US: Opioids Crackdown Leaves Pain Patients Suffering
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- Опубліковано 17 гру 2018
- Federal and state government efforts to reduce prescription opioids are inadvertently harming chronic pain patients. Many patients are involuntarily cut off medications that improve their lives or say they are unable to find a doctor willing to care for them.
In the last decade, hundreds of thousands of Americans died of drug overdoses each year. By some estimates, nearly half of these deaths have involved prescription opioids. To stem this crisis, government authorities have mounted aggressive attempts to reduce the use of these medicines. They have investigated physicians who prescribe them for no legitimate medical reason and increased monitoring of prescribing by physicians. Some state governments and Medicaid programs have imposed strict upward limits on the dosage physicians are allowed to prescribe.
You don’t realize how PERFECT your life is until chronic pain strangles you by the ankle and pulls you away into a dark corner. You then realize everything in the past that you’ve ever thought was “hard” was simply the biggest joke of all time
Please try Kratom. It saved me. It’s way better than oxycodone for pain and depression and euphoria and it’s legal. It activates beta opioid receptors without causing negative side effects. It’s great for pain or anxiety or depression. It’s like having unlimited pain killers without side effects. Get the trainwreck strain from Yokratom it changed my life to be able to buy unlimited pain killers for a super cheap price. I hope it’s helped you. 5 million to 6 million take it daily in USA. It helped many women and many men that I know. Saved people from alcoholism because it gets rid of cravings for alcohol or other drugs. It’s so awesome and it’s more euphoric than oxycodone and methadone and suboxone and better for pain and literally is so awesome. Give it a try. I buy mine from yokratom.com great quality and cheapest price I can find for kilos.
@@GrandmasterUV I tried Kratom and it didn’t work for me, unfortunately. At my wits end and considering things I have never even dreamt I would have. I have cancer, facing surgery in a few days with zero pain management after. They told me the pain would be healing and to rub it and ice it. I shit you not. Considering calling the surgery off and just dying at this point because I don’t know if I will survive that added pain on top of what I already live with on the daily in kidney failure and such. How did we get here?!? My blood pressure is spiking and I keep telling them it is the pain and they ignore me. At every turn. Take Tylenol, they say. With kidney failure and liver disease. Fucking Tylenol. Ready to risk what’s on the streets. At least that way I know I can be out of pain one way or another. My poor family doesn’t deserve any of this.
Pray for them, please.
Well said
@@GrandmasterUV it’s not legal in all 50 states and the MMe or minimum morphine equivalent is low. Besides that 7OH or 7-hydroxymitragynine is extremely toxic to the liver. Regular mitragynine is fine but products with 7OH removed are ten times as expensive as prescription opioids. As a kratom user myself I think it’s irresponsible to say that kratom will give the same level or better pain control because it simply will not.
@@truth3899 no its not toxic to the liver at all thats the billions of dollars vested interest medical mafia funding that research. 7 million people use it daily in the us for a combination of 100 million years of use per 14 years and our livers are healthier than ever
Please don't punish chronic pain patients for the wrongs that drug addicts do!!
its all depletion
The government doesn't care.an addict will always look for something to get high on that is what they do
Amen
Why would anyone stop this womans medication ? Why? It's shameful
Was on opiates for over a decade. I was able to even walk up to a kilometer in a good day.
My new doctor refuses to prescribe them. Now I can make it from my bed to my recliner, and that is about it. My ability to function has decreased greatly.
Our country is actively protecting the illegal opiate poppy fields in Afghanistan, while taking away pain meds from patients.
I can understand the fight against illegal drugs. However going after pain patients is driving a population to the black market for relief from pain.
This is inhumane
@Rieden Mannen there is a special place in hell for you, Rieden
Try kratom for pain. Go online and read about it
@@stbam1965 I used kratom. It was excellent in helping with the withdrawal symptoms, but doesn't do a lot for my pain for some reason
Please try Kratom. It saved me. It’s way better than oxycodone for pain and depression and euphoria and it’s legal. It activates beta opioid receptors without causing negative side effects. It’s great for pain or anxiety or depression. It’s like having unlimited pain killers without side effects. Get the trainwreck strain from Yokratom it changed my life to be able to buy unlimited pain killers for a super cheap price. I hope it’s helped you. 5 million to 6 million take it daily in USA. It helped many women and many men that I know. Saved people from alcoholism because it gets rid of cravings for alcohol or other drugs. It’s so awesome and it’s more euphoric than oxycodone and methadone and suboxone and better for pain and literally is so awesome. Give it a try. I buy mine from yokratom.com great quality and cheapest price I can find for kilos.
Use trainwreck strain Kratom (mix of 12 strains) from yokratom.com and take 15 to 25 grams of it
This is why we should not allow third parties, especially the government, to come between doctors and their patients. The job of medicine is to alleve suffering, or so I thought. Why are innocent, law-abiding people being made to suffer for the risk taking illegal behavior of others?
erynlasgalen1949 well stated
Because the innocent always suffer from the acts of the unjust. Millions of people also die from alcoholism but the government has no issue with this as they saw what happened during prohibition yet did not seem to learn anything . Those that abuse opiates their life deteriorates but those using them correctly for pain control their lives improve-big difference
If more pain medications were made in the US this wouldn’t happen. Why do you think we have armed military guarding poppy fields in Afghanistan. Bin Laden used to burn them
This is why the government needs to stay out of people’s personal lives, especially when people aren’t causing problems for others.
I had Polio in September 1951 I was 6 months old both legs and my right arm was affected I wore braces for the first 15 years then surgeries then back and braces and 92 on both legs and crutches and a scooter. At some point I have a ruptured disc in my lower back but pain running down my left leg. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 I was stage 3A 5.2 CM tumor grade 3. I had a mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation. In 2009 I had three discs in my neck fused. For years I had arm and neck pain. I used to sew for my grandkids, I used to paint and draw. I sold a painting online for $40 years ago. My arms are wore out from lifting my body 70 + years. I am not able to lift my arms higher than chest level. I can't pick up anything with my right arm without dropping it. I rarely cook as even the I have my scooter that has the power seat that lifts me high enough to cook but my right arm has been burnt a couple times due to not being able to hold it high enough to stir or turn over something. I mainly eat frozen tv dinners or sandwiches. My scooter is very old and torn but the scooters Medicare will pay for don't come with that option. If you need it, you have to pay $1,000 out of pocket.
I was diagnosed in 1986 with post polio Syndrome. I was having chronic pain in my arm muscles. I was falling and extremely tired. I was working in the Cardiac Cath Lab at the VAMC. Doctors at Uni varsity of Michigan had hoped they could keep me working for 5 to 10 more years but the pain got so bad along with extreme fatigue and had to retire in 1990. PPS causes patients to lose 10% of their muscle strength a year. While I was working full time, I was also taking classes at night at University of Michigan Dearborn. I had already dropped out in my junior year due to the pain and fatigue. I was working on my Bachelor degree and Secondary teaching permit.
Doctors kept me on pain meds to keep the pain down so I could work. My arm muscles would ache constantly because I had to use them my entire life to lift myself as I didn't have the strength in my legs. After I retired my income was cut in half when I went on disability. I babysat more children than I can remember, I rent a room out for years.
I was divorced with two daughters and a house payment. I didnt go to college until my daughters were old enough to stay home alone. The arm pain isn't near as bad as the back pain. If I'm awake, I'm in extreme pain. As I've aged and have lost so much muscle strength, the pain in my upper arms arent as bad now because I'm not able to sit up very long as not being able to get up and down, I pretty much live in my bedroom.
My doctor has taken away most of my pain meds and even what theh were giving me still wasn't allowing me to function. I still have to take Advil and extra strength Tylenol several times a day.
