First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Jan 1st, 2013Someone from Palatine, IL writes:
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Jan 1st, 2013Someone from Leslie, AR writes:
AFTER 5 YEARS OF HAVING A GOOD DOCTOR AND FIRST TIME SINCE 21 i'VE HAD PAIN MANAGED AS WELL AS REAL MEDICAL CARE, THEN DEA DESTROYED MY LIFE, i AM SICK OF BEING TREATED LIKE AN ADDICT FROM PAIN CAUSED BY DOCTORS IGNORING MY MEDICAL NEEDS AND NEAR DEATH FROM INFECTION TWICE. nOW ME AND MY SERVICE ANIMAL A WOLF, ARE SUFFERING FROM GRAM NEGITIVE BACTERIA INFECTION BESIDES MY CHRONIC ILLNESS AND HAD TO GO TO A FEED STORE JUST FOR ANTIBIOTICS FOR BOTH OF US BECAUSE ER AND PAIN CLINIC BOTH ACCUSED ME OF WITHDRAWL WHEN i CRAWLED IN THE DOOR. i'VE HAD IT EVEN WALKING OUT OF A PAIN CLINIC DUE TO DOCTIOR ATTITUDE AND NOT GETTING DRUGS, HIS REPORT PAINTED ME LIKE A DRUG SEEKER WITH EXACURATED PAIN. i HAVE SO MUCH MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION SHOWING MY MULTIPLE REASONS FOR PAIN INCLUDING EXPLORATORY SURGERY PHYSCIANS DESCRIPTION OF MY INSIDES THAT SHE WAS SHOCKED TO SEE CAUSED BY INCOMPETENT DOCTOR WITH A LASER. tHIS IS IT, hELL CANNOT BE AS BAD AS THE SUFFERING i ENDUE AND WATCHING MY SERVICE ANIMAL BEGGINGME FOR HELP WHILE SHE IS IGNORED AND SUFFERING. sO AS i CAN'T EVEN GET OUT OF BED MOST DAYS AND WILL SHOOT THE NEXT DOCTOR THAT ACCUSES ME OF DRUG SEEKING IMAGINARY PAIN, i DECIDED ME AND MY GIRL WILL END IT TOGETHER WHEN SHE CAN'T TAKE THE PAIN ANYMORE. i HOPE THE DEA IS READING THIS BECAUSE i WANT SOMEONE TO CHARGE THEM WITH MY MURDER. wHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE FORCING PEOPLE TO SUFFER IN TORTURE AND LOSE EVERYTHING. AND MAKE DAMN SURE MY DEATH IS NOT BLAMED ON PRESCRIPTION DRUGS BY DOCTOR BECAUSE i WILL FIND SOMETHING ON THE STREETS TO END OUR MISERY AND REFUSE TO BE ANOTHER STATISTIC USED IN YOUR BOGUS AND DEADLY WAR ON PAIN SUFFERERS.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jan 1st, 2013Someone from Kittrell, NC signed.
Dec 31st, 2012Someone from Modesto, CA writes:
So blessed to have an amazing doctor who worries about his patients more than the DEA.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 31st, 2012Someone from Vacaville, CA signed.
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Dec 31st, 2012Someone from Orange, TX writes:
If this were their own family with cancer they would have no problem prescribing these meds to them!!RSD/CRPS has a higher rating than many diseases including phantom limb pain from amputations!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 31st, 2012Someone from Enid, OK signed.
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Dec 31st, 2012Someone from Clifton Park, NY writes:
This is out of hand. Doctor's swore to the Hippocratic Oath: "To heal thy patient"... always. Doctor's are so afraid of loosing their jobs that they are retracting on a large scale. The liability should fall on the patient not the Doctor and way for false claim patients involving pain issues, I believe. Let's get on this Americans and Facebook friends!!! Spread the word. How would you feel if you live with debilitating pain? If we can't trust and go to our doctors, then were can we go? A big part of the system is crumbling due to discrepancy.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 31st, 2012Someone from Fair Oaks, CA writes:
In the month of November I had my "pain meds delayed on refill day via work comp. No reason for my pharmacy! Found out my, WISE, PA @ a Pain MGT clinic, had changed, w/o notice to me - my once safely used pain medication of over 2.4 yrs!? Not only did he not tell me of the change, he did not tell me of possible side effects. Well, forgetting that I am truly "med sensitive" - It threw my broken body into a near death meltdown. Truth that is all I can say! MargeREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 31st, 2012Someone from Dawsonville, GA signed.
