http://www.fmcpaware.org/hydrocodone-rescheduling
*America, making it harder for people with REAL pain to get medicine they NEED! Land Of The Free, Home Of Cowardly Medical Practices! This is making Israeli citizenship look better by the day!*
Category Archives: Drug Treatment
Veteran’s Tragic Suicide Note Leaves CNN Host Speechless, Forgive Me This Is Tough
Veteran’s Tragic Suicide Note Leaves CNN Host Speechless, Forgive Me This Is Tough
*Yet, I get condemned for stating the obvious. No one should EVER have to feel this way and I agree, the medical community is afraid to treat thanks to the DEA’s fear tactics. I’ve had two of my treating physicians paid visits by them for barely prescribing pain medicine to migraine and pain patients. How is it wrong to give a patient 5 pills because she’s moving to a new state and you don’t want her to end up in the Emergency Room? It is wrong to be a doctor and NOT be able to treat your patients as you see fit. After medical school and completing your residency, you’re licensed to be able to prescribe medication and, most importantly, help people. If you’re being crippled by the government, you might as well NOT go into such immense debt to become a physician.*
Zohydro Approval
Zohydro Approval
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/26/health/zohydro-approval/
Yeah, I’m weeping openly that my fellow Fibro and Chronic Pain sufferers might actually see some RELIEF in the form of a medication that might actually work! Why does everything have to be made into an immediate “they’ll all be drug addicts” debate?! Of everyone I know that sufferers from Chronic Pain and Fibro, I only know ONE that has been given massive amounts of medicine to the point that I have no idea how they are still alive. The rest of us, we’re just taking it one day at a time and we’re not abusing anything. Politicians fighting this are not doing us any favors, they’re just trying to cover their own asses.
FDA Restricts Hydrocodones
FDA Restricts Hydrocodones
http://www.fmcpaware.org/fda-restricts-hydrocodones-to-schedule-ii
This just plain pisses me off. I’ve never gotten a bottle of any schedule II medicine with a refill on it. I know not a single doctor that will call it in to the pharmacy for you. You either pick up the script from the doctor’s office as a monthly refill (I had a doctor that wouldn’t even mail it across town to me, because he’d had patients “lose” the scripts too many times or tell him they never received it in the mail. I didn’t feel I should have been treated that way because of other patients, but I let it slide since he took my pain seriously.), or they demand to see you every single month. I don’t have that kind of time. I don’t take Vicodin because it doesn’t work for me, but I know a lot of people that rely on this drug during the worst of their Fibro pain, or other forms of Chronic pain. This is completely unfair to them and even worse, it adds to the stigma that pain patients are drug addicts when generally, that is NOT the case. I’ve been treated like this in the emergency room over a migraine (I did not ask for anything for pain, and yet the nurses were whispering that I “seemed like I was angling for something”. All I asked was for them to call my doctor and have him treat me since he was on staff there, nothing else. He was furious when I told him how they treated me and actually said that they should have given me a shot of morphine and sent me home, especially since I had a history and was a patient being treated year-round for migraines.), and it enraged me, so I only see more irritation in the future if a doctor messes with my medication again.
What Fibromyalgia Feels Like
What Fibromyalgia Feels Like
http://www.fmnetnews.com/fibro-basics/symptoms
A lot of people are living with Fibromyalgia and are undiagnosed or not being treated for it. Men are much less apt to be diagnosed with it because it is considered a “woman’s illness”, but that’s total bullshit because I know more than 6 men that clearly have it.
I have never been formally treated for Fibromyalgia, and I’ve had it for more than 10 years. Initially all my doctors blew my symptoms off. They had an excuse for every single symptom I had, and chose to treat separate things. I’d be treated for the migraines, but not treated for everything else I was experiencing. At the start of it all, I had a crick in the left side of my neck for about 6-8 months that was so painful I wanted to die. An MRI showed an actual injury, I did not have a pinched nerve, so I was handed several different prescription pain medications and a prescription for muscle relaxers and informed that I would “have this for the rest of my life”. When Cymbalta was approved by the FDA and released in 2004, I demanded my doctor put me on it immediately. All of my local pharmacies didn’t even have it, they were literally calling other stores in other states to try to get it for me, but it took them months to get it in stock. My doctor went to a dinner for the drug, something he doesn’t usually do because he doesn’t have the time, and brought me back a ton of samples. For several years, Cymbalta made me feel almost normal again, until it stopped working. I tried Lyrica about five years ago and the first dose or two put me on the floor, I couldn’t even move on that stuff. I have not tried the newer drugs, but I do want to find a way to manage the pain better. I don’t know if there will ever be a cure for Fibromyalgia, but I certainly hope that the next generation gets to see one because life is way too long to suffer like this your entire life.
Photo Credits: Shaun & Dawn
Is This REALLY A Method Anyone Is Using?!
Is This REALLY A Method Anyone Is Using?!
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20130613/NEWS/130619914?p=1&tc=pg
This kind of creeps me out. Has anyone done this and if so, has it helped?
And The Moon Sees All 