I have been on pain medication since I was working but as the pain would worsen I'd would beg the doctors to strengthen the meds or prescribe something else that it was not keeping the pain down. Since the cancer in 2007, I was diagnosed with cancer in the remaining breast.
I had had all I could take. After several leg surgeries from polio, the ruptured disc, the arm and neck pain knowing the doctors wouldn't treat the pain, I declined treatment. I wanted it to run its course and relieve me of constantly begging the doctors to help me. I just to this day have no desire to continue living in bed. I have 8 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. I used to have them over, stay the night riding them on my scooter to the park. I've not been able to due that for several years as the sidewalk cracks cause my back UNBEARABLE pain.
Now that they have reduced the psin meds I was relying on to live a life halfway normal, visit with my family. I think of suicide ide every single day.
I'VE NEVER abused my pain meds. Ice signed the drug affidavit, I've told them many times come to my home ANY TIME DAY OR NIGHT for urine or blood. Nothing I say does anything. They treat me like a drug addict. I truly dont know how much longer i can continue. This is not life. This sleeping (i put myself to sleep when i can't take the pain) has gotten to the point my dreams are my
social life then I wake up take anti depressants.
I have chronic back pain and my doctor just point blank has refused my pain medication and left me to just deal with it myself. It’s disgusting the way the doctors are treating their patients
They are violating their oath, and have no moral compass as well.
All of these opiate related deaths were mostly illicitly obtained Fentanyl -- dirt cheap in replacement of heroin and stronger, as well.
It's amazing to watch some of these documentaries (Kensington, Philly is one of MANY) about addicts shooting up in broad daylight, cops riding by occasionally to ticket someone who didn't have their seatbelt on over their shoulder, properly. It's like we're living in the Twilight Zone.
Try being a male for one,and two being on medicaid almost every doctor will look down on you and not do a single thing despite knowing the cause and knowing how much pain it can bring.It seems being a male makes things worse when it comes to treatment.But being an overweight woman you are treated even worse as I saw how they treated my mom before she died.When it all is said and done a.)its always about the money b.) if you are disabled and cannot perform as a slave especially as a man you are looked as the lowest of the low like dog crap on the bottom of your shoe.
If we're being denied the right to live a semi-normal life, then what's the point anymore?
We shouldn’t have to die! We deserve the right to live. It is so sad and things have to come around someday brother but I will advocate until the very end.
As a Chronic Pain patient, my life has had a massive down slide. I’ve gone from a manageable life to a horrific nightmare
get your pain killer from a reliable source online
*#MYCODRE*
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I am with you... Horrible. 🙏✨💜
This woman is a true gladiator! This is ridiculous give her her medication!
I'm in tears right now. My father is a 67 year old disabled vet who is litterally a walking Iron Man from all the surgeries hes had throughout the years and his pain meds where the only thing that allowed our family to enjoy our dad. To go on trips, go camping, etc etc. Now that the "Opioid crisis" took over every doctor says they won't prescribe opiates unless its for terminal end of life illness. My father has been in so much pain he litterally can't do anything he could be before and has now turned to black market drugs!!! These doctor's are making this crisis even worst!
I am 70s and my doctor moved to another state, now no doctors will help us, I'm sorry about your Dad.
I learned a lot today about Oncology Pharmacist esus, Joseph and Mary the "Opioid Crisis" has gone to far! I'm 62 year
I guess I was lucky? My doctor stopped prescribing due to being threatened for to long. After 14 years of being on Norco everyday he took me off using the proper method with Suboxone. I only needed it for 5 days. It has been about a year and I've never craved the medication. But now my life is lost. On the Norco I started a business. I have been so proud because I started it with 20.00 and it grew fast. I could drive again and even work out. I was eating and sleeping. Now I have no idea who I am. Every doctor tried to put me on anti depressants. But I am not depressed. I think for what happened to me sadness and anger are normal emotions. I fear diabetes. It runs in my family. I am almost always sedentary now and gaining weight, Very different than when I was a body builder and trainer. I gave up driving. I sleep very little and eat very poorly. I can't eat in pain. Now I'm dealing with PTSD from doctors. I had one doctor scream at me. He didn't even bring my file into the room. He didn't even know my name. He called me desperate and an addict and said he was cutting my meds to less than half per day. It was horrible. The staff let me leave to drive home- even though I was having a panic attack and an SVT. My only thought was "I'm losing my business, my livlihood". The next doctor demanded an MRI of my back. I explained that I did not want an epidermal (they are not FDA approved). My back isn't even my worst pain issue. He yelled at me on the phone and hung up. Then a female doctor put me on several anti depressants at one time. I ended up in the ER with serotonin syndrome.So, I have serious white coat issues. I'm am slowly losing my business. I'm trying and don't want to give up. I understand why people are committing suicide. It's not like retiring. You aren't prepared. In a week your life just changes. It's gone. I always tell ppl' that are not in pain...have someone tap on your forehead for a month straight. While you try to eat, sleep, talk on the phone or make big decisions. See how well you concentrate after a month. It's not just the sensation of pain, but it brings madness to your life. I spend much time watching t.v..trying to just focus on the t.v to try to drown out the pain. I can't even read well now. My concentration is poor at best. I am so terrified of doctors that I broke my nose several months ago and fixed it myself. Last month I dislocated my shoulder and again fixed it myself. I respected the medication I was on. I was so thankful. After years of all kinds of therapies, medications that did not work and I was even scammed into trying things like body magnets, copper bracelets, infrared therapy, acupuncture several times and more. I'm not ready to just be a meat suit sitting on the sofa, with a brain that wants to do so much in life. I have another grandchild coming, number 5. And all I can think is 'another grandchild I can't play with or babysit. "They" never made a follow through for us. Once this started there was all kinds of things to help addicts. But we are left chronic pain criminals. Sadly this issue is having a snowball effect. People don't trust doctors anymore. I even know a group of women that are doing home births with no medical help. This is infecting everything. It has not slowed down drug abuse and suicides have increased. I can't believe my countries medical system is doing this to us.
Please try Kratom. It saved me. It’s way better than oxycodone for pain and depression and euphoria and it’s legal. It activates beta opioid receptors without causing negative side effects. It’s great for pain or anxiety or depression. It’s like having unlimited pain killers without side effects. Get the trainwreck strain from Yokratom it changed my life to be able to buy unlimited pain killers for a super cheap price. I hope it’s helped you. 5 million to 6 million take it daily in USA. It helped many women and many men that I know. Saved people from alcoholism because it gets rid of cravings for alcohol or other drugs. It’s so awesome and it’s more euphoric than oxycodone and methadone and suboxone and better for pain and literally is so awesome. Give it a try. I buy mine from yokratom.com great quality and cheapest price I can find for kilos.
@Anita Spero Try Kratom for Pain and depression and anxiety. Get the trainwreck strain from yokratom.com trust me it will change your life forever so that life is heavenly. You will never need the doctors ever again. Like me and many people I told about this wonderful healing plant.
Who the hell threatened him? This is such bs not everyone can just go in for surgery and get it fixed some of us are screwed for life.
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@@rc59191 Most of us have diseases that cause intractable #PAIN! Incurable, but not fatal. Ive refused to have any routine health screenings for 4yrs & won't have one until PAIN medications are restored to those of US who need them!
