First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Jul 6th, 2016Someone from Burke, VA writes:
Cluster headache/Migraine headache sufferer. Pills for migraines cost almost 100 dollars a pill. I only take the medicine when I get the headache. I feel sorry for people who need it more often. Codine cough medicine is the best for chest congestion for the flu it opens up your airways, helps you cough that junk up so it doesn't stay in your lungs and get infected, used as a last resort. Inhailers make me pass out. -
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Jul 6th, 2016Someone from Nokomis, FL writes:
Without pain medication I'd have no life at all. With it I'm able to have some sort of life. I don't abuse. Please stop punishing the people who need the medication!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 6th, 2016Someone from Lisle, IL writes:
I was born with a rare spinal deformation that wasn't found until years of excruciating sciatica pain that wasn't a problem until I was in my late 40's. I was told I must have this surgery & risks were nothing to worry about. If someone would of just gave me the pain treatment I needed I wouldn't have Cauda Equina, Arachnoiditis and worse sciatica pain along with all types of new pain and symptoms that keep popping up that are debilitating and have ruined my life in a short 15 months since I had this unnecessary surgery. I could go on and on, scared into this surgery and promised results. This is progressive, I need pain meds to walk around my house, I can't do anything like I use to be able to do even with the little amount of meds I'm getting and there is no cure and my Neurosurgeon can't help me and I'm waiting for him to deny me any help any month now. Have mercy on those who are truly suffering to give us some sort of quality of life, we are not seeking drugs like addicts, when your in this much pain you don't even get an addicts "high" you're lucky if it even takes the edge off that day.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 5th, 2016Someone from Madison Heights, MI writes:
You wonder why people are dying, it because the chronic pain patient are not being helped with their pain so the seek other ways of getting pain meds. Chronic pain patients are being treated like addicts. This has to stop.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 5th, 2016Someone from Saint Petersburg, FL writes:
I have adhesive arachnoiditis and CRPS. I am sick and tired of the government intervening with my life. You have no idea how to treat a patient with chronic intractable pain. You have no idea the terrible pain I and many others with chronic pain deal with every single day of our lives. Without opioids I wouldn't be able to function at all. Opioids are saving my life, not taking it away. Quit lumping us in with the addicts. This needs to stop! There is no epidemic. Only your lies of skewed and flawed data. You are creating false information that will only hurt all of us. Go away!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 5th, 2016Someone from Saint Helens, OR signed.
Jul 5th, 2016Someone from Saint Petersburg, FL writes:
My daughter has chronic intractable pain. Arachnoiditis and CRPS. She suffers daily in terrible pain. This treatment of chronically ill patients and lumping them as addicts needs to stop! It is inhumane and barbaric to take away medications that help these people to function. Where is the compassion for these poor poor souls? The government needs stay the heck away from the physicians and let them treat their patients accordingly with the medications they so need. What the hell does the government know about pain or how to treat it? I'm so so so sick of this bull crap! Enough of this war on opioids. It's a disgrace.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 5th, 2016Someone from Houston, TX signed.
Jul 5th, 2016Someone from Beecher, IL writes:
Let family doctors have their discretion when it comes to their patients and their need for pain meds. I have Arachnoiditis which there is no cure. Pharmacies and doctors are afraid to prescribe and sell pain meds anymore.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 5th, 2016Someone from Ocala, FL writes:
I have seen what severe chronic pain has done to someone extremely dear to me after he suffered back injuries as well as spinal stenosis. It hurts to see how far his life has deteriorated in his 30s from the extreme pain and the difficulty in getting the proper treatment he needs. He has gone from a vibrant, productive young man to one who suffers in agony and has all but withdrawn from the world after exhausting all of his other options for pain management. I have also seen what can potentially happen to patients who get truly desperate for relief from their debilitating pain and resort to riskier methods. This should not have to happen to the truly ill and pained patients.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 5th, 2016Someone from Porterville, CA writes:
I have Adhesive Arachnoiditis which is an extremely painful rare disease of the spinal cord nerves. I have Adshsions on the spinal cord where the nerves are "glued" together causing strange pain sensations all over my body. I have a neurogenic bladder, sphincter disturbance, cannot regulate body temperature, sweat profusely and have trouble walking. I have this disease for 15 years (since I was 23). I started aggressive pain management and adjusted to the side effects. After 5 years I went back to college and earned an associates of arts, then transferred to state university where I earned a bachelors of science in business finance and finally this year finishing my masters of science in healthcare administration. All the while I used narcotics, opioids, pain meds, aggressively. I never looked intoxcated or under the influence and if I had I would have been escorted off campus. I want to work. I have the will to live. I will succum to scucide if I have to live with no pain meds. Not at first, it may take a year or five but it will push me over the edge. Please, I beg you as a member of congress to not cast aside my medical for another's addictions.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 5th, 2016Someone from Tiffin, IA writes:
I have spent the last 15 years dealing with chronic pain through every possible method except prescribed pain medication. The pain has now become so horrible none of the past methods of pain relief will help. As I become older and in more pain the government and doctors are no longer wanting to prescribe anything that will relieve my pain. As the pain increases and the depression rises it is difficult to see any solution to relieve the misery except to end my life. How is this a better solution for a person only 55 years of age? Many of us desperately need the assistance of decent pain management that will require medication.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 5th, 2016Someone from Amherst, VA writes:
I am writing as a Person with chronic pain, on disability, for multiple serious chronic illnesses. For eight years I was treated by one Physician for pain management. After I was told by her, I can no longer be your Physician, I was in utter shock. This physician has been under investigation for her current narcotic dispensing practices. My primary care doctor told me she would bridge me, prescribe pain meds, until I could be seen by a new pain management doctor. After speaking with my previous pain management doctor, my primary decided not to bridge me and started a taper of my pain medicine. This doctor no longer cared about my health or well being. In the meantime I was already waiting for my appointment with a new pain management doctor. Fortunately I got in to see him and this doctor has continued treatment for my pain management. If I had not advocated for myself and found this new doctor I would have no pain management. I would have been in bed paralyzed with pain unable to function, suffering and with no one to care. I am still seeing my primary care doctor, for everything except pain issues. I decided to stay with her, for now for a couple of reasons. One she is a good Internist. Secondly, if you doctor hop for any reason, you are suspect. We no longer have the fantastic doctor, patient relationship we once had, prior to the pain medicine incident. I've been on the fence for months now. However, I've decided to put into writing my concerns about my care. Also, I do not authorize her to discuss my pain management issues verbally or in writing without my prior, written consent. I do plan to start looking for a new primary care physician as this PCP, labeled and profiled me unjustly. The government is not treating addictions, overdosing ect. correctly. Therefore blame has to go somewhere. Does not matter what the DEA ect. does. Addicts will always find drugs and there will always be overdoses. The chronic pain patients are the ones suffering and will suffer. I've been through a nightmare dealing with my pain, medications and we'll being. This behavior by professionals with to many opinions has to stop. This behavior by are government had to stop!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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Jul 5th, 2016Someone from South Lake Tahoe, CA writes:
I am a second grade teacher who had fought my way back from total disability from fibromyalgia. Now that my pain meds have been cut by 25%, I have little hope for the future. I know that I am facing a miserable existence. This, after having eight functional years with the same, low dose of pain meds. This is a giant step back for human rights in the U.S.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 5th, 2016Someone from Youngstown, OH writes:
It is evil!! Because of drug addict, the real true sick people have to suffer, and maybe even kill themself??? That not medicine but murder to do this. Like me, I the to take meds. do not want to be addicted, but when you have fibromyalgia, arthritis etc so in huge pain for years, or when your child in terrible pain,like mine who have sickness one on the whole EARTH OF IT KIND, she can suffer even more?? Murderers!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 5th, 2016Someone from Chesterfield, MO writes:
I was diagnosed with RSD in 2011 since than it has spread to most of my body. Without pain medication I will be left with no other option but to take my life. The agony I live with day in and day out is at times unbearable with pain medication. My bones feel like they are breaking, muscles being torn apart and as if someone has poured gasoline on me (only a cold burn) and lit a match. I have days I can't get out of bed. RSD is also known as the suicide disease because the pain is relentless, the already high suicide rate amount RSD patients will increase dramatically if they are denied relief from the pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 5th, 2016Someone from Henderson, NV writes:
If you really believe a reduction of opiates is required then why haven't patients been sent to rehab? Dispicable!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 5th, 2016Someone from Howell, NJ writes:
In my previous post about the Human Rights Watch, Not sure why it posted those numbers and pound signs, please ignore it, Please use the hashtag. #facesofchronicpain Thank youREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 5th, 2016Someone from Howell, NJ writes:
I urge all of who who are being DENIED your human right to treat your pain with the proper medication, whether you have had your meds lowered, OR abruplty stopped to write to the Human Rights Watch ASAP. If you have not been affected yet, please support your fellow chronic pain family and send your stories in. THIS WAR ON LEGIT PAIN PTS NEEDS TO STOP NOW! PEOPLE ARE BEING FORCED TO EXIST IN AGONY, SUCH AS MYSELF, WE NEED TO BAN TOGETHER AND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS TO TREAT OUR PAIN! There have been MANY lives lost to SUICIDE from our fellow chronic pain sufferers who were DENIED their LIFESAVING MEDS, leaving them with NOWHERE to turn but SUICIDE! HOW MANY MORE LIVES ARE YOU CORRUPT PEOPLE IN CONGRESS GOING TO MURDER BY DENYING PEOPLE THEIR LIFELINE TO A QUALITY OF LIFE!?!?! Taken from a support group: The 2 BEST things everyone can do right now is WriteTo: Human Rights Watch 350 5th Ave, 34th Floor NY, NY10118-4700 Meg Mszyco, Health and Human Rights/Disability Rights Associate 212-216-1215 AND use our new Hashtag in your stories. ‪#‎FacesOfChronicPain‬ Thank you everyone, working TOGETHER is the ONLY way to get our HUMAN RIGHTS back.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 5th, 2016Someone from Brookfield, IL writes:
By implementing these new guidelines, the CDC and FDA has only hurt millions of Americans who suffer terribly with pain. American doctors should be ashamed of themselves by agreeing to these new rules. Is it not in the original Hippocratic Oath " I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm." ?? I have friends and family that have been denied their pain meds, their lives have changed drastically, no longer leading vibrant, purposeful lives, now just living in constant pain trying just to get out of bed in the morning. "Government war on drugs" HAH ! It's actually the "government killing of innocent people". If only the government would work this efficiently on gun control.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jul 5th, 2016Someone from Addison, IL writes:
Doctors need to go back to being doctors! The DEA needs to review their policies and stop interfering in treatments they know NOTHING about! Who suffers for the thousands of druggies?? Put up a damn Universal prescription data base and get your nose out of real patients business.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 5th, 2016Someone from Neosho, WI writes:
I have had 3 back surgeries in 10 years, after each It becomes harder to get medication to try to Return as a productive member of society. I will also bet that any dr., lawyer, congressman ect. with chronic pain has no where near the same difficulty. Funny, it's always the ones responsible for the laws who seem untouched by them!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 5th, 2016Someone from Stevenson Ranch, CA writes:
Chronic pain patients must be treated with dignity and respect and provided with appropriate medication.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jul 5th, 2016Someone from Saint Louis, MO writes:
We shouldn't treat people as worthless because their pain is difficult and/or incurable.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 4th, 2016Someone from San Jose, CA writes:
Our country has lost its humanity..I am ashamed off by service to her. Father of 4, USAF Disabled veteranREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 4th, 2016Someone from Portland, OR writes:
It's the first time I have been able to get out of bed and sleep through the night.Please do not judge us for having pain.It makes life so unbareable when all you think about is the pain.I'm so grateful to God I have been given a doctor that cares ,and life is better when pain does not control you.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 4th, 2016Someone from Owego, NY writes:
Just added some but do not show. I find this matter disgusting. The DEA is overreaching its authority. I am ill from sudden withdrawal by my primary physician of clonazepam and the fentanyl patch for fear of license forfeiture. I guess I am free to enter a nursing facility at age 61 to obtain these meds. I do not think so. Who would? Almost 30 years of taking them now. I do not sell (DEA calls it "diverting") these meds nor do I feel I "abuse" them. I need them for severe, life altering anxiety and chronic pain from orthopedic surgeries and never-ending fractured bones. I also have wasting syndrome. Cheer up, I am told. MMJ is at hand. Well, being disabled, I must rely on Medicare and New York Medicaid. Those do not work to purchase it. I do not make enough cash on SSD to do so. I guess I just have to watch those with money get it. Same oldstory. I could say something starting with "Shove it up . . ." to the Department of "Justice" administering the DEA, but won't. I just say "Get Real". What if it were you or your loved one? I would wager it would be a whole different story . . .REPORT COMMENTS
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