First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Aug 20th, 2016Someone from San Pedro, CA signed.
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Aug 20th, 2016Someone from Rossville, GA writes:
I broke my back in 2010 and the fusion was a fail.. I have seen others go on and on with back surgeries only to get worse.. I can barely walk... I have a family to take care of and have NEVER abused medication.. I take as directed... and if I can skip a dose .. I will do just that. I livei wth Chonic pain.. if it was not for the meds I would be stuck in bed every day.. all day.. and the meds help me to get out of bed and care for my family as a mother should. I am not a lazy person.. I have always worked hard all my life.. and now I cant sit.. or stand for long.. when sitting I am propped up by pillows. No one knows what it is like to live with chonic pain till you have to live with it on a daily basis.. and yet people like us are targeted. Please reconsider the actions you are taking. Yes I know there are people that abuse these kind of medicines.. but a primary Dr if they are honest can see through the smoke screen of these people.... I am not one of them.. I just want to live a productive life and never will I take more then what is prescribed.Aug 20th, 2016Someone from Palm Harbor, FL writes:
My daughter suffers excruciating pain on a daily basis from RSD that has completely affected her whole life. To watch a loved one suffer needlessly is inhumane and a crime. I have need seen a more corrupt health system than that in the US. It sickens me to see my daughter cry and be debilitated. Something MUST change!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 20th, 2016Someone from Nashville, TN writes:
I have EXCRUCIATINGLY painful diseases. I have pain every second of every day. Pain that would bring grown men to their knees. Who are you to judge the pain my body goes through? Are you there when my daughter comes flying in the room because her mother is screaming in pain while still asleep? If you go to the hospital too much, you're a drug seeker. If you don't go enough, you're faking! I'm tired of being judged unfairly! If someone can take my pain away I would gladly discontinue my medicine! I have considered suicide multiple times because the pain is so bad. When I go to the ER I prepare for war because I know there will be one. Wait until it's you that's suffering.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 20th, 2016Someone from Tulsa, OK writes:
I was told on my last pain management appt that they are stopping my meds I have been taking for the relief of my chronic pain for 12 years. I am devastated! I have 2 herniated disc, a disk protrusion, sciatica, and my spine is deteriating. I did not ask for this pain and I did not ask for the medications but it gave me a life back. I lost my husband due to a sudden heart attack and awhile back and still raising our minor son and must work to keep a roof over our heads but now I am being faced with being homeless and how will I take care of my son and his needs as well! I am scared and now falling into major depression just thinking about not having my medication that has giving me the ability to keep working and living after my husband's death. I have no family to help and knowing I won't be able to get out of bed due to the pain or go to work to pay the mortgage or even drive my son to school. I am facing loosing everything, even my son and he is all I have! How can they do this to us people who have worked hard all our lives and payed taxes and supported them and now we are being thrown to the wolves! Not only will I be left alone in chronic pain but am facing the pain of detox as well alone and all I can think about is, my poor son! How will he deal with all of this? Where will we live, how will we eat, etc... I clean houses and work for several doctors. I see their pain meds in there bathrooms all the time! I bet they will always be able to get there's! I have 1 week left of my medication and that's when they are going to start weaning me completely off mine. It's just not fair to treat us like we all are criminals but to be honest, since I will be facing losing everything, where will my morals go? That is also a big fear of mine! The Government is trying to kill us law biding citizens and they think they are doing the right thing? Crime will only get worse as they force people to make tough decisions. It's all about money and power! Like I already mentioned, these doctors taking our medicine away will still get there's as well as the people higher up! All I keep seeing in my mind is, my son and I living in a cardboard box in a gutter somewhere and I will be in such chronic pain, my honor student son being forced to commit crimes just for us to eat! I only have 8 more years till our home is paid off! I guess I will be looking at losing it just because I won't be able to function and I won't even have a bed to detox in! Not only are they taking my life, but my sons life also! This is a down right shame!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 20th, 2016Someone from Durham, NC signed.
