Yeah sorry for being in this situation. All I wanna say is Fuck the government. Who the hell do they think they are telling us what is right and wrong for our medical needs?

PREACH

Amen!

Long overdue!

I had a ruptured RCL in my thumb for two plus years till finally my insurance approved my surgery, got the thumb repaired but since leaving it injured for so long developed bad arthritis in my thumb and in pain from sun up to sun down. My pcp dismissed my pain from the start, finally got sent to a pain management doctor and they are the ones who have truly cared about me. Had to sign a contract and random urine and pill count but finally I am able to get pain pills to help me live a normal life as I can. I’m a care giver for my grandma so my thumb and hand is always in pain.

In less than 10 years, from 2018 to 2028 we will have lost 750,000 Americans from overdose. This is more than all of the deaths in all of the wars we have fought since the year 1900. This is because tge DEA is corrupt and the Democrats insist on wide open borders where the drugs come across from Mexico.

In less than 10 years, from 2018 to 2028 we will have lost 750,000 Americans from overdose. This is more than all of the deaths in all of the wars we have fought since the year 1900. This is because tge DEA is corrupt and the Democrats insist on wide open borders where the drugs come across from Mexico.

Same with me. Zero meds since 2018. Too many are ending their lives due to the end of them having relief. This has to stop. 😢

@@karenharris8016 yeap it has crossed my mind

Exactly! And Injections of steroids cause more problems than they solve- severe problems in the long run.

Cause you didn't follow up... No offense.. but it's a "we"thing...see the Stanford prison experiment to see why medpros seen to enjoy keeping such genociding toruture going

I get oxycodone 30mg 3 times a day I need it my meds or I’m done and it’s very frustrating when my pharmacy doesn’t have it no other pharmacy will help me unless I want to pay $600

Bcuz money 🤑 talks all shit walks.

I have no problem getting my codeine 30 mg four times a day for a month prescription filled every month. It was a pain to finally get to the pain doctor I have now and they have no problem prescribing it because I have documented pain and they see that it has helped my quality of life more than the medicine has hurt me

Anybody can get em easy

Sure. Illicit opiods are easy to find & get. Definitely can't say the same for prescription opiods. ​@@lillbredd714

It is an act of omission!

Exactly

It is patient abandonment. The only reason it is not frowned upon is because it is pain meds. If it was anything else, it would be all over the news.

The issie is that the MRI's they use are like ink blots, anyone could look at one and see anything. I know people who took their MRI's to pill mills and got dope.

Amen

If they truely admitted how MANY SUCIDES in America are due to chronic pain they would do something you cant sleep you get depressed/anxious very hostile hopeless its more like 20%

In less than 10 years, from 2018 to 2028 we will have lost 750,000 Americans from overdose. This is more than all of the deaths in all of the wars we have fought since the year 1900. This is because tge DEA is corrupt and the Democrats insist on wide open borders where the drugs come across from Mexico. Americans are being lied to and dying while chronic pain patients are suffering.

Afghanistan stopped producing opiates after the taliban regained control. I think this is part of the reason for the shortages. It's the true paying patients who are truly screwed.

@@corkylloyd8525 Opioids are mostly not produced from the poppy. Opiates are. Opioids are mostly made in a lab.

Not fentanyl, that is a prescription medication and helps chronic pain patients. Illicit fentanyl analogs. They need to specify. It’s a huge difference

Exactly!

Slander!

@ThreefiddyWhich means Chronic pain patients will now truly be OD’ing because of fentanyl laced pills.

I hear you. They don't give my daughter anything that really gets rid of her back pain suffered from some man that rear-ended her on the highway. She's suffered many years. Doesn't have much quality of life. I've just prayed and prayed the Lord will heal her.

Keep praying for God to intervene for us.

If you have taken them for 30 yrs, how had your dosage changed? Seems like a long time to take it yet not be on 100mg a day, because our bodies adjust. I only use it on top of my standard pain relief, but 10mg used to help, now it takes 30mg over 8 yrs to make s difference.

you need to SUE the QUACK !

I am so very sorry! I pulled every last tooth and have no regrets!

Not prescribing (or being able to prescribe) adequate pain management for dental issues should be criminal. Ibuprofen is much more dangerous taken regularly and for extended periods than opioid pain meds taken as prescribed.

