First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Jun 23rd, 2016Someone from Winston Salem, NC writes:
I'm sure I'm only one of millions who are victim of the DHE and government overreach. Who is fighting this injustice? Ok so there is a drug epidemic. Who is protecting us? The ones who are actually in pain? My wife is in the close minded damaging care of the neurological community that stereotypes everyone into the same group as "narcotic" medication does not help migraines. Well my wife's are caused by a "mechanical" bone problem that exists in her neck, it's NOT chemical and she has NEVER had a "rebound headache". They have let her scream and writhe for TWO FING DAYS!!! Trying all they're witch doctor remedies that do NOTHING!!! IT IS A CRIME WHAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS DONE HERE!!! They are forcing doctors to do harm every day and trust me as I watch my wife suffer hour after hour, day after wretched day. It's doing harm. Who is fighting for us? -
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Jun 22nd, 2016Someone from Angola, NY writes:
Somewhere in all of the advances through modern medicine, the fact was lost that while our life spans are being extended when they would have been cut much shorter even as recent as 50 years ago, that extension of time left on earth comes at a price that's being ignored! Euthanasia for humans is not legal but would be so much more humane than allowing us to live in excruciating pain daily when there are ways to offer some form of relief to allow us to achieve some sort of quality of life. It's not easy for our loved ones to sit back and watch us in pain every day knowing they cannot do anything about it.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 22nd, 2016Someone from Vacaville, CA writes:
I have had chronic pancreatitis for over 11 years. In that time it has never gone away. My pain meds are the only thing that allows me to live some semblance of a life. Even with my meds I still have pain but I can at least get out of bed. I have been responsible and work closely with my pain mgmt Doctor. Don't punish me because others aren't honest or responsible.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 22nd, 2016Someone from Monson, MA writes:
I am a chronic pain patient who was abruptly denied refills on my pain meds. I had to enter a rehab program and have been off opioids for over two years. I also am a medical marijuana patient. The marijuana makes life tolerable, barely. I have been seeing psychotherapists for over two years. I have to talk myself out of suicide daily by deliberately thinking of my grand children. When I was taking opioids my life was not like this, I had a volunteer position, I was able to visit family and do errands. I no longer can do these things. Chronic pain is something that is frustrating because no one believes you. How would you like to spend your life with it just being tolerable?REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 22nd, 2016Someone from Gnadenhutten, OH writes:
Each time a bill is introduced it never mentions ensuring people in need of medicine should get it. It's always written with one focus, to restrict. I went 3 years undiagnosed for chronic right side abdominal pain. It was constant scrutiny until a doctor found the crushed nerve at T-10, T-11, and T-12. I take Neurotin and a Narcotic and am always compliant. There is a dark storm for the future where the media has demonized these medications and the patients to the point where people in this country will soon be receiving no medication they need. I take my medicine to be a part of the world not to check out of it. Wait till you or a family member is in chronic pain and they are told to go exercise and take advil. The test to use is the absence of imaging tests, procedures, or physical therapy and a history of pain medication. If you have a history of imaging, visits, procedures, and other treatment then that's someone trying to battle out of pain. Sadly, the only analytic they use is the count of prescriptions. That's a vacuum, look at the whole picture. Doctors went to school for 10 plus years and they are listening to law enforcement officers who got a bachelor degree.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 22nd, 2016Someone from Huntington Beach, CA writes:
I have been on pain management for about five years. The pain management doctor I go to now, and have been seeing for the past three years, has told me that he HAS to drop my dose of pain medication by 33% because of a letter he received from my insurance company. I have been asking him to raise my dose for two years now because I continue to experience pain to the extent that I am extremely limited in my daily activities.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 22nd, 2016Someone from Binghamton, NY writes:
I went 3 years undiagnosed for chronic right side abdominal pain. It was constant scrutiny until a doctor found the crushed nerve at T-10, T-11, and T-12. I take Neurotin and a Narcotic and am always compliant. There is a dark storm for the future where the media has demonized these medications and the patients to the point where people in this country will soon be receiving no medication they need. I take my medicine to be a part of the world not to check out of it. Wait till you or a family member is in chronic pain and they are told to go exercise and take advil. The test to use is the absence of imaging tests, procedures, or physical therapy and a history of pain medication. If you have a history of imaging, visits, procedures, and other treatment then that's someone trying to battle out of pain. Sadly, the only analytic they use is the count of prescriptions. That's a vacuum, look at the whole picture. Doctors went to school for 10 plus years and they are listening to law enforcement officers who got a bachelor degree.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 22nd, 2016Someone from Binghamton, NY writes:
I went 3 years undiagnosed for chronic right side abdominal pain. It was constant scrutiny until a doctor found the crushed nerve at T-10, T-11, and T-12. I take Neurotin and a Narcotic and am always compliant. There is a dark storm for the future where the media has demonized these medications and the patients to the point where people in this country will soon be receiving no medication they need. I take my medicine to be a part of the world not to check out of it. Wait till you or a family member is in chronic pain and they are told to go exercise and take advil. The test to use is the absence of imaging tests, procedures, or physical therapy and a history of pain medication. If you have a history of imaging, visits, procedures, and other treatment then that's someone trying to battle out of pain. Sadly, the only analytic they use is the count of prescriptions. That's a vacuum, look at the whole picture. Doctors went to school for 10 plus years and they are listening to law enforcement officers who got a bachelor degree.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 22nd, 2016Someone from Martinsburg, WV writes:
People (or "Zebras") like me with Ehler's Danlos Syndrome, where there is NO cure or even a true treatment, depend on pain medication for a quality of life. Ehler's Danlos is a connective tissue disorder. It causes severe bone, muscular, and joint pain. We have problems with every system of our body. Some of them are Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, ruptured ligaments and tendons, torn muscles. And with Vascular Type, a death sentence from aneurysm(s). We have EXTREME pain. Ever dislocated a joint? It's painful. Very painful. We deal with that EVERY day. It is hard enough trying to even find a doctor to take on an Ehler's Danlos patient much less having the government breathing down an MD's neck. Medical Doctors have earned the degree and right to prescribe. Not allowing them to treat the patient accordingly, is causing harm. Their first oath is to cause no harm. They should not be held accountable for someone else's choice to overdose and/or mix those drugs with alcohol and/or illicit drugs. If someone wants to kill themself, they will find a way to do it!! Inadequate pain control will only cause the suicide rate and illicit drug use to go sky high. Being in Uncontrolled chronic pain changes a person. I saw this during my ten plus years practicing as a nurse and now, I see it in myself due to EDS, a horrible genetic condition there is NO cure or treatment for. I have a feeling this will only cause worsening of the situation. And I can't help but feel there is a bigger agenda here with this being the beginning. IREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 22nd, 2016Someone from Orange, CA writes:
Workers' Comp patients are denied medications regularly and there's nothing done about it. Our whole system is terribly corrupted and must be made right.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 22nd, 2016Someone from Manteca, CA writes:
My doctors have defamed me and caused irreparable harm to me and my family and it continues. My doctors don't work for me nor do I pay them so they never listen to me or help me in the way I know they can. They are stuck on THC in my blood test that I did not give them permission to take. Then they use it against me and claim I am selling my Norco on the street. I am an honest hard working man who was making $60,000 per year and had $1,000,000 in assets. Now it is all gone and so is my marriage and family. And I lay here in pain wondering who might help me with my back and neck. Since June of 2010 I have been bedridden and my doctors tell me flat out "what do you want me to do? I don't know what I can do for you. There is nothing I can do for you." Well, I can get that for a lot less money so Kaiser Permanente will no longer be my friend. They will be my enemy by their own doing. Now they will lay in the bed they have made.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 22nd, 2016Someone from Green Cove Springs, FL writes:
I am living in severe chronic pain. The narcotics allow me to have some quality of life. You don't seem to care about anyone but yourself. With you forcing doctors to not prescribe, sufferers like myself will have to make an important decision- "Do we rot away in bed, unable to have some quality of life, do we look for drugs on the street, or do we end life instead of suffering & rotting away needlessly?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 22nd, 2016Someone from Manteca, CA writes:
My doctors have defamed me and caused irreparable harm to me and my family and it continues. My doctors don't work for me nor do I pay them so they never listen to me or help me in the way I know they can. They are stuck on THC in my blood test that I did not give them permission to take. Then they use it against me and claim I am selling my Norco on the street. I am an honest hard working man who was making $60,000 per year and had $1,000,000 in assets. Now it is all gone and so is my marriage and family. And I lay here in pain wondering who might help me with my back and neck. Since June of 2010 I have been bedridden and my doctors tell me flat out "what do you want me to do? I don't know what I can do for you. There is nothing I can do for you." Well, I can get that for a lot less money so Kaiser Permanente will no longer be my friend. They will be my enemy by their own doing. Now they will lay in the bed they have made.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 22nd, 2016Someone from Green Cove Springs, FL signed.