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Aug 20th, 2016Someone from Dunnellon, FL writes:
I have been in 2 car accidents. 2009 and last year 2015. Both not my fault, 1st one I was T-boned in a semi truck that my ex was driving with a log Trailer coming back from the mill. 2nd was when I was parked in the Walmart parking lot in the handicap spot and plowed from behind which left the neck and back totally messed up completely to the point where if I go grocery shopping, when I get back to the vehicle, it takes me 5 minutes to sit down and cry before I can even get the key in the ignition to start to drive!! I am in immense pain ALL OF THE TIME!! And when I was talking about coming out of the store, that IS ON MEDS!! I take oxycodone 30mg and methadone 10mg. Along with the muscle relaxer, flexeril 10mg and ibuprofen 600mg, etc... I had a fight with my daughter, she moved out and she set me up, I informed my dr. And even have her threats on my phone, she called my dr and talked some crap, knowing that I smoke a hookah, and dirtied it by adding Marijuana to my supply of tobaccos. Of course, I failed my test. Being that I do NOT SMOKE IT, I of course, took another test 3 days later, CLEAN!! DR REFUSED TO WRITE MY PRESCRIPTION. A WEEK LATER, DID ANOTHER TEST!!! DAUGHTER MUST HAVE CALLED AGAIN CZ DR REFUSED AGAIN TO WRITE MY PRESCRIPTION, TOLD ME HE HAS TO SEND THE TEST IN TO THE LAB AND THAT THE LAB RESULTS TAKE A WEEK OR SO. WROTE A SCRIPT FOR a bogus med like a NSAID AND IT IS HORRIBLE!!! NOW WAITING. LADY AT THE DESK TOLD ME THAT SHE IS STILL WAITING FOR A RESPONSE TO A TEST GOING ON WEEK 3!!!!! I MAY HAVE TO WAIT 3 WEEKS!!!! BEEN ON THESE MEDS, OXYCODONE AND ALL, SINCE 2009......OMG!!! IF I LOSE MY MIND.....WILL THE DR GIVE A F$#^ THEN?????? 😢REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2016Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2016Someone from Freehold, NJ writes:
I URGE ALL OF YOU WARRIORS TO GO TO THIS LINK AND READ, IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, APPARENTLY WHATNTHE GOVERNMENT IS DOING TO LEGITIMATE PAIN PTS ISN'T ENOUGH, SEVERAL CORRUPT LAWMAKERS HAVE CONTACTED THE DEA URGING THEM TO FURTHER RESTRICT OPIODS, TAKING THEM OFF EVERY PHARMACY SHELF IN AMERICA!! THESE CORRUPT LAWMAKERS ARE TRYING TO KILL US!! MANY LIVE HAVE ALREADY BEEN LOST , OUR FELLOW PAIN SISTERS AND BROTHERS FORCED TO SUICIDE AND THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO KILL US OFF EVEN FASTER!! http://www.pharmaciststeve.com/?p=16220REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2016Someone from Jay, FL writes:
I am in the same situation; as is my husband. I was taken off one of my medications that I had been on for years because the DEA doesn't want doctors to prescribe it. They can but my doctor is scared to. The others he has put me on don't work and have terrible side effects. My quality of life has greatly suffered but no one seems to care.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2016Someone from Vintondale, PA writes:
My pain dr. of 3 yrs decided to discharge me. im 62. Ive been treated for a bad back and discs since 1997. Ive never missed an appt. or asked for more drugs. ive always been there for a pill count and for a urine test. ive never dr shopped. i always use the same pharmacy. i dont self medicate or give my pills away. or sell my pills. ibr done everything right. ive not violated the contract i had to sign. i keep my medications safe. i had my medication stolen last week end. i called the police. i have a police report. the contract i signed does state lost or stolen medication will be replaced one time per year. i never asked ever for medication to be replaced. i did everything right. by the book. and yet my dr discharged me. why??! I followed the contract and did everything right!!! My dr did just hire a pa assistant. i had her at my last appt. i didnt care for her at all! What am i suppose to do? Without my pain medication, i cannot get out of bed!' Its so unfair!! Especially when you do the right thing and you still get discharged. there are people that dr shop. People that i DO KNOW that brag about how many ptescriptions they get for pain medication. and how they get someone else to pee for them when they have a urine test!! How much money theyre making selling pain medication!!! It makes me so mad because here i am disabled and i desperately need my one pain medication to be able to move, to live and i was discharged because my medication was stolen!! Its so unfair...lindaREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2016Someone from Auburn, WA writes:
I suffer from Arnold chiari malformation pains and lower back pains from spine disease's surgery and multiple mva's the doctor constantly tells me how she knows another doctor who got shut down and will never help me with any more than what she is giving me in fear she as well will get shut down .. I suffer every day and suicide lingers on my mind from years of pain doctors don't care nor does the DEA if only they knew the suffering they are causing trying to help...i can only pray to God that one day i'll get a doctor that listens and is not afraid to prescribe me the pain medication that works.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2016Someone from Holts Summit, MO writes:
The excuse for this immoral treatment of legitimate pain patients in order to save others who put any kind and amount of unknown drug into their systems is the same as comparing apples and oranges. There is no logical comparison. The ultimate appearance and, in fact, result of this government refusal to allow up to 100 million people to receive the pain medication they need for real physical pain is that it is an intended. "AUTO-GENOCIDE" of all disabled people who suffer from intractable pain, all elderly who have conditions causing such pain, all those in pain but still managing to work but who may become disabled by it in the future and all others who may not yet have met the cause of their future intractable pain. This is the achievement because thousands of lives are needlessly being ended either by intentional suicide or the overdose of unregulated street drugs that the crackdown is claimed to be preventing. Our government must utilize experts with top credentials and experience in treating chronic severe pain patients to establish reasonable and effective care of these patients who are not addicts and are guilty of nothing save inhabiting a mortal body that has been assaulted by injury or illness causing extreme and forever enduring pain through no fault of their own.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2016Someone from Holts Summit, MO writes:
The excuse for this immoral treatment of legitimate pain patients in order to save others who put any kind and amount of unknown drug into their systems is the same as comparing apples and oranges. There is no logical comparison. The ultimate appearance and, in fact, result of this government refusal to allow up to 100 million people to receive the pain medication they need for real physical pain is that it is an intended. "AUTO-GENOCIDE" of all disabled people who suffer from intractable pain, all elderly who have conditions causing such pain, all those in pain but still managing to work but who may become disabled by it in the future and all others who may not yet have met the cause of their future intractable pain. This is the achievement because thousands of lives are needlessly being ended either by intentional suicide or the overdose of unregulated street drugs that the crackdown is claimed to be preventing. Our government must utilize experts with top credentials and experience in treating chronic severe pain patients to establish reasonable and effective care of these patients who are not addicts and are guilty of nothing save inhabiting a mortal body that has been assaulted by injury or illness causing extreme and forever enduring pain through no fault of their own.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2016Someone from Southgate, MI signed.
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Aug 19th, 2016Someone from Cape Coral, FL writes:
Pharmacists are also doing harm..GOVERNMENT HAS NO RIGHT TO BE INVOLVED in any medical care .REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2016Someone from Highland, MI writes:
They need to find a way for chronic pain patients to still receive the pain medication that works for them. What is wrong with a patient that suffers from chronic pain to tell a medical professional that one medication works better than another? They are taught to view that as a drug seeking behavior. So what if Diluadid works better than Morphine etc... Chronic pain patients have followed all the rules and regulations to recieve the treatment that works best for them. This has been devastating to their quality of life. The government should not have a say in the dose , medication or frequency in treating chronic pain. They don't do it for diabetics or any other disease. Something has to change for those who are taking their medication as prescribed, are not addicted and follow all the guidelines. They should not have to suffer more because someone else decided to abuse the system.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2016Someone from New Orleans, LA signed.
