Forcing people to unregulated street drugs so overdoses skyrocket sounds like a much better plan...... Wait, what????
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The VA is taking a leadership role in researching non-opioid alternatives to pain treatment that can hopefully ripple to the rest of the health care system. Important context is that over 9% of veterans have severe pain.https://nccih.nih.gov/news/press/VA-DoD-nondrug-pain-research …
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Of course, this is another reason for somebody qualified to be leading the agency.
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And yet you want to expand the government run VA model to manage the health care of all Americans via expanded Medicaid??? Do you read what you write????
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I remember, years ago, lying in a hospital bed shaking with pain watching clock hands crawl toward the magical four hours when I could call the nurse and then wait an hour more while she took her own sweet time. I had three knees replaced during the “pain as a vital sign” 1/
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years from 2006-2014. It was a lot better. I could do a little more physical therapy. I learned that it’s easier and takes less meds to prevent a horrific pain event than to come down from one: IOW, take meds on schedule esp at first. I learned to keep a log of pain and 2/
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dosage and if the pain was excessive, why. I became physically dependent once, in 2014. It took the form that there was pain relief, which suddenly turned into acute, horrendous pain. It was like there was no space between pain relief and withdrawal symptoms. I now 3/
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understand how people become addicted. I had a choice to take meds to stop the meds, or stop and go through the withdrawal pain. I looked up on the internet (where else?) how to do it and spent several very unpleasant days in bed. Successfully. I’m one of those... 4/
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people with a chronic pain condition that requires occasional doses of mild narcotics. I continue to log, keep my doc informed, get my meds from one doc, and in events such as joint replacement, make all of my docs talk to each other and get treated by one doc at a time. 5/
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I’m a week out from shoulder replacement. Don’t know why, but pain for this is not as bad as for knee replacement. Don’t get me wrong: the pain is bad. They sawed through friggin’ BONE for Pete’s sake and if you don’t know the difference between bone and other pain I can’t 6/
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help you. But I’m logging, tracking, evaluating, and getting through which much less med than I anticipated. The important thing is that the meds are available to me if I need them, and that gives me a lot of control over my life. Tomorrow is physical therapy. It will be a 7/
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high pain day and I am prepped w/ ice and more meds if I need them: all within RX dosage. That’s my biggest fear: that this opioid crisis will take away a patient’s control and ability to take dosage up or down w/in prescribed limits. Educate about pain: don’t prohibit. End/
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obama's Personal Physician did all this???? WOW
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Don't choose this battle Sarah......You are WRONG on this one. Don't side with Jeff Sessions.https://youtu.be/Y18ZegbYm6k
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From the study cited in your paper, " had no attention to pain documented in the medical record, 27% had no further assessment documented, and 52% received no new therapy for pain at that visit." So if the pain was ignored, that doesn't mean you should stop asking about pain!
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Riiight B/c it wasn't the illicit drugs being WAY cheaper, dr's being targeted+not prescribing correct dose b/c they dont want the risk (forcing patient2the st), n the req'd time a dr needs to spend w/ a patient is cut down by 90%.. Clearly not knowledgeable on the prob 1sthand
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