Meet the Doctor Who Refuses to Stop Prescribing Opioids to Pain Patients
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- "I take the Hippocratic oath seriously that my job is to relieve pain and suffering," says Dr. Forest Tennant, a California pain specialist who patients from across the nation are flocking to see.
Tennant takes the patients turned away by doctors afraid to prescribe painkillers amidst the government's war on opioids.
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Pain patients from across the country who say they can't get the treatment and medication they need in their home states are flocking to a boundary-pushing pain specialist based in West Covina, California.
The problems these patients face stem from the opioid addiction and overdose crisis, which results in as many as 91 deaths a day in America, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The media and government have dubbed this problem the "opioid epidemic," and law enforcement agencies have reacted accordingly. Physicians are routinely arrested for overprescribing and running so-called "pill mills," and some states have filed lawsuits against pharmaceutical manufacturers. In 2016, the DEA clamped down on painkillers, reducing the allowed production of opioid medications by 25 percent or more. This year, the CDC issued guidelines advising avoid prescribing high doses over 90 morphine milligram equivalents.
Many physicians have even begun to adjust the way that they think about pain.
In a New England Journal of Medicine article, one of the pain specialists advising the CDC recommended that pain patients "use coping and acceptance strategies that primarily reduce the suffering associated with pain and only secondarily reduce pain intensity." That opioids are never an effective chronic pain treatment is quickly becoming conventional wisdom, and the American Medical Association has even begun to advise physicians to abandon the pain rating scale when assessing patients.
"I take the Hippocratic oath seriously, that my job is to relieve pain and suffering," says Dr. Forest Tennant. "So when I see the AMA decide that they're not going to assess pain, I'm not with them."
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Chronic pain patients aren't looking for a "high". They are looking for their life. God bless this doctor!
Amen!!
Amen
Amen Angie Zech!!!
Some days the pain gets really bad so you'll take an extra pill and then you fall down is the pain better or worse?
@@Shanegla Why would you fall down? Usually if the pain is bad enough to take an extra pill you are in bed, so falling down isn't a possible outcome.
You'd better pray you never have chronic pain. If you or a loved one ever do, you'll find out how inappropriate your comment is. Smh🤦♀️
as someone with chronic pain, this doctor isn’t hurting anyone. sometimes pain meds is what you need to live.
and sadly it's also what makes many of us chose not to anymore.
@@user-sr2vc2cm5ldeep
pain meds help for some people, not for all, sometimes the body needs to heal itself and work out be its own.
Legitimate drug dealer
I I'm from the UK and I am an oxycodone. Over here you have to have a pain specialist and prove how much pain you are in before you can get it. If you need opioids or opioid medication then you should get it but only if you need it..
I wish there was more pain doctors like this!
It's not the doctors who are making the choice. It's the stupid DEA. It seems to me that the only people suffering because of all the restrictions are chronic pain sufferers. The criminals aren't getting in trouble. It's the old rule of the government where a few bad apples everyone has to pay for it except the bad apples.
This is one of the biggest reasons to keep "government" out of our healthcare. These simps can't even balance a budget and they want to lord over MY healthcare decisions? Ridiculous!
The dea thugs will ruin them.
@@stevenwagner9912good
i wish there were more heroin dealers
I suffered severe pains years ago. I got stucked with opioid. Spent my whole life fighting opioid addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Opioid addiction actually destroyed my life. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 6 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.
Congrats on your recovery. Most persons never realizes psilocybin can be used as a miracle medication to save lives. Years back i wrote an entire essay about psychedelics. they saved you from death bud, lets be honest here.
Can you help me with the reliable source 🙏. I'm 56 and have suffered for years with addiction, anxiety and severe ptsd, I got my panic attacks under control myself years ago and they have come back with a vengeance, I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't get the full satisfying breath out, it's absolutely crippling me, i live in Australia. I don't know much about these mushrooms. Really need a reliable source!! Can't wait to get them.
Ive done shrooms last month in my house. It taught me how severely traumatized I was from alcohol. I healed from many mental traumas from my past and was able to forgive, let go. Shrooms to me is a remedy not a vice. I even felt more refreshed the
morning after. So no hangovers. No
depression mood for days. No anxiety.I now
have a more calm mind
How can I reach out to him? Is he on Instagram
I would like to know from those who have solved PTSD and anxiety, if they have solved it definitively and how to understand what quantity of psilocybin to take and when, for how long. And can you really heal without having an addiction?
Thanks to everyone for helping me understand, I want to understand if it's
something that can help me solve the problem (I have c-ptsd)
True chronic pain sufferers aren't the ones overdosing.
PREACH
Many times the OD is to get relief from pain, not understanding the effects on the body. If you don’t suffer from chronic pain you can’t understand the true suffering we go through on a daily basis. There are days when the pain is so bad people will triple a dose to get relief for a few hours. Maybe your uncle was having a severe pain day? He was suffering and not thinking about anything other than trying to get relief. You can’t blame a doctor for another person’s actions, it’s not the doctor forcing the person to swallow the pills, it’s the person not taking the meds as prescribed that is the issue. Chronic pain makes you not think straight at times and can cause major depression.
I’m sorry you lost your uncle but you can never really know what happened.
False upto 60% of people who die from opiate OD suffer from chronic pain. Many of these people also suffer from mental health issues that are not being treated.
Louden Kliehr TRUE, BECAUSE THE ABUSERS CREATE THE WHOLE PROBLEM. WE WHO SUFFER OF PAIN PAY THE CONSEQUENCES, AND HAVE SOME HARD TIME TO GET OUR PAIN MEDS. 10 YEARS ON OXYCODONE 10/325. DISCIPLINE IS ALL PEOPLE NEED FOR PAIN MEDS TO MANAGE THEIR PAIN, PEOPLE PLEASE DON'T "ABUSE PAIN MEDS"
How absolutely and completely true and yet, no one wants to mention or discuss the real truth. God bless.
The war against the suffering needs to stop. Chronic pain leaves a person fighting to live day to day.
Second to second. minute to minute.
I agree I hurt everyday when I was taking norco I felt good send worked my butt off without back and feet and leg pain , now I'm miserable on gabapentin
I always got my oxycodone for pain from www.amandaonlinestore.com
They are reliable and their packing system is excellent.
Yes your correct. We don't deserve to suffer as we are because of people who lie for drugs. My condition is severe in nature. No med,and no cure for what I have. It's brutal and my worst nightmare for 19 years . I'm so sorry for all who suffer. I'm beside you. Believe me I know. Sending hugs to all who suffer. Keep fighting for help. I pray for all of you. My mom just passed away suddenly and I'm in shock. She was fighting for me for 19 years to. The hardest part is I was supposed to go to Penn to see her this week on vacation and now I have to say goodbye? I don't want to. I couldn't wait to see her and hug her,and tell her I love u mom. 😭☮ I really can't believe it. Hope you all can have better days and low pain. Hugs to all The true WARRIOR'S. Much love and respect. Have a blessed day!
@@jameshill2449 do you honestly use this ghetto site
This is a real doctor he stands for his patients doesn’t make them feel like criminals due to pain they can not stop. ❤
The DEA stopped him, & shut him down. Now, look at overdoses today vs what they claimed in this video... overdoses have increased by 600%. Doctors are refusing to prescribe, while Illicit fentanyl is running rampant. Prescribing opioids are down by almost 70%. Patients are suffering today.
Instead of helping addicts they attack Drs and CPP.
They are causing many deaths in people with pain. Suicides, turning to street drugs. It's criminal.
This doctor is a hero. More doctor's need the courage to act like him.
Unfortunately, Dr. Tennant is no longer practicing. the DEA took his license.
@@Cuinn837 wrong they audited him and he decided to close shop.
@@davidkruse4030 that’s horrible, all those patients without help now wtf 😳
Even my pharmacist can tell chronic pain sufferes from one who fake it. My pharmacist will have one look at me and say " you are not in good shape today are you?" I have also been dealing with him for the18 years I've lived in this town. Their is one Asian lady that works there, usually night shift. Evey time I go in she out and out refuses to refill my prescription. Why ? I have no idea. And she also yells at me like I'm a child. Unfortunately she has job security. Her cousin ownes the place.
@@-Mike-69 call your state board of pharmacy and tell them her reason for refusal to fill it, if she is wrong they will correct her. I had a pharmacist do that to me on Christmas Day (day meds due) and he cited some crap he googled so I said okay I’ll have my doc call you, I stood right there and texted my doc and he texted some unkind words about him and then called him. He cited his crap to the doc and doc texted me saying the pharmacist is wrong but let’s not argue with him right now. Go to my office tomorrow get a new rx and bring it in. I called the board of pharmacy and they said no that law was changed many years ago your script is good to go. Sent letter to pharmacist and the pharmacy manager called my doc the next day apologizing that the pharmacist was wrong to deny filling it. Cost me more trips and a day but they don’t give a shit. Stand up for yourself. Only folks that shouldn’t are those that abuse it. I hate judge mental pharmacists that look for a reason to deny you.
THAT IS CALLED A
GREAT DOCTOR WHO
KNOWS WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN PAIN .
GOD BLESS HIM .
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darkfax.com
They are good and their services are awesome💯.
God bless him
Love you pain partner!!
I agree, God Bless Him!!!
I'm a physician with chronic pain; I tell you the truth, this physician is absolutely correct, full stop. These patients are fully accurate. I'm astounded at how accurately this Reason installment captures what chronic pain suffers endure trying to get adequate pain relief: the words, the frustration, the stories are incredibly accurate; I say this as someone who has both treated and received treatment for chronic pain.
Robert J. Simpson Thank you for sharing your story Dr. Simpson. Thank God for doctors like you and Dr. Tennant.