Aug 19th, 2016Someone from Imlay City, MI writes:
Iv been being for chronic pain for 20 yrs. every time I turn around there is some problem with medication. It took many years to find the right combination of meds. Now I'm being told DEA says no. My amount of meds per month sure low, I don't think it is fair to make us suffer, and make doctors so afraid to treat someone with chronic pain. I know there is a problem but quit going after the doctors who really care about their patients, and the people who are suffering because of these outlandish laws and rules. I now have no quality of life because of anouther recent cut. I think this must be rethought quickly before you start seeing a rise in suisides. I'm just saying it could happen, I know my pain is so bad some days it's crossed my mind. Iv never acted on it because I have people who need me, butt not everyone does. Please government you need to back off a little and let the good doctors do their job.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2016Someone from Snohomish, WA writes:
I am a caregiver and agree with all coments.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2016Someone from Prescott Valley, AZ writes:
When I was 21, I was hit by a pickup truck who ran a red light and I was on a bicycle in the crosswalk on a green light. I was thrown 3 car lengths and my bicycle was thrown four lanes. Needless to say, I was injured. From that point on, my back and neck were constantly in pain. I do not drink alcohol, never have taken "street drugs." I have had migraine headaches since I was a child, so I took aspirin and Excedrin constantly. I was diagnosed with 5 stomach ulcers at age 40 plus acute pancreatitis. I was given Fioricet. I became allergic to it so they tried Norco. Also became allergic to it! My back has 3 herniated discs and my cervical spine is bone on bone. Finally at age 55, I found a doctor who diagnosed me with malabsorption disorder, which is why pain medications don't work, plus any "coedone" gives me a rash. A buckle swab test showed that medication just goes through me like water. So I was given Methadone, 10 mg tablets 4 times a day and I could manage my days. I was only on it for two years, as my doctor left town and my family threatened to disown me! Then in 2010, I fractured my patella, tibia, tore my ACL and both meniscues. After suffering for 4 years, I found another pain clinic and went back on Methadone, 40mg per day for a year. Then we moved to another State and the DEA poked their nose into everyone's medical business. I am now 65 years old and spend 99% of my life in bed. I get out of the house maybe once a month. I am going to another orthopedic surgeon for my knee but am allergic to metals, even gold. I am also going to another Gastroenterologist for my pancreas. And because I have been using Advil and a proton-pump inhibitor since my 40's -- stomach acid medication -- I have kidney disease. But over-the-counter medications are legal and safe! Yeah, right! And one can buy all the alcohol they want! There were 88,000 alcohol-related deaths last year and only 18,000 opiate deaths last year! I can understand regulations on pain medication but every BODY is different! Doctors should look and do tests on each patient and not just make the assumption that we are ALL drug addicts! Yes, I agree that there are a lot of people who get "high" on opiates, but when I take methadone, I do NOT feel high, good, fuzzy, nothing. The pain is relieved about 70%! That's all. And it even takes away my daily migraine headaches! I sleep better and clean my house and get out of bed. At this point in my life, I feel as though I have nothing to live for except my parrots, which I can't even take care of; my husband has to do it, clean the house, cook and do laundry and shopping. Sad. Let's petition the DEA and CDC to look at every BODY as an individual and not clump us all together as dug addicts!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 19th, 2016Someone from Kansas City, MO writes:
My wife has been suffering from atypical facial pain for over 10 years, the past 2 years have been the worst. All meds prescribed have not been able to bring the pain down to a manageable level. The only med that brings te pain from an 8/10 to a 4/10 is Dilaudid 2mg. My wife has been hospitalized 9 times this year due to generalized seizures that led to 8 comas, all because of the adverse reactions to the "anti-seizure" meds she has been prescribed to deal with her atypical facial pain. We found out about Dilaudid by accident as the hospitals have administered it in the hospital setting to relieve pain. We were so frustrated that even the doctors who originally prescribed Dilaudid said they could not prescribe it outside of the hospital setting due to DEA regulations. I hate to consider how much more pain my wife can take as her constant facial neuralgia pain CAN be managed by low doses of Dilaudid but CANNOT be prescribed by doctors who want to help but cannot. The DEA needs to enforce these controlled substances against people who peddle and abuse them and ALLOW doctors to prescribe when it is medically and ethically necessary for those who NEED their pain managed. How ethical is it for doctors to be allowed to prescribe Dilaudid in the hospital to manage the patients pain and then dismissing the same patient with the same pain from the hospital with ABSOLUTELY NO OPTIONS to get a valid legal prescription for Dilaudid?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 18th, 2016Someone from Sacramento, CA writes:
I was in a bad car accident and the jaws of life was used to extricate me from my vehicle. I have some residual issues with my neck,bone spurs,degenerative disk disease,bulging disk, frozen shoulder and frozen elbow. I've been prescribed a pain medication because of these issues for over 9 years now. My doctor closed his office and I was referred to a new doctor which doesn't show my lower back issues and he doesn't feel comfortable prescribing this pain medication unless the pain management specialist agrees to it. He explained that congress is restricting him from prescribing my pain medication and he'd lose his license if he didn't comply with this new law. My doctor doesn't have any other treatment that would work for me now. Congress needs to find another way to crack down on these drug abusers besides limiting physically ill patients from a treatment that provides some sort of normalcy for them. If our government officials could understand how these physically patients feel on a daily basis then maybe they wouldn't have been so quick to pass this law. It's a shame that I have to feel demoralized and ashamed to request my pain medication to getting some temporary relief to my pain. I didn't know that our own government could get into patients medical records thus violating the HIPAA Law to see why our doctors are prescribing these pain medications to us. It's an outrage and they're should be a lawsuit against our own government.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 18th, 2016Someone from Andover, NJ signed.
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Aug 18th, 2016Someone from San Jacinto, CA writes:
I suffer from Chiari Malformation, syringomyelia, DDD, & EDS. I have chronic pain, my medical conditions will kill me, there is no cure except death . Now the DEA wants to take my medicine away. Why not just kill me now. This is in injustice to the chronically ill. Disgusting.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 18th, 2016Someone from Denver, CO writes:
To whom it may concern, My name is Cindy J Deim, I was a part time psychotherapist and worked in hospice until I got to sick to work any more. I have Fibromyalgia, degenerative disk disease and chronic fatigue. I have been in chronic pain for about 20 years now. It has been very difficult to live this life I have been dealt. But I have not given up, I worked out each day, meditate and walked daily. I force myself to do these things, so that I could live the best life I could. I had a regiment of pain medication I was on that relieved my symptoms enough that I could have some semblance of a life. I used that medication exactly as it was proscribed. It helped me be able to take walks, stretch and help me try to keep physically strong. Now with the new regulations, I am left with little. I don?t exercise, my walking has gone down to a couple times a week. My life has become very bleak. Honestly I feel confused. There are 100 million people in chronic pain. I?m not saying that there are not people who abuse pain medication, but that is not me. Most people who are apart of a pain clinic are constantly monitored to make sure they are not abusing medication. I am apart of one of those clinics. You will never see in all the years I once abused my medication in any way. I had a great relationship with my doctor. Now, it has all changed. My medications are being taken away for no reason other than the new DEA scheduling. It has changed my life and not for the better. I struggled for years because I had to take medication, but if you need it you need it. I did it because I was able to get out of my house have friends, run errands, have a life. I truly don?t understand what this is happening to people who are legitimately in pain. I did my home work, I new what I was doing and why. I decided to take pain medication for quality of life. My undergraduate degree is in Drugs and Alcohol and addictive behavior. For way too long we have misunderstood addictions and it has led us to this. We have tried over and over to learn the same lesson and we still haven't learned it. Prohibition doesn?t work and it won?t work here. People that are addicted will find a way to use drugs. But people in pain, will just suffer. There is a difference between being addicted, the misuse of drugs, and the use of a drug that is needed for pain. I took the same drugs for years. I rotated drugs so I wouldn?t become dependent on one drug. I used my education to help me use these medications properly. I?m not going to go threw a diatribe on addictions. There are many different ways of dealing with addiction other than taking away medication from people that are in pain. Honestly, I?m not sure if someone who is not in chronic pain can truly understand. Pain medications helps many people. If you take these medications away, what are we left with. Nothing. How can you take away the only thing that helps people in pain andREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 18th, 2016Someone from Seattle, WA signed.
