First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Jun 27th, 2016Someone from Mc Daniels, KY writes:
MY DR KICKED ME OUT OF HIS PRACTICE AFTER SEING HIM FOR 20 YRS, HE PUT ME ON PAIN MEDS BECAUSE OF A FAILED BACK SURGERY THAT LEFT ME IN VERY BAD PAIN (HE DID NOT DO THE SURGERY) HE GOT SICK AND I HAD TO START SEING A NURCE PRACTIONER HE BROUGHT IN WHILE HE WAS OUT 3-4 MONTHS SO, I LIKED HER AND KEPT SEING HER AND WHEN SHE LEFT AND WENT TO ANOTHER TOWN HE WOULDNT TAKE ME BACK BECAUSE I WAS ON PAIN MEDS THAT HE PUT ME ON,.... THE FACT IS THEY ARE DOING THE SAME THING TO PAIN MEDS AS WITH GUN CONTROL, THEY ARE ONLY HURTING PATIENTS WHO ARE IN REAL PAIN JUST LIKE GUN CONTROL ONLY TAKES AWAY A CITIZENS RIGHT TO PROTECT HIM/HER SELF, THIS DOES "NOTHING" TO STOP DRUG ADDICTS OR TERRORIST BECAUSE THEY DONT FOLLOW THE RULES LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE DO. -
Jun 27th, 2016Someone from Glen Allen, VA signed.
Jun 27th, 2016Someone from Frederick, MD writes:
CDC needs to get their house cleaned. Profits from illegal drugs are laundered thru the banks they use. This makes NO sense. America has one of the worst health care in the world. CDC knew years ago the No.1 cause of death here is from hospital care. Word got out, their budget was cut to a minimum, by our cheaply bought lawmakers.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 27th, 2016Someone from Dillonvale, OH writes:
I'm 26 and feel like my life was robbed from me before I've even began to live it. I'm suffered from debilitating chronic pain for the past 4 years due to an auto accident and underlying autoimmune disease but am constantly told that I'm too young to be in pain and labeled an addict. My current doctor says he will likely have to stop prescribing my medication soon because of changing regulations. If so, I'll have to stop work working again and I will have zero quality of life...REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 27th, 2016Someone from Anderson, IN writes:
I was told that the pain medicine contract would not pertain to me. I was not a drug addict. I would still receive my pain medicine. Just like all the other lies that have been told. Like keeping my doctor and my visits not being so high, this also was a lie. So its better for me to kill my insides. That makes so much sense. Please stop lying to all of us. We are not stupid. We are in pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 27th, 2016Someone from Henderson, NV signed.
Jun 27th, 2016Someone from Fort Lauderdale, FL writes:
Ever since this "free" country started criminalizing pain patients my quality of life has been miserable. With proper pain mngt I was able to build a successful business, buy a property and maintain it and had great relationships with family and loved ones. All of this is gone and all directly related to the neglect of the medical community to adequately treat my pain. My guaranteed rights of life and liberty have been destroyed by the DEA and I think it's time for WE the people to take them back! I so truly feel for all of you in pain and am so ashamed of our country to make us live this way. LIBERTY NOWREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 27th, 2016Someone from Toney, AL writes:
Ive raced all my life and worked ungodly jobs to raise my family, i race moto X alone for 18 years, i was hurt at work 100 + times, crashed in moto x. At least 500 times Now my body is destroyed, blew hips out many yimes, back is a large mess, Knees are shot, on and on, ive had every pain med over 40 plus years, im 58 now, ive been on meds so strong they made hydrocodode like asprin, itook 8 10mm norcos 24 hours a day, im leagaly disabled, i dont want to be!! I only need ta basicly get around each day!! I took opanas while working nights at ski area, i quit on my own, almost died... I asked my dr ta please put me on norcos like drs gave me 40 years ago, he did, I now, being only child care for my mother whos 85, after dea started there shit, my new Dr , was affraid, i lost health insurance moving mother south, 1 year 5 months ago my Dr cut my med by two pills, now i cant sleep, do yard chores and struggle from month ta month,, i gained 45 pounds in one month, and spend weeks in bed at a time Why live??? The dea took all my life quality,,, Good job dea, am i suposed to find Heroin???REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 27th, 2016Someone from Fallon, NV writes:
I unfortunately had back surgery that wasn't successful... My last Dr. told me to get insurance (I am barely above what the Medicaid allowance is, I find that odd because I live paycheck to paycheck and am barely surviving!!!) My last Dr. moved out if state, and at my appointment with my new Dr. was told she had an emergency (no phone call, I had to drive 30 miles each way with an unreliable car)... The Dr. who saw me told me nothing was wrong with me and would not even refill my ibuprofen or thyroid medicine... I'm living every day in hell...I've tried telling myself the Dr. was right and I was not in pain...WRONG!!! I wake up every day and pray it will get better, but it hasn't and I'm really doubting it ever will... I've tried to see pain management Dr.s, but I don't have enough money to even see them... I thank God I'm religious, because I'd rather be dead than live this horrible life... It's really great that I pay so much in taxes, plus get fined for no insurance and at tax refund time, I'm told I make to much money for earned income credit... Why can't the government find a way to help tax paying citizens manage the horrible pain???REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 27th, 2016Someone from Fallon, NV signed.