I have chronic pain due to degenerative disk disease and bad knees and
have been seeing pain management doctors for excellent treatments and
medication since 1994, and the older I get, the worse my back and knees
becomes with age. Back in those days, they were not under the gun by the
DEA and CDC like it is now. I started noticing the changes after 2010
when it comes to doctors prescribing pain medications. One quit due to
the harassment of the DEA and was fed up, and now my most current pain
management doctor said he is quitting too for the same reason, even
though they are not doing anything illegal. To the DEA, we are all bad
people and need to watched. It is sad. I don't know what I will do if I
can no longer get the treatments I have been getting all those years and
was grateful for those treatments and pain medication that get me
through each day. I always dreaded the day may come when I no longer can
see a good pain management doctor. They are becoming fewer and fewer
due to the governments harassment of them and new doctors don't want
that hassle either, so they are not going into the pain management
field. If anyone gets "Consumers Reports", they are on the anti-pain
killer band wagon, and have been for years.. The June 2019 issue was on
chronic pain and they recommend "Mindfulness" (whatever the heck that
means), do yoga, get better sleep, or see a therapist". You gotta to be
fricken kidding me! Get better sleep to help rid of the pain? Right, I
am in agony and expect to get better sleep? Yoga? I can hardly bend my
knees. And for "Mindfulness, right!I i got a "mindful" dealing with my
pain! And therapists? They are absolutely useless for chronic pain
sufferers. I saw a therapist before I was recommended to a pain
management doctor by my first back doctor. Those "Therapists" are almost
an insult with their recommendations in dealing with pain. "Go do what
you enjoy to ignore the pain!" It is the "pain" that prevents me, and I
am sure of other pain sufferers from "enjoying" things in live. Unreal.
I know, i love how people that aren’t suffering and don’t understand the pain we go through feel the need to give these asinine suggestions to deal with chronic pain. They might as well tell us to just walk it off.
This poor lady. Its so ridiculous!!!! My wife has severe ulcerative collitis which is a auto immune disease. Shes constantly in SERERE abdominal pain. A lot of times I'll wake up at night and she is balled up in a fetal position in so much pain. Before she had her pain medication I was taking her to the ER like 3 to 4 times a month. Now that she has her medication she can do so much more. The last 8 months she has fulfilled her dream and opened a home daycare. However now its been so difficult getting her medication. The pharmisist are so mean now. I thought people in healthcare have to take a hypocratic oath. What can we do for the people who take thier medication responsibly? There has to be a way to fight. A law to help protect the people who are in real pain and used thier medication responsibly! I was in the grocery store last week shopping by myself and I just started crying because I was thinking about my wife and how much pain she goes through. My wife is such a wonderful women. Shes the nicest person I've ever known. Shes so brave and strong. She has so much patience with the kids in her daycare.. What can we do? Does anyone have any resources. I dont know what I will do if they take the only thing that helps her away.
Cannabis replaced high dose slow release Morphing for me when my Dr cut me off because he was shut down.
To everyone that turned pain medicine into the devil, good job. Now everyone in pain has to suffer.
Please try Kratom. It saved me. It’s way better than oxycodone for pain and depression and euphoria and it’s legal. It activates beta opioid receptors without causing negative side effects. It’s great for pain or anxiety or depression. It’s like having unlimited pain killers without side effects. Get the trainwreck strain from Yokratom it changed my life to be able to buy unlimited pain killers for a super cheap price. I hope it’s helped you. 5 million to 6 million take it daily in USA. It helped many women and many men that I know. Saved people from alcoholism because it gets rid of cravings for alcohol or other drugs. It’s so awesome and it’s more euphoric than oxycodone and methadone and suboxone and better for pain and literally is so awesome. Give it a try. I buy mine from yokratom.com great quality and cheapest price I can find for kilos.
Cowards of torture and God only listens from man cocking his mouth about how loving god is.
She's telling my story. I've been in severe pain for 27 years. My illness is incurable. The government has no place in medicine, let the doctor's doctor. They have lots of years in medical school and medical practices. An addict, druggie is going to find their drugs. The ones being harmed here are law abiding chronic pain patients. Stop hurting us, let the doctors help us.
any help?
Never seen someone turn into a junkie after a surgery...never seen a junkie with chronic back pain....with arthritis....never never never
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were are the dam lawyers! they need to stand up for us pain patients , this is about as clear cut as it gets , we are be hurt
as you know ,you can't PROVE or DISPROVE "PAIN" there has never been a pain guage, or moniter like they have for BP, or cancer , you just can't prove you have CRONIC PAIN, so lawyers are like DOCTORS , very few will stand with people and their pain, the rest are QUACKS !
My chronic pain and need for pain medication, is not the reason people are abusing drugs and dying. We are patients, not addicts.
You are addicted patients.
@@amywalker7515 and you are an idiot. You have no idea what my life is like, so withhold your damn judgement.
Please try Kratom. It saved me. It’s way better than oxycodone for pain and depression and euphoria and it’s legal. It activates beta opioid receptors without causing negative side effects. It’s great for pain or anxiety or depression. It’s like having unlimited pain killers without side effects. Get the trainwreck strain from Yokratom it changed my life to be able to buy unlimited pain killers for a super cheap price. I hope it’s helped you. 5 million to 6 million take it daily in USA. It helped many women and many men that I know. Saved people from alcoholism because it gets rid of cravings for alcohol or other drugs. It’s so awesome and it’s more euphoric than oxycodone and methadone and suboxone and better for pain and literally is so awesome. Give it a try. I buy mine from yokratom.com great quality and cheapest price I can find for kilos.
@@amywalker7515 I am a disabled women .I became disabled at 51 years of age .I can’t drive my car .I have people come in to clean for me and you and people like you are the reason disabled pain patients are dying of many different thing ,Like heart attacks constant pain raises your blood pressure and you then die of a heart attack .We are talking about people with MS MD ALS all of us are only allowed a small dose of opioids because of the guidelines ,Which we’re made by PROP and last summer the AMA wrote a letter to the CDC to reverse the guidelines and let people have the proper of medicine .When I say pain you don’t understand what I am saying as you do not have constant pain we do .So before you speak why don’t you put your money we’re your Mouth is because people who don’t read and understand what it’s like to be disabled and having constant PAIN every moment of every day should not go around and say the horrible thing you said .We are not looking to get high we are looking to be able to get dressed or talk a walk and we can do that with the right amount of pain medicine .Politicians and addiction specialist should not make rules for disabled Americans .We are being tortured In America and you should help us not hurt us but people like you do .You are very very cruel .
do you think that is the reason.
Force our DEA to stop threatening our doctors because that's the reason for the tapering and cutting off of patients who need these medications. Just as this patient in the video feels her life doesn't matter, so do many hundreds of thousands of other patients unable to get the medication they need. This is wrong. Legislatures also need to stop trying to force laws the limit a doctor's ability to prescribe.
72,000 people did NOT die of Rx opioid overdoses. When they say "drug overdose" they mean ANY drug. That number includes ALL DRUGS. The number of people who died from Rx opioids was less than 18,000.
The Dark Roast Side Dr Kline did the math & it’s more like 500 however those most of them are suicides, so really it’s like barely any at all!!!
Thank you
figures don't lie, but liars figure
its was less than that, if you remove the figures of those that USED opioids to commit suicide or say someone ODs on cocaine but the autopsy report shows a trace of opioids in their system, the CDC counts that as an opioid death. even though it wasnt the cause, as long as its there it counts.
Legit patients being denied relief is irresponsible
They already do urine tests and count pills, punish the drug addicts not people who are in chronic pain.
It's systematic torture. Plain & simple
You people are the undesirables. Survival of the fittest my man.
