First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Aug 27th, 2016Someone from Paragould, AR signed.
Aug 26th, 2016Someone from Los Angeles, CA writes:
My friend recently attempted suicide because nothing would alleviate her pain.Aug 26th, 2016Someone from Pompano Beach, FL writes:
This is discrimation any way it's looked at, I have been treated like a addict, made to wait for hours for my medication to be filled told if I leave they can't fill my script. I've seen people come in with cash get their medication before me, then told they ran out I have to wait. This is all just unfair all I want is some quality of life. Being disabled is a CRIME THESE DAY'S UNFAIR !!! PLEASE HELP #PATIENTSNOTADDICTS Thank youREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 26th, 2016Someone from Norfolk, VA signed.
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Aug 26th, 2016Someone from Hopatcong, NJ writes:
This is insane i have been disabled for 30 years now i have been taking medication for all of the 30 years and now a doctor just says i cant put my hands in the pot meaning he does not want to help me because I have a chronic illness and he is afraid of the DEA HELP THE DISABLED PEOPLE we need help NOW !!!!!!!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 26th, 2016Someone from Sand Springs, OK signed.
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Aug 26th, 2016Someone from Oak Lawn, IL writes:
I believe this campaign against opiod prescriptions for chronic pain will result in terrible suffering of the disabled and elderly and increased suicides as doctors are now afraid to treat pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 26th, 2016Someone from Atlanta, GA signed.
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Aug 26th, 2016Someone from Rockford, IL writes:
I'm being forced to go without my pain meds that work,so I have no quality of life. I'm 66 yrs old and due to spine inj I'm now living on my couch. I would love to be treated as a pt and get the care I deserve.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 26th, 2016Someone from Schenectady, NY writes:
As some one who suffers from producing kidneys stones 24 hrs a day 7 days a week is very painful .. I only use prescription medicine when I am getting ready to pass stones can you imagine doing this with no pain medication what so ever .. this is crazy .. I dont abuse drugs but yet can't get them when I need them .. imagine producing cystune stones every day of your life .. imagine how painful this is to some one .. I dont use pain meds at the time of producing because I don't like the way I feel but God forbid when I pass them imagine **** ing out something the size of a pea with no pain medication .. cmon world get a grip..REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 26th, 2016Someone from Bronx, NY signed.
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Aug 26th, 2016Someone from Highland Park, IL writes:
You need to know that because of these so called "recommendations" many pain patients are turning to the street and even opting for suicide. I call that "doing harm."REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 26th, 2016Someone from Warren, PA writes:
I am a healthy 67 year old woman who suffered several broken ribs from a traumatic injury 3 weeks ago. I spend the summer here in Warren, Pa and have an established relationship with a physician here. I have never needed pain medicine during this relationship. In spite of the doctor observing my severe pain upon moving and deep breathing, and verifying the broken ribs by xray, I was given tramedol 3 x's a day and told to go to the ER if pain got worse. There was zero relief with tramadol and I went to the ER the next day and was given Hydocodone 5/325 and could take 1 tablet every six hours if needed. That would give me relief for 2 hours. I am angry that I had to have the expense to medicare and myself, because an adequate pain medicine was not prescribed in the first place.[ I went to the Dr. 3 days after the injury, had been using ice and tylenol and having severe pain. The doctor sent me for xrays and home with no pain med and the xays were not read until the following day, Friday. ] I returned to the Dr. the next Thursday, with my pain pills. I was not taking them as often as I could have because I was afraid I would have even worse pain and nothave any medicine at all. My request to have a more adequate pain relief resulted in her reducing the same dose to 3 x's a day.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 26th, 2016Someone from Buffalo, NY signed.
Aug 26th, 2016Someone from Washington, DC writes:
As someone who deal with chronic pain due to chemotherapy and cancer, the new regulations make it very difficult for me. While I am lucky that the pain is not as excruciating as many people deal with, it is frequently enough that I am unable to to work.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 26th, 2016Someone from Memphis, TN writes:
I injured my back in Afghanistan as a civilian Department of Defense Senior Intelligence Analyst. I endured the harsh conditions of a remote outpost for one year in defense of our country, mortars fell daily! Then I returned home, where I had to hire an attorney to force the Department of Labor to simply do their job. After that I spent a year trying to find a doctor who will accept Federal Workman's Compensation because they are so difficult to deal with that doctors loose money. Now I live with unbearable, excruciating pain and am not allowed access to pain medication sufficient to treat my pain. I was at the top of my career when it was taken from me, now I fight for relief and consider suicide as a viable option for ending the cycle of abuse imposed by thoughtless legislators who think anyone seeking pain medication is abusing their medicine! I served my country, paid for my education, worked hard, and now I am abused by the system that chewed me up and spit me out to suffer for the remainder of my life! Where is the honor or integrity in that?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 26th, 2016Someone from Banner Elk, NC signed.