Jun 26th, 2016Someone from Tustin, CA signed.
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Jun 26th, 2016Someone from Tustin, CA writes:
I served my community even as a young Camp Fire Girl in the sixties and in pain from a fall in a neighbor's backyard. My family had good insurance and I couldn't find the help I needed. I grew as an active tern in the seventies, in chronic pain, a part time job at suxteen, my church and community. I became a medical professional but never obtained my final goal as someone whose body slowly deteriated. Family grows apart because pain is so isolated, no one wants to be reminded that invisible disabilities actually exist. I suffer daily, doctors are afraid they'll get "busted" for legally prescribing someone who is actually eligible for pain management treatment I'm southern California. Why are doctors busted for doing their job legally? I had actually been licensed by my state to hand out prescriptions with instructions I've seen the DEA grow into a monster. September, 1972 codeine became controlled. Suddenly Elvis gets a DEA badge from Nixon? It's crazy. I never wanted to be on medication but I choose life. Yes, I want to live, but not in pain, my family fought for our rights. I legally quality for C2 medication but everybody is afraid of the dea. It's crazy. Legal doctors getting busted? Not humane on any world you live in.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 26th, 2016Someone from Demotte, IN signed.
Jun 26th, 2016Someone from Edison, NJ writes:
Over 18 years ago, I was rear-ended at approximately 60-65 MPH by an inexperienced & careless teenage driver who wasn't paying attention to the road ahead of her. This horrific auto accident caused me to have numerous injuries, including a fractured C6 vertebrae that could have resulted in my untimely death or a permanent state of paralysis from the neck down. (Both, my neurosurgeon and orthopedic surgeon, said how very fortunate I was that I didn't become a quadriplegic. When they performed my six and a half hour ACDF/operation, they were shocked to discover a fractured shard of bone from my C6 vertebra that was peircing against my spinal cord. Had the impact been any worse or if I was in the slightest fender bender on the way to the hospital, I would have been paralyzed from the neck down. I also could have stopped breathing.) As a result of this near-fatal accident & the numerous injuries that I sustained, I now suffer from chronic-intractable pain and I'll continue to for the rest of my life. It's been over 18 years since this unremitting & debilitating pain began & every day has been a tremendous struggle! Needless to say, this accident has had devastating & lifelong consequences on my family & I. After the accident, I was diagnosed with five disc herniations, degenerative disc disease, a fractured C6 vertebrae, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (from my wrist being jammed against the steering wheel during the impact), a concussion/closed-head injury (which effected my short-term memory & caused concentration problems), Neuropathy, Sciatica, SI Joint Dysfuntion, Myofacial Pain Syndrome, Chronic Pain Syndrome, severe sprains & strains, Osteoarthritis, Scoliosis, & Cardiac Adrenal Pain Syndrome. To date, I have had two major operations, an Anterior Cervical Discectomy w/ Fusion (ACDF) and an Endoscopic Discectomy with Radio-Frequency Ablation (RFA) on L3-4, L4-5, & L5-S1 in my lumbar spine. I've also had three smaller surgeries. Ever since my second surgery, the Endoscopic Discectomy at L3-4, L4-5, L5-S1, my condition has gotten significantly worse. As a result of this surgery & the smaller surgeries that came later, I developed a significant amount of scar tissue and nerve damage. Soon afterwards, I was diagnosed with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) AKA Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD). Now, I basically feel like my skin is on fire 24/7 and like someone is intermittently driving needles and firing nails into my feet with a nail gun! Since I am ALWAYS in a great deal of pain, I also suffer from insomnia because it's extremely difficult to fall and remain asleep. The ONLY class of drugs that alleviates my chronic-intractable & neuropathic pain is OPIOIDS but I don't rely on opioids (or Oxycontin & Oxycodone) alone to treat my chronic intractable pain. I also take a supplement called Nerve Fix. Nerve Fix contains alpha lipoic acid and benfotiamine, along with other beneficial supplements, and they help a great deal to alleviate the neuropatREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 26th, 2016Someone from Berea, KY writes:
I suffer from rheumatoid arthritis , spondalitis .some days I can't even get out of bed , I'm in so much pain that I can't say life is bad cause I have no life anymore my good days are being able to walk without suffering for hours because I tried .My us government that is supposed to help with my social security that I paid all my life says I'm not disabled and cause of their refusal to help I have lost everything even my will thanks U S A for ur betrail now ever day is pain from when I wake till I sleep because of some ignorant gov agency DEA who thinks they know more than the docs do , I can't get help for my pain , if a doctor cant be a doctor and help his patients then he might as well just find a new profession and just let DEA treat all medical issues if I sound angry its because I am ****ed off I have to live this wayREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 26th, 2016Someone from Taylor, WI writes:
52 year old female who has always exercised, eaten well, had a good job and paid plenty of taxes income and property, had the misfortune of becoming ill 4 years ago. I felt I did all the right things in life no drugs no drinking a pretty healthy lifestyle. Because I have become part of the unfortunate chronic pain population I too will be left to suffer. Will I be able to hold my job which allows me to pay those income and property taxes? I would never take pain medication to Get high I need to take it to participate in life. Would they rather we lay in bed and think of ways to kill over selves? because there are going to be plenty of people that carry through with those plans. My pain medication doesn't make me high it does exactly what it was created for, to take my pain away so I can be a participant of life and society. One of the disgusting things about all this crap going on is that the rich and famous, the doctors and people in the medical profession will continue to get what they need when it comes to pain relief. It will be, once again, the average joe who is screwed over. I had heard that George clooney had some kind of chronic pain problem, maybe his back, and he takes pain medicine everyday he said. Do you think his doctor, senator or congressman is going to take his pain medication away? No, he will be allowed to continue on because of who he is as will all other rich and famous people who get catered to.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 26th, 2016Someone from Pasadena, CA writes:
I am one bad pain flare away from death. The key regimen keeping me alive is high-strength, high-dose opiate pain medications delivered through the excellent care and watchful eye of a top expert in Intractable Pain (IP) and addictionology in California. I write because the current hysteria about opiate addiction is artificially lumping legitimate IP patients?who almost never become addicted or abuse their medications?in with addicts and a few rogue doctors who misuse these medications crucial to my staying alive. Addicts have a number of options available to address their disease. Most IP patients like me?though we all employ a series of modalities to manage our pain?must rely primarily on opiate pain meds. Take these away and millions of innocent, vulnerable people who are doing nothing wrong will die miserable, premature deaths. And if they don't die rates of disability still will rise, at great expense to the government and our society. I remind everyone that the definition of torture is the infliction of severe pain. Well, limiting or withholding opiate/opioid pain medications from legitimate Intractable Pain patients amounts to torture. The pendulum is swinging too far. The key is to separate addicts out from IP patients. Even the new CDC guidelines do not forbid high-dose, high-strength opiate regimens for patients who truly need them; the guidelines merely urge caution. The federal government needs to stop lumping addiction and intractable pain together, get addicts into the treatment they need for their disease, and reassure us legitimate patients (and our doctors and pharmacists) that we may get the treatment that OUR diseases need.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 26th, 2016Someone from Emporium, PA writes:
After three years of being on a med that stopped most of my pain..I was cut off and thrown out of a practice. I never abused or misused any medication. I had to go cold turkey off a powerful med. I was given an oral swab drug test and my med didn't show up. My Dr believed me and wrote my monthly prescription. No pharmacy had it. So I went back to the office where another Dr took my prescription and tore it up saying no meds for me. I cried. He didn't know me. I was afraid of having to be bedridden again. I asked to be urine tested. He then threw me out. My Dr was crying and told him I take my meds. Its been over a month now in bed. I'm about to give up. I have a new Dr appt with someone new but he's in the same system. What are my choices?? Help.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 26th, 2016Someone from Houston, TX writes:
That's just BS, plain and simple. I've had 6 spinal surgeries. If it weren't for the morning medicines, including pain pill) that I take everything morning I wouldn't be able to do ANYTHING. Luckily with the meds/pain pills I take everyday I can get up (sometimes with a little from my husband) and do the things I need to do. It make me a better wife, a better mother, better Gigi (grandmother), and a better daughter in law. I get her things when she wants them. I also try to keep up with her meds as well as my own. Oh and by the way: I've been on these meds for almost 16 years. They ease the pain enough so that I can function, they definitely DO NOT make me "high". They give me enough to help the pain and they give me enough so that I can feel and look like the woman the I am!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 26th, 2016Someone from Knoxville, TN writes:
As a veterinarian I know exactly how bad, physiologically, chronic pain is for the body. In animals, we treat it without hesitation, because our most important job is relief of animal suffering. The DEA has made it impossible for human doctors to do the most important part of their job, out of fear that some of the drugs they prescribe might end up getting sold to people who don't actually need them. In return, the price of these drugs on the street has gone UP, not down; the popularity of these drugs on the street has gone UP, not down; and in addition, hundreds of thousands of humans with chronic pain conditions suffer needlessly! If that isn't abuse, I don't know what is.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 26th, 2016Someone from Rochester, NY signed.
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Jun 26th, 2016Someone from Bowling Green, KY writes:
I'm a 60 year old man that had suffered a horrible auto accident in the 70s resulting in my whole left side being crushed and my leg had to be attached back. Also have dessication of my disc in pretty much my whole spine no use of my hands and a hereditary brain disease. I once was an able bodied man because i was responsibly taking my prescribed opiate medication but now I was forced off my meds due to the new "guidelines" this is completely and utterly inhumane stop taking law abiding citizens medications away stop putting fear into our doctor's let them treat us without the stigma. The government has no business being involved in my health care people are dying and through no fault of their own.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 26th, 2016Someone from Park City, KY writes:
I was born sick all my life I've had chronic pain. Up until recently I had quality of life but now I'm confined to a bed at 40. I have a brain disorder spinal stenosis degenerate disc disease nerve damage and severe osteoarthritis. I've done all the alternative therapies and natural so called remedies and nothing helped but an opiate prescribed medication. I always followed all the rules drug test which is a major invasion of privacy that alone makes a person feel bad the verbal abuse from doctor's and nurse's. We the people that follow the rules should not be punished. We are patients not addict's.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 26th, 2016Someone from Fort Wayne, IN writes:
At 15 I was a passenger in a 7 rollover jeep accident that resulted in constant excruciating pain. I have bulging and degenerative discs, narrowing of spinal canal, and SM (a rare and very painful cyst inside the spinal cord) The doctor I saw prescribed morphine and percocet, and it helped.. But I didn't about tolerance, I was just happy to be back to myself . Little did I know this would be the beginning of a life long problem. I lost my insurance and was forced into instant withdrawal from benzos , Antidepressants, adhd medicine, and of course the opiates.i didn't abuse them or go out all high and partying, no I got to be like the other kids my age who could go to dances and school functions without hiding in a corner embarrassed by my pain. You don't have to abuse narcotics to feel the wrath of withdrawal, your body will sense that they're normal and necessary. I thought I was dying and at times prayed that I was so the pain would be over. My boyfriend offered me a pill he got from a friend and from there I just saw it as a more affordable way to manage pain. The lowlife junkies I found myself interacting with was not what I wanted from life. A girl I worked with had back pain and a love for heroin told me the methadone clinic would help with my pain. She told me what to say to become a patient. I put myself in a corner and there isn't really a way out. All I've ever wanted was relief... Had I known that 10 years later I'd get no more relief from a percocet than an aspirin, I would have told that doctor to shove it, just give me some vikes. My condition worsens seemingly each and every day and ironically less and less help is available. I've offered everything. Pill counts at the drop