Casandra Bullock ** I agree, thank God almighty (but hardly me, I'm just obeying His good and sovereign will)!
Robert J. Simpson Indeed you are Dr Simpson, but thank you for your service and your story! I wish folks could understand the difference between physical dependance and addiction. You are in my prayers with all that suffer with chronic pain. Take care my friend!
Geiger Counter **Through my vote, social platforms and by continuing to judiciously (not to be confused with "scarcely") prescribe these useful pharmacotherapeutics.
Unfortunately, governmental health and drug enforcement authorities, and physician self-regulatory bodies require that I jump through hoops, so I do.
In order to remain in good standing with the College of Physicians and Surgeons, my licensing authority, and to avoid medicolegal difficulties around the prescription of a medicine over which civil litigation is rife, I have all my patients sign an "Opioid contract". The contract requires the signatory, i.e. the patient, to agree to take their opioid medications exactly as prescribed, to retain me as the their sole prescriber of opioids, to designate a single pharmacy from which their medications are disbursed, to desist from using any unapproved drugs (i.e. street drugs), to desist from alcohol use and to submit to random urine drug screening. (As an aside, retraining me as the their sole prescriber of opioids is not a money making clause; having a practice with a large contingent of patients suffering chronic pain and/or other chronic illnesses [e.g. mental health issues] is the least lucrative practice around; and while it can be frustrating, even emotionally painful at times, it's too important to leave to lesser physicians who'd rather prefer to treat less complicated patients.)
It's infantilizing and a bit of a hassle, though I have yet to have a patient protest because they are so desperate; besides the opioid contract is considered the standard of practice here in Canada, and is very strongly recommended by all the malpractice insurers.
Occasionally I'll catch a patient who breaches the contract by visiting multiple prescribers, misusing the opioid, diverting it for sale, or using it with prohibited drugs (I don't bother screening for cannabis). A very common way to identify "cheaters" is when their urine drug screen does not reveal any recent opioid use - and I always clearly ask all my patients at every visit if they are using their medications as prescribed. If they aver, there should be ample concentration of the opioid in their urine. When the screen returns free of opioids, I know something is up.
For the management of chronic pain in which an opioid might offer the sufferer some degree of palliation of pain (and thus hopefully an improvement in functionality, sleep duration and quality; and by these means, in turn, self-esteem and mood) that exceeds the potential side effects, I almost invariable use long-acting opioids. The contract also states that the patient understands as per my counseling that medications, in this case one of which is an opioid, is one component of a larger treatment strategy which usually includes some or all of the following treatments and lifestyle alterations: general lifestyle modifications such as a proper, well balanced diet; increased daily low impact physical activity; active physiotherapy with a home program of stretching and perhaps strengthening activities; weight reduction; regularization of the sleep-wake cycle including getting adequate duration of sleep under optimal sleep hygiene conditions; therapy with a counselor; engagement in one or more valued social or faith-based activities; etc.
As a rule, I only prescribe or order short acting opioids for nontrivial acute pain that will be time-limited and for breakthrough pain in persons dying from a terminal disease.
In both the ER and palliative care, long and short acting opioids are used for all sorts of reasons beyond pain management. Examples include: treatment of "angor mortis" (an exquisitely frightening sense of imminent doom or death) almost always but not invariably associated with the chest pain caused by myocardial ischemia (i.e. stable/unstable angina or angina due to an evolving heart attack or some other less common phenomenon that suddenly restricts blood flow to some region of heart muscle); for the discomfort of significant bladder distention caused by bladder outlet obstruction seen typically in men with large prostates after taking certain medications like an opioid for example or even Dristan! We see bladder distention due to outlet obstruction for other reasons such as while receiving or convelescing from surgical/radiotherapeutic treatment of prostate cancer, or due to the inflammation produced by either a procedure or surgery intended to debunk the size of an enlarged prostate (bladder distention as described above is very uncomfortable but rarely an emergency condition, so when the ER physician doesn't feel suitably confident to drain the bladder by procedurally inserting a catheter into the top of the bladder using a "supra-pubic" approach, the patient not infrequently must wait until the following day to see an urologist who will then perform the procedure; in the meantime opioids are the best among all medications to relieve this unique form of intense physical suffering); to treat the distress of "air hunger" which can occur for a variety of reasons one of which is extreme or sustained increased work of breathing (i.e. the increased effort needed for either or both phases of the respiratory cycle: during effective inspiration, active expansion of the chest cage requiring unusually greater muscular effort; and effective expiration, which usually occurs by simple passive chest cavity recoil, but in certain acute and even chronic medical conditions requires the use of muscular effort to contract the chest cavity) even when ventilation is effectively oxygenating the blood and exhalating CO2 from it too; etc.
Robert J. Simpson - I agree at 31 I had a brain tumor. When I went to see the doctors with death headaches I was blown off and called a drug seeker. I almost died before finally the tumor was found. Sadly even after they found the brain tumor they where still afraid to give me pain pills. There where days I was close to killing myself. I still deal with chronic nerve pain.
God bless this doctor for taking legitimate chronic pain sufferers seriously…I’ve been suffering for 17 years with back and joint pain and have to find my own questionable medications just to live day to day life at a young age. I’m tired of being treated like a drug addict. I wish there were more doctors like you.
He was forced to retire thanks to the DEA...
This is a REAL doctor.
yes like richard sackler
Bless this man for standing up for us. I am sick of being stigmatized, made to feel shameful for surviving my accident.
Get off drugs then.
@@jasonbradley7973 Guess you have never dealt with server pain or chronic medical conditions?
@@ameliacatlover1985 They may help in the beginning, then you become addicted and dependent on them. They they start causing more pain than they relieve, while changing your metabolism and destroying your organs. Do your research.
@@jasonbradley7973 I never said it didn't but what I am saying is a lot of times theres an alternative, but sometimes there's not but in rare cases.
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Why can't chronic pain patients just sign a waver saying that if they die, their families won't sue? Living with chronic pain is a long, slow painful death! Please, let us not suffer and try to have some quality of life before we are elderly!
Jae Lynn they do
Jae Lynn Perfectly said. Thank you. ❤️
How many addicts would sign anything they had to to make withdrawal stop ?
@@abbyhempfling8642 ...... Chronic Pain patients have Pain that endures LONG beyond the 7-10 days of withdrawal, in many of our cases our Pain is 24/7/365, has been going on for YEARS and is INCURABLE...... We are not asdicted, we are DEPENDANT. Learn the difference.
cause it aint about us dying, or lawsuits, its about control and profit. They WANT us to buy illegal drugs to support the CIA's heroin importation, while on the other hand profiting from narcan when people overdose.
They always say "I wanna take you off this medicine so you'll live longer". I say: "Whats the point of living longer if your miserable?"
I never knew what real pain was like until I had my hip replacement, knee replacement and a torn rotator cuff. I thought the surgeries would stop the pain but the procedures left me with chronic pain for life. My doctor is compassionate and kind and has prescribed me the right dose, without them I wouldn't have a normal life. Been on them 3 years and I use them responsibly.
Sorry about your situation. I've been told by my orthopedic surgeon that I need knee replacement now. I definitely don't want it, but he says that I'd be happier with it, but of course they're going to be some side affects. What you stated about your knee, has made think twice. Thank you for honesty, and I hope you will some true relief from your pain.
Hope you thought twice.
@@charmainemelone
My grandma recently died of complication due to cancer. She was in hospice care so my mom gave my grandma medications. My grandma's doctor prescribed over 100 mgs of morphine which was a huge amount, but I thank that doctor for taking my grandma's pain away so that she could die peacefully.
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They are the best and they are fast.
100mg is hardly a huge amount of morphine and its ridiculous that medical professionals claim such things. nevertheless, i am glad to hear that your grandma was treated with the compassion she deserved.
100mg isn't shit morphine is weak oxycodone 15mg would be stronger imo
@@dogworld3485nah oxy is only 1.25/1.5 times stronger.
@@dogworld3485also it could be IV
Ugh I love this doctor. He’s literally Doctor Angel. Not only willing to treat pain patients properly, but also not passing judgement.
I always got my oxycodone for pain from www.amandaonlinestore.com
They are reliable and their packing system is excellent.
Dilaudid , oxycodone , percocet are all pain killers the legit place to get it is at www.discreetblackmarket.com
They are the best and they are fast
Adderall, Percocet, Xanax, Oxycodone are all pain meds and other drugs. The only place to get hold of it without prescription is at👇
darkfax.com
They are good and their services are awesome💯
They should have a: - "Fentanyl users, then and now" - video too. The Mexican and Chinese governments would love to watch it, but we wont see it because the mainstream socialist liberal state paid media have been told not to show nor talk about the tons of Fentanyl flooding the U.S. southern border. 'Let's Go Brandon!', you go girl... President Harris.
@@webartist69 fent has america in a chokehold.
I could not imagine living with chronic pain. It is inhumane to not allow these people access to the medications that help them!! Its just wrong! It breaks my heart to think of when this doc retires or passes away and leaves his patients hanging. I hope there is someone willing to take his place. God bless this doctor.
it truly is hard. i feel like i’ve lost my body and now i’m losing my mind
Life becomes just existing when your living in pain daily. You just want the night to come for bedtime meds and even in sleep you can not escape the physical and mental pain
It’s my reality and alot of peoples really. We are not the problem with the opioid crisis but yet we are paying the price
Yes, this is a doctor who truly SEES his patients. I travel to a different state to receive treatment for my chronic pain as well, and I'm lucky that I'm stable enough to drive there for treatment. But before I found the doctor that I'm currently seeing, I went six years trying all of the alternative therapies and other medication and treatment options available. Nothing worked. Chronic pain is literally killing people and most of the so called doctors who are supposed to care don't really care and actually see their patients like this doctor does.
it's my reality every day. I have orthopedic issues caused by a genetic disorder. I am trying the higher dose of my nerve pain medication, and trying a different anti inflammatory medication. I am doing the in office procedures with my orthopedic team. I do physical therapy. I don't see any improvement. My opioid pain medication gives the relief I need to function, and be the aunt that my nieces and nephews deserve. I try to my opioid on my worst days. I just want to be able to not be in severe pain every day.
