UPDATE Why do we treat most pts like a nail ?
Pinellas Park woman says Florida pill mill crackdown deprives her of pain medicine she needs
Patient forced to pay $1,800 per month for pills
This investigative reporter use to be in the Louisville, KY market… and had exchanged emails with him years ago..when he had a expose on WAGS trying to “buy off ” a patient after a medication error…
This patient reached out to me.. and I reached out to this investigative reporter… that was just a few weeks ago.. and now we have another “as seen on TV ”
I am complying quite a list of emails of investigative reporters from around the country.. and the list is growing…
BTW.. there will be a new investigative report coming to the ABC 13 in Las Vegas in the next couple of weeks…the pt was interviewed last Friday.. more to come …
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Its just getting to be too much stress and anxiety and I’m sick of it.
Even more reason to titrate off ,who knows.
If I’m going to be treated like crap I will just hand it off to someone else and find another way of controlling my chronic pain. I’m not going to let people treat me like crap and a nobody, I’m pretty much done with all the bad attitudes, its nothing you’ve done wrong its everyone with a lousy attitude, They don’t care if we suffer Michael. I’m gone,,,,,,,
Mark,
Considering the methadone used to cost my patients about a dime a pill, I would call that price gauging (if not drug dealing, at that profit!) It should be just as illegal for the powers that be to take our quality of life away from us. Who wants to sit in a chair, all of the time?! We are an expendable part of society.
$5 for a methadone pill, if it comes to that I will just say NO. That’s just wrong and will not pay that price, as a matter of fact all this negativity I will just titrate down and off and be done with it. Its just not worth the stress and anxiety not knowing from month to month if your script will get filled or not. This is a awful large monkey on our backs and I’m about done with this crap. No one cares if chronic pain sufferers get their meds or not. Its you against the world around you, I can and will just titrate off and deal with the chronic pain the best I can. When it gets this bad and our country cant help us, its time to help our self and be done with it.
For the past few weeks I have titrated down just to see what my chronic pain would be like ,and its tolerable so far on half of what I normally take with the pain meds. I may have some bad days but the monkey will be off my back. I’m at a point in my life where I’m fed up with this crap. I’m down to a turning point in my life with this thing, which way will I go , nobody will know.
This vignette underscores the difficulties in filling prescriptions for opiod analgesics experienced by hundreds of pain patients on any given day of the year, in any state of our union.
While controlled substance contracts often limit pain patients to the use of one pharmacy, too often pharmacies either refuse to fill, or do not have adequate supplies in hand.
Many of us have to go from pharmacy to pharmacy looking for our monthly dose. During the monthly pharmacy “crawl” pain patients must confront stern faced pharmacists who view us as criminals. The process is demeaning, and sometimes, can lead to violating a pain contract.
Although many states allow pharmacists a 72 hour window to fill a CII Rx, I have yet to meet an RPH who will do so.
And then there are fools like William who feel it is their moral right to deny us treatment.
Selling methadone for $5 a pill is outright price-gouging, plain and simple.
What if it were your parent, your grandparent, or even you?
How long must we continue to frustrate and abuse our chronic pain population?
@Phil.. I think that your are GREATLY under estimating the number of pts being affected.. I would be surprised if there is less than a million and probably more likely tens of millions every month.. i would think that the number would be more and a MILLION DAILY
Its time to separate the little druggies from true chronic pain sufferers. This has gotten so far out of control its ridiculous. Lets just make everyone suffer because of the fools that abuse pain medications. This makes as much sense as some of the decisions our president has made here lately. Seems our country is falling apart.
Get your stuff together and give these chronic pain sufferers the medications they need. Lets instill a sense of right and wrong in the world of chronic pain sufferers.
This is making innocent pain sufferers think if death would be better than a lifetime of suffering.
Thank you for sticking up for us! Even though it sounds like you’ve decided to try doing without, I appreciate that you understand not every pain patient has that option. I tried cutting back as well, but ended up on the couch all day every day. That’s not acceptable either, so I reluctantly went back to the meds. Now I’m back at the mercy of our healthcare system, surely a dangerous place to be, but I don’t see much choice.