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Aug 18th, 2016Someone from Arnold, MD writes:
Seems this is all over now days. I'm somewhat lucky my doc does give me enough to manage, but only because I refuse to take strong doses myself. There is another medication I have a very hard time getting and it's the only one that treats me without side effects. They will give me the one with a dozen serious side effects but not the one with no side effects. I think this is a drug company fix. They get a kick back on that prescription. I refuse the one with side effects and told when I'm bad enough I'll be glad to have it. Isn't that nice? The whole system is bad and only the drug abusers are able to get prescription after prescription because they know how to work the system. Most also get a check every month to buy their drugs while we work and suffer without them. This has to change! It's not fair to us who really need medication and don't take them more then we really need. I just hope that everyone that denies a patient the help they need knows the pain someday. That maybe mean but it's the only way they will know the hell they put their patients and public through.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 18th, 2016Someone from Lansing, MI signed.
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Aug 18th, 2016Someone from Kingston, PA writes:
I have been suffering from chronic pain from a spinal fusion surgery that helped me walk again, but I still have chronic pain EVERYDAY, I can not even find a family doctor that will take me now because of back pain!...I understand there is a problem with abuse, but for all the people that do have a legitimate problem with pain this treatment is unacceptable! If I didnt have some form of pain management for my back, I would not even want to live, the little bit of relief it does provide , is enough for me to want to get up and do daily chores. The fact that not one DR. in PA will take me as a general patient shows that this has gone too far and discriminates people with disabilities! THIS IS WRONG AND AGAINST THE LAW, OR ONE WOULD THINK!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 18th, 2016Someone from Lynnwood, WA writes:
I had a fall on my head and was temporary paralyzed at a very young age. I am now 26 and have been suffering chronic neck and lower back pain for over ten years. The last 3 years I have been downed by the pain 100 % bedridden causing a huge burden to my family who can barely pay rent to care for me. I have been labeled as a seeker for the last 6 years but still being prescribed over 7 typed medications a month all to round about giving me actual pain medicine. With that said if my father does not come in with me and explain how severe it is they won't look at me let alone attempt to help. Only through the pursuits of my family have Dr's even Considered giving me pain meds. They are giving me a dose that wasn't even enough for me to get through the work day 5 years ago even tho know I am fully bedridden this must stop. Patients are being kicked to the curb because drs are afraid to do their jobs because of you. I will lose my life soon I know that but there are thousands more like me. What am I to do. Please stop this. Dr's need to be more afraid of patients taking their own life's and their families suing because they didn't do their job rather than to be more afraid of the DEA. The government made crack. The government Funds terrorists. The government allows cartels to come. And wreak havok. But they won't let a Dr help a patient. Stop instilling fear in doctors or all u will see is OD victims because when they are at their last straw they may try heroin and not know how to dose. I'm scared for myself and these patientsREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelAug 18th, 2016Someone from Whittier, NC writes:
I too suffer with chronic pain and it's like pulling teeth to get my Dr to help me. I barely leave the house anymore because of my pain level. I'm 38 and my life could be so different if I had the right support.REPORT COMMENTS
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