@@therealness6979 You have no idea what you're talking about, idiot. People like you are the "Undesirables"
@brian G yep
@@therealness6979 If you're mother or child was in a car accident with multiple life crippling disabilities...touch shit huh? Suffer little one!! Suffer old lady... smh
Please try Kratom. It saved me. It’s way better than oxycodone for pain and depression and euphoria and it’s legal. It activates beta opioid receptors without causing negative side effects. It’s great for pain or anxiety or depression. It’s like having unlimited pain killers without side effects. Get the trainwreck strain from Yokratom it changed my life to be able to buy unlimited pain killers for a super cheap price. I hope it’s helped you. 5 million to 6 million take it daily in USA. It helped many women and many men that I know. Saved people from alcoholism because it gets rid of cravings for alcohol or other drugs. It’s so awesome and it’s more euphoric than oxycodone and methadone and suboxone and better for pain and literally is so awesome. Give it a try. I buy mine from yokratom.com great quality and cheapest price I can find for kilos.
The war on drugs is a war on patients. I've had pain doctors tell me to buy drugs off the street because they couldn't prescribe enough medicine for my spinal surgery.
Our government needs to focus on the illegal drugs which are the largest contributing factor. The number of prescriptions for pain medicines have been declining since 2012 due to all these government regulations but overdose deaths continue higher BECAUSE they are solving the 1% part of the problem and are unable to make a dent in illegal drugs and may in fact be contributing to the problem and making it worse by taking away pain medicines.
Operation #Starburst or Robert D Long Jr here on YT has a law suit that all can join in one. Just the cost of postage. Check it out and SHARE the hell out of it. WE HAVE GOT TO FIGHT BACK!!
Our government needs to END the war on drugs. ALL DRUGS. All drugs should be regulated, then they would not be adulterated!!!!!!
The profiteering ,then the Fuck the patient, seems to be the American way ? Disgusting disgraceful to lay this crippling policy at the feet of sick suffering patients is travesty .shame on any cowardly dr who took an oath to then cave to pressure by bureaucratic ass holes. No Balls U go work where you do no harm like Walmart. Twist all you want do no harm 1st& taking away life saving pain relief w/ no alternative is monstrous. FUCK ANY COWARDLY DR IR POLITICIANS . I pray they get a taste of horrific pain
Indeed
yea when a group of 867 doctors tell the board the way they are cracking down is just going to cause more issues. One would think they would listen. The Government should being using law enforcement to threaten taking the license of doctors away. They do not possess the medical knowledge to tell a Doctor they what they are doing is wrong.
I'm going through the same thing..we aren't ALONE! Laying in a bed all day every day except to go see a doctor is not any quality of life, there must be another way!!!
Kim Miller hey! Nice to meet you! That’s what I’m doing, while my husband just got done golfing and is now at a baseball game. I’m trying to get in the shower. Going in the drawer for a clean pair of pj’s, led to me cleaning out the drawer for stuff to go to the goodwill. So, now I’m back on an ice pack waiting for the pain to subside so I can get in the shower, which I haven’t taken for a week. If I’m lucky enough to get that done, I might be able to put clean sheets on in a little while. Doesn’t matter tho, I’ll probably be up all night anyway, so even if I have to wait till 2-3am to get it done, that’s a victory for me! If not, my husband will do it for me tomorrow, but I really hate getting back to bed with a clean body and dirty sheets on.
It’s beautiful outside, 60 degrees in Wisconsin is great, even my two cats were laying in the sun in front of the open patio doors.
Even my neighbor asked my husband the other day if I was all right, and if I was still living here, she hasn’t seen me in so long. He said, yeah, she’s right in there, pointing to the bedroom window, lol, 🤣
Ahhhhh......life is good, isn’t it?!?!?!
Do you by chance know anyone that could come to my house and cut my hair? It’s been 2.5 years since I had one, and those DIY UA-cam videos aren’t doing much for me anymore.
Hang in there!!
Please try Kratom. It saved me. It’s way better than oxycodone for pain and depression and euphoria and it’s legal. It activates beta opioid receptors without causing negative side effects. It’s great for pain or anxiety or depression. It’s like having unlimited pain killers without side effects. Get the trainwreck strain from Yokratom it changed my life to be able to buy unlimited pain killers for a super cheap price. I hope it’s helped you. 5 million to 6 million take it daily in USA. It helped many women and many men that I know. Saved people from alcoholism because it gets rid of cravings for alcohol or other drugs. It’s so awesome and it’s more euphoric than oxycodone and methadone and suboxone and better for pain and literally is so awesome. Give it a try. I buy mine from yokratom.com great quality and cheapest price I can find for kilos.
@@GrandmasterUV thank you, I have tried it...I didnt really give it a real chance. I should try it again.
Same
@JRoc I’m so sorry you’re going through this too. It’s no way to live. My life hasn’t changed much since I left my comment 2 years ago.
It’s hard for others to understand chronic pain, when they don’t experience it themselves. My family has all but deserted me, I don’t hear from anyone anymore. I really had to laugh at all the people freaking out over this pandemic, and being quarantined. I’ve been in quarantine for 5 years here. Can’t see what all the fuss is about. It’s every day life for some of us.
Wishing you pain free days ahead, and sending you gentle hugs! 💓💞
I'm dealing with this issue right now. The reason I function as well as I do is because of the maintenance medications I'm on one of them being Tramadol (a low-risk narcotic). I am on my last prescription of this now and am due to run out in about 2 weeks. They are relegating people to a life of suffering. dehumanization, and degradation and nobody who legitimately needs these medications deserves to be treated like a criminal at one of those pain clinics. Pain is a symptom of many diseases. It should be viewed as no different from any other symptom and the medications for it viewed no differently from insulin for diabetes.
I got cut off last month. My doctor’s prescription was refused by CVS pharmacy and Medicare after I’ve been in treatment for 19 years from a back injury. I just finished a 14 day detox treatment with Suboxone. Now I’m off opioids and can hardly function due to increase in pain. I don’t know how long I can live like this. Feeling so betrayed!!
James Palmer I hear you and I care. I am in the same boat. Something is up with CVS pharmacy. They called my double board certified pain doctor and made threatening comments about possible legal action because he was writing too many pain prescriptions. CVS is evil.
Rieden Mannen What do know know about this? You are a piece of shit. You just need to shut the fuck up and stop being an ignorant fool.
nanallen1 CVS is trying to take over Medicare & so they can own us & then own the pharm u get the meds & the ins u use. They want to control it all!! Try and find an independent mom & pops pharm. if u go to Drs of Courage they have a list of them in your area that u live in. As far as your pain try & find another Dr. U can write a little bullet point of your story & then send it in the mail to lots & lots of Drs & hopefully one will be touched by your story & will call u back. It might take 20-30 Drs but u may get one. 🙏🏽💗
James Palmer cvs is trying to take over Medicare. They wanna control everything. Please try & find an independent mom and pops pharmacy. If you go to doctors of courage they have a list of them in your area where you live. As far as your pain I would write your story (try not to make it too long but heartfelt) & send it reg Mail to 20-30 Drs & hopefully one will wanna help u & call u back. 🙏🏽💗
I had injections in my spine and am pretty much back to my old lifestyle other than having to sit is certain chairs. Ask you doctor about it. I need zero pain meds.
Can we file a Class Action Lawsuit ????? I have a very painful condition, but I have been told that since this isn't terminal cancer, tough luck. Suicide is not an option, I have 2 Daughters and Grandchildren.
I'm just echoing what's been said already, but they have to look a little deeper at those overdose deaths from "prescription opioids." It's already been discovered that a vast amount of these overdoses are from fentanyl-laced street heroin, and that gets counted as an opioid overdose. Restrictions should be for acute cases, not chronic.
Like being handed a death sentence.... But worse were the living dead or praying for it. Hope you are doing better. Cares n prayers 🙏
They the Cdc dea doj and medical boards, lumped all Narcotics into calling them Opioids Now they are saying people died from opioid overdoses not getting their Facts straight ...it is Illegal Illicit Fentanyl laced drugs off the street causing Overdoses
Not people taking prescription pain medication, but they are punishing us cpps and it's horrible !! No one seems to care or get real data from the medical examiner's office they do tox screens they know who Overdose and they can check records to see if it was really prescription medications a person was taking this is such BS lies and the worst treatment ever to people in severe pain! Kerp fighting for your rights and your health!!