I had known idea that other doctors would stand up to social media to help people in need. Thank you for your sacrifice for your patients.
When you have chronic/acute pain you truly sympathize with others in pain. GOD BLESS THOSE IN PAIN.AMEN
Dilaudid , oxycodone , percocet are all pain killers the legit place to get it is at www.discreetblackmarket.com
They are the best and they are fast.
Adderall, Percocet, Xanax, Oxycodone are all pain meds and other drugs. The only place to get hold of it without prescription is at👇
darkfax.com
They are good and their services are awesome💯.
Less pain meds more heroin sales. This is the DEA in collaboration with the drug cartels to get rid of the competition and pain patients are suffering.
What Grandma Thinks about it probably not the drug cartel but perhaps for profit prisons lobbyists, hell getting paid to house people and cheap labor who can ask for more.
What Grandma Thinks about it Exactly
Absolutely , Due to increased restrictions from suffering people with chronic pain, its like the DEA is promoting Heroin use,
What Grandma Thinks about it True. Our federal government has always hated *any* competition!!
Well, really the only agency that still uses the drugs to money pipeline for "off the books" funding is our CIA...
yeah that's exactly what the CIA wants to they want more of us on heroin they want the doctors to get us hooked on that opiates first and then get on the heroin when the doctors are told we can't get them out them pills you can only give it to the so and so and so and so people if they have something else they get nothing and those people that have everything else like back issues they don't get the painkillers they desperately need and then they go looking for heroin and the whole thing spirals out of control from there
I’ve been in pain for almost twenty years. When my doctor was able to give me the right amount of medication my life was much better than it is today. Pain takes and takes.
lose your health insurance what you gonna do
Legalize all medicinal plants @@user-ii2uh1xq7b
I’m suffering the exact same problem except with benzodiazepines instead of opioids. I have epilepsy and need them to survive. The exact same shame tactics are used, abusing patients who depend on a controlled substance to maintain quality of life.
Unless you have chronic pain, you don't understand what it's like. I could not function at all if I didn't have Tramadol. It gives me some sort of quality of life. It angers me that people who truly need the meds are being given a hard time because of those who abuse it who probably don't really need it. Why don't they take alcohol away? People abuse that, too. Hell, pot is a lot safer than alcohol. The system is so backwards. :/
I wish Tramadol would help me...it's a lot easier to get and a Dr can write refills on it. Unlike the percocet I'm prescribed it is so hard to get it took me forever to find a Dr to write me 7.5s. It is so hard to get help for pain now.
At 49 yrs I turned to alcohol for pain relief. Either way I am dead and they want it that way.
Well don't go to Kaiser their answer to get rid of pain is " think the pain away "
Alisha people think opiates are affecting people’s health. Look at alcoholics. They drink themselves to death until their liver and kidneys get destroyed. I see so many alcoholics getting admitted to the ICU with CRRT to keep them alive and majority of patients on CRRT are alcoholics that drank themselves to death.
Same. I was fighting for 3 years for tramadol as only medication that eased the pain. Today I was diagnosed with neurological Lyme disease. Im so glad this is not pure fibromyalgia.
Genuine chronic pain patients are the “collateral damage” in the war on prescription opioid medications. I worked providing support to chronic pain patients as these laws came in. Many of the people who I knew very well became utterly devastated after their meds’ were removed. Chronic spinal damage is unbearable without medical assistance. I know a lot of really good, kind, strong people who took their own lives simply because they couldn’t live with untreated, unrelenting agony 24/7.
Amen
That is the information I'm trying to get . Who created these laws ? How can we fight it ? I can't find information about this anywhere .
Dspeir
HHS.Gov.
Pain management best practices Final Report May 2019.
@@Gpacharlie I've actually been to the local office to see them a few times . They helped some what . Thank for the info .
trying not to do the same xoxo take care please
This Doctor is amazing. I have suffered from chronic pain for over 10 years, I have CRPS and am a below the knee amputee after a bad accident. Luckily I have found a wonderful doctor that helps me. We need more doctors like this one.
My sister killed herself after getting CRPS and no Dr would treat her pain as it was before it was a widely known condition and was still being called RSD. I'm God's to hear you are being treated. Take care.
I am so sorry for your loss. Until I found the doctor I have now, I thought about it all the time. I still think about it but, my husband is amazing and helps me through everything. @@arellatikvah
@@arellatikvahI am so sorry , your sister didn’t deserve to die that way. 😣 this makes me SO ANGRY!!!
@@johnnylego807 Thank you! She didn't, no one deserves to be left in pain or to die in pain. It's a ridiculous and cruel thing to do. Peace to you.
As a chronic pain patient my entire adult like (for over a decade now) from fibromyalgia, chronic Lyme and chronic intractable neuropathic path and it saddens me that we as chronic pain patients are the ones who suffer for simply asking for relief. Opioids make me nauseous, constipated and emotional but, they are the only classes of medicines that work on my pain.
I can't imagine something worse than being forced to live with incapacitating pain.
I've only had severe pain a few times in my life, and I'd rather die than live that way.
Steven Willmy I came very close to taking my own life due to chronic pain. Then I got my meds back and I'm perfectly happy. I had a doctor in Missouri tell me I was just gonna have to get use to living in pain. It's so crazy.
Grab Tack Knee try weed
Weed does not help severe pain
Tell me about it. I have been severely depressed because my doctors refuse to give me something that works. Continuing to prescribe all of these other things that do absolutely nothing for my pain. I was judged so badly because of my young age to the point where I had 3 herniated discs in my back and it took a full 6 years for anyone to finally believe that I was even having the pain I was saying I had and give me a fucking MRI. Who knows how much worse my injury got over that time span. Now luckily this surgery I'm about to have will relieve my pain I can stop feeling like I'm trapped inside of my body, be independent and live life again.
DontTouchMeTherePlz read dr John Sarno....i am a pain patient. I understand it all. If u get too low down and depressed find help through books, spirituality and pot. And get ur doctor ro see ur suffering! Much lightness, ease and love. Live life for YOU. Screw these idiots.
I take three 30 mg morphine pills a day and now, after begging and pleading for a year, one 10 mg hydrocodone pill a day for breakthrough pain. which generally happens several times a day. Before the DEA went on its killing spree, I got my 90 mg of morphine and had four 10 mg hydrocodone a day. That didn't make me have no pain, but the pain was bearable. The DEA has doctors terrified that, if they don't prescribe exactly within the DEA guidelines, they'll go to jail. They are solving a non-existent problem on the backs of patients that need opioids to make it through a day.
The other side is that doctors have created quite a few junkies and killed quite a few people from inattentive opioid treatments. So which is worse, people in such dire pain they wish they were dead, or accepting that several deaths/junkies is just the cost of treating pain?
It would be great if there was an objective diagnostic test for pain, but as it is Dr. Tennant is just arguing who makes the determination in lieu of concrete evidence.
Eventually the medical establishment will work it out that there are more rigorous standards and monitoring that goes with pain treatment, but until then millions will be caught in the cross-fire.
Quint - U r both right. And in the middle is a Law Enforcement agency who, like the military has one way of solving any issue, by creating an absurd limit based on what? It aims to equivocate the abuser and his corrupt provider, those that fell into addiction because of incompetent medical care and/or persons predisposed to substance addiction, and legitimate, suffering patients and well-meaning, skilled physicians. One cop's brush painting all three is ludicrous, irresponsible and recklessly endangers American citizens and their rights.
Sar Jim hey dude I feel ya
I was just taken off because I had cannabis in my which I use for sleep
This government is out of control
Good luck
+Joe Ciliberto
Not really.
Remove the recreational aspect of this and you are faced with the medical establishment's inability to address chronic pain without severe risk to the patients, and the government stepping in (rightly or wrongly) when medicine fails to take responsibility for the consequences.
Further complicating issue is costs- it is far easier to prescribe narcotics and hope for the best than take the time to do a full workup, which may take years to fine tune, and certainly nobody wants to pay for it. Meanwhile people are still suffering.
The sensibility a decade ago was to simply take patients at their word and treat pain regardless. Turns out that wasn't the best approach, and may have done more harm than good. Now the pendulum is swinging the other way, but this time without a best practice on how to treat pain.
And this is just for physical pain, where there is at least some type of justification. Studies have shown psychological pain can be just as, if not more, detrimental, and there is absolutely no modality for treatment except take another pill.
The expectation on medicine is enormous, with everything being cheaper, better, and safer. You're looking at the fault lines where the reality has ugly consequences.
Quint , i don't disagree with you now and i didn't disagree with you earlier. My point is the DEA is out of order. Let doctors do their job. Let the law enforcement pursue offences, not treat everyone like a criminal or, as i said a soldier.
A patient doesn't surrender his civil rights The DEA is not a legislative or medical body. I have first hand experience with veterans who suffered traumatic injuries and became addicted, hell, morphine was a way of survival when half your body is shattered and wired back together. That comes with a price
Folks who become addicted and remain so post recovery is an identification and treatment problem, not a criminal problem. Yes i am well aware of jonesing and withdrawal sickness. An addict who no longer needs meds for their physical pain must choose to seek treatment.
