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08-25-2011, 06:34 PM | #21 | ||
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Those meds work for some of us but I'm one who tried them all and just got more pain and side effects. My Fentanyl doesn't work as well as my morphine but it did allow me to have some quality of life. As they "wean me off" my meds I'm in constant pain and I'm NOT going to live like this. I'm glad the meds worked for you but sadly they don't work for everyone. Last edited by ColoVet; 08-25-2011 at 06:35 PM. Reason: forgot something |
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08-25-2011, 06:39 PM | #22 | ||
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08-25-2011, 06:41 PM | #23 | ||
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08-25-2011, 08:19 PM | #24 | ||
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How many veterans are going to die at the hands of their government? And are any of the doctors going to stand up for the vets? What was once a good medical system is being destroyed by our legislators who act like 2 year olds and the bean counters. |
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08-25-2011, 08:24 PM | #25 | ||
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And I have no reason to be careful. Anything I say here I've already said to the VA. |
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08-25-2011, 08:28 PM | #26 | ||
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08-25-2011, 08:32 PM | #27 | ||
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I had one doctor tell me that the Bible says we should suffer our pain and that's why he doesn't support pain management or euthanasia. I wonder if he'd feel the same if he suffered the amount of pain we do. |
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08-25-2011, 08:35 PM | #28 | ||
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This push to get all veteran off pain meds is about saving money and hoping that we all die so they don't have to use money to treat us. I think it's time we got the ACLU to do something that might actually get them good press. I've written both out local papers without any luck. I been given so many different stories by the VA I can hardly keep them straight. First I was told that new studies show that we can die from the meds (like you can't die from pain) and that because a few vet sell their meds they just can't afford to allow us to take them. Then I was told that the orders came from the top. Then I was told that they looked at the amount of pain meds being given at the VA and decided they were excessive. I don't guess that it occurred to them that maybe when you send soldiers to war that alot of painful injuries are the result. You know that if it was a congressman or senator who was in pain he/she would get what ever they needed no questions asked. I'd like to hear what other vets have to say about this issue. Is this happening in other VAMC's and if so what are you being told? |
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08-27-2011, 09:58 AM | #29 | ||
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We are indeed sabotaged by our government. I will not go through the kind of pain I experienced before eithor. I have had enough. I understand how you feel. My father had throat cancer, he seized in my arms on the floor more than once. His pain was so great all I could do is sit and rock him in my arms. Nobody should ever go through that ever! We are humans not animals, infact animals are treated better. I face a throat cancer right now just as my dad did. They are going to try to "hold" it off,....nice huh. Well I am not doing the prescribed treatment. NO WAY in hell will I have my throat and esophogus burned out to see what will happen. NO WAY...I have been off line for awhile because my mood is so bad. I joined final exit. If I face that kind of pain my father had to endure, there will be one less human on earth. I do understand and have made that choice to seek council. This site may not agree, and that is their right. However, pain can only be tolerated to a certain degree without going out of ones mind. After watching both my parents suffer through normal medical traditions, I have picked something else. God bless all of us. ginnie
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08-27-2011, 10:10 AM | #30 | ||
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The God I know, does not want us to suffer. That is why he put these drugs on earth and gave us brains to use them. I do not believe our God wants us to suffer just so we can go to heaven. No, not for one minute do I believe that. We have tools these days to help. doctors are becoming more and more afraid, and less and less compassonate. I do belive compassion was one of the things stressed in the bible. I believe in the compassionate care, more in end life senerios than normal medical attention allows. Even though my father had hospice, it was not enough to control his pain. That will not happen to me. I always pray for those on this site.
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