I have spent last 30 years in severe pain. Was referred to a pain management clinic. They prescribed 15mg morphine sulfate twice a day. I was able to function with a lowered pain. I made 6 moves with my husband as well. Each new doctor continued the morphine for the next 16 years. Not ONCE did I ask for a higher dose! Not ONCE did I take an extra pill!! I didn’t think “ oh my, when will it be time to take another?” When I went to Kaiser in Northern California, they talked me into giving it up. I had NO idea how much the morphine had helped. The withdrawal was terrifying! 8 straight days without a minutes sleep. Then horrifying hallucinations! I was too afraid to walk into my bedroom! Well it’s been 7 years now. I kept the 9 pills left from my last prescription. I have saved them for emergency trips that I have had to make. I still have 2 left. Do I sound like an addict? I cry daily! I writhe and tremble with pain. I am completely suicidal and have fought desperately to not kill myself for the sake of my family. I think about how, when and where to do it. My biggest fear is failure and ending up more damaged and in a mental ward. I think of everyone else who is suffering!! I cry for you too. Even more than for myself. Trump started this meaning well but the person or persons who put this together made a murderous and cruel mistake. Also, I’ve never had alcohol, tobacco . Whew!!
I know good adult honest pain patients that killed themselves when their doctors pulled their meds. Yep. Withdrawal PLUS PAIN jumped off a bridge and then one hung himself. Way to go government and docs!
Why are people forced to suffer? Most of the people who judge Opioid pain patients have NEVER experienced life altering chronic pain ....and to be thrown into the same category as and “addict” or “epidemic” is inexcusable. A blanket policy to cut off these patients is so fundamentally wrong and ignorant. Who will speak for these people? This video has very few views compared to the hysterical “opioid death crisis” type out there so the general and opinionated public is completely clueless and indifferent to people like this poor woman. And shame on Dr’s who really won’t fight for their legitimate patients. They pay the price. So sad!
Yes
Its pretty sad when a doctor can't even do their job effectively because they have to worry about being sent to prison. Doctor's having to think that way can't be the best they need to be because they have to worry too much about their own safety and good people suffer because of it
I have such a hard time getting pain medications even though I have cauda equina syndrome and I have no cartilage in my knees. It's pretty pathetic how they treat us.
Where y from?? Adult with cromic paim dissease with mri exams ALL and stil docs refuses to pass it?? Dont imagine america was that shit i live in cronic pain too have rare cobdition im from south america in future thinking visit or livee in usa 1 year but i cant live withiut my meds i take 5 6 pills a DAY soo hearing this male me soo sad can explain for me how situation iss?? Im over 18 with cronic rare dissease with exams PROVING IT!! i feel pain 24 hours still you think will be hard pick morphine oxycontin even in my case??
Did you have surgery that is a serious condition.I h have read about it.take care
This is absolutely horrific! How fkn dare you take that woman’s quality of life away! I don’t have pain so I don’t need or take opiates but I can’t imagine needing them but having to suffer! This is just beyond criminal and doctors should be sued for malpractice!
Is sleeping all day "quality of life"?
@@amywalker7515 who sleeps all day? Not sure what or who you’re talking about???
I lost a sibling to suicide due to a downward spiral from these restrictive prescribing laws. 😰
Dear Lord! Why is the CDC ABUSING these patients? Give them back the only that gives them relief, Why is it that there is never a happy medium? I agree with the one Dr. Keep track of their meds. This is ridiculous. The CDC has ruined lives.
We are all suffering because of the dickheads doing recreational drugs. Thanks dickheads. Hope your overdose comes very soon.
Most healthy ppl do not understand how damaging daily intractable pain is on the body. All systems will begin to be effected by constant debilitating pain. We begin perhaps with SCI(spinal chord injury) but a decade later, the body has sustained more complications.Researchers learn more each year about the effects of pain. no matter how stoic the patient, pain patients need constant medical observation. Refusing care should be criminal.
We have a Chronic Illness that has a Chronic Pain components that must be treated and exactly what you said lol. However the Medical Ne
gligence is we injured our back , went to a doctor, injected the injury with steroids that kill the body over time and then we have multiple surgeries which did not work but causes more pain however pain meds were started and actually help. And now no tapering off the medication is so dangerous and they are protected legally there are no consequences so if we die either from the complications that can arise from the shock of abruptly decreasing long term Opioids from the body or commit suicide .
It is criminal! That's another very troubling part of this Genocide. I mean if I were an old family dog I would be given more dignity.
Operation #Starburst or Robert D Long Jr here on YT has a law suit that all can join in one. Just the cost of postage. Check it out and SHARE the hell out of it. WE HAVE GOT TO FIGHT BACK!!
Kelly W. Robert d rose!!!! Not long
Please try Kratom. It saved me. It’s way better than oxycodone for pain and depression and euphoria and it’s legal. It activates beta opioid receptors without causing negative side effects. It’s great for pain or anxiety or depression. It’s like having unlimited pain killers without side effects. Get the trainwreck strain from Yokratom it changed my life to be able to buy unlimited pain killers for a super cheap price. I hope it’s helped you. 5 million to 6 million take it daily in USA. It helped many women and many men that I know. Saved people from alcoholism because it gets rid of cravings for alcohol or other drugs. It’s so awesome and it’s more euphoric than oxycodone and methadone and suboxone and better for pain and literally is so awesome. Give it a try. I buy mine from yokratom.com great quality and cheapest price I can find for kilos.
I don't like the way many doctors and the medical community have been treating CPP. I was told by one nurse practitioner that 3 of my urine test showed positive for (1) Minute amounts of alcohol were found (I am allergic to alcohol) (2) I didn't take any tramadol for the whole month.(3) I didn't have any flaurazam in my system. She insisted that flurazepam was for anxiety and not sleep.Tramadol was once considered a non opiate and was changed to an opiate. She was always stating she was in fear of losing her licence when Tramadol became an opiate and me taking it with a benzodiazepine. I never saw the urine tests and she blacklisted me as a drug dealer and stated in my records that I yelled, screamed , slammed doors and threw a fit when cut off. Another nurse practitioner took me when my doctor retired without telling me and said that pain meds don't work and cut me off cold turkey and than lied about it when questioned. No investigation was done. My partner who isn't even a pain patient was cut off cold turkey by a false positive and accused of taking morphine and told that he was a drug addict and to check into rehab. He had a poppy muffin the night before. He was taking a benzo. If these doctors and nurse practitioners don't feel comfortable treating pain patients, why can't they just be honest about it instead of accusing people of being drug dealers, addicts, blacklisting them and ruining their reputations. This Is just plain evil.
I don't give any urine to these people unless they give me their urine test too. Many of these people are drug users too. They have no ethics to care and treat me which I don't trust. What is wrong with everyone we pay these idiots to torture, disbelieve, and get rich on our suffering. The White coat means nothing to me many a rape at a clinic or nursing home was done by a person in a white coat who was a janitor. Stop complying to Taranny!
Why be honest they don't care about us they need their job.
I refuse urine test unless it is also done with a blood test...I had a false positive on urine and the blood work showed I was clean....but the dr. won't remove it from my records
Operation #Starburst or Robert D Long Jr here on YT has a law suit that all can join in one. Just the cost of postage. Check it out and SHARE the hell out of it. WE HAVE GOT TO FIGHT BACK!!
Kelly W. Rose not long
Start talking about the people setting guidelines that cause Chronic Pain Sufferers to be well undertreated that those people become the target they should be.
