Joe Newman
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A Dr said he could not see, measure, or prescribe for pain because it is invisible. Wrong, Doc, pain looks like me & millions more who die if u are blind. #IPP
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I learned last night that my niece who is trying her best to survive stage four cancer is actually not receiving full support to control her pain because of the present move to control
#OpioidRxs
at the expense of the lives of innocent pain patients.
This results in those like
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@macabaz
I am very sorry your Uncle was denied palliative care, Morticia. What happened to him after that was not his fault. I appreciate his service to the USA and offer my condolences. I wish he had sacrificed for a country which would have valued his service enough to keep him alive.
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The doctor in the second ER was very unusual. When I told him that all of the complications I was experiencing and which kept popping were caused by my under treated, severe pain.
Rather than to run after each complication as it arose why not get the severe pain under control
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This is the right thing to do for the sake of every man or woman who put on the uniform of our nation. Honor sailor Joe George 4 his courage
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I have a friend who is terminal. He recently decided to discontinue all medications because of too much pain.
At that stage of life I don’t think the patient should have to worry about pain.
My friend is not receiving enough
#OpioidRxs
to control his severe pain so he thinks
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We heard from our friend today. He decided to stop taking all medications because the doctor was afraid to give him any medicine for the severe pain, and he said life in that much pain was just not worth it.
I want to give him Kratom so that at least he could have a few hours
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@FoxNews
@FoxNewsInsider
Is Hillary kidding? It is not Trump’s history to have witnesses die mysteriously the way the Clintons have. Vince Foster??
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My wife has a friend who became less and less active for the past two months due to pain. She died today. I wonder how many doctors would admit that involuntary tapering resulting in becoming bedridden due to pain results in deadly complications?
#IPP
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My procedures at the hospital today qualify as the second most painful ever.
As usual I woke up in excruciating pain. Unable to control my movements or vocalizations I expressed myself quite loudly.
The nurse in exasperation told me she already gave me the pain meds the doctor
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Cutting chronic, severe pain patients off of their
#OpioidRxs
with the assumption that they will learn to adapt and live with the severe pain and agony is as humane and medically advisable as cutting patients off of their BP meds, heart meds, or insulin.
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It is wrong to think that the pain problem is solved because some people can get relief in hospice.
What is very wrong about that presumption is that no one should have to be dying to get relief from chronic, severe pain which happens to be a deadly killer in itself.
The
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There is a level of pain that if someone only tries to learn about pain academically or theoretically they will never comprehend what this pain is.
I experienced it for the first time tonight, and it definitely gives insight into why pain patients are compelled to commit
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I am so angry right now, but mainly at myself. My Brother spent years in pain, and I did nothing to help but offer suggestions. He became terminal, and they gave him relief for one day. There is something very wrong with that. No one should be forced to live wasted lives in pain.
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@Craden924
I have heard about this but honestly I don’t see what threat your Dad could be. Those who wish to pay their respects could be allowed to come in one’s or two’s . Also the service could be shared live by video streaming. Sorry about your Dad.
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A pain clinic doctor told me that no one my age should be allowed to take
#OpioidRxs
. It may surprise him to know that a day of normal
#QOL
without constant, intractable pain is just as precious to this 70 year old as a day of normal
#QOL
is to him at 35.
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It truly eludes me why ANY Doctor would essentially tell his pain patients that it is better for them to be dead from complications of uncontrolled, severe pain than to risk a much less than 5% chance of being addicted to
#OpioidRxs
.
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This is a good day. My doctor gave me my RX for pain meds without any hassle, and after being given the monthly runaround by my regular pharmacy (
#Walgreens
) I seem to have found an independent which actually cares if my meds are available or not.
I told them up front my problem
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I just saw Dr Drew try to pass off as a typical pain patient one who was given an RX for pain who rapidly escalated in 2 weeks to fentanyl, heroin, & dead. Really??? People believe this? Ten years after starting
#OpioidRxs
for intractable pain I have not escalated one bit.
#IPP
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@Boxingego
Behaving like a champion and being a champion in the ring makes Terence Crawford that much more of a champion to me - a very classy champion.
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My wife has a friend whose husband went to the ER with pain and no fever. His kidneys hurt. Not having a fever he was sent home where he died of kidney failure. I suppose we will never know how many have died because of the brainwashing and coercion done to doctors to ignore pain
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I have received Rx fentanyl several times post op.
I neither OD’ed nor did I die. What did happen was that my extremely severe pain was controlled which in addition to controlling very dangerous pain also reduced all the accompanying stress which came with it.