Dental pain is no joke, Advil is a joke

@@terrapinflyer273ibuprofen don’t do shit for pain !!!!!

Please try to hang on. Changes are starting to happen.

You'd let yourself just suffer? You'd kill yourself rather than by fentanyl pills on the street? Why? Pride?

@@USA92fentanyl off the street is highly likely to kill them too.

Sadly this is why the number one cause of death for men under 60 is fentanyl overdose. They are suffering pain and the government has established strict guidelines on opiate prescriptions which scare the hell out of doctors and pharmaceutical companies to the point where they don’t even accept pain patients or provide the medication they need. Now we now the CDC has been corrupted way before Covid-19 and has enriched its pockets along with China from the fall of pharmaceutical companies after being sued to hell. The fentanyl that has replaced medications for many desperate pain patients is a cause and effect from these government policies and regulations against legal opiate prescriptions. I hate how radio broadcasters are clueless when it comes to this topic, the whole main stream media is quiet on this topic as well because they were also driving the narrative on how bad the doctors and big pharma were. No one has been feeling better than Mexico’s drug cartels as well as the Chinese Communist Party. They’re the ones benefiting the most from our idiotic democratic woke policies at the cost of American lives!

​@@sarak6860Not that I can see, I think it's getting worse.

The Alcohol Lobby is AGAINST IT! But the Times They Are a Changin'!!

It was lost before it started. This is America, you can choose what you say, what you do and what you ingest. Way……..too much of the Federal and state budgets with very little to show foe it.

Bet your scared too if your like me m.d can call and say you have 4 hrs to get here and count better be right

But if you are working do you not worry you are just making your physical body worse? I take methadone for chronic pain, but still struggle. and i haven't worked in 35 yrs. Even using a long handled broom makes me cry in pain if i try to sweep more than one room at a time. I have 2 grown children now but still have to cook and do laundry, clean etc... going out and working a jor, even with my medication would NEVER be possible. My life is paid for by the government and my pension, a system the USA seems to lack incredibly. your body needs time to heel sometimes, maybe mroe acute injury recovery time would prevent long term chronic issues.

​@@Jenny-uv4dlno, I don't overtake my meds sometimes I might not take one on my day off, but my doctor is awesome and doesn't lower my script for undertaking she says good job and will ask if I feel up to some physical therapy.

​@@somewherehere424yes I know I am making my broken body worse 😞😭 unfortunately SSI says that I am not disabled to their standards, but I am disabled?? It's really stupid and I have my wife and daughter I have to support. I know my pain meds are a cover up and that's how I go to work and get through the day.

Sadly in Ontario Canada we can’t just call make an appointment and visit any doctor we wish to see. We must be assigned a doctor. I do not know if a second opinion still works here. True dear has destroyed our healthcare. You say dress appropriately. I always do I am a “lady” raised in skirts, blouses and dresses never pants. I wore a tiny bit of make upon my teen years and got the belt for that. I am very modest, honest and well educated. This denying a patient because they require opioids is manslaughter, it’s prejudice. I am a victim of cancer was told radiation was “perfectly safe” I trusted the oncologist but his 3,000 rads destroyed my life. I had previously asked for orbit and lacrimal be removed but he stated “that’s not how we deal with this (cancer)”. I have always respected my doctors and specialists who did all they could to get this resolved even open craniotomy. I am so well documented it’s ridiculous. Yet am being turned down by every doctor I apply to or inquire of. For the most part I would guess my applications never reach the physician’s eyes. They don’t get past the secretaries who are filtering “drug addicts”. It took 5 surgeries and 10 years to get my electrocutions to a 3/10 stable level. Without the pain control regime I will increase to 10/10 and must die one way or another. I am running out of time. Dear Dr Patrick Pang in Niagara (Chippewa) comes in to see me write my pXs. Waiting hoping I get a doctor and he needs to retire he is 72 years old. He deserves his retirement but there is no one to pass the torch to. All a new doctor has to do is follow instructions of my neurologist just as Dr P did for 7 years. I lost my 40s to cancer, lost my 50s to pain and surgeries and I am now 60. Looking like I won’t get to even live my 60s. People who see me see an almost normal pretty “lady” and that’s because these narcotics are doing their job allowing me to live an almost normal life. Soon it will go critical and Dr W neurologist stated “if these meds were ever discontinued likely you would never get this pain under control again”. My damage to intracranial ganglion pond is so rare Dr P of London University after my craniotomy entered my case as reference 1 in the Journals of Medicine. This damage is unheard of. I can not endure 9/10 or 10/10 pain and wait several years on waiting lists if I could get added. Ontario Canada and I would imagine all of Canada has aging doctors from baby boomer years retiring. These new doctors at least the last 6 years were fed the CDC hype that ALL opioids are evil killers. They have completely forgotten what these meds were created for and how many lives they have saved. My prescribed meds have absolutely nothing to do with street junkies addicts and the filth illicite drugs pushed on the streets. CDC has put out an amendment but it blames the doctors for taking their guideline to extremes. I will soon be just another statistic and I have told my husband that if opioids are put down as cause of death it’s a lie. It’s “denial of opioids” that will cause my death. What human could possibly endure up to 100 attempts to apply the electric chair to me? The pain is like that tazzer, electric and unmedicated threw me out of chairs and off my feet at any given moment. Stupid people saying “just get on a waiting list it will only be a year or two” and to me that is a year or two of being electrocuted 100 times a day for what crime? Having cancer? The CDC guidelines doesn’t even apply to cancer patients. Most with severe nerve damage will go to the streets to find pain control. Me? No I know nothing of that world and I would die trying those illicite drugs. I have never even smoked or drank. I am a cancer patient my letter from GP stated I was an Urgent need of continuum of pain control but hundreds of clinics just don’t care. I have been thinking of going to the news media. Cancer patient denied stable successful pain control medications. Soon it will be too late.

