Help us chronic pain patients.
My name is Susan Bailey
My troubles started back in 1999 and have had chronic pain in my back, neck, hands and legs, shoulders. I've also have had multiple surgeries over the years and finally found myself from my Doctor who said that I could not work anymore because of my disability. I've always been a hard worker and I'm here to say it crushed me and I knew that no matter how much I loved working I could no longer do it. I became depressed, anxious, and finding myself crying. I had started on pain medication just to be able to function, I had pain every day and night 365 days. And as time went by and my age and my condition changed even more the pain I have is only managed through opioids and where I've been on them for years now, they have improved my quality of life. Now they are taking them away from me and others who have chronic pain. I have never abused my medication, but for me and others like myself are at the mercy of Congress. The people who have died or abused their medication, are not and I repeat are not or must not need them as I or others like myself. And I believe what has happened is that people who have been on opioids for years like myself. Some of them people who were on opioids were taken off and ended up going to the streets to find something else to get the pain to just stop. But that in my opinion is how so many people are dieing from overdose. Or maybe because they don't know what they are getting because they don't know what is truly in what they have bought off the streets and it's killing thousands of people every year. It's not what our doctors are doing for us when they are treating people like myself who suffer from chronic pain. It's the street drugs doing it. When a person is diagnosed with chronic pain and has been by many Doctors, we are the ones who have to suffer. This laws have to change for people who are like me living in a world of pain every day of every year. Please, please help us.
My troubles started back in 1999 and have had chronic pain in my back, neck, hands and legs, shoulders. I've also have had multiple surgeries over the years and finally found myself from my Doctor who said that I could not work anymore because of my disability. I've always been a hard worker and I'm here to say it crushed me and I knew that no matter how much I loved working I could no longer do it. I became depressed, anxious, and finding myself crying. I had started on pain medication just to be able to function, I had pain every day and night 365 days. And as time went by and my age and my condition changed even more the pain I have is only managed through opioids and where I've been on them for years now, they have improved my quality of life. Now they are taking them away from me and others who have chronic pain. I have never abused my medication, but for me and others like myself are at the mercy of Congress. The people who have died or abused their medication, are not and I repeat are not or must not need them as I or others like myself. And I believe what has happened is that people who have been on opioids for years like myself. Some of them people who were on opioids were taken off and ended up going to the streets to find something else to get the pain to just stop. But that in my opinion is how so many people are dieing from overdose. Or maybe because they don't know what they are getting because they don't know what is truly in what they have bought off the streets and it's killing thousands of people every year. It's not what our doctors are doing for us when they are treating people like myself who suffer from chronic pain. It's the street drugs doing it. When a person is diagnosed with chronic pain and has been by many Doctors, we are the ones who have to suffer. This laws have to change for people who are like me living in a world of pain every day of every year. Please, please help us.
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