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Aug 26th, 2016Someone from Freehold, NJ writes:
To all of you chronic painers: Please join support groups on facebook, we are doing what we can to fight this INHUMANE, BARBARIC, TORTUROUS treatment. A rally is being planned in October, when I have more details I will post them here so please keep checking back. One of the groups I am in is called chronic pain rights support, but there are many all working together to fight back! I know many of us are to weak, sick, and in pain to get to the White House, but please get family/friends to stand in for you if you can't make it, This will be a very important rally, with media, and speakers from the chronic pain community, patient advocates, etc. Let's show the country how the government is intentionally causing genocide to the chronically ill. We MUST take back OUR RIGHTS that the corrupt lawmakers are stomping all over, we also are getting legal representation for class action lawsuit, THIS NEEDS TO STOP NOW! How dare the surgeon general send millions of letters to every dr demanding they stop prescribing opiods, WTF kind of ******** is that!? If my LIFESAVING meds are stopped I will have no option but suicide, and every single one of you who have a hand in taking my quality of life will be held accountable! There is no opiod epidemic, you corrupt *******s know dam well all these od's mostly are from heroin and fentanyl from the streets and yet you continue to kill as many disabled citizens as possible. I wonder how many of you or your loved ones are dependent on opiods to eaze your pain!? Many of you are up in age, with that comes the body breaking down, there is no way in hell none of you or your loved ones aren't suffering from a medical condition, but these barbaric restrictions don't apply to any of you do they!?!?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 26th, 2016Someone from Yuba City, CA signed.
Aug 26th, 2016Someone from Emporia, VA writes:
We are now being rated by the meds we are taking!! The government is now requiring all doctors & medical persons in charge of prescriping not only Opiates but ANY med that has been placed in a class or rated by the government. Our pain or health condition does not even enter in this rating that has now beng required.! You know this is totally wrong. People suffering from chronic pain & have medical reports such as a MRI or your doctor knows your history to support how much pain you are enduring. I have not ever just been given pain meds freely! I totally disagree with what our government is claiming about Opiates or any med that has been placed in a class. I have not ever been on any pain med that was long term. When you are in a contract with a Pain Management Doctor, the regulations are very strict! The government is going to force most very patient to be in a contract with a Pain Management Doctor. This is very expensive, usually requires long travel & most of the times if you are on any type of med that you do not feel comfortable with driving. I know of many and have known of many elderly and patients on a fixed income can not comply with the regulations of travel and expenses to be able to do this. This forces patients to choose if they can even do that of paying for their meds or living expenses including food. They just can not do what someone sitting in Washington, DC and no idea of the cruelty and suffering they are causing. I had a friend to bring it up, and she is so right, patients may choose to end their own life. The government is blaming this issue on doctors giving patients too many opiates because the government believes they do not need these opiates, and causing them to overdose. So our government is going to punish ones that are already suffering from chronic pain and already can not get the pain meds that they truly need because it is already too difficult. A person that is truly suffering with chronic pain is totally vulnerable to a Doctor, a clinic, or a family member to help them. If you suffer from chronic pain, you almost just have to have some relief !!! These new regulations are inhumane !!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 26th, 2016Someone from Savoy, IL writes:
This is EXACTLY the story I shared when I was asked to speak on the panel as a patient, the Surgeon General didn't know anything I was about to say but it would invalidate his initiative... but after tens of millions have been spent on this tour, it's too late to run from the tidal wave coming from an unchanged tide. #JustAskJohn Please share to get someone to let me help change the tide! https://youtu.be/ELD1Iuhx3XIREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 26th, 2016Someone from Emporia, VA writes:
We are now being rated by the meds we are taking!! The government is now requiring all doctors & medical persons in charge of prescriping not only Opiates but ANY med that has been placed in a class or rated by the government. Our pain or health condition does not even enter in this rating that has now beng required.! You know this is totally wrong. People suffering from chronic pain & have medical reports such as a MRI or your doctor knows your history to support how much pain you are enduring. I have not ever just been given pain meds freely! I totally disagree with what our government is claiming about Opiates or any med that has been placed in a class. I have not ever been on any pain med that was long term. When you are in a contract with a Pain Management Doctor, the regulations are very strict! The government is going to force most very patient to be in a contract with a Pain Management Doctor. This is very expensive, usually requires long travel & most of the times if you are on any type of med that you do not feel comfortable with driving. I know of many and have known of many elderly and patients on a fixed income can not comply with the regulations of travel and expenses to be able to do this. This forces patients to choose if they can even do that of paying for their meds or living expenses including food. They just can not do what someone sitting in Washington, DC and no idea of the cruelty and suffering they are causing. I had a friend to bring it up, and she is so right, patients may choose to end their own life. The government is blaming this issue on doctors giving patients too many opiates because the government believes they do not need these opiates, and causing them to overdose. So our government is going to punish ones that are already suffering from chronic pain and already can not get the pain meds that they truly need because it is already too difficult. A person that is truly suffering with chronic pain is totally vulnerable to a Doctor, a clinic, or a family member to help them. If you suffer from chronic pain, you almost just have to have some relief !!! These new regulations are inhumane !!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 25th, 2016Someone from Boone, NC signed.