Doctors, like the ones who set up pill mills in Florida who fled to Georgia is a criminal problem. So are the ones in Ohio and West Virginia.
i want to focus on suffering people who need pain management and treatment for addiction. There is no place for the DEA here. Local law enforcement working with medical facilities can help the addict.
Mr. Sar Jim I hope and pray you get the help, the transport, the home care and medical attention you need. My dad was a cop and my brother is a detective. Both were injured in the line of duty. I volunteered at Walter Reed and saw tremendous suffering. As a teenager in Catholic school I helped recovering addicts, some of which came home from Viet Nam.
I don't know where you live but you might try smoking some dope. It helps some folks, not everyone. I'm sorry my country i served can't get its head out of it ass. Then again, it never could.
Wow, watching this after getting an x ray showing I have three crushed vertabrae, was sent out the door with zero pain killers. My history is totally clean and boring, but the medical staff treated me like a criminal here in Olympia, Washington. This is no country to live in if you have any problems! SO happy to see at one doctor out there is not shaming people, and actually cares!
Dr Tennant is an amazing man and doctor. He reviewed my MRI’s and gave me a diagnosis that finally made sense. He asked for nothing in return. I’ll be forever grateful to this man.
Woah.. he's amazing. How did you get a consultation with him during the pandemic? I want to get a diagnosis from him too but..
@@weneedmoreconsideratepeopl4006 he diagnosed me in 2019 actually. Last I knew, he still does them, I believe. Good luck to you. ❤️
@@Cathy-ux9xd thank you and good luck to you too!! 🥰 I just don't know if Dr. Tennant does international consultations so I was kinda hesitant on trying to reach out..
And even if he does, it'd probably cost a lot too is what is I'm thinking. I still kinda considered it because where I'm from, you need a prescription to be able to buy medical-grade ivermectin... but I've tried to ask clinics if their doctors would give a prescription for it because of the prevalence of COVID cases but they still rejected it!! Even when if it was backed by reputable names in medical research- foh! I really wish I could get ivermectin through legal ways without having to get some kind prescription that no one seems to want to give. 😭 .... I hope you don't mind my venting- it's just really so frustrating
God bless this doctor for standing by his ethics. These medicines were invented for people who are in pain. Now, because OTHER people are abusing them, people who are in pain are suffering.
Accurate
There are alternatives. Marijuana is a better option.
Red Leader I agree even if they do a small dosage of pain medication in combination with marijuana the patient would be able to rely less on the medication and receive many beneficial factors from the marijuana like not having to take the same amount of pain medication previously after starting marijuana treatment because it has pain relieving properties and helps the person to feel more relaxed it would be an all around amazing treatment for many different conditions from pain patients, people with irritable bowel syndrome to people with anger issues, sick patients that don’t have an appetite, etc.
Red Leader marijuana is not a good option for everybody. I have had adverse reaction to it in the past. It is also not available for my condition in my home state. And if you ask about it as an option, you run the risk of leading many doctors to believe you are drug seeking
Josh From Jersey Outdoors agreed
We Need more Dr's like this man nationwide. People are suffering badly.
Not just nation wide, I’m in Australia and going thru the same crap. And it’s been years.
Thank you to you DR>Forest Tennant! I am Canadian, but I too suffer with chronic pain and must go through hell each time I visit my doctor. Its terrible. God bless you for having the guts to stand up!!
We need more doctors like him the way we're going with no pain pills no sleeping pills and the rest that is going backwards
Cutting off opioid access for people with intense chronic pain is torture, plain and simple. I wonder if any of the people trying to block these drugs knows what it's like to have your pain wake you up every morning.
Sean Kelly or keep you from sleeping.
It's like being tossed into a torture chamber every morning.
And torture is illegal
Louis Ogden ha, try telling the government that. Torture happens all the time in America and as long as it's someone in a position of power (doctors, police officers, prison guards) nobody will question it.
Sean Kelly what if your pain pills cause you to not wake up one morning... blue and not breathing?
I've been on high dose opiates for 26 years with no problem. Since they reduced my medication i have had more problems taking care of my seeing impaired wife. So its not just the patient that suffers, so does everyone around them.
Thomas Ridley Off course, high dose for 26 years makes you a fucking junkie. Switch to marijuana treatments.
Red Leader : really, i would like to see you spend a day in my life. And yes i also use bud to control the stress , it didn't do much for the pain. I have tried everything and this is all that works. So get off ny ass.
Hey, ignorant moron, chronic pain patients on these meds, especially long-term, do not get any kind of euphoric effects from them. Get educated or shut the hell up.
Red Leader
You obviously don’t know real junkies, smfh.. We don’t even get a high or anything else, we just get the pain reduced so we can have a normal life. I’ve had prescription marijuana & it doesn’t always cut it, even the ones made just for chronic pain. You have no understanding of the life of ppl with chronic pain. With prescription pain medicine I can actually get out of bed & do activities with my child & just period have a half ass normal life!!!! Everyone else has been polite but I’m the chronic pain individual who will tear your ass up ! I am in fucking unbelievable pain you little punk bitch!!!!! Educate yourself 🤦🏽♀️🙄 Take your ass to the streets & you will see real junkies but I bet you never will bcuz you would be too scared to go in that territory. Was your Mom a junkie? Is that why you were so quick to open that shit whole & disrespect this man?
Just shut the fuck up
Brittany Carlin wow 👏 I wish I could take you with me to the doctor, lol. Maybe I could finally get painkillers. All of the discs in my spine are crushed but the doc won't give me anything stronger than naproxen.
The more ignorant families blame the doctors for their loved ones loss instead of their use, the harder it will be for people in actual chronic pain to get medication they need. I hope this doc is still active. God bless him.
Yes. Every time I hear a person who has been abusing medications, or their loved ones blaming doctors I think the same thing. Doctors have their hands tied now. 😢 Very sad.
God bless this man. He deserves a ribbon or reward!
I've had my Norco reduced from 30mg a day to 10mg because of this attack on real doctors. I've had chronic back and neck pain for 10 years. The SSDI diagnosed me, and disabled me because of chronic pain. Yet my doctor has been threatened to cut me back on opioids by the government. I got a medical card for 100%CBD. This CBD helps but is not an alterative to opioids. The government should crack down on "pill mills", but getting between a doctor and a suffering patient is insane. Meanwhile I suffer every day and night, much more than I should, because of some preening, vote getting, asshole politicians who don't know their ass" from a hole in the ground!
dan payne There's a drug called O-desmethyltramadol that you may find use from. It's the active metabolite from Tramadol, but it lacks the effect on serotonin and decreased seizure threshold. (Meaning that it's safer in higher doses than regular tramadol)
It's technically a research chemical, but its effects are well known due to it being a metabolite of tramadol. If you're actually suffering, it may be worth checking out. Just make sure you buy capsules and the proper scale to dose it, since it only comes as a powder.
thx for the info.
O-desmethyltramadol is Tramadol. There is also Tapentadol which has no metabolites is what Fluffed Pilows is talking about. It is brand name only so good luck with that...
How about kratom. I have heard testimonies that it does just a good a job as Vicodin with less side effects and more benefits
dan payne These fucking politicians (excuse me) need to be in horrific pain for a week and then they can vote on a bill that fucks up people's lives.
I had the pleasure of running into Dr. Tennant today! We spoke briefly and he is such a warm, empathic and intelligent man! ❤
@M Spears % Bob Buddy the Senior Cat. if you see him again can you ask him if he knows of A Dr. I can see that thinks like him in Washington State. I am desperate. I just had shoulder replacement. One of 7 surgeries I have had. The disease is now in my spine and knees. I have DJD and I am so scared of going through this pain the rest of my life. I need help. I want to be self reliant. Methadone is the only drug that has not caused any bad effects on me. I have been on it for 20 years now the VA wants to take me off of it. Oh lord help me.
@@omennemo8844 Oh no! I am so sorry to hear that!!! Unfortunately Dr. Tennant is retired now. I'm sure you must be terrified! That's awful that they want to take you off of the one thing that's actually helped you! The government has just cracked down so much on prescription opioids and the alternatives do have such bad side effects! I'm praying you can find the help you need ASAP!!! What part of Washington are you in? Please don't give up hope! I pray there's someone that can help! Are there any Methadone clinics you might be able to go to just to get you by until you find someone? 😰🙏❤️
@@mspears_bobobuddytheseniorcat The clinics will not dispense methadone for pain. Only for addiction. I asked them.
@@omennemo8844 That’s really upsetting! I’m so sorry! I really hope you find a place that can fully help you ASAP!
@@omennemo8844 So get on a clinic. I did.
God Bless THIS DR for NOT caving in to the pressures of society🙏🏼He obviously understands the real situation!!!
Thank you to this doctor for standing up for cpp and the right thing. This is a real doctor that understands.
It cost him his practice.
Thank god for the Dr! As a person in pain I appreciate him. He took a oath and stuck with it !
Dilaudid , oxycodone , percocet are all pain killers the legit place to get it is at www.discreetblackmarket.com
They are the best and they are fast.
I feel rejected by this medical system.
It's not the medical system... it's the government
@ eric its both doctors have become way to paranoid its not illegal for a doctor to prescribe opiates to a patient that has chronic pain when all other treatments have failed.
I wish there were more Drs like you. I suffer horrifically everyday. This opioid war to keep drugs from patients in pain is evil.
So true I got this doc I do purchase from discreetly..
