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originally posted by: Asktheanimals
I went to see my Dr. yesterday and doctors are scared because if they get pulled before a review board it will cost them $30k in legal representation just to help prove they did nothing wrong. This comes out of their pockets. Things that will get the feds interest are levels of pain meds that are pretty damn low, patients over that limit doctors have to be able to show why they are on higher levels. For me that meant losing weight, I've lost 10 lbs since my last visit (8% of my total body weight). So after having my medications reduced 4 times over the last year I was given the choice to go back to where I was a year ago. My jaw dropped but I've been seeing the same doc for 10 years and he tries to do what he can to help.
Doctors are under the gun.
originally posted by: muzzelfuzz
As someone that's been on opiate pain killers for almost a decade this whole war on opiates is only hurting those that need this medicine to have any semblance of a quality life. I've been going to the same Dr for my prescriptions for over 3 years and just last week was informed I would need to find another pain management Dr. I've tried every other available option to try and ease my pain as I'm sure many others have also. Lets see, I've tried all forms of medical marijuana, nerve blocks, physical therapy, electro therapy, every new and old type of injection known to western medicine etc. and nothing except opiate pain meds have even put a dent in my pain. I've had to have DNA testing done to prove that I am not getting high off the high dosage I am currently on and that my body metabolizes these meds at a fast rate. Yet next week I'll be forced to pee in a cup, give my detailed history of all the multiple surgeries, accidents aches and pains etc and made to feel like all of this is my head. I fear the next step will be outlawing these helpful meds and a mass increase in suicide as most can't and won't live with this pain.....if you can call it living. Sorry just venting
originally posted by: intrepid
a reply to: Asktheanimals
Sorry ATA but this abuse is real. I had a tooth out last month and was given a prescription for 20 Oxyneo's. I later asked myself "Why". The pain wasn't that bad. Easily tolerated. Didn't need the meds at all. If doctors are going to throw meds at anyone then there's a problem. Of course there are people that need opiates but by over prescribing so easily it creates a backlash such as this. Not that this will work. people that are abusing opiates will still get their fix. Addicts find ways. Different doctors. Different pharmacies.
originally posted by: TheOnlyBilko
originally posted by: intrepid
a reply to: Asktheanimals
Sorry ATA but this abuse is real. I had a tooth out last month and was given a prescription for 20 Oxyneo's. I later asked myself "Why". The pain wasn't that bad. Easily tolerated. Didn't need the meds at all. If doctors are going to throw meds at anyone then there's a problem. Of course there are people that need opiates but by over prescribing so easily it creates a backlash such as this. Not that this will work. people that are abusing opiates will still get their fix. Addicts find ways. Different doctors. Different pharmacies.
Oxyneos for getting a tooth out? ?? That doesn't sound right? That's not even the type of pain this type of drug is used for!!!
originally posted by: riiver
a reply to: intrepid
Wow, where are you located? My family wants to come have dental work done there. We're in SW Missouri and my adult daughter had 5 teeth pulled the other day. 2 had bits of bone hanging onto them and her jawbone was cracked in 2 places...and they didn't give her so much as Tylenol. The said they're no longer allowed to write prescriptions for any kind of pain killer. Unreal.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
It should be illegal for blanlet policies to be made which override the highly informed opinion of medical staff. What Wal Mart is doing violates the Patients Bill of Rights which requires individualized treatment plans for each person.
I dont shop at wal mart or use their pharmacies. So it wont effect me. But wrong is wrong.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: intrepid
i turn down opiates. because when the day comes that i need them, i want a documented history of declining them when I make a demand.
The people who will suffer most are those with chronic, intractable pain. There are some conditions for which there is no surgery and no alternative to opiate derivative medications. I have had a swollen spinal cord for 10 years and after surgery to remove bone from the back of my cervical vertebrae the swelling was supposed to go down. It didn't. The doctors didn't believe I was in pain until I had dropped from 150 lbs. to 125 over 3 months. I was not even slightly overweight. That was my summer from hell.