Goto prescriber check up. Look up the opioid you take and then you can see the number of Medicare prescriptions the provider made. It’s not perfect but you can ballpark and find a good pain doctor based on those numbers. There is no reason if you don’t take other sedatives that you can’t continue your opioids under the care of a pain management specialist.

@@frankfkling304 That's just the problem; many of these doctors WANT to do the thing they took the oath to do, but "THEY" have put the physicians in an impossible position; they never know when a DEA agent is going to come snorfling around, making threats. These doctors have the unenviable task of seeing their patients suffer, but who have to choose being arrested, your livelihood taken away? This period of prohibition (near prohibition) will be considered an "age of barbarism", which is what I've been calling the RX crackdown all along.

@@frankfkling304 It is not "dying with dignity" if you have to go through the extraordinary efforts you described, in order to get either proper palliative care.

"They don’t get past the secretaries who are filtering “drug addicts”." This is so accurate! They push you into telling them. I had this today as trying to find new pcp bc I have a wk before my pain med runs out thanks to 2 pain managements who dishonestly suddenly dropped me bc I won't be threatened into epidural steroid injections. Prior my pcp policy changed after many yrs. This secretary pushed my partner and I as to why I needed multiple appt consults for pcp. She then said no one will prescribe you in our network. She doesn't know my medical records or history. Didn't care. The lack of empathy is insane! Sounded offended I was trying to continue this med that helps me tolerate my chronic pain conditions. My life quality is dependent on a palliative care appt next wk. I hope you found a compassionate prescriber by now. No one is immune from chronic pain! Don't they understand this?!

I have a heart condition. My doctor has been continuing my prescription, but the pharmacist didn't want to hand them over. But when I told him about my heart condition, he called my doctor to verify and I have not had any trouble getting my meds since.

@@frankfkling304 They are not supposed to, but pharmacists have been threatened by the DEA for giving out too many opioids. They are afraid of being sent to prison, as this has happened to many doctors for "overprescribing".

@@sarak6860 they DON`T, a lie !

​@@EDD519Which part are you claiming is a lie? About pharmacists withholding medication or doctors going to jail?

Hes a doctor BUT HE HAS AN AGENDA

My hubby had pancreatitis and was in the most horrible pain. It took the better part of a year for the doctors to get a diagnosis and only after a pancreatic pseudocyst burst, nearly causing his death. I can still hear the nurse telling him, "Yeah, we get your type (pill seeker) in here all the time." Horrible!