Hes on telegram as,
Mycodree
I’ve been on opioid pain meds for over 15 years. It has allowed me to live a relatively normal life. Thankfully I go to a pain clinic where they treat me, the patient, know I have never abused my meds, and I continue to to receive my meds and live life the best I can. I have heard too many horror stories of pain patients being taken off their medications abruptly adding to their pain and suffering. This doctor is a humanitarian
As we age, sooner or later nearly each one of us will be there, we'll see how psychological is the pain, and how effective is "behavioral therapy". Remember these words.
politicians and doctors dont have to worry about being in pain when they grow old they have access to the best drugs. life isnt fair
You are very right sir. I'm 41 years old and every birthday 20-30-40 my pain has increased by atleast 40%. It really is scary
Speaking as someone who lives in chronic pain because of a spinal injury, this is infuriating. The social stigma alone of being on painkillers is amazing, yet it's one of the only ways to actually FUNCTION in society...
James McCullough Wrong. Look up Kratom. Natural pain killer that is 100% safe, can't overdose. Has been used for centuries, nothing new. Prescribed pain pills are not the answer. You will function completely normally using Kratom, and It will help your pain far better.
Kratom will not cause psychosis. I have neither heard or seen any research or proof of Kratom ever causing psychosis to anyone.
Kratom is not a substance that has the potential of being abused. It is extremely safe & self-regulating. If you take too much kratom, you will simply vomit and not have a good time. You cannot chase a high from Kratom. Kratom does not get you high.
Your motives are clearly in favor of the DEA & FDA who have been known to be against any medical herb that has legitimate documentation of medical use in regards to pain. The FDA has knowingly accepted prescribed opiates that have a high potential of abuse, and are highly physically and mentally addictive. Kratom is about as addictive as coffee. Kratom is in the same family as the coffee plant, thus it's stimulating "Coffee like' effects. Kratom only lightly touches the opiate receptors, in a way that it has no risk of ever causing respiratory depression or cardiac arrest that commonly prescribed opiates are known to cause. Kratom has never in history been reported as abusive or risking potential overdose.
"(1930’s, the people of Thailand had discovered that Kratom was a powerful means of helping them with their opium addictions. Not only did Kratom tress grow everywhere in Thailand, it was easy to boil down a few leaves, and make a “Kratom Ball”; the most common form of ingestion of this plant at the time.
War broke out in 1942; the East Asian War as history has called it. When war breaks out, it’s terrible for the economy, and all of the taxes from the opium trade that the government had enjoyed suddenly vaporized. The government raced to find ways of bringing back the cash cow they had enjoyed as a result of the opium trade. One of the first things they did, was look to see if there was any competition in this particular market.
Sure enough, Kratom, which had swept the nation, and was accompanied by little to no adverse reactions or hospital visits of any kind (unlike opium), was now seen as a threat to the massive amounts of cash bring brought in because of the opium trade. Kratom was one of the “low hanging” fruits, and and easy target:
A member of the House of Representatives from Lampang in a special meeting on 7 January 1943 (Police Major General Pin Amornwisaisoradej) said this: “Taxes for opium are high while kratom is currently not being taxed. With the increase of those taxes, people are starting to use kratom instead and this has had a visible impact on our government’s income.”
An act was passed called “The Kratom Act”, which criminlaized Kratom. By now, its use was so widespread (it had been part of Thailand culture for over 3,000 years), that anyone in the working class was at least familiar with Kratom, had a friend, family member, or even relied on its safe, effective use themselves. Kratom tress were grown with impunity, the millions of acres of naturally-occurring Kratom trees flourished, and leaves were chewed openly in public without any fear of arrest. So, it seems that the Kratom Act was never really enforced.
Fast forward to 1979:
In 1979, kratom was included in the “Thai Narcotics Act“, under Schedule 5 (the least restrictive and punitive level). It was added to the same classification that Cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms belonged to. The Kratom Act had severe penalties for ingrsting Kratom, and this was intended to reduce the sentences and the punishment for those found to be in violation of the Kratom Act.
So, although Kratom is still criminalized in its home country, it’s at least on a level with other mis-categorized natural herbal products, which allows for the possibility of a policy change that would finally place Kratom back where it belongs; as a safe, effective herbal supplement that has a wide range of medical benefits.)"
I agree.My ex was on Hydro-Morphone 12mg & that was 14 years ago which is a poweful opiod & she took it for Fibre-myalgia & Arthritis in her spine & took the medicine exactly as the Doctor prescribed.I was on the same medicine but 8mg & unlike her got addicted & my Doctor got wise to it & put me on the methadone clinic where I have been on it clean for 16 years & take it for pain & addiction best thing he could have ever done for me.
When I see reports of pain specialist being sent to jail for helping these people I think of my Ex & am relieved to think that she & I both live in Canada & so far have not been effected by all the news media about the opiod crisis,sadly Canada usually follows USA in these matters,I just hope that the people sitting behind their desk get educated & stop making these kinder garden decisions.
Strainzee Rotation Do you think med marijuana works and should be approved by the FDA?!? 🤔🤔🤔
This man is a HERO… protect him at all costs 💙💚
google says his clinic is closed sadly
@@rogersrepairgroupllc that’s really sad… it’s a wonder people don’t become violent. Push someone to their breaking point, and bad stuff starts to happen l
We need more doctors like that
I hope everyone in the DEA develops chronic pain.
The Recluse yup. Wtff are they Aliens lol they'd don't feel pain lol
If only....it would be the epitome of poetic justice.
Sadly, it's not a joke that "cops have the best drugs." DEA agents and politicians will always be able to get the drugs they and their friends and families need.
I HAVE BEEN THNKING THE SAME THING , I WOULD IKE TO SEE THE DR I HAVE NOW GETS HIS BACK BROKEIN LIKE MINE AN GETS ASPRIN 4 IT !
but in the sheep mentality the drugs would be “legal and used correctly”
Good for this man. He’s not abusing his power, or patients, he’s taking care of them.
Emily T he was abusing his power to prescribe his patients who might not need such potent painkillers as fentanyl, fentanyl based painkillers. He tooks hundreds of thousands of dollars from fentanyl manufacturers.
He did abuse his power, he did abuse his patients, but soon, he will be getting abused in federal prison.
Emily T Good for this man? I'll just assume that you are completely ignorant that pain pills are NOT THE SAFE solution. The sad part is that this man is probably 100% aware of this fact, yet is still prescribing his "well taken care of" patients with this deadly stuff, because he ends up gets paid heavy amounts of cash for it. Just because this UA-cam channel is called Reason TV, doesn't mean that it is reasonable at all. In fact this is quite the opposite of reasonable. These people are steering lies into your ears without you even realizing it. These aren't good people.
Strainzee Rotation It only becomes unsafe whenever individuals take them in unsafe ways.
Ian h how the fuck do you know what he did?
Donny Danger i had to do extensive research. Its not like there's this magical place on the internet, where you can type in the thing you want to search for, and it shows you that. Wow what a thing that would be! But alas, the technology hasnt been invented yet.
Thank you for posting this video! I have a rare chronic pain disorder called CRPS or RSD. I don’t regularly take opioids to help manage my daily pain, but when I have a dental procedure, I NEED them because my pain is horrible. But thanks to the “war on opioids”, dentist are afraid to prescribe opioids for pain and tell me to use ibuprofen. (sigh) They have no idea what my pain is like and ibuprofen won’t touch it. I don’t even want much, and I get off the vicodin as soon as I am able to tolerate the pain. Yet I am still denied the needed medication. It’s so unfair to be punished by the health care system because of the rampant addiction problems of others. 😢😢😢
This doctor is a hero.
Finally!! A doctor that is ACTUALLY helping patients! The government wants you to HURT! God Bless this doctor!!
These drugs and their trafficking helps no one. Opioids are poison, ppl die from their prescribed dosages every day also. Natural plant foods and marijuana for pain management is what will keep you feeling your best and alive longer, without this opium poisoning your organs over time.
NORMLfan13 weed is only a moderated pain reliever. Opiates for severe in generall.
Opioids do not hurt organs - OTC NSaids do!
Ryan Oleson helping patients is curing the root problem.
while marijuana certainly helps, and should be a standard treatment for pain, anxiety , ect... opioids still have their legitimate place and use in modern medicine.
Lived with pain for the last 14 years of my life. Had to give up a large number of things that I enjoyed. I have an actual, physical, and testable problem. I don't take more than I need to, nor do I "seek." I go in regularly for nerve blocks. Treating all of us like drug addicts doesn't help anyone.
And I had a close family member die of an accidental overdose of pills she bought on the street. I understand what it is to look at parents who are burying their child, to think of the life that was lost, the things she will never do, that she'll never play with my son. Punishing others and making her actions more illegal wouldn't have saved her life. Better education on overdose risks and removing the fear of calling for help when you've obtained illegal drugs, would have.
RG Beauty just smoke weed if your pains that bad youd rather do heroin than smoke weed weirdo
Tried it, does nothing. I don't "rather" do anything; I do what WORKS.
Four Twenty: Well, good for you. I have to live my life with chronic pain, so I need to have something that works and allows me to still have some level of function.
Four Twenty see some of us got these new things call JOBS. Its this place you go to make money, and some of us have to work in skilled labor sectors, so ya no weed. I mean its fine if you work at taco bell at 26 but not if you have a real job.
RG Beauty Did you say "nerve blocks?"....Your pain must be a living hell. I have never heard of nerve blocks. Sounds like Science fiction. Does it work and for how long?
I hope these doctors can do something for you. I am sorry for your situation.
I wish he were my pain management doctor. I love that he stands up for the patient and is compassionate. A lot of doctors and people could take lessons from him. Matter of fact I wish he could give lessons and seminars accross this country about this.
I agree chronic pain patients need it and rely on it I am currently on methadone for a bad fentanyl addiction and it saved my life I am down to 40 mg’s and am getting off of it as we speak and I’m honestly so proud of how far I’ve came god bless this doctor he’s not abusing his scripts he’s prescribing miracle medicine for patients who just would rather die then go through the pain
How did your detox go?