of a hat, drug tests whenever, field sobriety tests. Well the pains making me crazy and I'm about to pull out my hair, you might as well test it... Never tell doctors how pain is mentally impacting you. Because any sign of that and you're off to the looney bin. Hell yeah we need regulations... On both doctors and patients and insurance for that matter. Had there been some kind of regulation on tapering down and requiring that insurance cover it, I see a different outcome. Let doctors require more of those they feel maybe drug seekers and make them jump through hoops and if they decide they feel more comfortable it should be their choice to let up on requirements. There is no point in pain management doctors who aren't allowed to manage pain, and people committing suicide because no one would help with their pain. It's easy to call them weak but unless you face the prospect of pain that gets worse when you already feel like you're at max capacity then you don't really get an opinion. Is it better to have a person unmonitored buying street drugs. Please tell me who that helps other than the drug dealer making money on a man's down and out luck. Funny how the dea actually perpetuates the dealers.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 26th, 2016Someone from Rockville, MD writes:
I have been in chronic pain for more than 4 years due to an inoperable back problem and fibromyalgia. I have an amazing pain Doctor and PA who counsel me monthly, suggest new therapies, medications, and treatments and keep track of my general health. Over the past 4 years I have watched new government regulations creep into the way medications are handled. I have heard from other people about other pain clinics closing because they didn't meet one government standard or another. Please allow doctors to truly treat patients to the best of their abilities. Stop hog tying them in be autocratic red tap while real people are suffering. Until you have gone years with pain...pain that medication barely touches but doesn't truly relieve...you will never know the suffering of chronic pain and what it does to your entire life. Please let doctors do their job.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 26th, 2016Someone from Eastpoint, FL signed.
Jun 25th, 2016Someone from Wheat Ridge, CO writes:
I lived with Chronic pain for over 40 years. I only began taking medication as I got older and the pain was unbearable. Now I'm being treated like a criminal. This is so unfair. Without the medication, the pain can put me into shock. If this policy continues, I have no doubt it will lead to my death.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 25th, 2016Someone from Topeka, KS signed.
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Jun 25th, 2016Someone from Muskegon, MI writes:
Having a very hard time coping without my meds......REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 25th, 2016Someone from Fort Collins, CO writes:
Living in constant pain from a degenerative disease makes everyday simple tasks almost unbearable. Things such as showering, dressing preparing meals are difficult. Worse is being treated like a drug addict when all you are doing is trying to maintain some resemblance to a normal life. I don't drink alcohol or do illegal drugs and have been on same dosage for 18 years. Please recognize that lots of people suffer with chronic pain and a lot of us are labeled addicts for simply trying to have a lifeREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 25th, 2016Someone from Vineland, NJ writes:
I am a 33 year old who is an above knee amputee. The original surgeon messed me up and now have severe nerve damage and bone spurs that continue to grow. My only option is surgery every 6-9 months and pain medication. I was finally getting some relief being prescribed pain medication. I went back to work started feeling almost normal again until my pain management dr decided to cut my medication by more than half because of DEA guidelines. It is a struggle to keep my job with the intense pain I experience and has negatively affected my life by me not being able to do anything after I struggle through work but take off my prosthetic and lay in bed. I feel as if I am not getting pain "management" but withdrawal management. They prescribe be just enough to keep me hooked and coming back to refill but not enough to even take the edge off my pain. I have never taken a pain pill to get "high". I take my meds how they are prescribed but they are loosing their effectiveness. I am going to loose my job and be on government assistance due to the lack of pain management. Is this what the DEA wants? Another free-loader on everyone else? I refuse to be that man. I would rather die than have to accept handouts. I think people who are actually in need of pain medication should join together and file a class action lawsuit against DEA and doctors who refuse to help their patients regain what minimal normalcy they can with pain medication.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 25th, 2016Someone from Jackson, MS signed.