They are buying crazy stuff off the streets that is what is killing them.i know people that have.taken pain meds for years and they are still alive

@dr9660 Similar thing has happened to many. But please dr9660, saying "one hydrocodone" every 6 hours tells us nothing about how much opioid pain relief she got. Hydrocodone comes in various dosages. It comes mixed together with non-opioid pain relievers. To give us an idea of what she was being prescribed, and how much pain relief that might have provided, you have to tell us how much hydrocodone was in each dosage unit, whether it was oral or injected intravenously intramuscularly, or subcutaneously, and if what else was in the tablet, capsule, or injection. Or better yet, I think the simplest way to describe opioid pain relief is in terms of Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MME). You can look this up on-line, and then just tell us the MME value of what someone was prescribed. For example 8 mg of oral hydromorphone when taken orally has an oral MME of 32 (32 milligrams of morphine taken orally). So if someone was given 8 mg of oral hydromorphone you could say she was given an oral dose of 32 MMEs. However the intravenous equivalencies are different than the oral equivalencies.10 mg of intravenous morphine is equivalent to about 30 mg of oral morphine. It's 3 times a strong when given intravenously. However hydromorphone is, if I recall correctly, 10 times as strong if given intravenously.

@@soilmanted all that is irrelevant. Her pain was clearly not in control.

@@dr9660I see what you are sayin. She was not given enough opioids to control her pain. All I was saying is by saying "one hydrocodone" you are not telling us how much hydrocodone that was. Was that one 5 mg dose or one 30 mg dose? To know whether she was given enough hydrocodone, we need to know how much hydrocodone she was given, not how many hydrocodone pills she was given.

​@@soilmantedI agree with OP's statement. While your info is informative to some degree, any clinically safe dosage of hydrocodone seems it would clearly be insufficient for managing post operative pain. Unless what you're getting at is how much paperwork doctors need to do in order to administer opioid meds. Which also is irrelevant.

@@terrapinflyer273What I was getting at is that saying how many "pills" someone was given, tells us nothing about how much pain relief they were given, unless we know 2 thing: what was the active ingredients or ingredients of the pill, and something equally important - that was left out - _how much of that ingredient is in each pill. Someone given 3 immediate-release morphine pill containing containing 15 mg each, was given LESS morphine than someone given one immediate-release containing 60 mg of morphine. The amount of morphine is what's relevant, not the number of pills. But I keep on hearing people say so and so was given only 1 pill and it wasn't enough, or they were given 4 pills and it was too much - without telling us how much was in each pill. Over and over I hear people saying nonsense like that.

If they label you...tell them it is slander!

Unfortunately, I believe you are correct. Nobody cares if we live or die. Suicide rates among chronic pain sufferers are up almost 500% since the "War on the Miserable" began. I truly believe that my government wants me dead.

Same here in Canada! They legalized drugs yet punish us going the right way & getting prescription painkillers! It’s absolutely inhumane & not solving anything but killing off people with chronic pain!

If anything, some of those Fentanyl/Heroin deaths were poor souls who had their meds cut off suddenly or after a "bum rush" taper, and went looking for pain relief, unschooled on how to cop on the street, and became a statistic.

So true I am sure and all these people like CDC and insurance company’s and ECT they know damn well what would happen they can’t be that stupid or maybe but come on we are the ones suffering afraid to ask for our dose to be higher afraid to call to check if our script is ready or that we can’t wait for our prior authorization it takes days to weeks I need now I am out and then they cut you off because they see that as a red flag opiate addiction well I have been on pain meds for 20 years now and yes my body is addicted any doctor better know this or nurse you physically become addicted and you get depression and anxiety from having any chronic pain or health issues in which I have both several herniated discs nerve damage and complex regional pain syndrome , and Crohn’s disease something has to be done !!

You got that right so sad , pain management doctors are just paid drug dealers that really suck at what they do !!

It was being injected by drug users also

@@dianneredd3031 I don't mean to sound uncaring, I do care about such things, but there are genes that ~98% of human beings have that actually prevent us from becoming physically addicted to normal amounts of opium without harm. For almost all of us, the amount, within some common sense, doesn't make us addicted but may do harm depending on the amount. If someone wants to do themsevle's harm thats a different situation, which can happen in many many different ways, not just opium. The truth is that ~1.5% (very likely less) of the population lack these opium non-addiction genes, and these are most, by far, of the people that wind up on the steets that get shown on the news, in movies and such. So, what about the ~98% of the rest of us? This whole opium thing that we are currently under is a huge, and I mean big-time huge, giga-money making sham-scam. Have you ever known of anybody, not on the street, that is truely "physically" addicted to opium that are not just attempting to hurt themsevles (peer pressure excluded)? I don't, and I had to stop-cold when they pulled Darvon off of the market, so I'm including myself in that aswell. Funny how things we evolved with, actually make our lives better, with or without extreme pain. Some people are now turning to street drugs solely because of this opium scam. That way the made-up addiction numbers sounds a little bit more believeable.