Wow, a doctor with actual compassion for people that are in pain. Of course he's elderly, young doctors are indoctrinated to assume everyone that is in pain is just faking it.
WWII vets were the best doctors. They are obviously almost all retired or dead now.
@The Worldwide Rock N Roll English Teachers Network Well hope you don't mean medics because morphine probably killed a ton of people since it drops blood pressure and messes with your whole body from stopping the bleeding.
My knee is constantly throbbing and the only reliable way to treat the pain is bupernorphine , I refuse to get surgery n they refuse to prescribe pain meds
Kinda messed up.. one umbrella for fentanyl addiction and the same umbrella for pain patients.. subs!
the tylenol epidemic....
I have taken Tramadol for years, and it takes the edge off but never does it get rid of my pain. It is ridiculous what I go through just to obtain my prescription monthly.
I have NEVER abused any medication, and I greatly resent being treated as a common abuser.
Charlotte Bankston your taking opiods to be normal aka your a junkie taper off them tramadols and get yourself some strong weed goodbye pain
That is exactly how I felt.
Charlotte Bankston I'm going through the exact same thing.
KidCity Lynnwood the only way tbis will change is if we unite and put pressure on our politicians and file class action lawsuits!!
I wished that I never would have touched that stuff..it's really, really hard to get off Tramadol. It's not a good drug just my opinion only.
We all need to stand together to live a normal life. Yesterday I took a ua test from my doc and they said I had no meds in my system. Which was a lie. The DEA and our government are out of control. I had to use a walked for years prior to pain management. Now the uncertainty scares me, I'm 50 was a paramedic a combatic saved lives for years, definitely not looking to get high. Just to curve the nerve pain.
what happened is hes been seeing you too long.. either they leave the area, or rotate patients.. they dont want a long record of prescribing to anyone anymore.
Thank the Lord for this man. I know of a few ppl that have chronic illnesses in extreme pain everyday and will be the rest of their lives and had their meds taken. Luckily they found a doctor to help like this man. Some ppl truly need pain medication.
Dear God I wish they would see how important and necessary these are for some of us people. To go a day without pain would be absolutely amazing.
A doctor at an emergicare asked me to rate my pain from a sinus infection and I said 7, he said, in a condescending tone, that was equal to a car accident. I told him no, it's worse, I have been run over on my Harley ,which broke my hand and leg, and it didn't hurt as bad as this sinus pain. He prescribed me opioid pain meds which I told him weren't necessary as they wouldn't have any effect on this sinus pain, which suprised him as he thought I was trying to get opioids to abuse. The whole point is that doctors are playing down people's pain in order to keep from prescribing opioid so they don't get in trouble . The media has blown this out of proportion, as usual.
Fuck the media Especially The Communist News Network(CNN) or the Clinton News Network About four of our past presidents have ammeter to abusing pain killers George W Bush, Barack Obama Weed smoker and Bill Clinton admitted to doing oxytocin while at the white house. So you have a bunch of dumbass beuacrat idoits running the CDC that let drugs with a 100 times more side affects get approved where is the DEA and The FDA on approval day getting paid off by the Pham companies to say these drugs were safe Here's is a perfect example of how idiotic the DEA is they approved Tramadol (Ultram) im 1995 and was not a controlled Substance until 2013 . When Ultram was originally approved the dug company's said it has opioid like affects and non addictive so the dr's were going out of control prescribing this medication which as a SSRI side affect can make you more addicted to the medication but that was left out of the report until 2013 when the DEA said it needed to be a schedule 4 substance and come to find out Tramadol(Ultram) is more addicting than Vicodin. This was a fact left out by the pharm company's to approve this garbage medicine which messes with your serotonin levels in the brain causing serotonin syndrome when taken over 400 mg a day and was also left out of the study it took 4x the amount of Tramadol to relieve pain than Vicodin (Hydrocodone) causing rapid brain seizures and high seizure threshold this is why it is now a schedule 4 Substance which is more dangerous than Vicodin at least that don't case serotonin syndrome. Read Confessions of An RX drug Pusher By Gwen Olsen Ex Pham rep. Excellent book she tells how they were taught t how to lie about the side affects of these new meds to the dr's so they could sell the meds and they were giving the Dr clinics healthy kickbacks for prescribing the more expensive drugs. The Pham company's DEA CDC and FDA are all colluding together to kill us the American taxpayers. ITS ABOUT TIME TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!! Get rid of these tofu fartin Democrat liberal pussies that can't think for them selfs and let smart educated run this country not these bunch of scumbags just a few Chuck Schumer and Maxine Watters need to get the pink slip
sinus pain kills, if you want to see a guy in major pain check out clusterheadache survivor
Dear Tommy, Having suffered from facial & cranial neuralgias which each, ultimately required, in total, 5 brain surgeries & also chronic sinusistus and cluster (also called "histamine") headaches. I assure you that the last two are most definitely 2 separate conditions. Those of us with Cluster/Histamine "Headaches" who have the luxury of no other cranial pain to consider do, indeed do, what might seem very odd (& painful) things to distract ourselves from the pain of the condition. Considering that most people have never heard of none of my neuralgias, (Trigeminal, Occipital & Glossopharangeal Neuralgias), I thank you for your informing others of at least some of the pain I suffer daily........Kind Regards!
pain from infection needs antibiotics to drain it. infected teeth hurt the worst and nothing helps at all. cept 2 or 3 days of penicillin.
Ribbons & Bows how old are you
This is a really well needed doctor the stigma alone is terrible
This man is an amazing, empathetic doctor. I have two *severely* herniated discs as well and rheumatoid arthritis and I literally cannot walk without morphine. I thank God for my doctor being like this man because if my opioids were taken off me (and this is without even taking into account the obvious, acute withdrawal...which happens even if you don't abuse your meds) I would be bedridden and in agony. Taking opioid medication away from patients with genuine, severe chronic pain is inhumane. The Hippocratic Oath literally starts "First, do no harm.." If you deny chronic pain patients adequate pain relief, you are causing immense suffering.
Where is your dr from?
@@karamelapple8007 UK
This is extremely sad. In my town people with cancers and other painful medical problems, get kicked out of pain maintenance clinics for ridiculous reasons (because the Dr.s are so afraid of getting in trouble). They end up having to go to methadone clinics everyday to get medicine. It's sickening for these very ill people to have to get up everyday and get dosed like an addict when they have legitimate pain.
Medical weed is good for chronic pain n cancer aswell that should at least be a substitute
DAN it's too weak
its evil and barbaric that they deny them medication thats legally on the market. Its wrong. At least let them have the comfort of pain pills if they have it bad.
@@zimtheinvaderofficial And it gives me bad psychosis
@@ianrice1191 sounds dangerously illegal. Lol!
This is such a well made video, the war on drugs has made prescription drugs so stigmatized they forget about it's actual purpose
The Drugs War accomplished no positive results
Sounds like marijuana
TheDomoBud "they" don't care. It's all about funding and being relevant and employed. If you think the DEA cares about anyone then you are very ignorant.
They forget about its actual purpose- you mean.... Stuffing the pharmaceutical company's pockets so full they literally can't see the 9/11s worth of victims they create every 3 weeks? The actual purpose as in the pussification of America, where instead of dealing with our pain and growing as a result we pop pills to make ourproblems go away? The actual purpose as in an advertising campaign directed at doctors that went and changed medical science?
Marianne hey, i got a good reason, THEY FUCKING KILL YOU. They cause addiction WITHIN DAYS, and when your pain is gone but your addiction is not, you will turn to heroin and street drugs. You will become nothing but a burden on the system that we are tasked to care for. The only reason you believe you deserve palliative drugs is because of an intense advertising campaign in the 90s.
Here's another one, you know what made the average german in the 40s into nazis? Literally, fucking dosing on oxycontin and adderal constantly *turned them into nazis*
As someone who lives in Europe for all my life, this seems like an issue far away and of no concern for me personally. Nevertheless, not only as a med student, healthcare professional and someone battling IBD-related pain for as long as i can think, but honestly just as a compassionate human being, the way chronic pain patients got thrown under the bus in consequence of the so called opioid epidemic makes me sick to my stomach. Besides the fact that the societal issue north america is facing at the moment could much more fittingly described as an overdose epidemic caused by a poisoned, illegal drug supply, i just cant imagine what an asshole you have to be to just tell pain patients to cope and shut up. its genuinely heartbreaking and a striking example of misguided regulation by individuals lacking either the qualifications or moral integrity to make constructive decisions.
We need more drs like him.
God bless this doctor. He truly knows what pain is like.
I am a physician being persecuted by the DEA and the State of WA for doing the same. It's a scary world out there for doctors and patients.
Thank god for this man. I got in a traumatic spine injury ... I’m learning to walk again and I’m in pain.. and drs are afraid to help me with the pain medication that will help . It’s pathetic
I’ve been on pain meds for 30+yrs. Still scared every time I go to the doctor I might say something wrong and get dropped.
My uncle is in his 80s, with a back/spine that is degenerating and arthritic. He experiences constant pain. He used to take Oxycontin and function, but his doctors decided he shouldn't take it because he was addicted. So they stopped giving it to him. He had about a week of almost no sleep. He can finally sleep again, but now he can no longer stand up straight, and can barely walk. He's nearly homebound. He tried nerve ablation, it didn't work. One of his doctors told him, "you're in your 80s, you have to expect pain". Seriously? They treat old people like sh*t. Would you rather have a patient like that addicted and functional with his pain under control, or in constant pain and unable to function? I hope my uncle's doctor lives to a great old age and with a decaying spine.
devilina V I'm a chronic pain patient. It's my spine for me as well. Texas is still a place that I can be helped. I pray for you and yours.