Controlling pain
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Any “hospital” which refuses to adequately control chronic, severe or intractable pain may as well hang a sign at the entrance stating that: ‘We kill pain patients here.’
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@erviinnn_
@puppyluvr312
I can only imagine how many good guy points you racked up with your surprise. The reward of watching their reaction must have made it all worth it.
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The
#DEA
wants to hold doctors responsible for RXing ‘too much’??
#OpioidRxs
and attempt to put them in jail.
But that needs to work BOTH ways. Lawmakers and law enforcers such as the
#DEA
need to be held responsible and tried for negligent homicide when pain patients die due to
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My younger Brother was tapered two years ago. He is in the hospital right now with a heart attack. I am feeling very uncharitable toward tapering doctors right now.
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Someone called me an addict looking for a fix today.
I did not let it get to me. Someone with so little sense or compassion is more worthy of sympathy than anger.
If he is very lucky he will never suffer injury or severe pain, but I am not really sure in his case that I would
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Can doctors get fentanyl poisoning from examining a patient??
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I am ashamed to admit this, but I need to find a workaround for this:
My Brother gave me a gift many years ago for my safely and security. I treasured that gift and vowed to never use it in a way that would make Bob regret his generosity.
He gave me a Charter Arms 38 revolver
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The challenge is over. I passed the test. The only injury I received was accidentally done to myself. I sliced my finger on broken plastic, and received a lump on my head from a car door.
I helped rescue someone from an unacceptable domestic situation. Now she is off to a better
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Anyone who says that chronic, severe pain can cause no harm and is not that painful nor dangerous has never experienced really severe pain, or they are profiting somehow by maintaining the false narrative.
Pain does have a function to help alert us when something is wrong or we
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In the event that I do not survive my next uncontrolled pain induced cardiac arrhythmia I do have a request.
I want pain patients to support each while we try to influence the non pain community to help us restore our lives.
The non pain community will really be helping
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I could have saved myself the trouble of watching 'Dopesick' if I had known that the little speech at the end would say that pain is only something for us to work through to become better human beings.
Clearly they know nothing about real pain which can kill ending human beings.
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I may have the conviction that I would NEVER take high blood pressure medications nor medications for diabetes, but that does NOT give me the right to deny those medications to those who have high blood pressure or diabetes.
The same thing is true for pain medications, the most
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Last night I woke up in severe pain which is not unusual for me, but there was also something very strange going on with my heart most likely as a by product of the under treated chronic, severe pain.
I could not seem to catch my breath. I really thought that was it for me.
I
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When I see people telling doctors and pain patients how to force taper
#OpioidRxs
to manage severe pain that their meds were already insufficient to manage it is like telling a paratrooper that he really does not need his parachute: he should use mindfulness to control his fall.
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My Sister is no longer responsive. If her pain had been controlled she would not have deteriorated to the point that a fall from such a low height could have caused such injuries.
If I could trade places with her I think I would have a better chance than her Dr has given her
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@DanLairdMD
@jmkillingnyc
@Bjdiazntx
For members of the
#PROPaganda
persuasion ‘informed consent’ means: a member of
#PROP
informs a pain patient that the pain patient has
#PROP
’s consent to be involuntarily tapered from
#OpioidRxs
.
Admittedly this does considerable trampling on the patient’s civil rights.
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I just read a comment which said the purpose of state medical boards was to ensure patients are protected. That being so how does it protect a patient to allow the patient to be left in agony from untreated or under treated, severe pain? Consequences of such neglect can be fatal.
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@PennyCarrigan1
@ibdgirl76
@ThomasKlineMD
@MediaClymer
@GeneW22614687
@plwin49
@dawnimatrix
@headdock
@Faithgirlee
@CRPSisaRealPain
@SpicyPurritos
@MomalaDearest
@HeatherLinda11
@TLCStruggle
@KatTwisted
@puppyluvr312
@AdamGentry2021
@CanadaPain
@josephcarolan20
@PTSDAdvocate
@Irishbrat1966
@TheFuglyFrog
@HollySt92337394
@Nashkitty66
@Bilked2TheBrink
@LynnH26159395
@GasserKellie
@OldHeadFighta
@Annemarie55USA
@JosephFalzoneMD
@FollowingForFu2
@MelindaJaneOwe2
@CContrarus
@secondchances09
@truth_uni
@Merry_Hippie
@JonelleElgaway
@DrRevo
@1959smith715
@PlayLynny4U
@PithyPins
@vendingcomics
@MsKittyresist
@hope411adcock
@TerriMe3
@Danniedean5
@TrumpWontWork
@Chrissy_8675309
@HowardWill5
So the
#DEA
,
#CDC
, and
#PROP
cutting off legit pain patients from life saving
#OpioidRXs
and putting our Doctors in jail does absolutely zero to reduce OD’s because addicts want illegal fentanyl. All the
#DEA
is doing is conducting a genocide of pain patients.
