First Do No Harm: The DEA targets Physicians who treat their patients pain.
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Jun 2nd, 2016Someone from Pasco, WA writes:
I too get treated like a criminal when I go to my pain management doctor. Even tho I was ran over by a car and have sevre pain in my lower back.i gave a huge lump in my lower back that never goes away. But there's nothing wrong with me I just want pills. I'm sick of being in pain and worse I'm sick of being treated badly and humeliated.even the pharmacy treats me bad gives me looks and whispers. I have raised my children have a god job. Am a upstanding citizen i don't deserve this. I just want to live with 1/2 my pain -
Jun 2nd, 2016Someone from Pasco, WA writes:
I too get treated like a criminal when I go to my pain management doctor. Even tho I was ran over by a car and have sevre pain in my lower back.i gave a huge lump in my lower back that never goes away. But there's nothing wrong with me I just want pills. I'm sick of being in pain and worse I'm sick of being treated badly and humeliated.even the pharmacy treats me bad gives me looks and whispers. I have raised my children have a god job. Am a upstanding citizen i don't deserve this. I just want to live with 1/2 my painREPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 2nd, 2016Someone from Dover, OH writes:
Quality of life should always outweigh government mandates. My doctor should make my health choice not law enforcement!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 2nd, 2016Someone from San Juan Capistrano, CA writes:
You are killing people through doing this. Chronic pain can and will send you over the edge.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 1st, 2016Someone from New Castle, IN writes:
I'm from Indiana, I currently fear loosing my pain meds due to maybe new laws, or DEA being strict with doctors. I have several health problems, and none will go away anytime soon. degenerative disc, lower back and upper back, AVM, Brain tumor, Rheumatoid arthritis. Headaches, migraines, hip and knee pain due to falls. Years ago I knew the PDR stated any doctor could prescribe any meds in the book for any ailment they so chose to do, does not not pertain now? My doctor does everything by the book and has always been very helpful with referrals as needed, but now its no longer in their hands.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 1st, 2016Someone from Blackfoot, ID writes:
I have lived with chronic pain everyday for the past 4 years. It got even worse last year when I had football sized tumors on my thyroid that eventually moved over and continued to sit on all the nerves in my neck, collar bone and into my shoulders. My surgeon told me this nerve damage would get worse and worse with no hope of getting better. I'm a single mom of a 4 year old, I can't work and the ONLY thing that gets me out of bed in the morning and keeps me moving through the day is my pain medication. I do not misuse it or abuse or sell it or anything else. I use it to continue with my life as much as I can and to be able to take care of my daughter. Right now I have lost all feeling in my hands and my feet and it's moving to my shoulder blades. Without my medication I have no chance of leading any kind of life for myself or for my daughter. My doctor takes VERY good care of me and does everything right and by the book. Please don't take that right away from her or us.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 1st, 2016Someone from Blackfoot, ID writes:
I live with fibromyalgia and chronic pain. My quality of life has greatly changed with this illness. I can no longer do the things that I did in the past. I can no longer work and some days it takes everything I can to do the basic activities of daily living. I am allergic to all NSAIDS. So I am immediately labeled as a drug seeker or addict. I wish I could take a Motrin to relieve my inflammation. It could kill me. I have to take tramadol to even be able to get out of bed or get through the day. It helps me function and be a part of my children's lives. It is classified as a opioid and if I were to lose the ability to get this medication I would have nothing to fall back on that is over the counter. If in the chance that tramadol stops working for me I would hope that I could move to another medication in the same class without judgement. I fear that if my doctors were to stop treating me I would be overcome with the daily constant pain and eventually end my life. I am a mother of 5 kids. I am a wife. I am somebody. I am not an addict. I do not sell my medication. I take it as prescribed and I do not misuse or abuse it. Pain patients need to be listened to. Yes there is a epidemic, but we all can't be lumped into one problem. Please don't force our doctors and care givers to abandon us.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 1st, 2016Someone from Oakland, CA writes:
I have been on Opioid Therapy for 21 years. I have had two operations, the first unsuccessful the second worked well. Before the last operation I was taking 2400mg a day, immediately following the last operation I dropped to 80 mg a-day. It is the pain that dictates how much one needs. Without medication I live a horrible life as I need to be engaged and productive. I know, like most people, when I feel well enough to work. I feel I have a right to live life actively if there is medication that helps me do that. Why on earth would politicians interfere with that? If some folks want to just get high and they end-up kill themselves in the process, why punish us? Why should we have to suffer for their foolishness? To dictate our legitimate need for medication on the basis of those who abuses that medication for thrills, is unfair and ludicrous.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 1st, 2016Someone from Borger, TX writes:
I suffer from chronic pain after a botched cervical fusion. I have never taken pills in my life. Now I have to take 13 pills a day plus I have undergone nerve blocks and rhizotomys. This is not a permanent fix I I will have to continue these procedures. No pain pills are not a fix but they do make my life bearable. Now I have some semblance of life like before my surgery. Please do not allow the government to take this help away from chronic pain patients.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 1st, 2016Someone from Lewiston, ME writes:
Are there laws against this type of discrimination I am at my Wit's End and then desperate for help I have been treated so badly but my Pharmacy by multiple doctors and I can't take it anymore I need someone to help me and I need to take action if you know of any laws or lawyers that can help me with this please please let me knowREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 1st, 2016Someone from Buffalo, NY writes:
I have 3 rare conditions, PKU (dietary issue no big deal), Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Vascular type (includes delicate thin skin cardiac & vascular issues, chronic dislocation of ALL joints, easily torn ligaments, tendons, muscles, cartilage etc) and RSD which is currently the worst chronic pain condition recognized by the AMA. I had quality of life! I have 5 kids, my own business, I volunteer, PTA mom, environmental activist, Christian, animal and human rights advocate and if these opiate restrictions stand I have less than 4 months (at best) to live. The withdrawals I will be forced to endure from the 1 opiate I take 3xs a day, to buffer my pain to the point of quality of life for me and my family, will raise my blood pressure to where I will according to cardiologist & vascular surgeon suffer a stroke, heart failure, or aneurysm. So at 36 I will be dead because of the minority and we are talking single digit percentage of chronic pain patients that abuse the system. Please explain how these new guidelines do anything to stop street drugs and their users but meanwhile leave pain patients suffering unbearable cruelty and unusual punishment against what is declared in the US Constitution. Please also explain to my children why I had to die if these guidelines aren't reversed and how that somehow effects the war on drugs this country has been waging and losing for longer than my life!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 1st, 2016Someone from Green Bay, WI writes:
I am recovering from my seventh back surgery-two laminectomies and five fusions. The problems were under-diagnosed when I was young, and not until 20 years ago, were seen as spinal problems--not hip-related. By then my lower spine and leg pain had become bad enough to require surgery. Unfortunately, due to my own congenital spinal formation, I develop adjacent segment problems far too easily, and each surgery leaves behind a repair, but also a track of severed skin, nerves, muscles and healing bone. My last incision took 65 staples to close, two neurosurgeons, and involved work on six different spinal levels to hopefully achieve stabilization. This is it. There can't be any more surgical solutions. I have been diagnosed with chronic pain for 15 years. I don't ask for pain abolishment--merely management. I am 73. I have a family, a garden, a home and a chance to enjoy the usual things people do after full employment for over 30 years. I need to help with care of my 94-year-old mother. I have tried countless non-narcotic solutions with medical support. Most did not work. Many left devastating side effects. One young PT enthusiast evidently ruptured yet another disc six years ago. Eventually, my doctors and I discovered that a moderate dose of Oxycodone four to five times a day with use of diazepam as needed for muscle spasm was going to get me enough relief to live a quasi-normal life with the most minimal side effects. I rejected an offer of Oxycontin since it didn't last for more than six hours and was even then seen as an evil drug. I have successfully taken myself off of Ambien as I decided to re-establish my own sleep patterns. I no longer use amitriptyline since I don't think it helps. Ibuprofen is a great help but I am strictly forbidden to use any NSAIDS for a year while my latest fusion is healing so it's out. I have lowered my own dose of Oxycodone whenever I can. I have never asked for more. I am exceptionally responsible with use. I rarely have so much as a beer at a social gathering. At my recent post-surgical appointment, (great time for this) my pain management doctor suggested that we need to start weaning me off Oxycodone. He had no answer for "Why?" except that I have been using it for seven years. I suggested that, as many have articulated very well, I have no addiction whatsoever to the medicine. I do feel habituated to the devout wish that I can continue to live what remains of my life being able to own a dog, walk in neighborhood, shop for groceries, and enjoy family events. The doctor reluctantly did write my prescription, and said (over his shoulder as he left after my customary three-minute appointment) , "We'll talk about this next time." And he disappeared. This is much like telling my husband that since he has to take three high blood pressure medications, we really should take one or two away. After all, he's been on them for 20 years. I am simply at a loss of words asREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 1st, 2016Someone from Marietta, OH writes:
My (now old) pain dr, refused to help me continue a pain medication a previous doctor prescribed for me for the past 2 years. Nurse even told me that the Dr. was weaning off a lot of his patients and dropping even more. He specializes in pain. What is he even doing if that his specialty. I suffer from chronic Lyme disease that has caused me severe pain in so many ways, as well as that, I have severe pain back, that the Dr. even describe as total crap of my MRI. Yet, he won't prescribe me anything. He said I could submit to a drug screen and see some other doctor to wean myself off medication. I already have a small amount of quality of life, with out any help, I would have no quality of life,...if I were a dog, you would put that dog to sleep because you wouldn't want your dog to suffer. How can a Dr. take a oath to do no harm, when his actions cause suffering and no quality of life. There is a list of Patient Responsibilities and we follow them, yet the doctors have no responsibility at all. The only repercussions is when they do some sort of severe surgical mistake or kill someone. Why is there no middle area, that doctors are required to fulfill???? Totally one sided. With all the law changes, people in chronic pain will suffer tremendously directly because of them!!!!! Horrid, unspeakable, actions all intentionally brought about by their own hands!!!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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Jun 1st, 2016Someone from Thomaston, GA writes:
The war on drugs should not be waged against Doctors treating actual pain patients!REPORT COMMENTS
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