Due to the new opiate war, doctors and pain managers are scared to write prescriptions for pain medicine and are stopping patients cold turkey or tapering them so fast that it's crazy. I myself was cut down from 120 mg to 30 mg in two months. I'm in severe chronic pain and have tried everything from ibuprofen to physical therapy. Nothing but pain medicine worked. Now that I have been cut back so much I'm not able to enjoy life or work much at my already part-time job.
Patients are committing suicide and going to be forced to buy drugs off the streets or turn to heroin. Pain management is supposed to help people, not let them suffer. Why are the people in pain paying for the drug addicts that are abusing the drugs? I drug test at my doctor and have never done anything to be treated this Way. Please help us.
Shawna Engquist
Northwest side
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