WAKE UP, CONGRESS
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I believe our present day access to
#OpioidRxs
and the knowledge of how to safely use them would adequately treat the majority of those with
#ChronicSeverePain
, but because of the
#DEA
, Kolodny,
#PROP
, and others like them who prey upon the superstitions and fears of those who
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I was on my way into Walmart as I saw a young Lady with no handicapped parking decal on her car parking near the front door in the first handicapped parking space.
As she walked in I saw an older guy walking very slow with the use of his walker coming out of the front door.
Out
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I see comments on here analyzing how we pain patients may or may not be handling our pain in a ‘constructive’ way.
Being in such severe pain today I am not as tolerant as I try to be when someone displays their lack of knowledge, life experience, and compassion with such remarks
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My doctor appointment did not go as I expected.
My pain was not well controlled, and my blood pressure was too high so there was not much said about tapering. He just had me relax on the exam table to try and get my BP down.
Of course controlling my pain will help.
When I
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Last night was different in a good way. My new pharmacy filled my pain meds without any hassle.
My new pharmacy has been helpful ever since I transferred to them. With my pain partially controlled I slept for the first time in many days.
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If the
#DEA
continues to practice medicine without a license by arbitrarily reducing
#OpioidRxs
available to treat chronic pain and acute, post surgical pain patients with absolutely no medically justifiable reason they will succeed in killing more innocent victims than the
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@Joy_Villa
@CLewandowski_
I am truly sorry you experienced such behavior, Joy. I promise not all men are as disgusting as that. I can not imagine not being thrilled to be photographed with you, and I have no idea why anyone would think it is ok to touch you in such an inappropriate way.
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When I died in the ER at 56 from a heart attack I could feel it coming, but I could do nothing to stop it. Just before the end I felt a strange sense that something very bad was about to happen.
I sat straight up as if to defend myself then all the light just faded away very
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In the second hospital my untreated pain escalated rapidly resulting in heart complications.
Things were looking very bad.
An odd coincidence: my Dad died in a hospital at my age from untreated severe pain. They had switched him from
#OpioidRxs
to antidepressants. He died
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What pain patients are addicted to is the exact same thing that every other rational human being is addicted to.
We are addicted to this thing we call ‘life’. We happen to believe it is the only one we will ever have here on this earth, and we DO NOT wish to be the victims of
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There is something a chronic, severe pain patient can always rely on if their severe pain is untreated or under treated: the
#CPP
may rely on new and more damaging experiences in pain.
Last night I passed out due to under treated, severe pain, but on my way to the floor I banged
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@BillOReilly
@seanhannity
We need to go back to assuming people are innocent until proven guilty, and there should be a penalty to pay if you file false allegations.
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Since a tiny 1% of pain patients develop any addiction to
#OpioidRxs
, but a staggering majority of politicians, doctors, law makers, and law enforcers develop dementia when exposed to
#CDCGuidelines
the greater risk to public health by far would be the arbitrary
#CDCGuidelines
.
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I find it interesting that anyone should choose a name like Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing then advocate actions which force taper pain patients off of life saving and preserving levels of
#OpioidRxs
to ineffective levels which make the patients victims of the
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I was finally able to deliver some Kratom to our friend who is terminal but his doctor won’t give him
#OpioidRxs
for his chronic, severe pain.
I left the Kratom and instructions with his wife since he was taking a badly needed nap.
She said his pain is in his chest with his
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@ThomasKlineMD
@Deeenst
Off label prescribing is far too often the way things are now. The best meds for severe, intractable pain are avoided at all costs. The patient pays the cost with lack of sleep, mobility, and any engagement in normal activities due to severe untreated pain.
#IPP
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My wife told me about a friend who a month ago stopped eating because she was tired of being in pain all the time. She was 82. It took four weeks to die. My question is: why in a country which claims to value human life is an older lady like her permitted to suffer endlessly..