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Dec 29th, 2012Someone from Union, KY writes:
Ours is the saddest of health care systems in the world. I have seen the agony patients suffer who have legitimate pain. When will America stop the insanity. Pain is the fifth vital sign and Doctors are not appropriately treating it in many justified situations. Maybe the DEA should hire persons to go out and do random pill counts on those prescribed, then the dealers and dopeheads might be singled out and not the true sufferers of pain. I support DEA doing random pill counts and drug screens on all who prescribed narcotic analgesics not punishment to the innocent while the guilty continue their habits.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 28th, 2012Someone from Grand Junction, CO writes:
I have Psuedotumor Cerebri also known as IIH, my neurologist refuses to prescribe pain medicine, even thought it works for the severe eye and head pain. This condition is very painful because of the increased fluid on my brain, yet I've been left to suffer. its inhumane and an animal wouldn't be left is suck proven pain, and certainly no human should be either!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 26th, 2012Someone from Biloxi, MS writes:
I've suffered for 12 years from chronic pain related to mastectomy/reconstructive surgery, osteoporosis, degenerative disc disease, fractured disc, compression fracture of 3 discs which are compressing my spinal cord, arthritis, etc. I cannot work - have no insurance which makes obtaining meds even more difficult. Am sick and tired of being treated like I'm an addict just because pain meds help me to function and keep me from being bedridden and curled up in a ball, wishing for an end to my suffering. Treating doctors like drug kingpins and patients like common criminals is disgusting at best. You are harming the very people that truly need help, while crucifying those who are the only ones that can help us. Please end your 'war' on patients...you are destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who live with horrific pain and we are sick of being treated like criminals.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 25th, 2012Someone from Lawton, OK signed.
Dec 24th, 2012Someone from Springfield, IL writes:
I live in fear of the day my current doctor retires which is rapidly approaching. I can only pray that his successor wiil continue to treat my intractable and eternal pain from a brachial plexus avulsion spinal injury. I've been thrown out of the pain clinic for marijuana positive drug test. The pain clinic tested me previous to the drug test and verified my pain as real and legitiimate and treated me for 14 months. Then they sentenced me to torture because I used marijuana to help me sleep. I found a doctor who believes my pain is real and treats me with the opiates that negate the pain.He does not care that I also employ cannabis and would precribe it if Illinois law allowed it. I LIVE IN FEAR EVERY DAY. A doctor will gladly sentence me to a life of torture to stay in good graces with DEA. First do no harm, yeah right! I LIVE IN FEAR EVERY DAY. Michael KingREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 22nd, 2012Someone from Cartersville, GA signed.
Dec 21st, 2012Someone from Florence, KY writes:
I have degenerative joint disease. That required fusing of my spine from t-3 down. I also have chronic R hip bursitis from leg length discreptency and chronic myositis.My Dr sent me a letter that she could not treat me after changing me to a new pain medication that caused me to have sever withdrawal symptoms.I was left in sever pain and had no Dr. This so unfair and humiliating to people how really need pain medicine.REPORT COMMENTS
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Dec 19th, 2012Someone from Cumming, GA writes:
I'm a 21 year old woman and I have been experiencing chronic fibromyalgia pain for years without fully understanding the pain or other psychological symptoms. The pain, fatigue, and fibro-fog are debilitating, to the point where even normal daily activities (taking out the trash, preparing meals, even just leaving my room) become next to impossible to carry out. Although I've been experiencing the physical and psychological symptoms of fibromyalgia for years, my diagnosis has only come about within the last week. I've seen doctors, therapists, and psychologists who all worked to treat my psychological symptoms rather than addressing my physical pain. As the pain and fatigue continually worsened over the last 2 years, I felt I had to no other option than to self-medication to soothe some of the ache. I'm an intelligent woman and a dedicated student and many have labeled me an "addict" for treating my pain. The social stigma from my friends and peers coupled my own self-loathing for what I felt I needed to be done (since I didn't understand that it was fibro-related pain I was feeling) to keep me from experiencing constant debilitating pain have been devastating.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 12th, 2012Someone from Meridian, MS writes:
I am a 58 year old woman with severe scoliosis. My spine surgeon does not recommend surgery at my age, so we were managing my back pain with anti-inflammatory, muscle relaxer (Soma), and pain (Ultram) medication. After living most of my adult life with constant back pain, my quality of life vastly improved with the help of these medicines. Today my spine surgeon, a very well respected and highly recommended professional, told me he can no longer give me prescriptions for my pain medicine and muscle relaxer, because of DEA threats to pull his license. How is it that the government gets in the middle of my healthcare like this? My government it's literally making me sick.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 12th, 2012Someone from Jacksonville, FL signed.
Dec 12th, 2012Someone from Priest River, ID writes:
I suffer chronic pain and the causes for this pain will not go away....I've been on Oxycontin since it came out in the early 90's. Same dose and it is the only med that helps. I am just one of many that are being treated like we are HOOKED on pain pills. We need the help in order to have any kind of life and the government has scared doctors and are reprogramming the way they treat patients. It is the fault of those who abuse medications and I hear that those people are now snorting "bath salts". Will the government stop the sales of bath salts too? Please stop this trend against people in pain. We have no alternatives!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 12th, 2012Someone from Adel, GA writes:
I echo every mismanaged under-treated pain patient on here!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 10th, 2012Someone from Harrah, OK writes:
I have neurfribmostasis , I am in constant pain but its hard to find a doctor to give me pain medication to help with my painREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelDec 10th, 2012Someone from Camdenton, MO writes:
I have had 3 spine surgurys that failed I have fibermyolgia,nerve problems,mucle problems.arthritis. i was on generic vicaden 7.7 750 and soma for mucles my doctor got termanally ill now i cant find noone to help me with my pain.i was on the same dosage for many years and it helped me get aroundREPORT COMMENTS
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