First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Sep 15th, 2016Someone from Fresno, CA writes:
I suffer everyday and I found Kratom. I have lupus, RA, cancer isn't that enough, but now the DEA in their wisdom will outlaw the only thing that helps. Has anyone seen pts OD on Kratom? How about robbing a store etc to get Kratom? Please DEA leave us alone and stop the madness!! -
Sep 15th, 2016Someone from Nanticoke, PA signed.
Sep 15th, 2016Someone from Detroit, MI writes:
I am a crohnic pain patient.... I went to see my pain doctor today and after seeing him on several visits. First visit we went over all my meds I was presribed zanax being a med that was presribed by my physic doctor he stated that he wanted me off the Zanax in order to give me my pain meds I never thought that going to the pain doctor would be so intimidating to myself this doctor treats me as if I was A drug addict he kept telling me to bring him my zanax I did not understand his reasons for this each time I went to him he would drug screen me and he tells me that my zanax didn't show up in my urine test I was totally confused to take the zanax or not just so I could get my pain meds this doctor would scrutinize me every visit about that medication that another doc prescribed he was more worried about that then the damn Norco he prescribed to me but after reading this article what do I do from here I can't just live in misery I'm 42 I have a pinched nerve in my clavicle c5,6. I also have arthritis in my neck I also have theoretic pain from a torn rotator cuff and post op pain from a removal of my intercoastal nerve from my 12rib cage... I pray that the danm dea would allow the compation back into these doctors and they asses can stop treating us as if we're drug addicts and if so then take all this******and shove it up theirs if they not gonna allow our pain to be addressed and not taginize us cause we want sum relief of pain I swear sum days I can't hardly move or function cause of my pain I thought I was in this alone til I ran across this Ad.... Praying for a better tomorrowREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 15th, 2016Someone from Nashville, TN writes:
I've been in more pain than most people can imagine. I have had multiple surgeries. I'm bedbound now & spend the majority of my days crying. Begging God to take away my pain. Praying that doctors stop treating me like I'm faking to get drugs. The difference between drug seekers & people with pain is quite simple really. Drug seekers lie, steal, do whatever they can to get that next fix, that high. Chronic pain suffers do not take anything to get high..they just want the pain to stop. We need compassion and care. Not judgements. I shouldn't have to prove my pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 15th, 2016Someone from Detroit, MI writes:
I am a crohnic pain patient.... I went to see my pain doctor today and after seeing him on several visits. First visit we went over all my meds I was presribed zanax being a med that was presribed by my physic doctor he stated that he wanted me off the Zanax in order to give me my pain meds I never thought that going to the pain doctor would be so intimidating to myself this doctor treats me as if I was A drug addict he kept telling me to bring him my zanax I did not understand his reasons for this each time I went to him he would drug screen me and he tells me that my zanax didn't show up in my urine test I was totally confused to take the zanax or not just so I could get my pain meds this doctor would scrutinize me every visit about that medication that another doc prescribed he was more worried about that then the damn Norco he prescribed to me but after reading this article what do I do from here I can't just live in misery I'm 42 I have a pinched nerve in my clavicle c5,6. I also have arthritis in my neck I also have theoretic pain from a torn rotator cuff and post op pain from a removal of my intercoastal nerve from my 12rib cage... I pray that the danm dea would allow the compation back into these doctors and they asses can stop treating us as if we're drug addicts and if so then take all this******and shove it up theirs if they not gonna allow our pain to be addressed and not taginize us cause we want sum relief of pain I swear sum days I can't hardly move or function cause of my pain I thought I was in this alone til I ran across this Ad.... Praying for a better tomorrowREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 15th, 2016Someone from Detroit, MI signed.
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Sep 15th, 2016Someone from Odessa, TX writes:
To be disabled at 38 is hard enough without the sideways looks from pharmacists and pharmacy techs when refilling my meds. Without the interference of "well meaning" friends or family. Please don't take away my right to live a functioning life. I'll never be pain free, but these drugs do allow me to function. Without them, I will be no longer able to do daily activities on my own. Even showering is difficult. I am NOT an addict. I am NOT a drug abuser. I am a HUMAN BEING dealing with major pain. Start seeing the situation, and not just the prescription, please.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 15th, 2016Someone from Vacaville, CA signed.