My husband has shit knees, and I have a shit back. He doesn't need to take medication even though his knees are bone on bone because when he sits down- they stop hurting. I however always hurt because your spine is your support structure. I'd rather have the knee problems- at least knees can be replaced.
devilina V
Preach! 💯👍😉 💜 😊
Mike D
Thank you, Mike. I am glad you are in a place where you can get appropriate medical care.
I think chronic pain sufferers need to stick together and keep advocating for ourselves and each other.
Tia D.
I know what you mean, Tia.
When your spine is really bad, sometimes there is no position you can get into that releives the pain.
I was able to get epidural steroid injections, which helped me. Unfortunately they don't work for every case or problem.
The only doctor that truly understands what chronic pain patients feel.
Facts
A true hero fighting for humanity in a sick and hysterical fearful world !
I have alot of respect for this man. God bless him and all his patients
people dont understand, once you are taking the medication over a period of time and get used to it, it gives you energy that you would not have otherwise and lets you lead a normal life.. but because of what SOME people have done, other suffer for their actions
My mom took that crap for 10 years from neck and arm injured car wreck should have kill her instead 10 year addiction starting out hydro's ,perks next thing you know she prescribed 80 ml oxycotin three times a day 10 years later she dead so is my dad all cause Dr prescribe her that crap she been better off dying in the wreck
windy shouts Exactly. Dont listen to any of those junkies in the comments trying to backup their bullshit opiod "treatment". You cant be on opiods and not get addicted. No way jose. Marijuana is a much safer and better alternative than opiods! However it wont be legalized due to opiod pharmas lobbying so congress and the FDA keep passing anti marijuana bills.
Not all why take them have that experience, some it has helped there life
A person who has never experienced pain so terrible that suicide crosses their mind has no right to an opinion anyway. Luckily, I've only had pain that bad on a temporary basis, but for someone looking at it long-term opiates are literal life savers. I don't care about the addicts. Get them help then, along with the other dopers and gamblers and drunkards.
Absolutely! I was denied opioids by my urologist when I had a large kidney stone. I have another injury that I am nursing without pain relief because of this stupid paranoia. I hope the pain subsides soon. I don't think I could live in America with chronic pain with the way people in pain are treated now... I would probably either kill myself or try to expat to Europe.
@@jomsies I will not "f*ck off" and no, I don't want anyone's sympathy, much less your sympathy. You, however, sound like a miserable cow and maybe you need my sympathies. I'll be praying for you.
Orome Have you tried TORADOL? It is not a narcotic and it works better for my husband when he gets kidney stones than even morphine does. It is a super anti inflammatory that can only be used for 5 days, but it really works for him. The first dose is usually given by injection and works within 10 minutes. Ask your doctor about it next time.
@@peanutandoreobasset1859 Toradol is not for everybody, my brother & I both had bad reactions to it & did pretty much nothing for the pain.
Christina Vandewarker Yes, everybody reacts differently to medications. I just put it out there as a possible alternative. Morphine doesn’t help my husband at all.
Thank you for helping us survive daily life. I have been on opioids since a debilitating accident in the early 80’s, It has been a battle and war that is killing many of those fighting for some sort of relief. I am on 10/325 and I take 8 a day. When people talk about being addicted there is no high with most opioids. Get the right dose and it works. PLEASE keep helping all of us who didn’t ask for our lives but must live that.
Thank you.
Dr. Tennant should be a decorated hero! Thank you for all the you do, the world is truly a better place with you fighting for us!
made me cry. ppl are suffering in pain with no help. after 9 years on opiods jumping thru hoops of pill counts n urine analysis, i was cut for simply telling them my dose of 5 years was no longer as effective.. now 6 months in chronic pain n they tried givin me cymbalta!! im no addict. in pa waiting on medical marijuana. this is nuts. i pray for those worse off.
MASS ONE I am in your boat having 5 lower back operations and I have a pot card it didn't really help good luck and God bless
John Sousa thanks for the kind words, godbless you too brother.
MASS ONE just try to find weed or try cbd
It's terrible isn't it. Try being in the UK, they've took my dad from oxycontin to morphine to nothing. He's an above knee amputee suffering with various other chronic ailments and they're telling him paracetamol and ibuprofen. It's a joke. I do get dihydrocodeine (hydrocodone equivalent) for my torn rotator cuff I'm waiting for surgery, that's the strongest thing you'll get though and it's hardly stronger than codeine imo.
The One Who Knock hydrocodeine =\= hydrocodone
As someone who has a delibating diseases, will die a horrible death when that time comes, this is scary. This man is amazing! I hope he is around for many years!
The DEA broken down his door to his house and office and took all his files, computers, etc. while he and wife were out of town testifying for another dr. No charges filed but he's been forced into retirement. DEA and your unqualified "experts"...people are killing themselves because of you.
old man senile passing pills out like candy
@@joannewooldridge the old man needed to go into retirement caused many overdoes
I applaud your courage and effort.I’ve been with the O.S.U.spine clinic.I hooked up with my dr there right out of school and he retired after 21 yrs but is back part time and I’ve had a pain pump 26 yrs or I would be out of luck.I finally got the right back surgery 2 yrs ago and am doing much better after getting the wrong one in 87’.thank you for your courage
Fuck man. Thanks Reason TV. Thank you so much. I didn't even make it 3 minutes in before I started bawling like a baby.. I'm a chronic pain sufferer. Lyme disease and a lifetime in the concrete construction trade destroyed my body and fucked my mind up I told my doctor for a year that I needed a higher dose but he thought he knew better than me how much I suffered. I live in CA, where I had a medical marijuana card. Weed was illegal at that time unless one held a "script." I did. Towards the end of each month I ALWAYS ran out of pain meds and had to resort to using marijuana concentrates to cope with the pain and the monthly losing fight not to go into opiate withdrawal when the pain pills ran out. That's right. I ALWAYS ran out of opiates I always had to resort to edible concentrates of Marijuana. It NEVER stopped the withdrawal sickness and it happened EVERY GODDAMNED MONTH.
I had to see this doctor EVERY MONTH, so he could say: Yes, you are actually in severe pain from repetitive trauma and degenerative joint disease cause by excessive abuse of your body in the concrete trade and complications caused by Lyme disease.. Yup, you still need opiates.
But one month he said :"Your morphine levels are too low and your cannabis levels are too high. We (the DEA and the doctor) think you are trading your pills for marijuana so if you want any more meds you have to see this addiction specialist in the next county over tomorrow at 8 AM."
No notice, Nevermind that I had no vehicle and couldn't even afford the bus [cause my rent took literally 99% of my meager federal disability payments.
I FUCKING LOST IT. I threw the prescription in the doctors face, got up real close and told him what I think of him.
For fuck's sake, we were in Mendocino County, where I had grown up surrounded by pot growers and grew plenty myself. WHY THE FUCK WOULD i NEED TO TRADE PILLS FOR WEED WHEN i HAD SIX FUCKING POUNDS IN MY CLOSET, FUCK.
So I just straight up walked away from my pain management program. Cold fucking turkey.
I DESPISE the shitheads who punish chronic pain patients because some shitheads OD'd in bumfuck Nebraska or some shit.
Now I grow my own poppies and extract morphine from them myself and I don not care if god himself knows. fuck them all, all the haters and nay sayers. I hope they all suffer severe crippling arthritis in every single goddamned joint in their body so I can run up and kick them in the hip as hard as I can.
It's better overall for me to risk prison for extracting my own opiates than to let some smarmy 31 year old asshole tell me how much pain I was REALLY in and threaten to cut off my fucking meds cold turkey.
Fuck doctors, fuck hospitals, fuck the DEA and fuck anyone who thinks they know what's best for me and my pain. And fuck you right in the goddamned eyeball if you don't like it.
Come and get me DEA man, I'll fight to the death for my right to relief from constant crippling pain. I'm armed, I'm in crippling pain and I'm furious. You do the fucking math.
I felt this in my soul. We live in southwest Virginia. The pain clinic asked me if I still wanted to keep my appointment because they’re not giving out opiods to new patients rd anymore. They’re so sickening
Opium is from God. Nothing morally wrong with using it to treat pain, that's why it's here. It's a miracle on earth.
I see this reply is a year late, but I hope you see it. I am SO SORRY you suffer chronic pain along with the unfortunate financial situation people on disability are in because the $$ per month is an absolute fucking joke.
I don't have chronic pain, but my Dad does. He was lucky to survive an accident at work when he was just 33 years old. Today he is 64 and the way doctors treat him is disgusting! My Dad is a responsible citizen, a Marine Corps Veteran, has never been arrested, has never used illegal drugs other than marijuana in his teens and 20's.
About 6 years ago, his longtime pain specialist doc retired. (You know what's coming...) The new doctor was a 30 year old young woman who carries with her an air of superiority and overconfidence, along with a really noticeable lack of experience being kind to patients and LISTENING to them. She did cut my dad's opiates down slowly, so I will give her that. (With gritted teeth I give her that, but I'm a decent person. Unlike her.) But today, no doubt mostly due to the effects of aging, he is in more pain than EVER. Yet he's now on the LOWEST amount of opiates he's been on in THIRTY YEARS.
I understand that I did not go to medical school. I am more knowledgeable than the average person on this subject, solely because of experiences I've witnessed. But I think a damn 3rd grader could very quickly identify the bullshit in the logic of "He's in more pain than ever, and he's prescribed the least medication ever. I mean COME. THE. FUCK. ON!