Total nightmare
I'm in the same boat. I desperately need an increase on my pain meds and it just won't happen. For the first time in my life I am taking a private lesson from a hospice nurse on how to reconstitute my pain med into an injectable form in case I have an emergency pain breakdown. It used to be that when that happened I would just go to the ER and they would give me a shot, I'd recover in the bed and go home. The last few times I have gone they have literally refused to treat me with anything!
I rarely ever went to the ER either...
I'm fed up and I'm taking my power back! I now am versed on how to safely give myself a pain shot if needed and it feels good to be self-sufficient...
Please try Kratom. It saved me. It’s way better than oxycodone for pain and depression and euphoria and it’s legal. It activates beta opioid receptors without causing negative side effects. It’s great for pain or anxiety or depression. It’s like having unlimited pain killers without side effects. Get the trainwreck strain from Yokratom it changed my life to be able to buy unlimited pain killers for a super cheap price. I hope it’s helped you. 5 million to 6 million take it daily in USA. It helped many women and many men that I know. Saved people from alcoholism because it gets rid of cravings for alcohol or other drugs. It’s so awesome and it’s more euphoric than oxycodone and methadone and suboxone and better for pain and literally is so awesome. Give it a try. I buy mine from yokratom.com great quality and cheapest price I can find for kilos.
@@GrandmasterUV wasting your time you see. you don't get this stuff like you think.
They only die because they take more than prescribed or take things with it they are informed not to. The alternative is to simply take it as prescribed.
On the other hand there’s those in severe pain who can’t get appropriate pain relief who kill themselves because of this. The alternative is to live in agony every day.
Don’t make innocent peoples lives a misery because of the stupidity of foolishness or foolishness of other people.
I remember a physiotherapist at the Canadian Back Institute told me that patients need pain medication to give them just enough relief to be able to do their physiotherapy exercises. Which is very important. Don't doctors consider this.
I've been septic 3 times. Twice I almost died. Once I did die- 3 times from heart failure it caused. But bc I used fentanyl they blamed it on that- actually put in my record! Of course they later amended my record but those stats were already turned in. How many times do you think that's happened?
My meds were cut too...I'm always in bed too..missing out on everything. This is criminal. Too many innocent people are suffering.
Sandy Juntunen it’s evil how they are torturing millions of good people that need access to their medication to improve quality of life to those suffering. They give way higher doses of opioids to addicts than legitimate pain patients that don’t abuse their medication at all and stick to their strict pain control regimen. It’s ridiculous and evil and it has to end. The DEA and CDC played huge parts in criminalizing doctors that prescribed medications legitimately with legit reasons for legit patients and millions suffered as a result. We need to spread the word and reform health treatment and work on making an amendment that gives us the right to self administer pain medication as needed to treat pain and they can’t incriminate is for doing so because persecuting is for doing so is a cruel and unusual punishment for someone that is seeking to remove severe suffering from severe pain that you people will not understand unless they are in that situation themselves.
@@GrandmasterUV What did people do before morphine, heroin and fentanyl?
@@amywalker7515 they freely took poppies from their garden, can't even grow them today, or the DEA will throw us in prison.
I suffer from chronic back pain and have since age 17, I was just in a bad car crash and I'm in more pain then I ever been... but since nothing is broken, I can't get anything for pain! My doctor has lied to me saying he can't write me anything for pain, he is letting me suffer a fate as bad as dying! I thought I was hurt before, now... the pain is KILLING ME!
As a chronic pain sufferer the one bit of info that is wrong here is that many of the overdoses are prescription pain meds. That's not true. The number for prescription opioid deaths hasn't changed in almost a decade. The deaths are from illicit illegal drugs, heroin laced with fentanyl.
Also. I am seeking out help from Dignitas to end my suffering. I cannot take the pain anymore and I know this won't be changed any time soon.
The pain I suffer from is found in people nearly twice my age. I’m 35. My pain has made me want to end my life countless times. I feel that. And all the emotions she has about feeling like her life doesn’t matter and they don’t care…I’m there. I’m one of the youngest patients at the pain clinic here and I am getting nothing to help me.
Just got pill shamed by the Kroger Pharmacy Tech for having the nerve to ask what day my prescription would be ready.
The same thing happened to me a couple of years ago. My pain clinic announced that they would have to cut every patients' dose to the 90mg morphine equivalent. My doctor also apologized for it, saying there was no medical reason for it. His group had a new administrator who insisted all the docs comply with the 90mg rule. My only option is to accept the loss of function or have a pain pump surgically installed, which I am not prepared to do at this time. Pain patients are being punished for the actions of others, which isn't right. It also doesn't appear to be working with 100,000 overdose deaths last year alone. They compounded a tragedy with another tragedy by making pain patients' lives even more miserable than they already were. It makes you wonder how many pain patients decided it wasn't worth living anymore when their meds were either slashed or in many cases discontinued. I suspect that number is high. Doctors should be making those decisions on a case-by-case basis. The way this was done is cruel and inhumane.
I have Lupus, stage 3 kidney disease, fibromyalgia , neuropathy, diabetes, degenerative disc disease and a pinch nerve. I was on 75 mcg of Fentanyl last March. I was reduced down to 15 mg of oxycodone 4 times a day and 450 mg of Belbuca. I was now told last month in September that I need to start tricking my brain and telling it that I don't need that amount of Oxycodone because I'm going to be reduced down to 10 mg of oxycodone 4 times a day. Are you kidding me? I have multiple life threatening incurable illness and you want me to trick my brain. I'm not stupid. And you can't trick Lupus away or the pain that comes with it. I've lost my family because I couldn't be there for them because of the pain and the don't understand the illness. Trick my brain?!?!?! This needs to stop!!!!
How you feeling
NO!! The prisoner treatment oF INNOCENT SICK PEOPLE IS
IMMORAL.
Your #s are WRONG buy just over DOUBLE acc to the CDC who starred the lie!
Operation #Starburst or Robert D Long Jr here on YT has a law suit that all can join in one. Just the cost of postage. Check it out and SHARE the hell out of it. WE HAVE GOT TO FIGHT BACK!!
Kelly W. Do you mean robert d rose????
@@kellyw.1779 some thing wrong with star bust. and no one will get any thing but more agony out of these money making law backs. the patient still suffers more with agony.
I have a disease called Poly Neuropathy I had a ACDF of my Neck .I have Oppcipitical neuralgia and neuropathy in hands and feet And I had bladder cancer last year .I have nerve pain head to toe .Pain pail don’t work but Methadone does .I am only allowed a low does that leave me in pain .Bed all day then Drs appointment .I have PTSD from Drs in 2016 when I was 51 I became disabled ..We are in hell .This is torcher and America wake up and help us .We are to sick to protest .Look it up and help us .
Hru feeling
Except patients were NOT overdosing on prescription medications. Resent independent studies into the CDC data found NO CORRELATION between prescribing and the OVERDOSE crisis. The number of patients who become addicted from a valid prescription is less than 4%. Chronic pain patients are less than 1%.
You also never mentioned how the 2016 CDC Guidelines were misused, or how the board who wrote them were all addiction doctors - not pain doctors.
Straight Truth!!!! 100% to the very fullest!!! #OpioidsSaveLives
I'd say it has chronic pain patients giving up hope.
I'm sitting here crying because yet again I wake up with intractable nausea.... I feel like I get nauseous because I'm at a level 7-9 pain asleep....then the pain finally wins.... like today and I get up and I already can't wait to go back to sleep this evening.
