problems. what i take to control my pain is between me and my doctor. im not getting high when i take it i am meerly easing my pain to a point that my quality of life i improved to a point i dont stay in bed all day with ice on my face hiding from the light and the sound. a face full of metal will make keep you in pain. we all not drug addicts. worry about the economy and the radical countries trying to kill us not the medical decisions made between my doctor and iREPORT COMMENTS
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Mar 3rd, 2013Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
I'ts not only the elderly who choose suicide. I have been in horrible, constant pain since I was 18. It took YEARS to find a pain doctor who didn't tell me I was "too young to be on pain medicine." So instead, I was in so much agony I had to drop out of college, quit multiple jobs, and wanted to die. Recently my pain dr. quit and once again I was forced to try to find a new doctor. I honestly considered suicide. I still do. Under-treated pain has made my life so miserable and unbearable that I would rather just die.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMar 3rd, 2013Someone from Saint Paul, MN signed.
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Mar 3rd, 2013Someone from Traverse City, MI writes:
Without my pain medicine, I would have to be hospitalized. My pain is absolutely unbearable. I have Fibromyalgia, CFS/ME, Sjogren's, and Arthritis, among other things. I recently had to find a new doctor because mine changed his practice. It took me months to find one that would even consider treating me, because of the pain med. issue. I was made to feel like I was a junkie, when I have been on these pain meds for many years. With my meds I am still in a lot of pain, much that I am pretty much housebound. I have 3 children that I have raised, one still only 13. They have had to live with all of my limitations. There are so many things that I have not been able to do with them because of my pain. If I didn't have my pain meds, I wouldn't have been able to do anything with them. I don't know what would have happened, because the pain is unbearable like I said. I can see why so many commit suicide. The doctors have got to be trained I deal with this. They have to learn more about it, so they can treat it. Everyone needs to start believing us. Why on God's earth would any of us choose to live this way. I was a very active, athletic person. I had just started having kids when I started getting bad. I had just started towards my dream job of being a police officer. I was a reserve police officer. I was still doing my other job that I had done for 13 years , and loved. I was a store detective for Meijer, Inc.. I was newly married. Why would I choose to throw all of that away? Why would I instead choose to have people criticize me for being lazy, not be able to do stuff with my kids, who don't even remember when I could do stuff with them. When I had so much fun playing with them, and going places, doing things. Why would I give that up? Now I have no family that wants anything to do with me. I have no friends except for FB friends that share the same problems that I do. However, we never get to see them. It's not the same. Why would I give up all the activities I used to do, to just be able to be in bed most of the time, except when I get a good day to catch up on some laundry and clean the house a little, only to pay for it with 4 days to a week and a half in bed after. I so wish things would change, and people would try to understand that this isn't something we choose. We need our medicine so that we can even function. There are always gonna be someone that abuses medicine, no matter what. That doesn't mean we all do. Otherwise, you might as well accuse anyone who uses any medicine that can be abused, a drug addict. It's not fair, and it needs to be changed.REPORT COMMENTS
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