I wish I had more helpful things to relay but I was moved to respond to you by the (very justified) angst and utter frustration I felt you experiencing from reading your words. I'm so frustrated with this shit sometimes I swear I literally scream into a pillow. My parents are EVERYTHING to me. They have been together since age 14, married at 18. 46 years next month. They only had me and my younger brother, Adam, who passed away age 34 in 2018. So now their quality of life in the present and near future is all on me. I feel like I must protect them at all costs and fight for them when they're treated unfairly. I had A LOT of mental health issues in my 20's and most of my 30's (I'm 41 now) and my parents were there every step of the way. (My brother was there too. Man, he was such a wonderful person! I was so lucky to be his sister.)
Anyway, I feel your rage. Sometimes the best you can do is just let somebody know they aren't alone. You are not. Not at all! This system is fucking ridiculous. I struggle to comprehend how these rules were decided upon by people with college degrees. Like WTF? REALLY?!
Take care. I wish you well. 💜
And I'm looking into the poppy plant thing. Fuck laws.
😭😭😭It's good that you took matters into your own hands.My best wishes to you.
Right you are. Glad you grow opium
My mom died from throat cancer 11 yrs ago. When she was first diagnosed with stage 4 cancer the doctor didn't wanna give her Vicodin. I finally went with her &asked why wasn't she getting pain meds they said they didn't want her to get addicted. I blew up. She's diagnosed with death &your worried about addiction. That day she got a scrip for fentanyl patches. Unreal!
@@ianrice1191 How do they do this with out being on the deep web
@@ianrice1191 is this place real or do people get busted??
@@jennfontan188 i checked the reviews from people who "supposedly" bought them on their page and to be honest its like the same person wrote them all. Seemed shady and put me off
@@amaraamara2712 I agree, I noticed that too. and most of the comments were all from the same day
It is unconscionable to use that dodge to not treat pain...especially in the case of someone dying!
It's also bullshit to say that to someone like me...who's going to be in pain the rest of my life! I have so much nerve damage that I never get a "high" off of my meds.
Who cares if my body gets "addicted"...? I'm going to suffer the rest of my life!
It's a sick society that will not only let their populous suffer...but to also let those who are suffering because they gave their health in service of their country!
I have missed out on 30 yrs of my life, and they have cut my medicine so much that I am basically bedridden at 57!
Talk about no quality of life...
I’m a pharmacist and the notation saying Opioids do not give some sort of relief for chronic pain patients is just sheer ignorance and stupidity.
I just love this doctor and his wisdom wish more docs would be like him
I was prescribed opioids after surgery on my knee and they made all of the pain go away in a matter of minutes and even gave me a nice little high from it. I can't imagine living with pain that bad everyday of my life. This drug is a life saver for those with real intense pain, they should not be forced to just "cope" and "accept" their pain. I didn't get addicted to the pills even though it did relax my whole body not just my knee and it felt good. So I think if prescribed the right dosage opioids are amazing for patients, but like any other drug it can be abused, but that doesn't mean they should stop being prescribed to those who have REAL pain and not just an addiction.
Hassan Kacem lucky you. Oxycodone from my last surgery made me sick to my stomach constantly nauseous and made my mind useless for a week after taking them.
Elias yeah I get what your saying. It was like that the first week for me as well. But it does really help with pain.
Hassan Kacem it doesn't matter anyways. I can't even get through the pain clinics door because I can't prove my pain exists dispite records dating back since infancy. I'm 21 so to a lot of doctors I'm still "too young" and I'm not taken seriously. Even if I did take the bottle I have left over there wouldn't be any way to get more.
Hassan, great story...
But if ya ever testify on behalf of keeping these pain med's around... Leave out the part about "even gave me a nice little high from it"
Raymond Denno So is my emotional pain, stemming from childhood sexual abuse, less deserving of relief? I am just a lowlife junky? I mean no disrespect, but addicts often come from horrible childhoods, something a person cannot comprehend unless they lived through it. Purdue Pharm lied about how addictive Oxy is, LIED and were sued over it...so is that my fault because I became addicted? Just something to consider.
Fascinating piece. I’m an ER nurse in an urban area with a lot of homeless and I gotta tell you, it’s amazing how difficult it can be to sift through folks complaining of 10 out of 10 pain to decide who’s for real and who’s not. Nurses and docs both become jaded at how many people flood the ER with bullshit complaints looking for meds. It’s sad, because there are folks in real pain out there, and they get treated with skepticism because of the wealth of abusers.
Patrick Phillips I actually had a doctor yell at me and called me a liar. I had to abscessed teeth and had an appointment a week from the day I was there. She then took all my information down and called them and look like a complete fool when they told her, yes she's coming in and this is the problem. It's horrible to have an issue and be labeled a drug addict by someone who does not even know you ✌
Patrick Phillips Simple solution.
Believe them all.
Because one person not being "believed" is one too many.
I'm also a nurse and have a nephew who has cancer and in chronic pain and doesn't take anything. Bc his brother is a junkie and he is afraid of the same thing happening to him. I'm in chronic pain daily. Take nothing bc it doesn't help anyway. Work in a really high drug abuse area. The suburbs. I think at this point I think let's stop making it. All of it! Including street drugs. Enough is enough. I have chronic pain and I suffer and work through it. There are some days I can barely walk and my foot is numb but I work. Bc it takes my mind off it. If I we're on disability, and sat around and had nothing to do except think about my situation, of course it will be 100 times worse than it is now. Life is painful. I would love to kno what a pain free existence is like but this has gotten out of control. It's time to stop it. Cost of the healthcare system bc of 'accidental' opioid overdoses and junkies who take up ICU beds and resources go out and shoot up again next weekend is astronomical it's time to stop this shit now!
Patrick Phillips so true. when I was admitted to the ER a while back I had severe abdominal pain due to a severe necrotozing acute pancreatitis attack. I had been in the hospital many times before for same issue and I said "morphine doesnt usually work I know you have to ween me into the stronger pain meds but morphine does not work and I am in pain NOW" of course ER doctor got suspicious and thought I wanted the hard opiods not bc of pain but bc she thought I was an addict. she basically ley me sit there in pain with NO drugs to calm it not even morphine until my actual doctor was able to respond.
Sadly even the way we treat addicts in this country is horrid. Many have childhood trauma and no way to pay for even a basic therapy which I don't believe should just be used for people with mental disabilities. People need to look at even adict differently it has been shown by "rat park" that when all other need food water and social availability are meet eve with drugs readily available the rats did not "partake" like addicts do. people get deprived and seek thing ti numb them from even the social pain and yet what do we do we threaten them by saying we are going to no longer talk or even contact them. Maybe these people where in pain I have hypertension that made me think my shoulder blade was broken and after multiple scans and being unable to drive the doctor treated me like shit thinking I was just trying to get "meds" maybe we should figure out why all these people are seeking these drugs and where their pain lies instead of attacking doctors to a point where they become jaded
Wow - what an amazing man. I can relate to this somewhat closely. I witnessed someone gun down my mother and I live in fear with terrible anxiety that this person may come back and get me next. I need anti-anxiety medications to function and the people who abuse these medications and/or say they are drugs that should be controlled are blocking me from functioning as a normal human being.
The world needs more doctors like him
As a nurse who graduated in 2005, it was drilled in us that pain was the fifth vital sign. The five vital signs were, blood pressure, pulse, respirations, temp, and pain level. The pain level was a question we had to ask the patients, bc it was subjective. Now, I'm a chronic pain patient, since 2009, and my pain doesn't matter anymore. In fact, apparently it's not even subjective anymore. Today, the government tells us how much pain were ALLOWED to have and whether or not MY Dr can treat it! It's wrong. Flat wrong. I don't even care bc I actually got off pain pills prior to the changes, but eventually I had to get back on them bc the pain was unbearable, and my ONLY option was subutex, and when I decide to stop that, it will cause worse withdrawals than the hydrocodone and morphine I was on in the past. Pretty sad.
im also a nurse and I completely agree - I feel like Im in a third world country
@@theblondeone8426we pain patients are being treated worse than third world countries!
God Bless you, Dr. Forest Tennant !! We need more understanding, and compassionate Dr.'s like yourself. It's truly a shame that people who are truly in need of help, are pushed aside. May you always be bless with your wisdom, caring, and compassionate for your fellow human being.
May God bless him. A Doctor with compassion , empathy and kindness. I so wish all Doctors were like this lovely man.
Dr. Tennant is a rockstar. God bless him. :)
At one point a Dr. wanted to take me off methadone (my main med and I have another for break through) because the DEA was really cracking down on it because it was the main killer of ages 15-25 years. Crazy thing was he wanted to put me on fentanyl patches; I asked him if he was insane and told him that was the most ludicrous thing I had ever heard. But what I want to say is that most of these young people only know that methadone is used to get junkies off of heroine, so they think it will get you very high. What they don't know is that there is very little or no euphoric effect from methadone. However, there is a suppression of breathing like most opioids! So, they or a friend steals their grandpa's methadone and takes some. An hour later and no high, so they take some more and so on and so on. They never get high, but once they take enough they stop breathing and are found dead. It is ignorance that gets these kids killed; they are all kids to me at age 65. I NEVER hear this talked about or even mentioned and I am convinced that a lot of overdose deaths are caused by this issue. Once more, information is power and lack of it is deadly.
TaprootToob more like 30 mg
ha I never knew this i always heard if you never touched stuff like heroin it gets you messed up like your on herion...probably spread by fuckers that doctor shop that shit and sell it yes i know those are where people doctor shop now cause they at least can't do it at legit doctor offices like they did in the 80s but now I know like you said knowledge is power so educate as many as you can
DocLarsen44 Methadone gets you high thats why heroin addicts get hooked on it.
Karo French I was on methadone for pain every four hours. I wouldn't describe it as a "high", but it definitely wacked me out! I'd black out in the middle of a conversation and even driving! After 6 months I told my chronic pain Dr that I would no longer take it, so she dumped me as a patient.
Agree 100%