All when there IS SOMETHING that could help me about 10 mins away at Walgreens pharmacy. But I'm not allowed to have it cos sum1 may steal it. Or becos others mis-used it 😠 it's just not fair to my family who's probably so tired of seeing me sick....no matter how hard I try to look ok 😔 wahhh wah wah
thank you so much for this video I figured someday this pendulum will swing back to the normal place but not in my lifetime. I need help I am just like this poor woman
Please try Kratom. It saved me. It’s way better than oxycodone for pain and depression and euphoria and it’s legal. It activates beta opioid receptors without causing negative side effects. It’s great for pain or anxiety or depression. It’s like having unlimited pain killers without side effects. Get the trainwreck strain from Yokratom it changed my life to be able to buy unlimited pain killers for a super cheap price. I hope it’s helped you. 5 million to 6 million take it daily in USA. It helped many women and many men that I know. Saved people from alcoholism because it gets rid of cravings for alcohol or other drugs. It’s so awesome and it’s more euphoric than oxycodone and methadone and suboxone and better for pain and literally is so awesome. Give it a try. I buy mine from yokratom.com great quality and cheapest price I can find for kilos.
@@GrandmasterUV cant get it. u make it soundeasy. bull shit
The Withdrawal is more painful than the pain itself. Fact
That’s bullshit maybe if you shoot heroin not from taking prescribed oxy or hydros and tapering off them
You right there oxy patient ten years 150mg
I completely understand her. We need to unite and take our concerns To authorities who CARE about the millions of us in pain who suffer now in gross under treatment because of addicts that use for recreation
Pls research LDN...LowDoseNalrexone
Sweetheart, this has nothing to do with addicts. This was their plan from the very very beginning. You think it's a coincidence that as soon as they take away literally everyone's pain medications that the streets are flooded with fentanyl? You really think that's a coincidence and not planned for dep0pulation. Give me a break
My lumbar spine was fused at 12. I lived a normal active life but when I reached about 40 I started on opioids daily. My spine is stable but arthritic and after about 10 years of daily opioids I quit cold turkey for almost a year before going back to pain management to get back on them. Life w/o the drugs meant moving between the bed, the couch and the toilet. I'm back to working in the yards again and feeling better and happier. They constantly badger me to get surgery even though my fusion is stable. They should leave us alone if we are satisfied with our quality of life. They talk in the video about how "many" of the overdose deaths involve prescribed opioids but they don't tell you the vast majority DO NOT.
I Fully understand .. been bedridden for 2years , because of my meds getting taken from me ..
That is shameful.I think it depends on what state you live in.believe there are some states patients haven't had any problems with pharmacy or doctors.I did a Google search.take care
@ 1:54 ~~ “many of them from prescription opioids...”
HOW MANY AND WHAT ELSE WAS IN THEIR SYSTEM??
I’d bet it wasn’t a Chronic Pain patient, using their meds as directed.
what are you getting at. make some sense or explain.
@@trafficjon400 overdoses are incorrectly blamed on opioids alone where it is a fact that the ppl have used multiple drugs to overdose. I don’t think it is chronic pain patients taking their meds for their pain that are overdosing. Clear enough?
My dad a both knees replaced the doctor wrote a prescription for 30 10mg vicodine but the pharmacy would only fill the 5 mg and was expected to compete physical therapy on only one script right after surgery
I am very suicidal, cause I can’t find any good drs for my severe chronic pain! I can’t do anything, I don’t sleep, half azz eat but have become obese due to immobility! Any day now my pain is constant 24/7 and I have prayed for 14 years now, and I’m about ready to burst!
Please try Kratom. It saved me. It’s way better than oxycodone for pain and depression and euphoria and it’s legal. It activates beta opioid receptors without causing negative side effects. It’s great for pain or anxiety or depression. It’s like having unlimited pain killers without side effects. Get the trainwreck strain from Yokratom it changed my life to be able to buy unlimited pain killers for a super cheap price. I hope it’s helped you. 5 million to 6 million take it daily in USA. It helped many women and many men that I know. Saved people from alcoholism because it gets rid of cravings for alcohol or other drugs. It’s so awesome and it’s more euphoric than oxycodone and methadone and suboxone and better for pain and literally is so awesome. Give it a try. I buy mine from yokratom.com great quality and cheapest price I can find for kilos.
Get trainwreck strain (mix of 12 strains) from yokratom.com. Changed my life. Like being able to buy unlimited oxycodone for 1/100 the price
You’ll never need the doctor again for pain pills.
And it cures depression and anxiety too. Try it along cannabis. Maybe micro doses of coca or MDMA
your not the only one. what do we do no body cares including the ones who want us dead. God is who we are i guess.
Its one thing to refuse pain medication for someone who turns up with zero history and no 'proof' of pain, but to force someone who had 34 surgeries and has imaging to PROVE that they are in pain is downright disgusting and disturbing. If someone has nerve problems, cancer, surgery, fractures or anything that indicates pain, they should be treated for pain. It shouldn't be, "oh, some people abused these drugs, so now you will suffer"...
Why is it that we have to suffer I am so tired of it .
I am going through the same thing. Knowledge is power in dealing with this. We have to change the system. We need doctors who understand how we feel.
It took me 10-15 years to find a doctor willing to treat my pain conditions. I never take more than I’m prescribed (I actually try to take less) and I never ask for an early refill. Having the medication means I’m not just in bed all day. I live in fear of something changing and I no longer have access to the pain medication I take. .
I just watched a video of the DEA responding to this and they act like they're on our side, but they're shutting down pain clinics left and right. My doctor for over a decade can no longer practice and now I have to figure things out again. I have degenerative disc disease and a knee conditions, which both get worse as I age. I'm pretty sick of the government right now.
I had outpatient surgery a year ago. I did not receive any pain medicine post op. I was in agony for 3 days. I missed work. I tried every otc pain medicine available without relief. I will eventually need the surgery repeated. I have such anxiety about this. When I had the same surgery done 6 years ago I was given 3 days dose of opioid and did fine
I'm worried about the next surgery like ptsd
I had outpatient surgery yesterday. They told me to take Ibuprofen after the anesthetic wears off. But I have sensitive stomach and can't touch it. There is no back-up plan except Tylenol. It's amazing how you can't even get Tylenol with Codeine anymore! I won't get surgery anymore unless it's life-and-death. This crazy trend won't last forever, but while it's still going we might as well try to put the surgeons out of business.
And we can’t even be provided with assisted suicide to escape decades of 24/7 torture. Surgeons (doctors) actually caused my severe pain. But doctors have taken away the only means of stopping it. Yes, doctors, you do have the power to stop this. You are wealthy, yet wont use your powerful lobby to force the necessary change for chronic pain patients. It’s because you care more about your greedy ambitions than your patients. Even when it was one of YOU who caused my pain!
The former medical director of UW states that the medical community has to take some responsibility for putting patients on the drug round the clock and that many chronic pain patients will possibly be “dependent”on them for the rest of their lives. In my state they created a grandfathered approach for those in intractable pain with no cure who need to take them. They are already dependent on them. There is a different between dependent and addicted. Even terminal cancer patients are being denied their right for compassionate use. That’s tantamount to neglect and cruelty IMO. As an RN 30 plus years I can attest that many patients need the drugs to maintain functional capacity. Without that they tend to feel abandoned by the very medical community they put them on these in the first place and often become depressed and despondent. Statistics show less than 2% of patients will become addicted.
It’s horrible what the government is doing to these doctors to not allow them to help their patients that are in pain.
This is my life in a nutshell. I’m only 32 years old but am more afraid to live long than die young due to living with incurable chronic pain conditions and having my Pain Meds cut. I only leave the house for medical appointments, and the goal at the bottom of every After Visit Summary is to reduce my meds…nothing mentions improving my quality of life. Heck, I’m the “good pain patient” that has 2 Spinal Cord Stimulators implanted. But the relief they provide only allows me to sit up in my wheelchair. You’d think I’d get a break seeing that my nerve condition literally burnt my left leg off of my body, but that apparently doesn’t matter because my life doesn’t matter…
I went from being able to do small chores now I do nothing. I live on zero dollars a year since 1998. It's inhumane.
