RE: Rant about TV shows and pain- Testing etc

November 21, 2011

I only had 1 drug test here in Illinois. But when I moved to this pain clinic

and told my doc my sob story she did pull all my meds from CVS and Walgreens

(w/o my knowledge) and made sure I told her the truth about old meds/doc.

Thankfully I did.

All I know is.. It's a CHOICE to take that " extra " pill and get high.

Everyone keeps feeling sorry for people " hijacked " by these terrible, evil

meds.. so a drug addict is more important than a patient?

Subject: Rant about TV shows and pain

To: " Tetheredspinalcord " <tetheredspinalcord >

Date: Friday, November 18, 2011, 5:36 PM

I can't help myself..

So I quit my job and have been doing the stay at home thing until I start

school, hence the watching TV shows.

I am so sick of seeing this bias and constant talk to pain meds and addiction,

I'm sorry about I have been on all the big pain meds. I was given OxyContin at

age 20 after a exploratory pelvic surgery, and after the 3 days I stopped taking

them. I was given Vicodin for teeth at age 18, and I stopped when my tooth

stopped hurting. I got off morphine and a (3x times the allowed- SCRIPTED!)

dilaudid NO problem before I was dx with TC.

How does a 48 year old woman take Vicodin and all of a sudden become a drug

addict? And how is the pain medication what is EVIL and BAD here? Call me crazy

but I do believe in some kind of responsibility?

It is this kind of talk that has doctors doubting patients who really need

medication. It is this kind of talk that I have to hide my condition from

employers etc because taking pain meds all of a sudden makes me a drug addict.

And it is this kind of talk that got my concerns IGNORED for YEARS and almost

had me incontinent. My legs are in horrible shape because of this talk.

No one seems to take pain issues seriously. We are all just junkies looking for

another fix apparently!

I am planning to write in to those shows, and if anyone is doing anything else

about this, I would like to be a part of it.

November 23, 2011

I cannot feel sorry for the people that choose to abuse these drugs. Being an

addict is a choice and the doctor's should monitor the medications to stop some

of the people from abusing them. The addicts make it hard for people with actual

pain to get the medications they need. I don't quite understand why society

feels sorry for the addicts instead of holding them accountable for what they

are doing. There are plenty of programs available to help these people, they

choose to take the drugs and refuse to get help. By the way there are probably

more programs for them than there is for us that have a REAL medical problem.

For these reasons, I totally agree with . It seems in our society the drug

addict is more important than a patient:(

To: tetheredspinalcord

From: lilacs007@...

Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:47:28 -0800

Subject: RE: Rant about TV shows and pain- Testing etc

I only had 1 drug test here in Illinois. But when I moved to this pain

clinic and told my doc my sob story she did pull all my meds from CVS and

Walgreens (w/o my knowledge) and made sure I told her the truth about old

meds/doc. Thankfully I did.