It also caused heart problems

I am really sorry💔

EVERYTIME the media mentions FENTANYL i cringe they forget to put illict in front of it without tht rx i would have ended my life long ago im extremely fortunate i have a compassionate pain specialist @the moment but i was being seen @a major uni. Hospital ( med.school attached) in my state and i was the model patient i was scared not to be before becoming sick i was a nurse used to a 50/50 relationship with m.d not being dictated to i didnt like overseeing m.d on site but i saw N.P so no biggie he becan to insist on spinal injections they help some they helped me 10% of the time otherwise they hurt so bad i would vomit from pain also they arent FDA APPROVED TO TREAT CP IN THE SPINE also they are seen sadly as a $maker so i began to refuse them then i finally relented the resident popped in to tell me the grt. News b4 procedure they were going to "simifly my medication regimen " i shook my head said plz explain she repeated her statement this is when i said in my nicest 😊😅bronx accent btw i didnt say the dreaded f word once👌🏽tht i dodnt need my rx made simple i could remember rx for 48ppl over an 8hr shift and if she did this was SHE PERSONALLY COMING TO DO MY LAUNDRY GROCERY SHOPPING she backed dwn and left the m.d called me in procedure rm said i heard you and resident got into thts when my little sick poor POC behind told the self important aging ken doll type his crap barely worked in front of 5 ppl he took his revenge he began to take away my pain rx first the fenty patch then the oral rx it got so bad i couldn't stand up and days would go by where all i would was shower eat a bowl of soup left dogs out because of my pain he also add diagnosis of OPIOD ABUSE DISORDER( a pretty way of calling me a straight up addict) TO MY OFFICAL chart so now and forever when ever someone see's medical records frm tht hospital they WILL SEE THT i contacted the hospita/university l and informed them of situation the verbal hostilities in the 2yrs prior to incident in procedure rm an official letter of reprimand was placed in his file which i highly doubt would been placed thr if i didnt know the correct jargon to use the fact tht im a POC tht fact tht i told them i had already spoken with an attorney CCP are treated like criminals we most prove we arent we are treated like dirt even by "normal" medical professionals they make snap judgements about us i hate i take opiods but I HAVE ZERO CHOICE I CURRENTLY AM W/OUT RX BECAUSE the DEA has placed a limit on wht pharmacies can get they take the possibility of surgical/accident patients entering the system into account actually there should be 2 system' 1 dedicated for est. Patients 2. For emergencies/surgical patients so somebody having their ears pinned or breast implants doesnt get my rx I HAVE A GENUINE NEED FOR RX and truthfully most surgical pain is caused by inflammation which can be treated with steroids and prescription strength NSAIDS

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They take a oath to "Do No Harm."

There's today an overwhelming percentage of 'journalists' that only do the government's bidding. Complete sellouts; of whom I have zero respect for. The days of investigative journalists going against the government's narrative are long gone. When one surfaces, they are marginalized and cancelled quickly.

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Happy for you. I was on opioids for 15 years, forced off for 5 years. I take kratom too and in my book it is like taking bread crumbs/scraps like a dog. To each their own. We need free choice we are not all the same.

⁠@@mariemerchel2508Hi I am in a horrible situation of being cut off due to wallgreens having two different fill dates on my script ! Started last month when I was accused of being 10 pills short as well and I tried explaining this well this month same thing I had been saving my receipts and she had seen my bottle said the 7 and the receipt said the 11 so now I am cut off in which I have Crohn’s disease and herniated discs and nerve damage and diagnosed with COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME !! I am so scared I had this happen many years before detox is horrible and my pain is not a life I want to live with out some relief !! So if you could give me info on Kratom or websites that can give me accurate info please please I am so scared I am 51 and I am so tired and I feel so hopeless !! Thank you

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