Jun 25th, 2016Someone from Kokomo, IN writes:
Who do you think you are to put people who live with pain every day to take there pain meds away number one if you are a constant pain patient you need you meds it's ok.what makes it not ok when a doctor retired. Or just stops treating a person that's where the problem come in I am 65 I hurt every day and for you to take away what helps me live a normal life it's wrong it's sad that one person can do this.what needs to be done is quit saying withdraws won't kill you because they can.that's where the schooling needs to be not taking awayREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 25th, 2016Someone from Lincolnton, NC writes:
I find that the quality of my life has fallen greatly because of physicians relutance, and sometimes refusal, to treat my pain with the proper medications. They continously prescribe alternative medications which have proved harmful to my system in the past I was recently berated by a PA who told me that I couldn't come in and attempt to tell them how my health should be managed. This person continued until I was in tears. I do not "lose medication" and ask for more. I have only once asked for a higher level (5 mgs to 7.5) and after using this medication for a week, asked to be placed back to the lower dosage. My pain is real, severe and continous. I only ask that I be allowed to control it to a point where I can function on a daily basis. Before the new laws I actually hardened, golfer and walked about a mile per day. These days because of the extremely limited number of pills allowed, I am lucky to be able to get up, take care of my pets and do minimal housework. When switched to the alternative drugs before I broke my ankle, the next time I broke my shoulder and I also suffered a mini stroke due to the fact that my body does not respond to these chemical alternatives. We work our whole lives and now the doctors and our own government wish to take what we have left. More and more of the elderly are dropping out of society. We no longer want to be with family and friends, we don't participate in activities and we are sinking into deep depression. Our only alternative now is to die and I'm beginning to believe that this is exactly the outcome the government wants. In pain and in our later years, we should be allowed some comfort and the ability to control the worst of the pain. Something needs to be done before many of us decide death is best or the alternative medications do it for us. Thank you.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 25th, 2016Someone from Fostoria, OH writes:
as many other signers I have osteoarthritis, knee replacement, degenerative disc disease, herniated and calcified discs in lumbar back, lost use of two fingers right hand, cervical arthritis, and new diagnosis of bilateral hip degeneration, no cartilage left on left knee. I had Spurs removed from lumbar spine in 1999 to alleviate nerve pain in sciatic nerve. I have been on pain medication since 1999, never filled early, never doctor shopped, and never abused. The pain medication allow me a minimal amount of normalcy, minimal. I have not been working since 3-16 related to inability to stand greater then one hour, difficulty sitting for any length of time, and spasms. I have been referred to a pain clinic. I asked my PCP about Ohio's new medical marijuana laws and was told in no uncertain terms that he will not be prescribing. Super. 17 years of narcotics have been fine though. I agree we have a horrific problem in the country which WAS CREATED BY PHYSICIANS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES. Now that people are being cut off their solution is heroin and death. Stop abusing the citizens of this country, citizens through no fault of their own developed repetitive motion injuries and hereditary problems by removing their lifelines.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 25th, 2016Someone from Toledo, OH writes:
May 5, 2016 lSomeone from Memphis, TN writes: People will find other means of medication or worse, end their lives because of chronic pain.REPORT COMMENTS
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