First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Jun 6th, 2016Someone from Cleveland, TN writes:
I have already lost my pain meds and every day and night are agonizing. No otc don't work because have tried them all. They are also very damaging to your liver and kidneys. I had back surgery in the 1970's then last August I was rear-ended by an 18 wheeler. I have 12 protruding discs and DDD and stenosis and nerve damage. I really need something for pain before I get pushed over the edge. Yes I do see a psychiatrist already. -
Jun 6th, 2016Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity. The people responsible for the deliberate prevention of the treatment of chronic pain are addicts as well . They are addicted to abusing others in need of pain relief. They are addicted to abusing power . They are addicted to stealing others Freedom. They are the destructive addicts .REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 6th, 2016Someone from Buffalo, NY signed.
Jun 6th, 2016Someone from Buffalo, NY writes:
The DEA should stop targeting these doctors that have dedicated their lives to help others in pain. They have no business denying people proper medical treatment just because of the size of the doctors practice or they don't particularly like the doctor. Most of the people that go to Pain Management doctors are really in pain and need pain medication to function on a daily basis. I have been in pain for 25 years and it's not getting any better. Pain Medication is the only thing that helps me function. I hope that some day someone from the DEA is in so much pain that they can't function and there will be no one there to help out because they are too busy patting themselves on the back by saying we helped solve the drug problem, but the " REAL" DRUG DEALERS will be out there selling crack, heroine, etc. to our children on the streets and no one is doing anything about that.........REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 6th, 2016Someone from Tonawanda, NY writes:
I will gladly throw my medication out once YOU find a cure for Cauda Equina Syndrome, Trigeminal Neuralgia and now Geniculate Neuralgia, as I'm sure YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LIVE WITH THESE SYNDROMES!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 6th, 2016Someone from Grand Island, NY writes:
Finally found some sort of pain relief, some sort of normal life.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 6th, 2016Someone from Buffalo, NY writes:
I have had 8failed back surgeries and 1 neck. I don't go out and Dr. shopping I see only one Dr. Please let us live our lives they way we want we have true pain I Have True Really Bad Pain and So do other people.Thank You for listeningREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 6th, 2016Someone from Pittsburgh, PA writes:
the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity. Life is an addiction Freedom is an addiction what good is either when they are force ably taken ? The Freedom to choose to live in pain or not has been taken away . Is life , such an addiction , to live in constant pain , I say no , what good is Freedom if you are in pain and no longer enjoy you addiction to Freedom ? Is Freedom worth your life and your life worth for Freedom ? It's not about addiction our very Freedom is at hand . To protect and to serve , not to , prevent and harm . I am an American citizen being forced to not have Freedom of choice . Forced to have mandatory health care , Forced to live in pain this is not Freedom .REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 6th, 2016Someone from Lockport, NY signed.
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Jun 6th, 2016Someone from Williamsburg, VA writes:
Listen Folks. I know that many, many, Americans in these many, many forums you see popping up on the internet because of the recent CDC and DEA crack-down on pain prescription medications, are truly in need of chronic pain relief. I know,..as I have non-diabetic peripheral neuropathy in my hands and feet. It is like living, but being eternally burned. Being burned by Fire (lilterally) is just a couple of pain ratings away. Perhaps I am in training for the torture in hell that is to come. (joke....I hope). But as I read these comments, and sometimes short stories, of what people are going through, I see problems. Too many of us are using and including in their testimonies the old over-used catch phrases as "QUALITY OF LIFE", "GETTING MY LIFE BACK", "MY OPTIONS ARE SUICIDE OR TURNING TO STREET HEROIN", "I NEVER ABUSED MY MEDS, TOOK THEM AS PRESCRIBED FOR YEARS, AND NEVER SOLD THEM" or "THEY CAN CHECK ME WITH URINE TESTS EVERYTIME I COME IN", "THE DEA IS THIS AND THAT".....and many constant other over-used whines from people who post. Do you not know, the true drug seeker uses these same phrases...and most are very articulate if not intellectual to some degree? These people are not street bums...they are normally well educated or well versed in the medical language and jargon they think will impress the doctor "du jour" that they are visiting on that particular day. Don't become a drone! Doctors don't want to hear it. They have heard it all before. Be honest....with yourself and with the doctor. If you have been on controlled meds for too long, be able to illustrate your medical history (aside from you are somehow allergic to every non-opioid medication OTC or otherwise) with accurate assessment and scientific analyses rather than conjuncture or illnesses that evade true confirmed diagnosis (the old 1990's "lower back pain doc....,must be fibro". No need for these meds to provide temporary euphoria or water-cooler sociable behavior. Be honest (about smoking, ALCOHOL USE esp., and other behaviors, that although may bring scrutiny by the physician but will help him in his diagnosis, that probably contributed to your condition in the first place. But again....don't be a repetitive drone of the "same ole, same ole" that doctors, and other patients have heard as well. I am just tired of reading the same whines and excuses. Be original and you may actuallly get a doctor that will listen to you. Just a word to the wise.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 6th, 2016Someone from Wilmington, NC writes:
You are creating the Modern Day Leper Colony. History repeating itself all because of ignorance and fear on your part. We are being marginalized and pushed outside the city Gates. You want us to go away just like they did thousands of years ago to people who had a legitimate disease. This is the Dark Ages for those of us who live with chronic pain. We are pain patients not addicts. Shame on you! And may you who judge us experience the same thing one day. Chronic pain could happen to you and then what would you do? I never dreamed it would happen to me. But here I am.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 6th, 2016Someone from Pompano Beach, FL writes:
Since moving to South Florida a few years ago, I began continuing my pain management for multiple severe spinal injuries. South Florida doctors placed me on a program that went against my work-schedule, though, I remained on that very expensive system for 18 months until my work schedule increased and I was unable to spend days during the week, each month, to attend appointments and waiting rooms. Now I am not being treated because if more than a month is lapsed in treatment, the process starts over and I place priority on work rather than my chronic condition. Quality of life certainly deteriorates living in this state.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 6th, 2016Someone from Ponce De Leon, FL writes:
I suffer from fibromalgia and lupus, i can't find a pain management doc that takes my insurance or either they won't accept me as a patient or they come up with some kind of excuse. When I was 1st dx I had a doctor that believed in me who actually cared enough to listen. For some reason they stopped taking my insurance and i was told i had to find a new pcp and the one I got was one that cannot prescribe narcotics. I've been searching for a pain management doc for months now still haven't got one. I lay on the couch every day because I hurt to bad to move around I jus want some of my life back. I still hurt when I was getting pain pills from the doctor that actually cared but at least i could get up and do a few things a day. Now all I do is suffer. I need some help and advice.as far as going to dealers instead of doctors ... i cannot afford that. The dealers are the ones somehow getting the scripts i need. Someone please tell me how this works. Sincerely, Hurting and confusedREPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 6th, 2016Someone from Tulsa, OK writes:
I recently experienced a mortifying ordeal when I went in to my doctor's after hour clinic as directed for excruciating pain from a nerve injury caused at the dentist. I had no history of asking for pain medication but the Dr made notes in my chart about drug seeking and he refused to help. He walked out of the exam room while I was still talking to him.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 6th, 2016Someone from Cary, NC writes:
Look at a patients History first before you target & label them as "addicts" etc...many take only what is prescribed by their Trained Dr! There is nothing wrong with wanting to feel relief from any kind of pain & suffering...there is something wrong with our country caring so little about our own suffering; US Citizins! Yet in a crisis across the sea off we go flying out save the people flag high! How contradictory! Let our Dr's Decide!! I'm sure if one of them is "overprescribing" the DEA will know right away because big brother is watching and is even now needing to tell us where to pee, yes I understand why, because some bigots can't stand change towards compassion and acceptance!! Get it!! Help All of Us, not just the addicts!! Help keep us safe from harm!! Help keep chronic pain sufferers from finding dealers instead of Dr's!! Thank youREPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 5th, 2016Someone from Dayton, OH writes:
I suffer with debilitating chronic back pain from several failed back surgeries and have to be on time release pain medicine. I have suffered even more because I have been unfairly labeled and don't receive adequate doses of pain medicine to enjoy a functional life. Sometimes I feel like just giving up because life is getting just too hard to deal with. I recently found a doctor in Texas that developed a procedure that could get rid of my terrible back pain that is non invasive. I just need to be on pain medicine for less then a year so I can figure out how I can finance the procedure because the insurance company wont cover it yet because all they care about is reducing costs at the patients expense. Its so a shame that we live in a society that just don't give a damn about people. I still have hope but I don't know for how much longer I can continue suffer like this. Please pray for me. I am a veteran but that don't matter much these days.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 5th, 2016Someone from Yarmouth, ME writes:
Politicians should not be dictating medical care based on fear, hysteria, uninformed public opinion, and poorly designed research studies. There are better ways to address drug over doses than depriving suffering patients from adequate pain relief! No one has investigated how many drug overdoses are intentional suicides. Recent cuts in mental health funding and the effects of the financial crisis as well as the horrors of living a life in chronic pain and disability could lead to suicide, not just unintentional drug over doses. Proper education about the appropriate use of pain med and having patients lock up their meds so no one will take them as well as access to mental health treatment and perhaps access to narcan for family members of at risk people would be perhaps more appropriate than yanking suffering patients off of their pain med and telling them to suck it up. Taking away our pain med will either force us into suicide or force us to turn to drug dealers ourselves. Living a life of gruesome pain is not a life it is legalized torture. Narcotic pain medicine is not perfect, but until there is something better it is all that patients in severe pain that is not relieved by other means has to work with. These policies are cruel, evil, and totally unnecessary. Please stop this madness for Gods sake!REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 5th, 2016Someone from Riverview, FL writes:
Chronic pain patients are real people who face a daily hell on earth dealing with pain that most people will not ever know. Please don't mistake every pain patient as a drug seeker, nor doctors who choose to treat them as drug dealers. Chronic pain patients have suffered enough. Let's not add insult to injury. Please look into real pain patients before making decisions that adversely affect them.REPORT COMMENTS
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