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Jun 22nd, 2016Someone from Shiocton, WI writes:
My chronic pain does not make me a criminal. Washington has no right to get between a patient and their doctor. Stop criminalizing and hurting people who are doing all they can to live a normal life!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 22nd, 2016Someone from Santa Cruz, CA writes:
My 25 year old son has intractable pain, 24/7 unrelenting, caused by a congenital back problem. He is on opiate pain medications which make his life bearable. He does not get "high" from them, and always takes them as prescribed. They allow him to function better, at least be able to get out of bed. Without treatment for his constant pain, I don't think he would survive.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 22nd, 2016Someone from Elgin, IL writes:
I have major back pain for 20 + years, Have M.S.for the past 8+ years. I need my pain medication in order to get out of bad each day,.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 22nd, 2016Someone from San Antonio, TX writes:
The Veterans Administration has jumped into the band wagon of not treating their patients who are suffering from chronic pain. It seems their policy fits all pain sufferers when every individuals are different. How can veterans who have suffered so much for this country gets turned away from the very institution that is suppose to take care of them? It is just not right for doctors to stop giving out pain medication cold turkey. This is not right for the physical and mental well being of their patients. We are not all abusers of pain medications and that should be considered in whether to stop or continue the prescription. There has to be a balance. If only it is possible for these doctors and policy makers to suffer the same type of pain we go thru then they will understand our world and not so quick in stopping our pain meds. I just bet that Congress and the rich will have no problem getting their pain meds when they need it while the common people have to suffer this indignity of being labeled an addict before the facts are considered. I just pray that it will not be too late when there is mass suicide of veterans due to this new DEA guidelines being implemented without consideration or exception. This will be on their head.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 22nd, 2016Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
I tried to end my life and sad to say was unsuccessful.They locked me up and did not really treat my pain.They took my freedom away and lied to me. They said they would find me a pcp and get my pain managed. I'm still in pain they wanted to keep me locked up,treat me like an addict. I have nerve damage I'm in pain denied medical intervention. They did not even clean and address my wounds from my failed attempt. This is not health care this is inhumane. When your in so much pain and no longer want to live your treated like your crazy , guess what , I'm not . I refuse to be treated as an addict, I refuse to be called mentally ill for a physical disability. My constitutional rights are being violated . My human rights are being violated .REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 22nd, 2016Someone from Thomaston, CT writes:
I don't have much fight left in me.....being treated like an addict when I've always used my medications responsibly to treat the pain that I'm in.....I don't know what to do any more. The whole pain management situation is so degrading. I spoke up against it, and now I've been cut off. Pray for me.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 22nd, 2016Someone from Albany, NY writes:
USA low on opoids after large USA consumptionREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 22nd, 2016Someone from Anniston, AL writes:
I never wanted to be a pain patient. I had huge plans for my future. I worked since the age of 13 even though I was born with scoliosis that kept me from being able to participate in school sports/activities. I was a computer network engineer and mother who owned her own business by 24. I was then hit by a drunk driver. Being young and naive I thought I would bounce right back from the whiplash and be fine, never thought it would affect me down the road. IT DID! Now with a failed cervical fusion behind me, left shoulder impingement, carpal tunnel, fibromyalgia, arthritis, an SI tear, disc degeneration, TMJ, migraines.... I have spent at least the past 14 years in pain management. I finally had to quit working in 2010 and just 2 months later my husband broke his back in 3 places while on the job. I was lucky to always have great doctors who kept both me and later my husband as comfortable as we could be. Our most recent doctor was recently shut down (5 days before we were due to see him) for ignoring "guidelines" and continuing to give his patients the best quality of life they could have. I went through the terrible pain and withdrawal of being without my prescribed doses and trying to stretch my meds until I could find a new doctor. I WAS "lucky" enough to finally find a doctor to see me 3 weeks later and was so relieved until he handed me my scripts for 1/6 my dosage of pain meds because that's "all the law allows for anyone not in end of life cancer". What? That isn't the truth. If it were a LAW and not a recommendation then the pharmacy wouldn't fill more and the insurance wouldn't pay for it. Even when I had patient assistance through PURDUE, the drug manufacturer, they would fill 5X more daily dosage and that was only 3 months ago. I get only my ER meds now, nothing for breakthrough pain, only the weakest of the 3 muscle relaxers I was taking (my 2 for bedtime were cut out). My husband is still laying in bed in pain waiting to find a doctor that will treat him. They are telling him he will have to go through an in-patient detox program before they will even see him. He took less medicine than I was on and has had nothing in 2 weeks so how much more detoxed do they want him to be? None if this makes any sense. How can the government get away with scaring our doctors away from treating us like human beings? I am raising my 3yo grandson and trying to take care of my husband who is usually the one taking care of me. I now wake up in the morning (if I sleep at all) and just want to die. That isn't me. I have always enjoyed life, even through the pain. But I can't watch my husband like this and I can't continue with no hope that I will ever get a minutes relief again. Who is allowing all these rules/laws to be made by people with no experience with severe intractable pain? I take my meds responsibly, I don't drink, I have never failed a drug screen, I have never gotten medication that I shouldn't from another doctor, when seeing doctors thREPORT COMMENTS
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