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@Wanita1
@emergVictorious
@RogueWolf2001
@chronicpainwar
@ADAWnews
@LelenaPeacock
@ravensspirit68
@ellewoodsruns
@DeeEnst
@Shasta77777
@headdock
@sleepingkoala45
@NicoleInPain
@CaptCRPS
@aander1987
@PatrickDoyle_35
@pamelakarnbach
@WhosAGrumpyBear
@GhostinGeek
@ColeridgeSammy
@djwilliams35
@HELP_AB
@ThomasKlineMD
@earth_to_jen
@marykayconsult3
@YourDrunkAunt
@Btully41Tully
@Rxpalli8r
@cao812
@StopBadDocs
@StaceyF62
@drrickbarnett
@MotherJones
@andrewkolodny
@CarrieKHutchens
@PainPtFightBack
@StapletonPBPost
@Beyerstein
@JeffreyFudin
@OpioidSteward
@DreamPharmD
As the suicides and OD's skyrocket due to governmental draconian pain prescription policies I want the same people who promoted these policies to be required to speak at the funerals of the victims to explain to their families why they had to die.
#ShareOurPain
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People mean well when they learn about my pain problems for the first time and they say, ‘Why don’t you find someone who can fix your pain problem?’.
I take it in the good intention it was offered and say, ‘I have not given up looking for someone to do that, but it isn’t easy’.
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Where do Congressmen and Senators go to have their acute or chronic, severe pain treated?
Do they go to a Doctor or do they make an appointment with a
#DEA
agent?
The one who treats their pain should be the one who controls the pain medication.
Rather than put Doctors in jail
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Anyone who suggests that no one over 65 should receive
#OpioidRxs
to help control their chronic, severe pain is being very straight forward with their plan which is to commmit genocide on everyone 65 or older who need
#OpioidRxs
to control chronic, severe pain.
For anyone who
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It was one of the strangest nights of severe pain that I ever have experienced.
I woke up in pain so severe that I could barely move. I wanted to take my vital signs, but I could not get up to get to the blood pressure monitor.
My
#OpioidRxs
were beside me in the bed. In
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Dr Kline is being investigated for Quality of Care? He saves thousands of pain patients from an agonizing existence of being bedridden or suffering an early death due to under treated, severe pain. On the other hand there are Doctors (like AK) who plan to do deadly harm to CPP.
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Dr Ibsen was making an excellent and true point on Facebook: the reason pain patients were living much longer, even full lives, was because of the excellent way
#OpioidRxs
controlled the deadly complications of under or untreated, chronic severe pain.
And the reason pain
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We already have a memorial to 'The Unknown Soldier', but now we need a new memorial to 'The Abandoned Soldier' for all the veterans who died due to the agonizing effects of untreated pain which caused their deaths due to denied pain meds or
#SuicideDueToPain
. Heroes left behind.
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When I read about the euphoria which those who get addicted to opioids experience I am somewhat puzzled because I have never experienced anything like that when taking
#OpioidRxs
for pain meds.
If the dose is adequate I can feel the pain relief, but that is all. Perhaps part of
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The
#DEA
should be assigned the task of controlling illegal drugs because that is what is killing the vast majority of those who die from drug use.
Instead the
#DEA
is attempting to control Legal
#OpioidRxs
as if they are ILLEGAL drugs which will kill many times more than those
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I am determined not to follow the same path my Sister was forced to take. As her chronic, severe pain became worse what little
#OpioidRxs
she was allowed were tapered even more which made getting out of bed or even walking around nearly impossible which made her bed bound and
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Many who have little to no compassion for the pain patients who suffer deadly untreated or under treated chronic, severe pain are likely very fortunate to have never endured such chronic, severe pain themselves.
Rather than being thankful for their good fortune and trying to
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I am at home following the instructions which I received from the hospital to control my post op severe pain by going home and taking whatever
#OpioidRxs
I have there which were never written to control this level of pain.
I have doubled my dose but it has no effect on such
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Those who post signs stating that they will not RX opioids for pain are saying that whether pain patients live or die is of no concern to them.
ANYONE can become a pain patient on any given day depending upon what happens to them.
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I was at a pain clinic when a doctor attempted to give me shots in my hip joints to treat pudendal nerve pain.
I told him that if he would tell me as a doctor that those shots would have any possibility of decreasing my pudendal nerve pain that I would allow him to proceed.
He
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Wouldn’t we think it bizarre if a group of fanatics got together and succesfully banned the treatment for heart attacks on basis that the patient would become addicted to such treatment and expect an attempt to save their lives every time they had a heart attack?
Then why do we
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If we do not meet on Earth or in Heaven before then... Merry Christmas to all pain patients and those who help make their lives better.. 🎄🎄🎄
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I have never felt euphoria from
#OpioidRxs
even with the most potent meds post op in the hospital. If the opioid pain meds work I do get life saving pain relief.
