The mofos that don't empathize have some kind of coldness that would let someone
die by the side of the road even though our society has so much wealth we can
spend $460 billion dollars on the Pentagon. The Refucklicans again! If you need
pain meds, your doctor should not be hindered by draconian laws that scare them
to not give you the meds you need.

The stupid regulations tell doctors that they can't prescribe meds like vicodin
for "chronic" pain -- meaning long term pain. Vicodin and Norco are supposed to
only be for "acute" short term pain, like four weeks or so. My doctor said the
regulations say I should have morphine instead because it's long term. I asked,
"Do they think that's better for me?" He said, "I don't write the regulations."
What crap!

The whole thing is inhumane. Get rid of this system. Tell your representatives
we need a public health care option to compete with private insurance to bring
some humanity and sanity into the US health care system!

Michael Mooney

--- In PozHealth@yahoogroups.com, Lily Rose <lilyrose_bell@...> wrote:
>
> YES!!!  I completely agree.  Although I have to use Oxycodone on a daily
basis....I would give anything not to have to depend on any kind of pain meds to
get me through the day.  But I tell you, with what I have been through in the
last 10 years I don't know what I would have done without pain meds.  I have
learned to ween myself off my medication when it is not needed and just when I
get to the point of 1-2 a day working my way to 0 a day.....I always get hit
with some kind of surgery, or another procedure that will require down time and
more pain meds.   Hopefully, one day i can eventually get off of them all
together but my Dr. knows that I am not a drug addict and if it was up to me I
would not put a single thing in my body.  I mean my God do we not put enough
things in our body just to stay alive these days!!!   Do they really think
people that need this kind of stuff really enjoy stuffing this stuff down from
day to day????  I tell you
> this, if I was not able to get my pain medication I do not know how
productive or pain free my life would be.  I take it and am still struggling
with alot of pain every day.  Who the hell are these people to tell me that I
have to live the rest of my life in such extreme pain that I would probably
consider killing myself cause I just could not go through the kind of pain that
I would be in......I am sure most of you that have to take that shit on a
regular basis agree!!!   Excuse my french but F_ck those Bastards!!  I bet they
have never had any type of nerve damage before or knows what its like to have 5
surgeries in one year!!!!!! 
>  
> Lily
>