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Aug 25th, 2016Someone from Park City, UT writes:
The only way we can stop this witch hunt, is to get rid of the elected officials who are currently in office. Those officials who condone this disgraceful treatment of the few physicians that actually care about the pain and suffering of their patients. Show how you feel in November at the polls. Look up their voting records. I suffer every day with chronic pain. I can only hope that karma does exist and some of these unfeeling physicians will someday know how it feels to suffer from chronic pain and there is no one who cares.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 25th, 2016Someone from Salt Lake City, UT signed.
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Aug 25th, 2016Someone from Hillsborough, NJ writes:
I am a 39 year old female, who has been dealing with CHRONIC pain for about 8 yrs now. I was injured at work, lifting a patient from their wheelchair. The next morning I woke up, I couldn't move....the pain was excruciating, it took my breath away! I never knew pain like that before. I have had countless types of injections over the years and none have given me relief, longer than a month or two. I had multiple surgeries, all which have failed! I even had a screw fall out, from first fusion, after only two wks and it shifted all the hardware and caused severe muscle and nerve damage. The surgeon had to go back in, INVASIVELY, to repair the damage, remove the faulty hardware and replace it with new hardware. I haven't been the same since. I've been with my husband for 15 years and our entire married time together, I have been unable to work due to my chronic pain. I was with the same dr for 6 years and all of a sudden, the nurse practitioner I was dealing with, is gone and patients are being told, you have to wean on our terms, go to detox/rehab, or leave! Now I can't find a doctor that understands what I've been through, nor do they want to prescribe the medication! I have spent my entire summer miserable and in pain, trying to find a doctor that will help me! I never had an issue until now and now I look like a drug seeking addict, because I'm trying to find a compassionate doctor that isn't afraid to prescribe what I was on. So thank you, for making my life and other chronic pain patients lives, miserable hell!!! I need my meds to live a somewhat decent life and you have taken that away from me!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 25th, 2016Someone from Hillsborough, NJ writes:
I am a 39 year old female, who has been dealing with CHRONIC pain for about 8 yrs now. I was injured at work, lifting a patient from their wheelchair. The next morning I woke up, I couldn't move....the pain was excruciating, it took my breath away! I never knew pain like that before. I have had countless types of injections over the years and none have given me relief, longer than a month or two. I had multiple surgeries, all which have failed! I even had a screw fall out, from first fusion, after only two wks and it shifted all the hardware and caused severe muscle and nerve damage. The surgeon had to go back in, INVASIVELY, to repair the damage, remove the faulty hardware and replace it with new hardware. I haven't been the same since. I've been with my husband for 15 years and our entire married time together, I have been unable to work due to my chronic pain. I was with the same dr for 6 years and all of a sudden, the nurse practitioner I was dealing with, is gone and patients are being told, you have to wean on our terms, go to detox/rehab, or leave! Now I can't find a doctor that understands what I've been through, nor do they want to prescribe the medication! I have spent my entire summer miserable and in pain, trying to find a doctor that will help me! I never had an issue until now and now I look like a drug seeking addict, because I'm trying to find a compassionate doctor that isn't afraid to prescribe what I was on. So thank you, for making my life and other chronic pain patients lives, miserable hell!!! I need my meds to live a somewhat decent life and you have taken that away from me!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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