I have to smile to myself when I read warnings about possible ‘euphoria’ when taking
#OpioidRxs
especially when the
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I just had a flare of pain that I have never experienced before. All I can say is that I will never judge anyone for whatever they may have to do to get relief. Even life seems expendable when such pain will not stop, but I hope for a time when no one ever has to have such pain.
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1 of my nieces was an NYC nurse for 30+ years. Her strongest point isn’t empathy, but she said this about my pain. ‘You are not an addict, but with your level of pain I couldn’t care less if you were. If you don’t get adequate pain meds you are going to die, and I don’t want that
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I had a good exercise session at the gym. Pain meds actually worked allowing me to exercise just enough to test my muscles which will increase their strength just a little. My pain under control the pain induced tachycardia did not happen. If this keeps happening I just may live
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@ashmurdock_
I thought I had heard almost everything until I read this. Our healthcare providers have sunk to an even lower level than I feared. Is there no end to such depravity? Keep your leg . Lose the doctor.
#IPP
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Would I be proud to know that I remained opioid free and never risked being labeled an addict or dependent on
#OpioidRxs
while my untreated, severe pain destroyed my
#QOL
and killed me from one or many complications of severe pain?
No, I would not feel proud at all, only dead.
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I made it home where I immediately took some pain meds before the under treated
#ChronicSeverePain
causes me to pass out.
But I think the
#AntiOpioidRxFanatics
may feel comfortable with killing
#ChronicPainPatients
with complications of under treated chronic severe pain while
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My Brother joined the Marines so that he could be as big and strong as his Big Brother. Truth is he was stronger. Now he has gone ahead of me to guard the streets of Heaven. I’ll see you soon, Brother. Semper Fi.
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My Brother’s body’s response to untreated, severe pain was a rapid physical deterioration. It progressed to the predictable end with no doctor intervening to reverse it.
Are we ok with living in a country where Drs can be so terrorized by law enforcement that patients die?
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I am glad I did not take gabapentin as prescribed for pain. As soon as I noticed that it did not relieve any pain I stopped taking it. Now it seems there will be lawsuits relating to teeth, memory, and vision problems.
But I have taken
#OpioidRxs
for years with no problems.
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During Prohibition federal agents secretly poisoned bootlegged liquor they intercepted then put it back on the street to sell. They celebrated killing the customers. Are they now celebrating the pain patients they are killing by putting abandoned pain patients on the street?
#IPP
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I think what would greatly benefit the members of
#PROP
would be to actually spend at least 6 months in a special academy constructed just for such a purpose as to allow them to physically experience all of the types and depths of pain which
#ChronicSeverePainPatients
are forced
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As I read about personal tribulations with pain pumps I have to ask myself what was so wrong about just taking and managing
#OpioidRxs
orally?
Is there EVER a recorded incident of causing a leak involving cerebral spinal fluid by taking pain meds orally?
Why pain pumps?
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What got me into trouble at the pain clinic was when they told me their main goal was tapering me off of all
#OpioidRxs
I asked them if they were primarily there to treat addicts or to help pain patients? That was the first time they dismissed me for being uncooperative.
#IPP
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Telling chronic and intractable pain patients to ‘just accept their pain’ is tantamount to telling them to accept their agony and early death due to untreated pain when the treatment has been proven effective and safer than otc meds for thousands of years.
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I can not believe I did not see the danger my friend was facing by receiving the spinal steroid injections for pain rather than just being given the very safe, effective oral
#OpioidRxs
for pain. Now he is dead. I have been advocating for many months yet I was not there for him.
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My niece said she hated fentanyl because she had five friends who died from marijuana laced with fentanyl.
I asked her if it was purchased in a pharmacy? She said no.
I told her stopping pain patients from receiving life saving meds does zero to control the illegal fentanyl.
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For those who are reluctant to allow chronic pain patients to take kratom because some article or government agency says it is dangerous or not safe I say this:
Is kratom deadlier, more harmful, or more dangerous than the untreated severe pain which killed my Dad and untold,
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My doctor asked me today why I keep having nerve blocks when they don’t cure me.
I replied that my
#OpioidRxs
were not nearly enough to control my pain so I am risking the pudendal nerve blocks in hopes that they will ease the pain a little which they often do.
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Last night a friend went to the ER iN PAIN. He woke up in so much pain that he could not get out of bed. He had someone who had a key come over to open his door for the ambulance. After 10 hours in the ER with zero pain relief offered he called another ambulance to take him home.
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