Brothers and sisters we need to rally up we’re ever you live start up signs in front of hospitals because we aren’t gonna just suffer in chronic pain and what commit suiuide we have to fight !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh great! We don't have to worry about overpopulation any more. Let's just give everyone all the drugs they want and see what happens.
Yeah that’s what freedom is don’t stick your nose in other people issues and don’t even get me started on how everyone else has to face those consequences because guess what my friend got killed by a drunk driver well guess we should ban alcohol then 😂
I've survived 6 brain operations ,2 boughts of cancer,2 brain tumors, 2 strokes,4 paralysis & numerous health complications due to the treatment for my illnesses. And know that this is a hell of a way to exist, from pain med to pain med. It is not something that I do enjoy doing but need to do so that I can survive.
What are you on?
My heart goes out to you Dear Lady. I too have back pain in the low thoracic and the cluster of nerves in my neck. My meds have been stopped as well and this is going to kill me. If not by the pain causing the headaches but I don’t feel I have any other choice but to end it all together.
So dying of cigarette related use, or dying from excessive alcohol consumption, is allowed, yet, the government is on the march, against drug overdose, its not even in the top 50 causes of death. So what is really going on? I believe this is about control, and money. Some group in government is not getting their share of kick backs, and so, someone or some group has to pay, and that group, is chronic pain suffers.
does anyone know why the government is doing this to chronic pain sufferers besides the same old excuse people are dying? are there other reasons why they are doing this? and will things ever return to normal for people in pain that have a legit need for these pain tablets? people in pain should not suffer!
I think it is population control especially these chronic pain patients cost the government a lot of money.it is soooo wrong.
It all goes back to money! They wanted to go after the Opiate companies so they used anti-opiate activists to come up with a false narrative of doctors prescribing Opiates that caused the overdose crisis. Not one chronic pain patient on long term opiate therapy was used in any of their studies. Once they came out with their "guidelines" 36 states implemented Opiate Laws! It's disgusting, inhumane, and malpractice! It violates our civil rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act! Chronic Pain Patients do not take their medication to get high, we take it to have an equal opportunity at a life that every other American without debilitating pain has!
This issue came about because families needed someone to blame when their loved ones died from an overdose. Even when prescribing declined, overdose deaths did not. What does that say?
They are always looking for someone to blame .they knew their family member was addicted.
@@pursedelighted8313 absolutely. And now patients who have a legitimate medical need for medication can't get it.
27 years for me after bad car wreck now rheumatoid arthritis and neuropathy and Lyme disease now doctor is retiring and nobody in practice will prescribe any pain medication at all now! we have now had as of 2 weeks ago 35 suicides from legit pain patients they went from functional productive people to bedridden unproductive suffering people due to completely criminal acts by state and federal government . I’m tired of the suffering and loss of good people.
It isn't the opoids.it is what they taking with them alcohol.sedatives and other stuff.they don't talk about that part.and fentanyl
Knowing that all overdoses this includes heroin, meth, fentanyl and other black market drugs. Poor people in pain seen being prosecuted if they are living in pain 24 hours a day. I know.
This is a human rights violation. I injured my back at work in 2017. Since then I have been in constant high level pain. I am treated like a criminal by doctors. There alot of nights that I don't sleep a wink because I am in pain. I rarely leave my house. My entire life has been brought to a subsistance because of this political issue. If anyone has information on any organizations that represent people like me, please leave a response. There is nowhere to go.
more tthan that i'm afraid to say. Blessing they say ya right.
@@trafficjon400 wut
its just upseting. GOOD LUCK and fight back. Republicans Democrats are fighting against a lot of this with many loved ones in the same position .
@@trafficjon400 thank you for your support! And best wishes to your loved ones. Kratom and CBD are something to look into if they haven't yet.
Im going into palliative care in 2 weeks after 20 years of pain mgmt. Im tired of being held hostage having to get injections to get a minimal amount of pain meds. Its crazy.
DOES SCOTUS CARE ? LETS TRY TO GO THERE , THIS POLICY IS TOTAL B S !
My wife has just been handed a death sentence by her GP. He is dropping her as a patient and won't refer her to another, or even a pain specialist!. She suffers from "Suicide disease" -- Look it up, its real. Its super rare: ATYPICAL atypical trigeminal neuralgia - CAUSED by cancer treatments! She is even in the journal of medicine for "How NOT to treat lacrimal cancer." AND NOW they walk away and ABANDON HER!
Aren't there laws against torture? To withhold pain medications from someone in bad pain is torture
That really anger is me because he doesn’t have to take her off of medication. He knows her condition is serious.. She is being Persecuted Because of drug addicts. It’s criminal and it’s not fair.
I have had four back surgerys and because of them have scar tissue wrapped around my scatica nerve they won't do surgery to fix this because of creating more scar tissue , I now also have 3 annular tares in my back I'm in pain every day and night. I've had over 28 injections and they hardly help, most doctors just acnor you or say we no longer prescribe. What can I true pain patient do ? We suffer because of misuse. I'm so sorry that there aren't more empathy out there .
People that are not in pain an don't have injuries don't care until it happens to them karma
i was cut off cold turkey all meds at the same time , blood psu pain and anti depressant meds all the same day the doc didn't even blink
Thank you. Yes, it is unfair to us with chronic pain.
We are the most controlled group of patients in the United States.
We are subject to a pain contract, and we get tested, pill counts, and now we are punished for a crime we did not commit.
We wake up every day and go to bed every day in pain. that's our normal now.
Nobody should have to exist that way because we are under medicated. We just exist.
We don't do the things we were able to do because we are in pain, and being in constant pain makes us tired.
Any update on how Maria is doing?
IAM struggling with this , I was told by the surgeon for my fusion that failed , he was sorry and I would need pain meds the rest of my life, I was tapered and the cut for no fault of myself, pill counts and urine test passed but still tapered ,
How does your back collapse on you?
I’ve got 4th stage cancer in the bones
Now I’m worried that my doctor will cut me back or cut me off completely
The pain is unbearable
If this doesn’t kill me the cancer will eventually
Please try Kratom. It saved me. It’s way better than oxycodone for pain and depression and euphoria and it’s legal. It activates beta opioid receptors without causing negative side effects. It’s great for pain or anxiety or depression. It’s like having unlimited pain killers without side effects. Get the trainwreck strain from Yokratom it changed my life to be able to buy unlimited pain killers for a super cheap price. I hope it’s helped you. 5 million to 6 million take it daily in USA. It helped many women and many men that I know. Saved people from alcoholism because it gets rid of cravings for alcohol or other drugs. It’s so awesome and it’s more euphoric than oxycodone and methadone and suboxone and better for pain and literally is so awesome. Give it a try. I buy mine from yokratom.com great quality and cheapest price I can find for kilos.
@@GrandmasterUV I’ve actually tried it
It doesn’t help the pain as much as the medication does
I do watch out on how many meds I take
There’s times where I don’t take my medication for hours trying to reduce taking too much medication
Thank you for the suggestion
I hope things get better for you.take care
I'm in pain constantly from my back an legs, never had pain meds in my life an haven't been offered any! Now they're talking about surgery but that's the last thing I want with all the fuss over the pill thing cause if they're not giving me a anything now, there's no way in hell I'm going to let them cut on me. He's saying I'm not understanding his views but I'm understanding the crap afterwards that I would have to deal with an I refuse to go thru it period. What they need to do is get they're act together! He had the nerve refuse me Tylenol #1s, are u kidding me?!!