Punishing patients due to opioid crisis

[Shanna (Shanna Pratt)]

Chronic pain patients are being victimized because of their pain. We cannot get help for any of our problems. All they do is push non-FDA approved treatments and gaslight you. I had a rheumatologist that doesn’t treat anything but rheumatoid arthritis, which does not help me. We are being tortured. I had a military doctor tell me I had a garbage diagnosis of fibromyalgia that I’ve had for 10 years. I now suffer from cervical stenosis of the spine. Still, nobody will help me. Why would I even consider a spinal surgery if I am unsure of my pain control afterwards? There are doctors out there that will remove whole limbs and just give IV Tylenol for pain control. It is getting downright ridiculous out here and we need help. It’s so bad that my overuse of Ibuprofen I may not have a kidney dysfunction. We’re still researching that. This is what is happening to pain patients they’re turning more problems into more problems. And we are villainized if we want to use THC to help control our pain and then can’t get anything else to help with pain because we do this. We shouldn’t have to choose because if both help we should be able to have both. We just want our quality of life back. Please help with the opioid issue. Let’s start making it a crime for making people suffer. People are committing suicide because of this.