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Sep 14th, 2016Someone from Walnut Creek, CA writes:
I understand that the whole way that pain is looked at now is changing. While I agree that this is a good thing, only the chronic pain sufferer know exactly what they feel like. If nothing else works then there should be absolutely no stigma or any hesitation on the doctors part to give them what they need. They worst part about the kratom ban for these people is that they had found a middle ground, something that helps with the pain, is way less addicting, and can't kill them. It's literally a miracle. This is what docketed should be giving to everyone! It's almost like just because it's natural it's assumed it can't work as well as a prescription. The whole system is utterly broken and people who already have had a tough life are made to suffer even more because of it. Chronic pain sufferers are lumped with addicts even though it's not their fault and they have no other choice. Addiction is a disease and not a crime! Until people can see this nothing will improve in this country.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 14th, 2016Someone from Salem, MA signed.
Sep 14th, 2016Someone from Brooklyn, NY writes:
#PNA #VAUEMC facebook October 22 pain rally Washington DC join usREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 14th, 2016Someone from Portland, OR writes:
I am in chronic pain I am 66 yrs. old and have arthritis in neck knees hips.There are days that I can not even walk.I really do not think the DEA has any rights to tell Doctors how to treat their patients,as all of their drug wars have failed.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 14th, 2016Someone from Dallas, PA writes:
I think it's a shame that US people living with chronic pain EVERYDAY are either having our medications taken off of us or lowered drastically! If over the counter meds worked, don't you think we would BE TAKING THEM! Where are our rights!! Just because there are junkies out there using god knows what, that is NOT OUR PROBLEM!! We should not have to suffer. And we all need to get on board with this and get our rights and medicines back. Then, God forbid a Dr sees that you have a narcotic on your record....the rest is history. You're "labeled" and they don't give a******about your pain let alone any other issues. Enough is enough.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 14th, 2016Someone from Welsh, LA writes:
the doctors in this parish, Calcasieu and jeff davis, are afraid to give me the amount of pain meds that I was receiving 3 years ago because of our DA in Calcasieu parish. the doctor told me every week the detectives come in checking his records. I could get what I need if I made an 8 or 9 hour round trip going to Houston, texas but my body will not hold up to that trip I don't even take that much but I fell my body getting worse and if they cant get this right I will have to try and move I was taking 5 loracet per day and 2 years ago they cut me to two a day and when I complained the doc said he could do 3 per day but he could not do more without getting crap from the da's officeREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 14th, 2016Someone from Dothan, AL writes:
I have severe dengerative arthritis, 4 bulging disks, a completely useless right hand due to nerve trauma I suffered in car accident and when the docs stopped giving the medicine to me I pretended I was an abuser so I could go to local methadone clinic and when I gained too much weight came off methadone and went to Subutex clinic. This was wonderful because I took less med and never felt high. Now the DEA has stepped in and they are having to lower dose. I am not an abuser and never was but had to resort to being labeled one because I couldn't even get out of bed. Now I am trying to find another doctor who can prescribe Subutex out of my state. It is nothing like methadone but helps pain 100 times better. However if I can't find a doctor soon I will end up back at methadone clinic. I do not like being labeled an addict but I had no alternative thanks to DEA. I have searched for doctors who prescribes Subutex for pain and unless I could move to the UK I am Sol. Congress is killing people who really need medication but saving addicts. I just figured since I couldn't beat them I would join them. Now sadly I am back in the search for another doctor. I never once failed a drug screen either.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 14th, 2016Someone from Tucson, AZ writes:
I was just fired from my Dr because my Xanax did not show up in my urine test. I had discussed how I used it when my severe blood pressure elevations were only brought down by that and my hydrocodone. After my 4 blood pressure meds I take daily failed. I try not to take anything but a severe back injury and 2, 5mg Hydrocodone daily help me do dishes and vacuum. Now I will not be able to even find another doctor and any help with that very low dose is gone. Just because I wanted to live. My B/P is 256/121 at least three times a day but when it gets higher because of pain only the Xanax after taking 4 extra prn clonidine does not bring it down usually does. I began using them mostly for life saving and told my Dr. But because none was in my test I have to die now. I was injured saving a life. I was an RN for 40 years and helped bring pain treatment into focus though at that time I had not suffered it myself. I have seen much pain in others and the relief the meds give. It is a God given thing, pain relief. Addictive personality is usually a prerequisite for addiction and no one knows if they have it unless they have addicts in the family and think about that. There will always be addicts, and abusers. We need education in those matters not punishment for everyone. The current policy's push people in pain who have been cut off to heroin. Have you noticed how many more heroin deaths? Seniors are committing suicide. Do you care? Unless you have lived with chronic pain you cannot imagine how it is to live depending on someone else's whims for your relief, little as it may be. People even in your family looking down on you because they haven't suffered they think you take it for fun? The Dr office and pharmacy looking at you like you're an addict? I've never felt anything from my one pain pill or the Xanax. Only some relief and my B/P dropping at last, death averted this time. I have no idea what being high means. I never took illegal drugs, smoked or drank alcohol. I've never done anything illegal, no traffic record, nothing but being a productive member of society and now I'm in pain and I'm treated so badly I can totally understand the thoughts of suicide. This is our reward. Made to live in pain the rest of our lives. The outcasts of society, even though we served it for our whole working lives. I was an RN for 40 years and that's not risk free but our veterans risked their lives and the ones injured are now suffering in many ways for the service they gave. Pain can be controlled a little, never all the way but our country wants us all to suffer, to lose control of our very bodies which we live in by treating us like irresponsible children. For every addict you stop you injure, maime for the second time and kill hundreds or thousands of us, the innocent responsible people, who vote. Hire police, stop raiding Medicare!!REPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 13th, 2016Someone from Knoxville, TN writes:
I have suffered from RSD since 2004. Until recent changes my PM doctor was willing to help when I got tolerate to the dose of meds I was taking. In March I was given a medicine that did not work at all along with Lyrica 3/day. The Lyrica made me suicidal plus I started falling and now have an injured back. I had 3 injections this summer that didn't help and was put back on old meds but at a lower dose. I've basically have payed in bed since March. I went 6 months without being able to even change my sheets on the bed I had to lay in. I couldn't shop and have lost 20lbs, etc. Why are PM doctors denying to treat us when these guidelines are for Primary Care doctors? I believe they want us to commit suicide because we can't work!! I wouldn't wish my pain on anyone but if the rule makers could live in my body for even 1 day, I feel sure they would give us back what we need just to be able to care for ourselves. Signed, Alone and scaredREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 13th, 2016Someone from Clinton Township, MI writes:
My pain is REAL and i am so sick of Doctors telling me they are more concerned about their license than controlling my pain! I am unfortunately searching for a new primary care physician due to an insurance change at work, i was a patient with the same doctor for almost 20 years up until this point. I have been on xanax and hydrocodone for 10 years due to panic anxiety disorder and chronic pain due to arthritis and multiple surgeries. I have since been to 2 doctors to establish a new primary care physician... both of them flat out refused to prescribe my anxiety and pain meds because of the regulations, both doctors verbally said it is not worth it to them to prescribe these medications and apparently risk their license! This is beyond ridiculous! They each told me to see a psychiatrist and a pain specialist... WTH! I am livid I have to see a psychiatrist to get a xanax script now???? My pain cannot be managed by my physician anymore???? I am 54 years old and take my medications exactly as perscribed! I am made to feel like a drug seeking addict!?!?!! The government is truly creating true street drug use with all these regulations... they really do not see this?????REPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 13th, 2016Someone from Highlands, NJ writes:
Yes Oriana cancer patients are not excluded in this failed opoid war as the government states!REPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 13th, 2016Someone from Colorado Springs, CO writes:
I had an extremely rare type of leukemia 2 years ago. ( hairy cell leukemia). I'm 32 years old. I had an aggressive chemo treatment that was administered through a pic line in my upper arm for 7days straight. By day 4 I couldn't take care of my daughter. I didn't want to get out of bed, shower, brush my teeth or eat. I had a temperature of 104.0. Called my oncologist they told me to come in immediately. At the office the doctor tells me I need to go to the hospital now because i could be going into septic shock. Well I did indeed have sepsis. I was given more antibiotics than anyone would ever have in a lifetime, bag after bag of fluids and pain medication. I spent 7 days in the hospital. Didn't have my daughter visit me because I was crying screaming from the pain. I looked in the mirror and I looked like I was dying and I didn't want her to see me like that. After going home and telling myself to give it time till I feel like myself as I had just gone through chemotherapy AND had sepsis it might take a while to feel better. I waited 2 months. My pain was extreme, unbearable. I was laying on the couch one day and thinking in my head that I'd rather die than feel like this. My daughter answers my unspoken thoughts and says " don't worry mama it'll be o.k.". Broke down in tears hugged her and immediately called my oncologist for pain medication. Its been two years since then, my body still feels like it did when I was on chemo and in the hospital dying. I do believe over years and years I may eventually feel good enough to not need pain medication but I have needed it for the last two years and still do unfortunately. BUT pain medication allows me to live a productive, pain free life, without it I would have given up two years ago. This month I call my doctor for my usual medication and he only e- prescribed me 2/3 rds what I usually get. I've called him twice and no answer, no call back, no explanation at all. Withdrawal from what I take is so bad I'd rather leave this world than go through it. So unfair, unethical, and sickening. Just wanted to share my story.REPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 13th, 2016Someone from Lindsay, CA writes:
In pain 24/7 - cna HURT on the job living in pain every day ! Rheumatoid Arthritis ,Herniated disc spurs , right side of my body it's not the same pain every day !! Crying while I'm writing !!REPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 13th, 2016Someone from Rockaway, NJ writes:
What a mess our government has created. My right to privacy is protected by the US Constitution and this extends to my physical body and medicines I choose to accept and use on advice from my doctor. How dare the DEA and CDC interfere! I cannot wait until this reaches the high courts and is decided in favor of the patients. But what an unspeakable shame is the damage being done presently. Our poor vets are especially suffering needlessly. It breaks my heart and it should break your heart too.REPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 13th, 2016Someone from Eureka, CA writes:
Rally against pain Oct 22 a white House aka 1600 Pennsylvania Ave!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 13th, 2016Someone from New Baltimore, MI writes:
Just walked a mile with the walker ..yah I am so gonna pay for this hoping I sleep tonight..Oh and second thought just so you know I would be dead of it wasnt for my kids because my pain is so bad I dont no how much longer I can do this...DEA are you counting the pain patients that are now on herion due to you guidelines???because that could have been prevented and was unnecessary. How many pain patients sucides..they are climbing. You treat a dog better than a chroinc pain patient at least they can get paid uthanashia....and should be reported as so.your killing us....or forcing us to the drug underworld..so glad that your systen works I get no drug relief and Mexican drug lords get rich...now off to see the pain clinic so I can **** in my cup..and waste 50 bucks for nothing...buy the way 36 hours no sleep ...new record ..REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelSep 13th, 2016Someone from New Baltimore, MI writes:
Just walked a mile with the walker ..yah I am so gonna pay for this hoping I sleep tonight..Oh and second thought just so you know I would be dead of it wasnt for my kids because my pain is so bad I dont no how much longer I can do this...DEA are you counting the pain patients that are now on herion due to you guidelines???because that could have been prevented and was unnecessary. How many pain patients sucides..they are climbing. You treat a dog better than a chroinc pain patient at least they can get paid uthanashia....and should be reported as so.your killing us....or forcing us to the drug underworld..so glad that your systen works I get no drug relief and Mexican drug lords get rich...now off to see the pain clinic so I can **** in my cup..and waste 50 bucks for nothing...buy the way 36 hours no sleep ...new record ..REPORT COMMENTS
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Sep 13th, 2016Someone from Paw Paw, IL writes:
Please stop the madness and let the Drs use their vast education to treat patient with fairness and dignity, not fear into not-treating. Some PAIN PATIENTS WILL turn to street drugs and DIE.REPORT COMMENTS
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