SORRY A BIT LENGTHY BUT I HAD TO SHARE WITH THIS ALL WHO SUFFER

FANTASTIC PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN OF 12 YEARS BUSTED BY DEA.
A CARING PCP WHO GAVE ME HIS TIME, LISTENED, DIAGNOSED ME AS
HAVING CHRONIC TRANSIENT PAIN, MORE OFTEN REFERRED TO AS CRPS.
OVER PERIOD OF SEVERAL YEARS OF CONSERVATIVE PAIN MEDS I HAD
AN EPISODE OF AGONIZING FULL-BODY PAIN AT WORK. NOT ONE TO
DEPEND ON PILLS ALONE I SWAM, RODE BIKE, WALKED, HIKED,
STRECHED. ALL THIS EXERCISE PROVIDED MORE ENERGY BUT ONLY A
TEMP FIX TO CHRONIC PAIN. THIS WAS 1998 AND I HAD NEVER EVEN
HEARD OF PAIN MANAGEMENT, BUT TRIED AND FAILED THE REST
INCLUDING HOLISTIC. PCP STARTED ME ON MORPHINE 100MG SR
ONE DAILY, BUMPING ME UP TO ONE FOUR TIMES A DAY. I DID
BECOME DEPENDENT BUT DID NOT ABUSE THESE MEDS - PCP
WARNED ME OF TOTAL HELL IF I DID; I WAS EITHER GOING TO
SUFFER SEVERELY AT HOME DETOXING, OR CHECK MYSELF INTO
DETOX / REHAB WHICH WOULD SPARE ME AGONY OF
WITHDRAWALS BUT BLOW MY WHOLE TREATMENT PLAN WITH PCP.

DESPITE WHAT SOUNDS LIKE A MASSIVE DOSAGE OF THIS OPIATE
I WAS NOT OUT OF MY MIND HIGH, SIDE-EFFECTS WERE MINIMAL
AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT I WAS PAIN FREE AND NEVER CAME TO
NEED BUMPING UP OF THIS DOSAGE. PERHAPS I WAS THE
EXCEPTION TO THE RULE. NORMAL HDL/LDL TRIGS, BUT LOW
TESTOSTERONE WHICH IS TYPICAL OF OPIATES. ONLY MILD
CONSTIPATION BUT STOOL TO ME APPEARED FIRM AND HEALTHY
AND (SORRY TO GET GRAPHIC) OFTEN VERY LITTLE IF NOTHING
ON TP AFTER WIPING. I'M A HYGENIC CLEAN FREAK SO THIS WAS
A PLUS!

APRIL OF 2010 LETTERS SENT OUT RE MY PCP NO LONGER ABLE
TO TREAT HIS "PAIN MED PATIENTS". HE CONFIDED IN ME THAT
THE DEA ACTUALLY SHOWED AT HIS CLINIC, CONFISCATED
MY AND ALL PATIENT RECORDS. DEA IS NOT A HEALTHCARE
PROVIDER OF ANY KIND BUT A FACELESS / NAMELESS /
HEARTLESS ORGANIZATION NORMALLY BUSY BUSTING METH
LABS, COCAINE, HEROIN ETC. THEY LEFT ME NO TIME TO FIND
THIS "PAIN MANAGEMENT" DOCTOR. IT WAS MAY 2010 AND
SOONEST PM DOCTOR WAS JULY 19TH. NO CHOICE BUT TO
CHECK INTO DETOX AND GO ON SUBOXONE. RELEASED AS
"MEDICALLY SOUND" WITH REFILLS BUT FINDING INDEPENDENT
DOCTOR LICESNED TO PRESCRIBE SUBOXONE THEREAFTER TOOK
A LONG TIME AND ONCE FOUND ***HE WAS NOT SET UP TO
ACCEPT HEALTHCARE CARRIER SO HAD TO PAY OOP!!!! ****

THOUGH I WENT THROUGH HELL UNTIL JULY 19TH, I SURVIVED
HAVE BEEN TREATED BY PM DR. TO CURRENT DAY, PAIN MEDS,
SIX NEEDLE IN NECK EPIDURALS, ONE RF. RF NEVER AGAIN!!!!!
THIS IS MEDIEVIL TORTURE, FRANKENSTEIN PROCEDURE!!!!
FORUM ON RF HAS MADE THAT CYRSTAL CLEAR!!!!!

CLOSING: PM DR. REFUSED TO PRESCRIBE SAME DOSAGE
AS PCP, GAVE ME A BIG LONG LECTURE. STATED WOULD
GO WITH 30MG MORPHINE SR, ONE TID AND OXYCODONE
W/ACETOMETAPHINE FOR BREAKTHROUGH PAIN, ONE
FOUR TIMES DAILY. AFTER 12 YEARS OF PCP'S DOSAGE
CUT OFF BY REVOKED DEA LICENSE, I HAVE NEVER FELT
THE SAME. PEOPLE IN PAIN ARE OFTEN STIMAGTIZED
BY THE BAD RAP ILLEGAL DRUGS LIKE HEROIN OR EVEN
STOLEN DILAUDID OR MORPHINE FROM PHARMACIES GET.
AND THE DEA, WHO I UNDERSTAND HAVE A JOB TO DO
BUT THEY HAVE NO IDEA (AND WOULD THEY EVEN CARE?)
WHAT THIS SERIES OF EVENTS DID TO ME.