The Painful Statistics
The realization that you will have chronic pain for the rest of your life is life-altering. Now imagine that the pain you are feeling can be lessened with a prescription that your doctor won’t prescribe and your pharmacy won’t dispense. Produced by Dr. Lynn R. Webster and Craig Wirth, The Painful Truth Documentary examines the agony that real people in pain go through on a daily basis.
CANCER. I can not say that I know what it feels like to have cancer, but if I had to compare how I feel to anything it would be cancer. I live my life based on optimism and truth. The truth to me is, that I find it very discouraging and quite difficult to put my trust in the doctors hand to find a safe way to alleviate some of my pain. I never thought that I would feel this way. I mean, is it not already common sense what the predetermined risk factors are for an addict. It is nieve and down right negligible for a Dr. to believe that all of his patients would be truthful when answering the questions in the OTC and let just imagine for 1 second that we live in an honest world, needless to say if that were true, there wouldnt be an opioid epidemic. But what does it prove. I can tell u it does not prove that someone with a high potential for abuse will unadoubtably turn to heroin or overdose on their prescription medication. Denying an addict in chronic daily pain is almost certainly going to drive them to the one thing your lifes work is based on preventing. There are far to many variables that impact drug addiction. That now has inadvertanly become the focus. I can’t say that I am suprised because the dissociation that occurs at some point in a patient dealing with chronic pain is the same dissociation that it at the heart of drug addiction. Where that leaves patients in chronic pain, addicts or not, in the mean time, shouldn’t be decribed in any other was but living a life of tourcher. I no longer have an input in what I believe would be in my best intrest as far as my care. I had to take a break from subjecting my body to any more procedures at this time. My poor body was wore out and the fatigue that i felt was more unbareable then my pain. My quality of life has significantly dropped my children suffer the most. The data will always tell the story we use it to tell. My optimism lies in my belief that theres an answer for everything. Its just how long it takes us to find it. Opioid medication’s reputation will now forever be tarnished and scarce to those who desperately need it. At the end of the day if procedures haven’t worked and if we refuse to continue letting ourselves be used as test subjects because there is no guarantee that the procedure will give us relief, we no longer will recieve our much needed prescriptions. Then what choices are available? Advil, which no longer works for me unless taken at a high does. I can’t take advil 2 to 3 times a day for years, I have already seen signs of a possible lower GI bleed. How am I suppose to work, how do i support my family, especially when I can barely do house work. Naproxen is not an option for me because I’m allergic and tramadol was not under any circumstances even offered. Is everyone really oblivious to the fact that after years and years of constant daily pain the brain will naturally dissociate. I use to say “well then your back doesn’t hurt enough if your refusing to get yet another procedure” For me that is not the case. I have come to terms with the fact that i can not work without medication. Disability is definitely not guaranteed. I understand the great risk using the opiop medications, but is it a greater risk then what happenes to our body if the relief is not made available. What are my choices? I am 35 years old, not over weight with 3 children. It’s nothing more then wasted life.
In June 2015, I fell and broke 4 pelvic bones. Before that, I was a stable Neuro Behcet’s and pain patient, with spondylitis, scoliosis, arthritis and bone spurs, etc ALL. VISIBLE REASONS FOR PAIN.
After my fall, i did not know I had broken anything.
I took the bus to see my internist, I was sent for x-rays, back to internist.
NO BROKEN BONES. (ALL of this dragging my walker and oxygen on the buses.)
After more than a month, told my other doctor my pain was still severe. He did not raise or change my pain meds.
I was sent for a C.T. scan, back to that doctor… ALL OF THIS, WALKING AND USING BUSES.)
I HAVE FOUR BROKEN PELVIC BONES!
I am a former dancer, I had started my own physical therapy – or I knew I would never walk again.
I still have severe, chronic pain in the hip.
My blood pressure was 226/117! Way past Stroke. I never had high blood pressure, it started immediately after the BROKEN pelvis and pain! I was told to go see my internist.
I SHOULD HAVE BEEN SENT TO THE E.R.! Now, I am on BLOOD PRESSURE MEDS. AND STILL HAVE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND PAIN!
The doctors are killing me! When pain meds were appropriate, I now deal with high blood pressure. Behcet’s is a rare, severe form of vasculitis, I am sure my life expectancy has been shortened. I could have,(should have), had a massive stroke or heart attack.
Doctors are knowingly and willingly, PUTTING PATIENTS, IN GRAVE DANGER, EVEN KILLING PATIENTS, BECAUSE OF DEA.
THE DOCTOR’S FIRST DUTY IS TO HIS PATIENT, TO GIVE “STANDARD OF CARE”. THIS IS MALPRACTICE!
THERE IS A SITE: “THE REAL DRUG WAR FACTS”. EVERYONE SHOULD LOOK AT IT.
If someone dies from “a drug overdose of oxycodone”, in the E.R., that is a ” statistic”.
The rest of the story is in the autopsy. There was ALSO, Meth, Heroin, and 2 pints of Alcohol!
About 50% of prescription drug deaths – do not have a prescription for it!
DEA is making a smoke screen. DEA FAILED TO MONITOR PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES. DEA FAILED TO STOP CHEMICALS FROM ENTERING THE U.S. TO MAKE ILLICIT DRUGS ON THE BLACK MARKET.
EVERY T.V. OR MAGAZINE: ads for some “detox” or “addiction” center, opening near you.
NO ONE WANTS TO “WIN THE WAR ON DRUGS”. About 50% of Police Officers, Judges, Prison Guards, Bond Agents, Probation and Parole Officers, AND DOJ AND DEA AGENTS – WOULD LOSE THEIR JOBS…
IF WE “WON THE WAR ON DRUGS.”
The grandized , awfulized truth is: failure! Now this is how they get more government money. And it is working…
But this time, DEA now has an active roll in terrifying doctors, DIRECTLY putting patients lives at risk, killing them, destroying legitimate pain patients lives, preventing functionality!
I hope those same DEA Agents know, it hurts when you get shot. They will NOT have PAIN MEDS, EITHER!
To all pain suffers, I know how hard it is to go out, but we must all try for a bill in Congress and get to the Polls to vote!